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Both those strings seem to be located in wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php. They don’t have any filters attached to them, so they’re not meant to be (easily) altered by your code. However, both those strings are internationalized (ie, run through a translation function) to allow WordPress’s interface to be translated into languages other than English. The i18n functions—__() … Read more