Is there a way to search wordpress code?

  • russellninthlink

    (@russellninthlink)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hello. Sorry if this has been covered. My quick searches didn’t find anything…

    Is there a way to search the wordpress code? Often I’m trying to find a snippet of code and I have to click through the templates or widgets, when (for example) with an HTML site I could simply use Dreamweaver to search the folder for a code snippet.

    Any ideas? Thanks.

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  • Nutrawee

    (@zeally)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    I use notepad++, it has a “Find in Folder” feature.

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Notepad++ as suggested above..

    Didn’t realise it until i read the above, i’ll drop the other app i’ve been using now.. thanx zeally..

    Thread Starter russellninthlink

    (@russellninthlink)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks to both of you. Since most of the updates I make to wordpress are within the actual editor, the files are not local, so “search in folder” really wouldn’t work without bringing the site files down every time, correct?

    I was more looking for a plugin or other method that will allow me to find something within the wordpress admin so I can know which template to click on in the editor or which widget to open to make changes. Hope that makes sense.

    Edward Caissie

    (@cais)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    It takes a bit of getting used to … but stumbling about for about 10 minutes I believe I would have to agree with @zeally and @t31os_ that Notepad++ may be the solution.

    FTP_Synchronization works just fine 🙂

    Liam Keane

    (@liamk)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    also possible with the Google site: operator and svn
    http://www.google.com/#q=site:core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/

    sanguinerane

    (@sanguinerane)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    i know this is a little late, but if you’re on linux or os x just use grep
    open up terminal, navigate to the folder, then type

    grep -irn "query" .

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