# Change “New Topic” text
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 15, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606 "2021-09-15T07:10:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Usman\_Shahid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Usman_Shahid)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606/1 "2021-09-15T07:10:30Z")
I want to change New Topic button text, Create Topic composer button text, and Create a new Topic composer text. I used CSS selectors within a theme. But that has a side effect of changing text when I am replying to someone’s post. Meaning that Reply text also gets changed.
I found a solution of changing text through the Admin console but I want to modify those string from within a string. Is this possible and how to do it?
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606/2 "2021-09-15T07:28:34Z")
To change text in Discourse just go to **admin → Customise → Text** and search for `js.topic.create`. If you search `New Topic` all other relevant items will appear which you can edit.
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### Author:  [@Usman\_Shahid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Usman_Shahid)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606/3 "2021-09-15T07:30:08Z")
I have this solution already. My problem is I want to do this through theme.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606/4 "2021-09-15T07:51:02Z")
AFAIK you can not. Coding a plugin would work. That’s because strings are in core, more or less.
Well, I can be wrong. It has happend every now and then, like last year (with my wife) 🤣
Disclaimer: I will be wrong big time if a theme will change/overwrite those files where those strings are.
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### Author:  [@Usman\_Shahid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Usman_Shahid)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606/5 "2021-09-21T07:03:39Z")
The way to do this via theme is to add a script which changes `I18n.translations` object.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-all-text-in-discourse/36092/68?u=usman\_shahid](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-all-text-in-discourse/36092/68)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-new-topic-text/203606/6 "2021-10-21T07:03:47Z")
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