I’m sure lots of people have a similar situation. We have a “Requests” category, where users can request resources from the community, which includes a template response to help them make clear and useful requests. In user testing we’ve found users a bit confused by this category, and one of the solutions suggested was to change New Topic > New Request, to help users understand the action. Is this possible? The only posts in Meta I could find were about changing New Topic (js.topic.create) globally, rather than for a specific category…

Hello, Here is a way how you can achieve it for now but I am thinking to create an easily changeable theme component with some settings from this. :thinking: We’ll see :slightly_smiling_face: [image] Create a new topic button with category and topic template Administrators This stopped working. A new way to rename the button depending on the category is posted here: How to: Clone or download and unzip theme component from GitHub - VaperinaDEV/category-btn-name Edit file category-btn-name/locales/en.yml and enter the various button texts you want to use, e.g. en: new_event: New Event new_deadline: New Deadline Edit file category-btn-name/javascripts/discourse/api-initializers/initialize-btn-names.js to define which button text to use for what categories: …

@carbonrich - here is some simple CSS code fun for you if you want to try. you will need to change the CATEGORY_PLUG to the appropriate category plug for the one you want the button to be used in. common css .category-[CATEGORY_PLUG]{ #create-topic.btn-default.btn.btn-icon-text { width: 160px; span.d-button-label { position: relative; visibility: hidden; } span.d-button-label:after { content: "New Request"; position: absolute; visibility: visible; left: 0px; top: 0px; } } }

Thanks @Don, not sure how I missed this, a theme component would be great, happy to contribute a bit financially to that happening if it helps. Also thanks @Lilly this is definitely something that would work technically, but I don’t think it’s a11y / WCAG compliant, see for example: https://medium.com/@matuzo/writing-css-with-accessibility-in-mind-8514a0007939#7013 My knowledge on that might be a little outdated though, so happy to be corrected.

I’ve built a theme component that can change this text per category or tag: [image] Customize new topic button text Theme component discourse2 Summary Customize the new topic button per category or tag eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository https://github.com/discourse/discourse-customize-new-topic-button-text question Install Guide How to install a theme or theme component open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features This theme component allows you to customize the New Topic…

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I’ve built a theme component that can change this text per category or tag:

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