How To Change The WordPress Posts Label To Article

When creating a WordPress powered website for a client you may find that the default WordPress admin navigation menu label of Posts can be confusing when the client is attempting to create news content. A more suitable replacement menu label to use instead of Posts and one which a client should instantly recognise is Articles.

This change is quite easy to achieve by using a few simple WordPress filters and functions which you can copy and paste into your themes functions.php file.

add_filter('gettext',  'change_post_to_article');
add_filter('ngettext',  'change_post_to_article');

function change_post_to_article($translated) {
     $translated = str_ireplace('Post',  'Article',  $translated);
     return $translated;
}