# Alter String Shown?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/alter-string-shown/30680
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alter-string-shown/30680 "2015-07-01T16:42:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Er00](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Er00)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alter-string-shown/30680/1 "2015-07-01T16:42:45Z")
I wondered if there’s a good way of altering strings (specifically in this case we want to alter “like” to “kudos” which will be a bit of a pain because “like” is both a noun and a verb whereas “kudos” isn’t but I digress…).
I could alter it by altering the translation files, but I’d prefer not to cause issues when there are updates to merge in, etc. so was hoping someone might have a suggestion for a better way to approach this.
Thanks in advance! 🙂
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alter-string-shown/30680/2 "2015-07-01T16:55:12Z")
> [@Make tracking labels customizable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-tracking-labels-customizable/30569/2):
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> Have you tried over-riding the yml text?
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> [GitHub - Mittineague/custom-text: A simple Discourse plugin · GitHub](https://github.com/Mittineague/custom-text)
@Mittineague put together a sample plugin of how you might write a plugin to do this kind of thing.
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### Author:  [@Er00](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Er00)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alter-string-shown/30680/3 "2015-07-01T16:58:36Z")
Ohh that looks ideal, thanks!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alter-string-shown/30680/4 "2015-07-07T07:04:03Z")