string-locator

String locator

Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins

50.7 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

100.0Kactive installs

1.4Mdownloads

4.6rating

0unresolved threads

31complaints analyzed

8praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

9.2Krecent 30 days 9.7Kprevious 30 days -5.1%movement 51.5Kshown total

Related Opportunities

5 markets

Commercial opportunity Search: Search visibility operations search visibility operations · final 70.2 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Text: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 74.0 · proof partial Needs sharper proof Syntax: Developer change safety and site customization developer change safety and site customization · final 73.1 · proof partial Generic category Find: WordPress operations workflow WordPress operations workflow · final 48.0 · proof not collected Generic category Highlight: WordPress operations workflow WordPress operations workflow · final 48.0 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.98

String Locator is not under Tools

String Locator is not under Tools: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I have a multisite setup, and had Sucuri Security installed.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97

Doesn’t work with custom plugin folder name

Doesn’t work with custom plugin folder name: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Doesn’t work with custom plugin folder name This appears to assume all installs have the default plugin folder name.

complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.97

READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT!!

READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT!!: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

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READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT!!

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91

Limitation

Limitation: users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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To edit files you need the edit_themes permission.” I saw another question where you said that I should go to SG Security or something similar in admin, but I don´t find that on my page.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91

String Locater Error

String Locater Error: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

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String Locater Error Folks, WP reported a Fatal plugin error with String Locater.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.79

ID/LINE NUMBER is a hash #

ID/LINE NUMBER is a hash #: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

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ID/LINE NUMBER is a hash # Searching for potential SEO/SPAMlinks and the results contain some empty lines, except they have a # as the ID/LINE NUMBER.

neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.69

How to fix “String Locator is limited to search mode only.”

How to fix “String Locator is limited to search mode only.”: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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How to fix “String Locator is limited to search mode only.” I have the String Locator plugin installed, v2.6.3, WP 6.3 WooCommerce 6.0.4.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87

Replace Strings Option NOT Working For Any ADMIN Account

Replace Strings Option NOT Working For Any ADMIN Account: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Replace Strings Option NOT Working For Any ADMIN Account We have 3 Admin accounts on our site with edit capability for EVERYTHING including edit themes.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87

Plugin does not work if theme file editor is disabled

Plugin does not work if theme file editor is disabled: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Plugin does not work if theme file editor is disabled As others have mentioned in unresolved support tickets going back several months, the search function does not work on sites where the theme file editor disabled.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86

Conflict with Autoptimize

Conflict with Autoptimize: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Conflict with Autoptimize Hello, I noticed that the latest version of your plugin has a conflict with Autoptimize, which causes search results to not appear on the frontend, even though, I can see from the console that there is data that is being retrieved Here is what it looks like when I try to search with Autoptimize deactivated https://ibb.co/LSPmjbm And

Competitor Context

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Find My Blocks – Locate blocks on your site praise owner · intel 75.8 · weakness 66.5

praise owner

stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues

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Search and Replace weak incumbent · intel 72.5 · weakness 60.1

weak incumbent

1 unresolved support thread(s) below-average rating support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

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CM Search And Replace – Optimize content edits with a powerful search and replace tool praise owner · intel 65.7 · weakness 48.8

praise owner

10 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect database slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact

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Find And Replace Text praise owner · intel 55.6 · weakness 40.1

praise owner

stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) performance missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

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Sigma Search & Replace praise owner · intel 26.9 · weakness 12.5

praise owner

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Collected Signals

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praise Works perfectly and Great Plugin (5 stars) review · 2026-04-09T05:55:50+00:00 · low severity · search

The reviewer says String Locator works perfectly and is a great plugin.

Evidence: Works perfectly and Great Plugin

quality string search search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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praise Great (5 stars) review · 2026-03-25T11:38:35+00:00 · low severity · search

The reviewer gives String Locator a brief positive review.

