Rename WordPress "Posts" to "News"

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<?php

/**
 * Rename "Posts" to "News"
 *
 * @link http://new2wp.com/snippet/change-wordpress-posts-post-type-news/
 */
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'pilau_change_post_menu_label' );
add_action( 'init', 'pilau_change_post_object_label' );
function pilau_change_post_menu_label() {
	global $menu;
	global $submenu;
	$menu[5][0] = 'News';
	$submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'News';
	$submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add News';
	$submenu['edit.php'][16][0] = 'News Tags';
	echo '';
}
function pilau_change_post_object_label() {
	global $wp_post_types;
	$labels = &$wp_post_types['post']->labels;
	$labels->name = 'News';
	$labels->singular_name = 'News';
	$labels->add_new = 'Add News';
	$labels->add_new_item = 'Add News';
	$labels->edit_item = 'Edit News';
	$labels->new_item = 'News';
	$labels->view_item = 'View News';
	$labels->search_items = 'Search News';
	$labels->not_found = 'No News found';
	$labels->not_found_in_trash = 'No News found in Trash';
}

Awesome, thank you!

Something to note, I ran into an issue where if the current user went to their dashboard but didn't have permission to view/edit posts, it would crap out and give:

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /srv/www/wordpress-default/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php on line 1573

Would recommend changing:

$submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'News';
$submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add News';
$submenu['edit.php'][16][0] = 'News Tags';

...to...

  if (array_key_exists('edit.php', $submenu)) {
    $submenu['edit.php'][5][0]  = 'News';

    if (count($submenu['edit.php']) >= 11) {
      $submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add News';
    }

    if (count($submenu['edit.php']) >= 17) {
     $submenu['edit.php'][16][0] = 'News Tags';
    }
  }

...to fix the above error.

@joeforshaw thank you!

Just curious: why the echo ''; on line 17?

(I've seen this everywhere (like here, here, here, here and so on) so I'm curious if it is there by purpose or something everyone just copy and paste.)

Hey! I'm trying to upgrade to PHP7 but the PHP compatibility checker is throwing an error which I think is on line 21.

"ERROR | Using a call-time pass-by-reference is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and prohibited since PHP 5.4"

Can this be modified to be compatible with PHP7?