How to customise text labels on UI forms?

[Anonymous]

Hey Alex,

Really admire your work. Great stuff. Now as you’ll be able to see, I’m not a coder and have no idea what I’m doing. I’m trying to change the text on wallets_ui_* fields but not sure what I’m doing wrong. E.g. of my code:

<?php echo apply_filters( ‘wallets_ui_text_comment’, esc_html__( ‘Comment’, ‘wallets-front’ ) ); ?>

add_filter( ‘wallets_ui_text_comment’ , ‘change_text’);
function change_text($comment) {
$comment = str_replace ( “comment” , “leave a message” );
return $comment;
}

So in that case, I’m trying to change the label “comment” to “leave a message”. Also, where do I add this code? I put it in functions.php of my child theme and all I get is white screen of death of 500 error.

Cheers

[alexg]

Hello,

It looks like you are 90% there.

I believe the problem is that you are first trying to bind the function and then you define that function. Also, you don’t need str_replace. Try something like:

function change_text($comment) {
  $comment = "leave a message";
  return $comment;
}

add_filter( 'wallets_ui_text_comment' , 'change_text');

The reason you just get a blank page and not an error message is that you have not enabled errors. If you try the above and it still does not work, follow the instructions here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress to enable logging.

Let me know if you still have problems with this.

kind regards

[Anonymous]

You are a legend, worked perfectly. I have absolutely no idea how you did all this by yourself, but please don’t stop. 😀

[alexg]

Haha thanks.

It’s not magic. Simply a combination of good project management skills and lots of caffeine.

Glad it worked for you.

[Author]

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