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If you’re following along with our tutorial series on creating plugins for Joomla 2.5, you’ll notice that the name of our plugin is plg_content_helloworld. This is not an ideal plugin name, and in this Joomla 2.5 tutorial we’ll show you how to rename a plugin.
The following table shows where in the xml file this name is set, and where you see the plugin name in your Joomla 2.5 admin:
| Declaration in the plugin’s xml file: | Screenshot of where the plugin name is seen: |
|---|---|
| <name>plg_content_helloworld</name> |  |
If you would like to change the name of your plugin, you’ll need to update the plugin’s xml file. Find and change the name attribute from plg_content_helloworld to Hello World. After making this change, you’ll need to uninstall and then reinstall the plugin. After making these changes, the following are our results:
| Updated name in the plugin’s xml file: | Updated plugin name as seen from Admin view: |
|---|---|
| <name>Hello World</name> |  |
