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Changing Default Text in WordPress

I’ve just setup a community recipe blog site with WordPress and we’re gradually fencing off some little annoyances to help the site run more smoothly.

One of these was the default link text given to the admin section after a user logs in. By default it is “Site Admin” – which I thought was a pretty scary description for some of our users who are only going on there to rate or submit recipes.

WP does not separate language used throughout the system, so it took a little bit of digging to find out how to change this bit of default text. I finally found reference to it here.

This bit of text is found in the wp-includes/template-functions-general.php around line 50. I changed “Site Admin” to “Dashboard”, which I think makes more sense!