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Changing Pre-defined group names.

Description: This simple will guide you on how to change the names of the default Groups in phpbb3

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Changing Pre-defined group names.
This simple article will guide you on how to change the names of the default groups in phpBB3. :)
There are six groups installed by default in phpbb3:
  1. Administrators
  2. Global Moderators
  3. Registered Users
  4. Registered COPPA Users
  5. Bots
  6. Guests
This article shows you how to rename these.

Important:
All the group names are defined in language/en/common.php.
We will change the default groups as follows:
    Administrators to Founders.
    Registered Users to Standard Users
    Bots to Crawlers
    Global Moderators to Super Moderators
    Registered COPPA users to COPPA Users
    Guests to Visitors

The format of the following instructions is explained at How to Install MODS

It is important to note that language files should be edited in a plain text editor and afterwards saved with the encoding UTF-8 without BOM

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language/en/common.php

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    'G_ADMINISTRATORS'            => 'Administrators',      

In-line Find and Replace with: Founders

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Administrators

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    'G_BOTS'                    => 'Bots',      

In-line Find and Replace with: Crawlers

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Bots

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    'G_GUESTS'                    => 'Guests',      

In-line Find and Replace with: Visitors

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Guests

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    'G_REGISTERED'                => 'Registered users',      

In-line Find and Replace with: Standard Users

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Registered users

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    'G_REGISTERED_COPPA'        => 'Registered COPPA users',      

In-line Find and Replace with: COPPA users

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Registered COPPA users

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    'G_GLOBAL_MODERATORS'        => 'Global moderators',      

In-line Find and Replace with: Super Moderators

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Global moderators

After making the changes the lines should look like this:

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    'G_ADMINISTRATORS'            => 'Founders',
    'G_BOTS'                    => 'Crawlers',
    'G_GUESTS'                    => 'Visitors',
    'G_REGISTERED'                => 'Standard users',
    'G_REGISTERED_COPPA'        => 'COPPA users',
    'G_GLOBAL_MODERATORS'        => 'Super Moderators',      

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Hope you find it Useful :)