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

shubham715

vivekkumarsahu0

wpwebguru

SniffPress is an essential developer tool that lets you search through all your theme and plugin files directly from the WordPress admin dashboard.
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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.

String locator vs SniffPress