Changing Joomla Messages Part 3 - Default Modules

If you want to change the text messages of the default Joomla modules, you need to find the text you want to change in the following files and change to the message you want. You should read the tutorial accompanying this article: Changing Joomla Messages

Archive Module (en-GB.mod_archive.ini)

ARCHIVED CONTENT=Archived Content

COUNT=Count

DESCARCHIVE=This Module shows a list of the calendar months containing Archived Articles. After you have changed the status of an Article to Archived, this list will be automatically generated.

MOD_ARCHIVE=<em>mod_archive</em>

THE NUMBER OF ITEMS TO DISPLAY (DEFAULT IS 10)=The number of months to display (the default is 10)

Banners Module (en-GB.mod_banners.ini)

BANNER=Banner

BANNER CLIENT=Banner Client

COUNT=Count

DESCBANNER=The Banner Module allows to show the active Banners out of the Component within your site.

FOOTER TEXT=Footer Text

HEADER TEXT=Header Text

MOD_BANNERS=<em>mod_banners</em>

PARAMCATEGORY=Select Banners only from a single Category.

PARAMFOOTERTEXT=Text to display after the group of Banners

PARAMHEADERTEXT=A heading to display before the group of Banners

PARAMRANDOMISE=Randomise the ordering of the Banners

PARAMSEARCHBYTAG=Banner is selected by matching the Banner Tags to the current document keywords.

PARAMSINGLECLIENT=Select Banners only from a single Client.

PARAMTARGET=Target window when the link is clicked

PARAMNUMBERITEMS=The number of Banners to display (default 5)

RANDOMISE=Randomise

SEARCH BY TAGS=Search By Tags

STICKY,ORDERING=Sticky, Ordering

STICKY,RANDOMISE=Sticky, Randomise

TARGET=Target

Change text of Breadcrumbs Module (en-GB.mod_breadcrumbs.ini)

A TEXT SEPARATOR=A text separator

MOD_BREADCRUMBS=<em>mod_breadcrumbs</em>

BREADCRUMBS=Breadcrumbs

PARAMSHOWHOME=Show/Hide the Home element in the Pathway

PARAMSHOWLAST=Show/Hide the last element in the Pathway

PARAMHOMETEXT=This text will be shown as Home entry

PARAMSHOWCOMPONENT=Show/Hide the Component element in the Pathway

SHOW HOME=Show Home

SHOW LAST=Show Last

TEXT FOR HOME ENTRY=Text for Home entry

TEXT SEPARATOR=Text Separator

THIS MODULE DISPLAYS THE BREADCRUMBS=This Module displays the Breadcrumbs 

Change text of Custom Module (en-GB.mod_custom.ini)

DESCMODCUSTOM=This Module allows you to create your own HTML Module using a WYSIWYG editor.

MOD_CUSTOM=<em>mod_custom</em>

CUSTOM HTML=Custom HTML

Change text of RSS Feed Module (en-GB.mod_feed.ini)

DISPLAY FEED IN RTL DIRECTION=Display Feed in RTL direction

DISPLAY NEWS FEED TITLE=Display news feed title

ENTER NUMBER OF RSS ITEMS TO DISPLAY=Enter number of RSS Items to display

ENTER THE URL OF THE RSS/RDF FEED=Enter the URL of the RSS/RDF Feed

FEED DESCRIPTION=Feed Description

FEED IMAGE=Feed Image

FEED DISPLAY=Feed Display

FEED TITLE=Feed Title

ITEM DESCRIPTION=Item Description

ITEMS=Items

MOD_FEED=<em>mod_Feed</em>

NO FEED URL SPECIFIED.=No Feed URL specified.

PARAMITEMDESC=Show the Description or Intro text of individual RSS Items

PARAMWORDCOUNT=Allows you to limit the amount of visible Item description text. 0 will show all the text

PLEASE MAKE CACHE DIRECTORY WRITABLE.=Please make the Cache directory writable.

