gnaka08

The plugin gives search boxes on the blog additional functionalities for operators among search words, such as Google’s. The other supported operators than the standard ‘and’ search are OR, -(exclude), *(any string) and parenthesis.
The plugin contains <a href="https://github.com/yonaka/SearchWordsSQL" rel="nofollow ugc">SearchWordsSQL</a> and <a href="http://genericons.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Genericons</a> libraries. These are subject to the respective licenses. If you want to redistribute this plugin with Genericons, you may have to comply with GPLv2 (not lesser).
<h3>Search Operators</h3>
<ul>
<li>Specify words separated by space(s) to search posts containing all the words.</li>
<li>Quote a string containing space(s) by double quotes to search posts which contain phrase(s) consisted of those words only in the order.</li>
<li>Insert an asterisk (*) in a word without any space to search posts which contain the word(s) regardless of what the part of the asterisk is.</li>
<li>Prepend a minus sign (-) without any space to a word to search posts which do not contain the word(s).</li>
<li>Specify two words separated by ” OR ” in upper case to search posts which contain either of words or both. This takes precedence over words separated by space(s) only.</li>
<li>You can combine the above expression. Use a pair of parenthesis to group expressions if needed.</li>
</ul>
It searches in the bodies and titles of posts in a case-insensitive manner.

Compound Searcher

Lets search boxes on your blog support search operators like Google's.

Marius L. J.

InstaWP

When working on themes and plugins you often notice a piece of text that appears hardcoded into the files, you need to modify it, but you don’t know what theme or plugin it’s in, and certainly not which individual file to look in.
Easily search through your themes, plugins or even WordPress core and be presented with a list of files, the matched text and what line of the file matched your search. 
You can then quickly make edits directly in your browser by clicking the link from the search results.
By default a consistency check is performed when making edits to files, this will look for inconsistencies with braces, brackets and parenthesis that are often accidentally left in. 
This drastically reduces the risk of breaking your site when making edits, but is in no way an absolute guarantee.
Create a replica of your live site a.k.a – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/instawp-connect" rel="ugc">WordPress Staging</a> site before testing substitutions.

String locator

If someone had read my mind

Great plugin


I've used this plugin now a dozen times to track down plugins conflicts for my customers. Truly one of the best debug utilities, up there with Query Monitor!


Great for support

Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins

Compound Searcher vs String locator