Hi, We are trying to replace the default Topic term with Question. In the admin settings, I see we can customize any of the text on the forum, but there are too many item contains the term topic. Is there a way to batch find and replace?

Could you create a “Questions” category and install this plugin to use for those topics? [afbeelding] Discourse Solved Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Solved allows users to accept solutions on topics in designated categories. open_book Install Guide T…

[afbeelding] j3ang: but there are too many item contains the term topic. That’s why it’s probably not a good idea. You can look at discourse/config/locales/client.en.yml at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub to see all of them, so you could then fix them in the ux but the name of the thing …

yes, we are self-hosted. How do you suggest we write in the plugin? Should I just overwrite the locale?

I’m not sure if you can just include the things you want to override on the plugin’s locale it if you’d need to explicitly overwrite them.

Why would you want to do this? Like Jay says it is really not recommended.

Makes sense for a Q&A based forum …?

It might, but I think that there are hundreds of sites that are primarily question/answer that haven’t done that. And you’re not going to have any topics anywhere that aren’t questions? There are 652 occurrences of topic in the locale, but close to half are likely in the names of the strings. And w…

[afbeelding] pfaffman: It might, but Always a good start … :wink: [afbeelding] pfaffman: it’s pretty simple Hundreds of Q&A forums will love you. [afbeelding] pfaffman: And then how are you going to explain the path of questions being /t/-/123 ? 2 days in the ‘sin bin’ for ask…

[afbeelding] geoff777: Hundreds of Q&A forums will love you. Well, if even one of them wants to love me with money I’ll create the plugin. :slight_smile: Too bad there isn’t a question word that starts with t. :crying_cat_face:

[afbeelding] pfaffman: Well, if even one of them wants to love me with money I’ll create the plugin. :slight_smile: [michael torpey money GIF by paidoff]

[afbeelding] pfaffman: And then how are you going to explain the path of questions being /t/-/123 ? That’s easy one. There is no need to explain, because mostly nobody sees or cares what is URL. I don’t see URL of this topic :wink: All others, especially the money, are much harder ones …

Hoe vervang ik het discourse `Topic` door `Question`?

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jordan.vidrine (Jordan Vidrine) 22 maart 2022 om 22:19 15

Could you create a “Questions” category and install this plugin to use for those topics?

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Hoe vervang ik het discourse `Topic` door `Question`?

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