RSS=RSS

RTL FEED=RTL Feed

FEED URL=Feed URL

SHOW THE DESCRIPTION TEXT FOR THE WHOLE FEED=Show the description text for the whole feed.

SHOW THE IMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE WHOLE FEED=Show the image associated with the whole feed.

THIS MODULE ALLOWS THE DISPLAYING OF A SYNDICATED FEED=This Module allows the displaying of a syndicated feed.

WORD COUNT=Word Count

THE TIME IN MINUTES BEFORE THE MODULE IS RE-CACHED.=The time in minutes before the module is re-cached. 

Change text of Footer Module (en-GB.mod_footer.ini)

FOOTER=Footer

FOOTER_LINE1=Copyright © %date% %sitename%. All Rights Reserved.

FOOTER_LINE2=<a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla!</a> is Free Software released under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU/GPL License.</a>

MOD_FOOTER=<em>mod_footer</em>

THIS MODULE SHOWS THE JOOMLA! COPYRIGHT INFORMATION=This module shows the Joomla! copyright information.

Change text of Latest News Module (en-GB.mod_latestnews.ini)

BOTH=Both

CATEGORY ID=Category ID

COUNT=Count

DESCLATESTNEWS=This Module shows a list of the most recently published and current Articles. Some that are shown may have expired even though they are the most recent.

FRONTPAGE ITEMS=Front Page Articles

LATEST NEWS=Latest News

MOD_LATESTNEWS=<em>mod_latestnews</em>

MODULE MODE=Module Mode

PARAMCATEGORYID=Selects Articles from a specific Category or set of Categories. Enter the Category ID from the Category Manager. To specify more than one Category, separate each ID with a comma.

PARAMENABLECACHE=Select whether to Cache the content of this Module

PARAMFRONTPAGEITEMS=Show/Hide Articles designated for the Front Page

PARAMSECTIONID=Selects Articles from a specific Section or set of Sections. Enter the Section ID taken from the Section Manager. To specify more than one Section, separate each ID with a comma.

SECTION ID=Section ID

THE NUMBER OF ITEMS TO DISPLAY (DEFAULT 5)=The number of Articles to display (the default is 5)

RECENTLY ADDED FIRST=Recently Added First

RECENTLY MODIFIED FIRST=Recently Modified First

AUTHORS=Authors

ANYONE=Anyone

ORDERING OPTIONS=Ordering Options

ADDED OR MODIFIED BY ME=Added or modified by me

NOT ADDED OR MODIFIED BY ME=Not added or modified by me

A FILTER FOR THE AUTHORS=Filter by author

Change text of Login Module (en-GB.mod_login.ini) 

BUTTON_LOGIN=Log in

BUTTON_LOGOUT=Log out

DESCLOGINFORM=This Module displays a username and password login form. It also displays a link to retrieve a forgotten password. If user registration is enabled (in the Global Configuration settings), another link will be shown to enable self-registration for users.

ENCRYPT LOGIN FORM=Encrypt Login Form

FORGOT_YOUR_PASSWORD=Forgot your password?

FORGOT_YOUR_USERNAME=Forgot your username?

GREETING=Greeting

HINAME=Hi %s,

LOGIN MESSAGE=Login Message

LOGIN REDIRECTION URL=Login Redirection Page

LOGOUT MESSAGE=Logout Message

LOGOUT REDIRECTION URL=Logout Redirection Page

MOD_LOGIN=<em>mod_login</em>

NAME/USERNAME=Name/Username

NO ACCOUNT YET?=No Account Yet?

PARAMPOSTTEXT=This is the text or HTML that is displayed below the login form.

PARAMPRETEXT=This is the text or HTML that is displayed above the login form.

PARAMLOGINREDIRECTURL=Select the page the user will be redirected to after a successful login. Select from all the pages listed in the dropdown menu. If no selection is made, the Front Page will be loaded by default.

PARAMLOGOUTREDIRECTURL=Select the page the user will be redirected to after successfully ending their current session by logging out. Select from all the pages listed in the dropdown menu. If no selection is made, the Front Page will be loaded by default.

