Hello, I am a beginner and after looking everywhere I do not find where to change the name of my page

(linked in attached folder)

 

Thanks in advance 😄

Hi,

ACP > Settings > General Configuration > Site Name

I've tried this many times but it is not changing the name of the forum. It just changes the meta description tag in source.

Could you please clarify where you are not seeing it change?

I'm trying to change the name of my forums

Ah, that is actually the word "Forums" that you have translated in your language pack. You need to change that language string

__api_forums_forums

 

@Marc Stridgen I don't understand how do I do that? I want to change the wording to say:

The Virtual Assistant Networking Association VANA

Edited June 2, 2024Jun 2 by Mediamage

Hi @Mediamage,

You can find the area to change the heading by going to your AdminCP -> Customisation -> Languages (under the heading Localisation) -> find the key `__app_forums`. It is on the third page in my AdminCP so may be the same for yours.

Fill in the field on the right and it will change the heading for you. Let us know if this works. 🙂

You mean add what I want the forum to be called in there like this? Because it still never changed the name:

It still says "Virtual Assistant Networking Forums" as you can see here:

9 minutes ago, Mediamage said:

You mean add what I want the forum to be called in there like this? Because it still never changed the name:

That wasn’t the right language string. You probably want to reverse that change by clearing the translation. There are many language strings similar to that. Therefore, my suggestion would be to use Quick Translation from the Language Tools. 

Activate it in one browser window but keep it open there. 

Open a new browser windows with your forum and you can click on the headline to change the language string. 

Then return to the first browser window to turn Quick Translation off again. 

I removed this string. Then tried what you said but it did not allow me to click on the headline and change it.

There must be a simpler way to change the name of my forum like why can I not simply change it in general settings?

Okay now it says this and I can't remove it. 

Okay I got that shut off. Unfortunately that never helped.

@Marc Stridgen Okay now I found this in the languages so changed it to the correct wording but that never worked either? Is that the wrong one too?

Edited June 2, 2024Jun 2 by Mediamage

I'm not sure why that isn't working to be honest. Do you have multiple languages installed on your community?

May be have a read through the following guides to ensure all the steps are being followed.

Edited June 2, 2024Jun 2 by Gary

No just one language.

Can someone fix this for me? I've followed all the steps suggested. I've been with IPB since 2003 (two decades) and really hoping this can be fixed. I used to just change that area in General Settings. I've never had to go into this Languages stuff before.

Edited June 3, 2024Jun 3 by Mediamage

13 hours ago, Mediamage said:

Okay I got that shut off. 

Pretty sure that was your problem all along. As it says in the pop-up, you should never turn that on. But now that it is off, you need to re-do the suggestions to change the title. 

The forum headline title was never edited in the General Settings. That’s the site title. That’s something different. 

Let us know if that fixes your issues @Mediamage

No it never fixed my issue. Not sure what to do.

Doesn't this work for you? 

 

So watch video as it doesn't seem to work like that for me: 

https://video.vanetworking.com/conversations/657b4e9a-6947-58f9-afd6-9c66177281c0

Difficult to tell from the video but when you are over the text you want to change, are you actually clicking/holding the mouse while on the text?

And I'm going to offer this up, seeing as all the other suggestions are on how this usually gets changed - is it possible you've edited a template and hard-coded the name? Just check, please...go to the ACP area indicated:

Once in there, switch to the advanced theme functionality and use the search - type your phrase in there just to make sure you haven't actually typed it into a template:

Edited June 5, 2024Jun 5 by Nathan Explosion

Found a reason why some of the suggestions aren't working...all I did was enable the 'View word keys' setting to actually check the key of the item to be translated...

On 10/4/2023 at 12:06 PM, Marc Stridgen said:

__api_forums_forums

Nope.

On 6/2/2024 at 7:42 AM, Gary said:

find the key `__app_forums`

Nope.

It's 'forums'

Edited June 5, 2024Jun 5 by Nathan Explosion

22 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

Difficult to tell from the video but when you are over the text you want to change, are you actually clicking/holding the mouse while on the text?

And I'm going to offer this up, seeing as all the other suggestions are on how this usually gets changed - is it possible you've edited a template and hard-coded the name? Just check, please...go to the ACP area indicated:

Once in there, switch to the advanced theme functionality and use the search - type your phrase in there just to make sure you haven't actually typed it into a template:

I've tried:

1. clicking the text

2. hovering over and holding my mouse above the text

3. hovering, holding and click the mouse over the text.

None of this works.