Change "Sorry, that username already exists!" message.

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Last updated by JP359 8 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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December 18, 2015 at 2:32 am #354451

JP359

I used Cred to create a new user registration form.

Is it possible to change the "Sorry, that username already exists!" message? I didn't see this configurable at all in the CRED form builder.

Thanks.

December 18, 2015 at 6:59 am #354466

Luo Yang

Dear JP,

The error message is from wordpress core file, you can use wordpress filter hook gettext to modify the string as what you want, for example, you can add below codes into your theme/functions.php:

add_filter('gettext', 'mycustom_func');
function mycustom_func($translated_text){
	if($translated_text == 'Sorry, that username already exists!'){
		$translated_text = 'my error message';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}

And test again.

More help:
gettext
This filter hook is applied to the translated text by the internationalization functions
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/gettext

December 29, 2015 at 6:50 am #356042

JP359

This worked. Thanks!

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