PARAMLOGINMESSAGE=Show/Hide the JavaScript Pop-up indicating Login Success

PARAMLOGOUTMESSAGE=Show/Hide the JavaScript Pop-up indicating Logout Success

PASSWORD=Password

POST-TEXT=Post-text

PRE-TEXT=Pre-text

REGISTER=Create an account

REMEMBER ME=Remember Me

SHOW/HIDE THE SIMPLE GREETING TEXT=Show/Hide the simple greeting text

SUBMIT ENCRYPTED LOGIN DATA (REQUIRES SSL)=Submit encrypted login data (requires SSL).  Do not enable this option if Joomla is not accessible using the https:// protocol prefix.

Change text of Menu module (en-GB.mod_mainmenu.ini)

ACTIVATE PARENT=Activate Parent

ALIGNMENT OF THE MENU ICONS=Alignment of the Menu Images

ALWAYS SHOW SUBMENU ITEMS=Always show sub-menu Items

CHOOSE WHICH INDENT IMAGE SYSTEM TO UTILISE=Choose which indent image system to utilise

DISPLAYS A MENU.=Displays a Menu.

END LEVEL=End Level

END SPACER=End Spacer

END SPACER FOR HORIZONTAL MENU=End spacer for horizontal Menu

EXPAND MENU=Expand Menu

FLAT LIST=Flat List

FULL ACTIVE HIGHLIGHTING=Full Active Highlighting

HORIZONTAL=Horizontal

IMAGE FOR THE FIRST SUB-LEVEL=Image for the first sub-level

IMAGE FOR THE SECOND SUB-LEVEL=Image for the second sub-level

IMAGE FOR THE THIRD SUB-LEVEL=Image for the third sub-level

IMAGE FOR THE FOURTH SUB-LEVEL=Image for the fourth sub-level

IMAGE FOR THE FIFTH SUB-LEVEL=Image for the fifth sub-level

IMAGE FOR THE SIXTH SUB-LEVEL=Image for the sixth sub-level

INDENT IMAGE=Indent Image

INDENT IMAGE 1=Indent Image 1

INDENT IMAGE 2=Indent Image 2

INDENT IMAGE 3=Indent Image 3

INDENT IMAGE 4=Indent Image 4

INDENT IMAGE 5=Indent Image 5

INDENT IMAGE 6=Indent Image 6

JOOMLA! DEFAULT IMAGES=Joomla! default images

LEGACY - FLAT LIST=Legacy - Flat List

LEGACY - HORIZONTAL=Legacy - Horizontal

LEGACY - VERTICAL=Legacy - Vertical

LIST=List

MENU=Menu

MENU CLASS SUFFIX=Menu Class Suffix

MENU ICON ALIGNMENT=Menu Image Alignment

MENU ICON LINK=Menu Image Link

MENU MODULE=Menu Module

MENU NAME=Menu Name

MENU STYLE=Menu Style

MOD_MAINMENU=<em>mod_mainmenu</em>

PARAMACTIVATEPARENT=Sets the activation ID also for all parent Menus in the tree

PARAMEXPANDMENU=Expand the Menu and make its sub-menu Items always visible

PARAMFULLACTIVEHIGHLIGHTING=Enable Full Active Menu Item Highlighting, including  Link-Article and Link-URL. This can cause loss of XHTML compliance if more than one item is active.

PARAMMENUCLASSSUFFIX=A suffix to be applied to the CSS class of the Menu Items

PARAMMENUICONLINK=Link on images instead of text. Image must be selected in the Menu Items.

PARAMMENUTAGID=An id attribute to assign to the root ul tag of the menu (optional)

PARAMSHOWMENUICONS=Show the Menu Images you have selected for your Menu Items

PARAMSHOWSUBMENUITEMS=Display all sub-menu items regardless of whether or not parent is active.

PARAMSTARTLEVEL=Level to start rendering the Menu at.

