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Holyprof Source Locator helps you find where features, hooks, templates, and text are defined in your active themes and plugins. Search across theme files, functions.php, and plugin code to quickly locate the source of functionality or visible output. This tool is designed for developers and site builders who need to trace how something is implemented inside WordPress.
Owned and maintained by Tobi Holyprof.
Source code repository: https://github.com/holyprof1/holyprof-source-locator
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Read-only search across the plugin itself, the active theme, the parent theme when a child theme is active, and active plugins</li>
<li>Focus on PHP source, <code>functions.php</code>, templates, hooks, CSS, and JS</li>
<li>Grouped results with source names, file paths, line numbers, and highlighted snippets</li>
<li>AJAX-powered search to keep the admin page responsive</li>
<li>Limited secondary references for related admin pages, menus, and settings when WordPress exposes them</li>
<li>Safety limits for large files, skipped dependency folders, unreadable files, and oversized result sets</li>
</ul>
Holyprof Source Locator does not edit files or settings. It is designed as an admin-only inspection tool.
<h3>Limitations</h3>
Holyprof Source Locator is intentionally limited in v1.
<ul>
<li>It is focused on source-code locations in active themes and plugins.</li>
<li>It does not search posts or pages.</li>
<li>It does not guarantee every visible text string will be found.</li>
<li>It does not guarantee coverage of every JavaScript-rendered admin screen.</li>
<li>It does not search database content outside what WordPress exposes through registered admin menus and settings metadata.</li>
<li>Admin-page, menu, and settings references are secondary clues and depend on what WordPress or plugins expose to PHP at search time.</li>
</ul>

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