Search code across active plugins, themes, and MU plugins directly from the WordPress admin.

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<p>Admin Code Search is a lightweight developer tool that lets you search code directly from the WordPress admin area — no FTP or terminal access required.</p>
<p>It scans active plugins, themes, and MU plugins line-by-line and shows matching results with file paths and line numbers.</p>
<p>Designed for quick debugging, code tracing, and locating specific hooks, functions, or strings across a site.</p>
<p>A simple, fast code search tool for developers working inside WordPress.</p>
<h3>Why use Admin Code Search?</h3>
<p>Searching through plugin and theme files manually is slow and often requires FTP, file manager access, or local copies.</p>
<p>Admin Code Search brings that functionality directly into wp-admin, allowing you to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Search plugin, theme, and MU plugin code instantly</li>
<li>Locate functions, hooks, and strings across files  </li>
<li>Debug third-party plugins more efficiently  </li>
<li>Work directly on live environments without leaving WordPress</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search inside active plugins, themes, and MU plugins</li>
<li>Case-sensitive or case-insensitive search</li>
<li>Partial match, whole word match, or match entire line exactly</li>
<li>Custom file extensions (e.g. php, js, css)</li>
<li>Line-by-line scanning for better performance on large codebases</li>
<li>Displays file path, line number, and highlighted match</li>
<li>Shows result count summary</li>
<li>Limits broad searches to the first 500 matches</li>
<li>Includes a Clear button to reset the search form and results</li>
<li>Excludes common heavy directories (vendor, node_modules, uploads, cache, .git, .svn)</li>
<li>Admin-only access for security</li>
</ul>
<h3>Typical Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Locate where a function or hook is defined</li>
<li>Find all occurrences of a specific string</li>
<li>Debug custom integrations or third-party plugins</li>
<li>Debug issues without FTP access  </li>
<li>Quickly explore unfamiliar codebases without leaving wp-admin</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who is this for?</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress developers  </li>
<li>Freelancers working on client sites  </li>
<li>Agencies maintaining multiple projects  </li>
<li>Anyone who needs quick code search inside WordPress</li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>Large searches may take longer on sites with many plugins or large codebases. Results are processed in real time.</p>
<p>To keep output manageable, the plugin limits results to the first 500 matches and shows a warning when that limit is reached.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin does not send any data to external services.</p>


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