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

Marios Alexandrou

This plugin allows you to dynamically (i.e. at the time when a page is generated) replace code and text from themes and other plugins with code and text of your choosing before a page is delivered to a user’s browser.
Because the find and replace happens in real-time no changes are needed to plugins or themes which means upgrades remain easy!
A <a href="https://infolific.com/technology/software-worth-using/real-time-find-and-replace-for-wordpress/#pro-version" rel="nofollow ugc">pro version</a> (a lifetime license is less than $15) with additional filtering options, setting export/import functionality, and the ability to modify admin pages is available.
Here are some common uses:
<ol>
<li>Want to selectively translate text that is being output by another plugin? You can do that.</li>
<li>Trying to tweak the text on a product or shopping cart page? No problem.</li>
<li>Hoping to remove footer text from a theme without modifying the theme? That’s easy.</li>
</ol>
Here are some <a href="https://infolific.com/technology/internet/handiest-wordpress-plugin-youve-never-heard-of/" rel="nofollow ugc">more examples</a>.
And some <a href="https://infolific.com/technology/internet/wordpress-seo-with-real-time-find-and-replace-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">tips for those interested in on-page SEO</a>.
Remember, all of the above can be done WITHOUT modifying themes or plugin files so you’ll always be able to upgrade them without having to worry about losing custom edits.

Real-Time Find and Replace


Works realtime and can parse regex



Handy note:use / or ~ start AND end, use \1 \2 etc to replace with the ( ) groups


Works as advertised

Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user's browser.

String locator vs Real-Time Find and Replace