PARAMSTOPLEVEL=Level to stop rendering the Menu at.

PARAMTARGETPOSITION=JavaScript values to position a Popup window, eg, top=50,left=50,width=200,height=300

PARAMMENUMAXDEPTH=This is the maximum number of depths before menu items are ignored due to absent parents. Increase this if you find deep child menu items not appearing in your menu. 

MAXIMUM MENU DEPTH=Maximum Menu Depth

SELECT MENU=Select Menu

SHOW MENU ICONS=Show Menu Images

SHOW WHITESPACE=Show Whitespace

SHOW WHITESPACE DESC=Select whether to show whitespace in rendered XHTML

SPACER=Spacer

SPACER FOR HORIZONTAL MENU=Spacer for horizontal Menu

START LEVEL=Start Level

TARGET POSITION=Target Position

THE MENU STYLE=The Menu style

THE NAME OF THE MENU (DEFAULT IS MAINMENU)=The name of the Menu. The default is <em>mainmenu</em>.

USE PARAMS BELOW=Use Parameters below

VERTICAL=Vertical

Change text of Most Read Module (en-GB.mod_mostread.ini)

BOTH=Both

CATEGORY ID=Category ID

COUNT=Count

DESCMOSTREAD=This Module shows a list of the currently published Articles which have the highest number of page views.

FRONTPAGE ITEMS=Front Page Articles

MOD_MOSTREAD=<em>mod_mostread</em>

MODULE MODE=Module Mode

MOST READ CONTENT=Most Read Content

PARAMCATEGORYID=Selects Articles from a specific Category or set of Categories. Enter the Category ID from the Category Manager. To specify more than one Category, separate each ID with a comma.

PARAMFRONTPAGEITEMS=Show/Hide Articles designated for the Front Page. This only works when in Article-only mode.

PARAMSECTIONID=Selects Articles from a specific Section or set of Sections. Enter the Section ID taken from the Section Manager. To specify more than one Section, separate each ID with a comma.

SECTION ID=Section ID

THE NUMBER OF ITEMS TO DISPLAY (DEFAULT IS 5)=The number of Articles to display (the default is 5)

Change text of Newsflash Module (en-GB.mod_newsflash.ini)

A CONTENT CATEGORY=An Article Category

ARTICLE TITLE=Article Title

CATEGORY=Category

DESCNEWSFLASH=The Newsflash Module will either randomly display one article OR display a fixed number of articles in a horizontal or vertical configuration.

DISPLAY ARTICLE IMAGES=Display Article images

HORIZONTAL=Horizontal

ITEM TITLE=Article Title

LAYOUT=Layout

LINKED TITLES=Title Linkable

MAKE THE ITEM TITLES LINKABLE=Make the Article titles linkable to open the actual Article.

MOD_NEWSFLASH=<em>mod_newsflash</em>

NEWSFLASH=Newsflash

NO OF ITEMS TO DISPLAY=The number of Articles to display within this Module

NO. OF ITEMS=# of Articles

RANDOMLY CHOOSE ONE AT A TIME=Randomly choose one at a time

READ MORE=Read more... Link

READ MORE TEXT=Read more...

REGISTER TO READ MORE=Register to Read More

SELECT CONTENT CATEGORY=Select Article Category

SHOW ARTICLE TITLE=Show Article Title

SHOW IMAGES=Show Images

SHOW ITEM TITLE=Show Item Title

SHOW/HIDE THE READ MORE BUTTON=Show/Hide the Read more...

SHOW LAST SEPARATOR=Show last separator

SHOW SEPARATOR AFTER LAST ARTICLE=Show separator after last article

THE LAYOUT TO DISPLAY THE CATEGORY=The layout form in which to display the Category

VERTICAL=Vertical

Change text of Online Users module (en-GB.mod_online.ini)

ONLINE USERS=Online Users

Change text of Polls module (en-GB.mod_poll.ini)

DESCPOLL=This Module complements the Polls Component. It is used to display the configured Polls. You can select a specific Poll to display in the Poll Module.

