# Customized text does not display in interface
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-text-does-not-display-in-interface/295652
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 16, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-text-does-not-display-in-interface/295652 "2024-02-16T17:07:27Z")
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### Author:  [@jserre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jserre)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-text-does-not-display-in-interface/295652/1 "2024-02-16T17:07:27Z")
Hi,
I’m changing some texts in the interface. My Discourse community is in US English.
Some texts are effectively changed in the UI… but not others. I can’t understand why?
**Here are some screenshots:**
1- The new text is saved in the Admin interface:
2- but it does not display even in admin view?
Then no surprise it doesn’t display in the user UI either.
It works for some texts but not for others.
Do you have any clue what I’ve done wrong?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-text-does-not-display-in-interface/295652/2 "2024-02-16T17:27:43Z")
Hi @jserre 👋
hmmm, I just tested the same replacement and it worked:
text replacement:
result:
I know sometimes it takes a few minutes for some replacements to take, I think on larger forums perhaps. For some settings, I’ve had to wait a bit then do a page refresh in the browser (for example, it seems to to take a bit longer on a hosted forum than on my local dev instance, where the change is instantaneous). 🤔
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Incidentally, if you haven’t seen this already, and for others who might not be aware, there are verbose settings which can help one find translations keys for which text to replace in the admin text replacement console.
> [@Find a translation key with verbose localization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-a-translation-key-with-verbose-localization/134651):
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> bookmark This documentation explains how to use verbose localization to find translation keys for custom text in Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Finding a translation key using verbose localization Verbose localization is a powerful tool in Discourse that helps administrators find translation keys for custom text more effectively. This is particularly useful when you need to translate text appearing in multiple places in the Discourse UI. Summary This…
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### Author:  [@jserre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jserre)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-text-does-not-display-in-interface/295652/3 "2024-02-16T17:51:02Z")
Thank you so much for your reply.
You are absolutely right, it was just a matter of… waiting! 🙂
I was puzzled, bc other text changes I had made were instantly visible in the UI, whereas for others it finally took more than 20 minutes!
Problem solved.
BTW the verbose feature is gorgeous!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-text-does-not-display-in-interface/295652/4 "2024-03-17T17:51:48Z")
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