# Customizing Theme
**URL:** https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899
**Category:** Themes
**Tags:** v2
**Created:** [October 31, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899 "2017-10-31T08:47:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rndm\_stranger](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/rndm_stranger)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899/1 "2017-10-31T08:47:17Z")
Hey,
I set my page up today ([http://korbinian-michl.de/](http://korbinian-michl.de/)) using the [black theme](http://www.getkirby-themes.com/themes/the-black). Everything works fine, but I would like to change some english captions to german ones.
E.g.: At Kontakt, I would like to replace “Elsewehre” and “Location” with “Sonst noch” and “Wo?”. Same goes for the homepage and the “Recent Projects”. Can someone please help me find the right file in the installation?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@jimbobrjames](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/jimbobrjames)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899/2 "2017-10-31T08:55:03Z")
There are a few places these could be. If these titles are not within the content files as page titles in the panel, they are probably hard coded into the template files or snippets. look in `site/templates` and `site/snippets`. There should be some obviously named files in there. Its a simple theme, so i wouldn’t expect many files to check.
Without buying the theme, i’m afraid I can only guess at where these titles are.
If you have a good code editor like [Atom](https://atom.io) or [Sublime](https://www.sublimetext.com), you can use these to search the files in a whole folder, which would highlight those words in any file within the site. Be careful to only edit files under the `site` folder because, depending on the words you search for, you can end up getting kirbies core files in the search results. You should not edit these files. Try to search just the `site` folder and anything below it.
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### Author:  [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899/3 "2017-10-31T09:02:24Z")
These strings might also be defined in site.txt. I don’t want to believe those strings are hardcoded in the templates (for a theme that costs 20 bucks).
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### Author:  [@rndm\_stranger](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/rndm_stranger)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899/4 "2017-10-31T09:11:46Z")
Thanks. Found it in `site/templates`.
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### Author:  [@jimbobrjames](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/jimbobrjames)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899/5 "2017-10-31T09:19:32Z")
> [@rndm\_stranger](#):
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> Thanks. Found it in site/templates.
Gosh. It might be worth switching these to editable fields that you can change more easily from within the panel, or asking the themes author to do it, and re-release the theme.
If you want to do it yourself, let us know and we will help you out.
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### Author:  [@distantnative](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/distantnative)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/customizing-theme/8899/6 "2025-02-06T17:31:47Z")