# Can't customize text on custom button in template override using UI
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663 "2022-04-07T20:10:53Z")
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/1 "2022-04-07T20:10:53Z")
I’m overriding one of the handlebars templates, `static.hbs`, so that I can create a custom login page.
I’ve been able to add a custom button instead of the Sign Up button, which will allow people to visit a pricing page to buy a membership through Memberful.
The challenge I have is that I’m not able to customize the text for the pricing button and I’m not sure why.
I’ve added the button as such:
```plaintext
{{d-button href="https://example.com/pricing" class="btn-primary pricing-button" label="pricing_button"}}
```
Yet when I go to Admin \> Customize \> Text and search for “pricing\_button” it doesn’t show up.
I’ve run the [Find a translation key with verbose localization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-a-translation-key-with-verbose-localization/134651) and it shows in the console as `Translation #36: pricing_button`, but again, when I search the Admin \> Customize \> Text page, I don’t find it.
Any ideas what might be happening?
UPDATE: Seems that I’ll have to create this as a theme component with a repo, not just using the UI/UX, and that I have to add the pricing-button to the locale.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/2 "2022-04-08T07:17:06Z")
You need to add `pricing-button` to the locale. See [Add localizable strings to themes and theme components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-localizable-strings-to-themes-and-theme-components/109867)
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/3 "2022-04-08T18:03:30Z")
Ah, I forgot to add that I did the template override in a new theme component that I created in the Admin menu, not in a separate git repo.
I tried doing it as such, by adding the `theme-prefix` in the label:
> [@Add localizable strings to themes and theme components](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-localizable-strings-to-themes-and-theme-components/109867/1):
>
> Or, if you need to pass the translation key into another component, you can use the `theme-prefix` helper:
>
> ```plaintext
> {{d-button label=(theme-prefix 'my_translation_key')}}
>
> ```
…but it didn’t seem to work.
Is it possible to add locales/custom text in a theme/component created in the admin page without having to create a git repo?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/4 "2022-04-08T18:17:37Z")
I don’t think you can do it with the UX; that’s really designed only for trivial changes.
I think that you’d need to use the [Discourse Theme CLI (console app to help you build themes)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-theme-cli-console-app-to-help-you-build-themes/82950).
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/5 "2022-04-08T18:35:36Z")
Haha, darn. For something so simple, I wish it could be just done in the UX.
Ok, looks as if I’ll have to create a proper theme component, thank you for your help!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/6 "2022-04-08T19:11:06Z")
Adding a locale isn’t so simple, but if you want it to be simple, you can try using
```
translatedLabel="Actual Text!"
```
Instead of the label that uses a locale.
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/7 "2022-04-08T20:20:54Z")
Fair point, I agree locales are much more complex. When I said simple, I meant it in the context of using a template override and adding a `{{d-button}}`.
However, you have solved my problem with the:
> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> `translatedLabel="Actual Text!"`
```plaintext
{{d-button href="https://example.com/pricing" class="btn-primary pricing-button" translatedLabel='Pricing'}}
```
Thank you so much!!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/8 "2022-04-08T20:22:18Z")
You’re so welcome! I had a similar issue with, for reasons, not wanting to put the label in locale in just the last week. 🥂
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/9 "2022-04-08T20:23:51Z")
🥂 to you, to Discourse, and to the weekend 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-customize-text-on-custom-button-in-template-override-using-ui/223663/10 "2022-05-08T20:24:07Z")
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