Title: Firebug?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Firebug?

 *  [mike365](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike365/)
 * (@mike365)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firebug/)
 * Is there a way to use firebug, or any other program to figure out the different
   elements – that control wordpress. Example: Using the “Inspect Element” If you
   hover over the body of an article – have it display <?php the_content(); ?> and
   show that the line of code is on the single.php file.

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 *  [ambrosite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambrosite/)
 * (@ambrosite)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firebug/#post-1625679)
 * That would be a very useful feature — but unfortunately Firebug cannot read any
   information off the page until after it has already been processed by PHP and
   served to the browser. The only way to accomplish this would be to force the 
   WP template tags to output the information, either placing it in HTML comments,
   or storing it inside element attributes. I think there are some WP developer 
   plugins that do something like this, but I’ve never used any of them.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [ambrosite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambrosite/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firebug/#post-1625679)
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