Description

An easy-to-use plugin that allows you to alter strings on your site without editing WordPress core, or plugin code. Simply enter the current string, and what you want to replace it with and the plugin will automatically do the rest!

The plugin’s available for forking and contribution over on GitHub

Check out Say What Pro for:

String discovery – Don’t have the time/expertise to find strings in the code, set up replacements easily with easy-to-use autocomplete features
Wildcard string replacements – replace individual words, or fragments across your whole site
Multi-lingual support – set different replacements for different languages on multi-lingual sites
Import/export features – Easy import/export of replacements through the user interface

Treeware

You’re free to use this package for free, but if it makes it to your production environment please buy the world some trees.

Screenshots

Finding a string to replace
The admin screen - setting up a replacement
The result

Installation

Install it as you would any other plugin
Activate it
Head over to Tools » Text changes and configure some string replacements

FAQ

Can I use it to change any string?

You can only use the plugin to translate strings which are marked for translation.

How do I find the string to translate?

You can either have a guess, or checkout the plugin in question’s source code, translatable strings are generally wrapped in __(), _e(), _n(), or _x(), for example:

$foo = __('This is a translatable string', 'plugin-domain');

The article here shows some examples of what you’re looking for. Alternatively, the Pro version of the plugin provides a String Discovery mode which means you can search for strings on your site via autocomplete suggestions.

Is there any support for importing replacements?

“Say What?” has preliminary support for exporting, and importing replacements via http://wp-cli.org/. The following commands are currently
supported:

export – Export all current string replacements.
import – Import string replacements from a CSV file.
list – Export all current string replacements. Synonym for ‘export’.
update – update string replacements from a CSV file.

See the GitHub homepage for examples.

Can I set different replacements for different languages?

Not in the free plugin, however this is available in the Pro version of the plugin

Reviews

Arthur Končar August 29, 2020

First of all, we cannot judge the functionality of the product, as it has never been used. This evaluation refers only to the developer's dealings with customers. Therefore we also award three stars instead of one, because we hypothetically assume that the product itself works and does what it is supposed to do. The invoice issued is unfortunately unusable for non-UK tax authorities and was rejected by our authority. Not only are the necessary details for tax authorities missing, the invoice is only available as an e-mail and not - as is usually the case - as a PDF. In one word: unusable. Our request regarding a properly issued invoice was not met in any way. The reaction is pure impudence. Say what Pro was immediately removed from our system and will never be used again, as we cannot be sure that the manufacturer will not react just as dubiously in the event of a further support request. For B2B this supplier is unfortunately not recommended from our perspective. [Update: correction of header typo]

Sanjeev Aryal March 10, 2020

I'm glad I found it!

xszejdi February 17, 2020

Thank You for it!

sachsongngu January 20, 2020

It works like a charm but a little bit confused for me at first time. This is the rule. 1. It will be easy to replace some core wordpress word/phrase. Just fill in the original string and replacement string, ignore the other two. 2. Changing/replacing plugin text, it requires to fill in the text domain field. We need to find source code of the plugin and plugin editor can help us to so. So text domain text is as below. $foo = __('This is a translatable string', 'text-domain'); Just copy it and paste into the text domain field. Thanks for your great plugin.

lindaloma December 24, 2019

I bought the pro version and am very happy with it. I works well and support was replying very fast even though it is around x-mas. Thanks!

annssi June 21, 2019

For the free version you need to dive into the code. This does not save any time or make it any less cumbersome than just using po-edit. Useless.

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Contributors & Developers

“Say what?” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Lee Willis

“Say what?” has been translated into 9 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Say what?” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.9.6

Fix link in documentation

1.9.5

WordPress 5.5 compatibility
Changes to Treeware links

1.9.4

Ensure help links open in new windows

1.9.3

Fix link target in Treeware content

1.9.2

Suggest Treeware donations

1.9.1

Update information about Pro features

1.9.0

Fix issue adding more strings after downgrade from Pro
Update text domain of plugin to match wordpress.org guidelines to aid translations

1.8.2

Documentation updates only

1.8.1

Update plugin links, include settings and upgrade link
Update documentation about pro features
Admin styling fixes

1.8.0

Fix issues where entities could be double encoded on admin screens.

1.7.1

Update to admin marketing message. No functional changes.

1.7

Support for _n() and _nx()
Support for multi-line strings

1.6

Introduce filters that allows back compatibility for plugins that change their text-domain. Props Pippin Williamson

1.5

Avoid warnings on initial activation.
Avoid issues where strings contain HTML / entities

1.4

Add info box about Pro version

1.3

Support for WP-CLI import and export.

1.2

Swap database to UTF-8 to fix problems entering non-ASCII strings.

1.1

Fix incorrect escaping on the admin screens.

1.0.1

Fix initial DB table creation
Fix translations for strings with no domain

1.0

Allow strings with context to be replaced

0.9.3

Documentation improvements

0.9.2

Avoid wpdb->prepare warning
Minor admin fixes, don’t double translate strings

0.9.1

Fix issue with fields being swapped when first entered

0.9

Beta ready for testing and feedback

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