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String locator

Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins

By InstaWP·Find·Free
4.6(124 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, String locator is a WordPress find plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 124 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Search and Replace.

4.6/5124 reviews
100K+active installs
1.4M+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

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 absolut…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6124 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Great
by ishraqued·1 week ago

Great

Great for support
by Adrian Tobey·9 months ago

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!

A translation passepartout
by masvil·1 year ago

Some plugins don’t allow translations in a standard way. For those, there is String locator.

Top Plugin
by klixtorg·1 year ago

A powerful addition to your debugging toolkit.

Amazing plugin!!!
by maca8291·1 year ago

Hello, this plugin saved lot my time to translate my website! Thank you for this amazing and very usefull plugin! :))))

Download Trends

Today: 258Yesterday: 298This week: 2KPeriod total: 132K

Compatibility

WordPress4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.6
91.6%
Other
8.4%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.6.7 (2025-01-15)

  • Fixed secured unserialized data handling to prevent potential vulnerabilities.
  • Verified compatibility with WordPress 6.7
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Marius L. J.Marius L. J.InstaWPInstaWP
Plugin Info
Version
2.6.7
Last Updated
Jan 15, 2025
WP Requires
4.9+
Tested Up To
6.7.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
100K+
Downloads
1.4M+
Added
Aug 15, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

findtextsearchsyntaxhighlight

Developer

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InstaWP
3 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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