Ok, I've been searching for over an hour for something I thought (and still think) is pretty simple. I need to change the title Users to Customers in the admin for a client. I can and have easily hooked into the menus and changed it there. But it still shows up as Users on the main users page or when you add a new user (Add new User should be Add New Customer).

I tried something like this in an init action but no dice ...

$labels = &$wp_post_types['users']->labels;
$labels->name = 'Customer';

I've got to be missing some very simple filter. Thanks for your help!

Ok, I've been searching for over an hour for something I thought (and still think) is pretty simple. I need to change the title Users to Customers in the admin for a client. I can and have easily hooked into the menus and changed it there. But it still shows up as Users on the main users page or when you add a new user (Add new User should be Add New Customer).

I tried something like this in an init action but no dice ...

$labels = &$wp_post_types['users']->labels;
$labels->name = 'Customer';

I've got to be missing some very simple filter. Thanks for your help!

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• users
• admin
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Share Improve this question asked Nov 21, 2019 at 2:57 K_CK_C 11111 bronze badge 2

• 1 If you mean users.php and user-new.php, then 'users' are not post type; 'users' have its own table. And you can use the gettext filter to modify the text 'User'/'Users'/etc. Just search for __() and _e() calls in the relevant PHP file. – Sally CJ Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 6:35
• 1 Simple. I've had my head in custom post types so much for this project I wasn't thinking. Thank you! – K_C Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 15:35

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As suggested by Sally CJ in the comments. gettext was the easiest and fastest way to make this possible.