holyprof1

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>

Holyprof Source Locator

Find where code, hooks, templates, and text are defined in your themes and plugins.

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SniffPress is an essential developer tool that lets you search through all your theme and plugin files directly from the WordPress admin dashboard.
<h3>Resources</h3>
GitHub: https://github.com/viveksoftchure/sniffpress
New in version 1.1: 
– Top-level admin menu for easier access 
– Search limits to prevent server overload 
– Exclusion patterns to skip specific folders/files 
– Improved theme editor links for both active and inactive themes 
– Enhanced user interface with search statistics
Key Features: 
– Search across multiple themes/plugins at once 
– Case-sensitive and whole word matching options 
– Regular expression support 
– Filter by file type (PHP, JS, CSS, etc.) 
– Direct links to edit found files (works with any theme/plugin) 
– Search limits: control maximum file size and results count 
– Exclusion patterns: skip vendor folders, cache directories, etc. 
– Direct links to edit found files 
– Clean, intuitive interface 
– Fast AJAX-powered searching 
– Search completion statistics
Perfect for: 
– Debugging theme/plugin issues 
– Finding specific functions/hooks 
– Locating text strings for translation 
– Code audits and maintenance

SniffPress


For years I was using Notepad++ to search strings in files, but I could not filter what type of files to search from file types - for example, php, html, css, etc... Also, I had to spend a few seconds to select the location of the folders to search from my hard drive, at least for local development. 



This plugin allows me to not only filter which files to search, but also for live sites, I can search on the spot without having to download the themes/plugins if I don't have copies of them on my pc. And at an added bonus, it works really fast.



Not necessarily a must use tool, but a great help and time saver for developers and alike.


It works well - too well !!!

A powerful search tool that helps developers quickly find text strings within theme and plugin files.

Holyprof Source Locator vs SniffPress