MOD_POLL=<em>mod_poll</em>

POLL=Poll

VOTE=Vote

PARAMMODULEPOLL=The Poll to display

SELECT POLL=Select Poll

Change text of Random Image module (en-GB.mod_random_image.ini)

DESCRANDOMIMAGE=This Module displays a random image from your chosen directory.

HEIGHT (PX)=Height (px)

IMAGE FOLDER=Image Folder

IMAGE TYPE=Image Type

LINK=Link

MOD_RANDOM_IMAGE=<em>mod_random_image</em>

NO IMAGES=No Images

PARAMHEIGHTPX=Image Height forces all images to be displayed with the height in pixels.

PARAMIMAGEFOLDER=Path to the image folder relative to the site URL (e.g. images/stories).

PARAMLINK=A URL to redirect to if the image is clicked upon (e.g. http://www.joomla.org).

PARAMWIDTHPX=Image Width forces all images to be displayed with this width in pixels.

RANDOM IMAGE=Random Image

TYPE OF IMAGE PNG/GIF/JPG ETC. (DEFAULT IS JPG)=Type of image PNG/GIF/JPG etc. (the default is JPG)

WIDTH (PX)=Width (px)

Change text of Related Items module (en-GB.mod_related_items.ini) 

DESCRELATEDITEMS=This Module displays other Articles that are related to the one currently being viewed. These relations are established by the Meta Keywords. <br />All the keywords of the current Article are searched against all the keywords of all other published Articles. For example, you may have an Article on "Breeding Parrots" and another on "Hand Raising Black Cockatoos". If you include the keyword "parrot" in both Articles, then the Related Items Module will list the "Breeding Parrots" Article when viewing "Hand Raising Black Cockatoos" and vice-versa.

MOD_RELATED_ITEMS=<em>mod_related_items</em>

RELATED ITEMS=Related Articles

SHOW DATE=Show Date

SHOW/HIDE DATE=Show/Hide Date

Change text of Search Module (en-GB.mod_search.ini)

BOX WIDTH=Box Width

BUTTON POSITION=Button Position

BUTTON TEXT=Button Text

DISPLAY A SEARCH BUTTON=Display a Search Button

MOD_SEARCH=<em>mod_search</em>

PARAMBUTTONTEXT=The text that appears in the search button. If left blank, it will load the 'search' string from your language file.

PARAMTEXT=The text that appears in the search text box. If left blank, it will load 'search box' string from your language file.

POSITION OF THE BUTTON RELATIVE TO THE SEARCH BOX=Position of the button relative to the search box.

SEARCH=Search

SEARCH BUTTON=Search button

SEARCH BUTTON AS IMAGE=Search button as image

SEARCH...=search...

SEARCH MODULE=Search Module

SET ITEMID=Set ItemID

SIZE OF THE SEARCH TEXT BOX IN CHARACTERS=Size of the search text box in characters

TEXT=Text

THIS MODULE WILL DISPLAY A SEARCH BOX=This module will display a search box.

USE AN IMAGE AS BUTTON=Use an image as button. This image has to be named searchButton.gif and must be located in /images/M_images/

Change text of Sections Module (en-GB.mod_sections.ini)

COUNT=Count

DESCSECTIONS=The Section Module shows a list of all Sections configured in your database. The Sections refer here to the Article Sections only. If the parameter <em>Show Unauthorised Links</em> is set to No, the list will be limited to the Sections the user's access level permits them to see.

MOD_SECTIONS=<em>mod_sections</em>

SECTIONS=Sections

SHOW UNAUTHORIZED LINKS=Show Unauthorised Links

THE NUMBER OF ITEMS TO DISPLAY (DEFAULT IS 5)=The number of Sections to display  (the default is five).

TIPLINKS=If set to NO, the list will be limited to the Sections the User's access level permits them to see.

