Changing display name of 'manufacturer'

I have tried this a few different ways, but can't seem to get the results I want.

the site I am building for my client doesn't really have a manufacturer, but they do have artists. I am hoping to find a way to change the display name (and subsequent filters, h1, menu items, etc) from 'manufacturer' to 'artist' - and then to have the option of displaying all the artists on the store landing page (the same way you would list the category list by manufacturer)

I have tried replacing every instance of 'manufacturer' 'manufacturers' 'MANUFACTURER' etc., with no luck, and have also tried just replacing the JText: - again with no luck. I see that the category name is pulled in to the h1 tag, but can't quite figure where I need to change this.

any help is greatly appreciated.

thank you in advance,
robb

Hi,

You don't have to change any code for that. The only thing you need to do is to override your translation file as explained there:
www.hikashop.com/en/download/languages.html#modify

nicholas,
thanks for the quick response. I went in and changed the instances of 'manufacturer' and 'MANUFACTURER' in the language translation file, but still get the word 'manufacturer' showing up on my category listing page as the headline. is there another place I need to change it to have that show up as 'artist'?

(the name 'manufacturer' in the admin section has been replaced by 'artist' - thank you!)

thank you in advance,
robb

Then, you're probably talking about the name of your main manufacturer category.
Go in the menu Products->Manufacturers and click on the Root link on the left. Then, edit your "manufacturer" category and change its name.

nicholas,
at first I was a bit confused by what you suggested, but then I found that I had to edit the category name for what I had changed to 'artist' (category 10)

now it works perfectly!


thank you for your time and help
robb

I have a related question but couldn't quite figure it out.

I want to "hid" the MANUFACTURER_URL text and related URL. I was able to hide the actual URL by putting a ; before the line in the language file referenced above. (based on the file it looked like this is a comment out command).

However, I still don't know how to get rid of the MANUFACTURER_URL label that still shows on the front end. I didn't set up any "manufacture" categories. When I created a "manufacturer" and changed the name, it still didn't change the MANUFACTURER_URL text. I refreshed, emptied cache, refreshed, etc.

The html code behind the scenes is:
<span class="hikashop_product_url_main" id="hikashop_product_url_main">MANUFACTURER_URL</span>

If I missed it in this post please let me know or share with me how to "hide" this.

Thank you for the great cart.

also changed "root" name but that didn't solve the issue.

It was an easy fix. I just deleted the URL link that I had added previously (products / "your product name") under the product description box.