# Reply Button Labels

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-button-labels/402911
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [May 13, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-button-labels/402911 "2026-05-13T22:03:04Z")
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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-button-labels/402911/1 "2026-05-13T22:03:04Z")

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| ℹ | **Summary** | Translatable topic & post reply button labels |
| 🛠 | **Repository** | [https://github.com/Lillinator/reply-button-labels](https://github.com/Lillinator/reply-button-labels) |
| ❓ | **Install Guide** | [How to install a theme or theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-install-a-theme-or-theme-component/63682) |

Install this theme component

### 👩🏻‍💻 Overview

The core Discourse topic and post reply buttons use the same string and it can be a bit unclear to inexperienced users what the different functionalities are:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/8/b/d8b7d82bed8f60992176347bd8f93edb1474f34f.png)

Unfortunately, changing the label in Admin-\>Site Texts results in changing labels for both buttons.

This lightweight theme component appends a “to Topic” to the topic reply button and “to Post” to the post reply button, to make them clearer, and also allows changing and translation of the strings.

There is a setting to toggle the Topic reply label in mobile (default is off).

Also included are common [locale files](https://github.com/Lillinator/discourse-reply-button-labels/tree/main/locales) for multi-language forums.

To only use the Topic reply button string in desktop view, simply delete any entry in the `post_reply_append` string component translation setting and save it.

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### 📸 Screenshots

English

Desktop:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/0/4/4042bdc9a6bc91046c53f808aa3cb8563198be3d.png)

Mobile toggled on:

 ![IMG_5278](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/0/2/e023ab204d3f01535638625eaa2bfb61fef2cd6e.jpeg)

> **New floating nested Topic reply button**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/f/f/dff9df8562ea3eeacfbcd840b2153c4a9c6f2a17.png)

> **French**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/f/7/ef7629278dbe41e94527cc2809bbdf7851a0559a.png)

> **Chinese (simplified)**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/1/5/315a74f55e4d8df1c5017e4e6ac8377d1511409e.png)

> **Brazilian Portuguese**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/c/d/7cd05f4f3890e30b23da202fd8d13b4f0b4e7748.png)

> **Russian**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/2/4/d24433aa6cf02add833427ff1ef43b10e7446365.png)

> **Arabic (RTL)**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/e/c/aec72da0bc37014156e062874013c3f5b0416f0b.png)

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### ⚙ Settings

> **Theme component setting and strings**
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> ![Screenshot 2026-05-15 at 8.34.53 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/8/9/e89b34f140d0a5c020ce6219fc043a5d30492c5d.png)

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### 💡 Note

There is no mobile option for the Post reply button because the space in the post footer is very limited and injecting text onto the button breaks the post footer.

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