Change text of Statistics Module (en-GB.mod_stats.ini) 

CACHING=Caching

CONTENT=Content

CONTENT VIEW HITS=Content View Hits

DESCSTATISTICS=The Statistics Module shows information about your server installation together with statistics on the Web site users, number of Articles in your database and the number of Web links you provide.

DISABLED=Disabled

DISPLAY HIT COUNTER=Display Hit Counter

DISPLAY SERVER INFORMATION=Display Server Information

DISPLAY SITE INFORMATION=Display Site Information

ENABLED=Enabled

ENTER THE AMOUNT OF HITS TO INCREASE COUNTER BY=Enter the amount of hits to increase the counter by.

GZIP=GZIP

HIT COUNTER=Hit Counter

HITS_STAT=Hits

INCREASE COUNTER=Increase Counter

MEMBERS=Members

MOD_STATS=<em>mod_stats</em>

MYSQL=MySQL

NEWS=News

OS=OS

PHP=PHP

SERVER INFO=Server Info

SITE INFO=Site Info

STATISTICS=Statistics

TIME=Time

VISITORS=Visitors

WEBLINKS=Web Links

Change text of Syndicate Module (en-GB.mod_syndicate.ini) 

ATOM 1.0=Atom 1.0

FORMAT=Format

MOD_SYNDICATE=<em>mod_syndicate</em>

PARAMFEEDFORMAT=Select the format for the Syndication Feed

PARAMTEXT=Enter the text to be displayed along with the RSS Links

RSS 2.0=RSS 2.0

SMART SYNDICATION MODULE THAT CREATES SYNDICATED FEED FOR THE PAGE WHERE THE MODULE IS DISPLAYED=Smart Syndication Module that creates a Syndicated Feed for the page where the Module is displayed.

SYNDICATE=Syndicate

TEXT=Text

Change text of Who's Online Module (en-GB.mod_whosonline.ini)

AND=and

BOTH=Both

DESCWHOSONLINE=The Who's Online Module displays the number of Anonymous Users (e.g. Guest) and Registered Users (ones logged in) that are currently accessing the Web site.

DISPLAY=Display

MEMBER NAMES=Member Names

MEMBER ONLINE= %s member online

MEMBERS ONLINE= %s members online

MOD_WHOSONLINE=<em>mod_whosonline</em>

NO USERS ONLINE=No users online.

NUMBER OF GUESTS/MEMBERS=# of Guests / Members

ONLINE=online

SELECT WHAT SHALL BE SHOWN=Select what shall be shown

GUEST=%s guest

GUESTS=%s guests

MEMBER=%s member

MEMBERS=%s members

WE HAVE= We have

WHO'S ONLINE=Who's Online 

Change Text of Wrapper Module (en-GB.mod_wrapper.ini) 

AUTO=Auto

AUTO ADD=Auto Add

AUTO HEIGHT=Auto Height

HEIGHT=Height

HEIGHT OF THE IFRAME WINDOW=Height of the IFrame Window

MOD_WRAPPER=<em>mod_wrapper</em>

NAME OF THE IFRAME WHEN USED AS TARGET=Name of the IFrame when used as Target

NO_IFRAMES=No Iframes

PARAMAUTOADD=By default, http:// will be added unless it detects http:// or https:// in the URL you provide. This allows you to switch this ability off.

PARAMAUTOHEIGHT=The height will automatically be set to the size of the external page. This will only work for pages on your own domain.

PARAMWIDTH=Width of the iframe window. You can enter an absolute figure in pixels or a relative figure by adding a %.

SCROLL BARS=Scroll Bars

SHOW/HIDE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL SCROLL BARS.=Show/Hide Horizontal & Vertical Scroll Bars.

TARGET NAME=Target Name

THIS MODULE SHOWS AN IFRAME WINDOW TO SPECIFIED LOCATION=This Module shows an iframe window to specified location.

URL=URL

URL TO SITE/FILE YOU WISH TO DISPLAY WITHIN THE IFRAME=URL to site/file you wish to display within the iframe.

WRAPPER=Wrapper

WIDTH=Width

WRAPPER MODULE=Wrapper Module