How to change the label text in default setting pages?

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I’ve seen various tutorials on how to modify the menu items of a WordPress Site’s admin, but I’m trying to find a tutorial or way on how to modify the actual admin page labels. Here’s what I mean:

When you are in the back end and you hover over SETTINGS, and click GENERAL, a page comes up with, of course, the general settings for the site. The labels for each input field are as follows: SITE TITLE, TAGLINE, WORDPRESS ADDRESS(URL), SITE ADDRESS(URL), etc.

I’m looking to add a function to my functions.php for a theme that will allow me to change these labels

Is this even possible? Or do I just have to hard code it in?

2 Answers
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You can modify the labels using gettext filter hook ex:

add_filter( 'gettext', 'theme_change_label_names');
function theme_change_label_names($translated_text){
    if (is_admin()){
        switch ( $translated_text ) {

            case 'Site Title' :

                $translated_text = __( 'New Site Title label', 'theme_text_domain' );
                break;

            case 'Tagline' :

                $translated_text = __( 'new Tagline label', 'theme_text_domain' );
                break;
        }

    }

    return $translated_text;
}

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