I know that Discourse lets use now change text almost everyone on the site through the admin panel, but is there a way to do something like find and replace all? I know categories and topics are fundamental to how Discourse was built, but what if I wanted to match the experience of the forum I’m mi…

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There is no easy way to do a bulk translation. It would also be a little confusing because the URLs would not reflect the changes.

I think that you could do it with a plugin that replaced the locale. I do think it would be confusing for people.

I’m interested in doing something like this as well. If there’s a way to implement this while on a Standard or Business plan that would be great!

Me too, I’m selfhosting though

It’s somewhat easier if you’re self hosting. I’d probaby do it at the rails console, though a plugin would be another way to do it. What do you want to replace?

I want to replace the text “Topic” to “Thread”. Is there a command to do it?

I don’t see an easy way to do it. I think the easiest would be a plugin that overrides all of the instances you want to change, so you could do it in a text editor. It would probably take me a couple of hours. A few years ago, it might have been 5? You’d start with GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugi…

Alright, I will try it later today. I guess it might be too much work for a simple thing. I know some JS and Python but never touched ruby. Thanks for your help!

Indeed. I’d recommend that you spend your time on pretty much anything else that you think will make your forum succeed.

Remplacement en masse dans les chaînes traduites ?

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omarfilip Février 25, 2021, 2:44 2

Oui, voyez ceci :

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