Evidence: Great

quality string search search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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praise Great for support (5 stars) review · 2025-06-24T16:48:31+00:00 · medium severity · search

Great for support: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great for support I’ve used this plugin now a dozen times to track down plugins conflicts for my customers.

bugs compatibility support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint ID/LINE NUMBER is a hash # support · 2025-04-18T13:07:21+00:00 · high severity · search

ID/LINE NUMBER is a hash #: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: ID/LINE NUMBER is a hash # Searching for potential SEO/SPAMlinks and the results contain some empty lines, except they have a # as the ID/LINE NUMBER.

security spam search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint String Locator: Add feature to exclude directories support · 2025-03-01T21:44:57+00:00 · medium severity · search

String Locator: Add feature to exclude directories: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: String Locator: Add feature to exclude directories Suggestion: Please add feature to exclude a directory (or preferably, multiple directories.) I use this plugin often, but when I have to search under wp-content or the entire directory, the searches take too long because I can’t exclude the uploads directory.

missing feature value quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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praise A translation passepartout (5 stars) review · 2025-02-14T23:19:54+00:00 · medium severity · search

A translation passepartout: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: A translation passepartout Some plugins don’t allow translations in a standard way.

translation search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Need to escape column names with a “back quote” (`) support · 2025-01-02T21:35:02+00:00 · medium severity · search

Need to escape column names with a “back quote” (`): users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Need to escape column names with a “back quote” (`) I’m seeing lots of errors in my error log when performing a SQL Table search.

bugs form search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Timeout Error support · 2024-12-31T20:06:47+00:00 · medium severity · search

Timeout Error: users show bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Timeout Error I am looking for a text string that’s somewhere on my WordPress site but I have no idea in which file.

bugs performance value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Warning The file-number, 0, that was sent could not be found. support · 2024-12-27T18:22:32+00:00 · medium severity · search

Warning The file-number, 0, that was sent could not be found.: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: this is error I am getting all the time no matter what I do Can this be solved?

bugs value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Suggestion: open file with searched term at top or middle of screen support · 2024-11-30T15:46:01+00:00 · medium severity · search

Suggestion: open file with searched term at top or middle of screen: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Even better, create a setting that lets users choose their preference of where the target line should appear when the file is opened – top, middle or bottom of the edit window.

missing feature search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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praise Top Plugin (5 stars) review · 2024-11-24T21:09:07+00:00 · medium severity · search

Top Plugin: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Top Plugin A powerful addition to your debugging toolkit.

bugs search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Suggestion: Add option to not search wp-contents/uploads folder support · 2024-11-24T11:00:07+00:00 · medium severity · search

Suggestion: Add option to not search wp-contents/uploads folder: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Suggestion: Add option to not search wp-contents/uploads folder SUGGESTION: Add a checkbox option to EXCLUDE uploads directory.

missing feature easy value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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praise Amazing plugin!!! (5 stars) review · 2024-10-02T20:37:43+00:00 · medium severity · search

Amazing plugin!!!: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Hello, this plugin saved lot my time to translate my website!

value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Entry keeps appearing support · 2024-09-05T08:49:24+00:00 · medium severity · search

Entry keeps appearing: users show performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I use the “String Locator” and I always have an entry in the database when I remove it.

performance missing feature search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Transients never expire causing issues with autoload support · 2024-08-06T20:27:54+00:00 · medium severity · search

Transients never expire causing issues with autoload: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Transients never expire causing issues with autoload Was working on a customer website, attempting to reduce their autoload data in wp_options , when I discovered many MBs of data coming from String Locator’s transient data _transient_string-locator-search-files-<number> .

bugs missing feature search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Replace Strings Option NOT Working For Any ADMIN Account support · 2024-07-31T19:50:57+00:00 · medium severity · search

Replace Strings Option NOT Working For Any ADMIN Account: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Replace Strings Option NOT Working For Any ADMIN Account We have 3 Admin accounts on our site with edit capability for EVERYTHING including edit themes.

bugs compatibility missing feature support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Doesn’t work with custom plugin folder name support · 2024-06-13T01:20:50+00:00 · high severity · search

Doesn’t work with custom plugin folder name: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Doesn’t work with custom plugin folder name This appears to assume all installs have the default plugin folder name.

security bugs compatibility setup search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Limitation support · 2024-04-19T10:35:35+00:00 · high severity · search

Limitation: users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: To edit files you need the edit_themes permission.” I saw another question where you said that I should go to SG Security or something similar in admin, but I don´t find that on my page.

security compatibility support search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor search drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes

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praise Works like a charm (5 stars) review · 2024-03-24T12:41:15+00:00 · medium severity · search

Works like a charm: users praise easy, reliable, performance, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works like a charm It’s just what I needed.

easy reliable performance search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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neutral Doesn’t see custom plugin folder names. support · 2024-01-15T21:38:39+00:00 · medium severity · search

Doesn’t see custom plugin folder names.: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Doesn’t see custom plugin folder names. If you rename your plugin folder through your wp config, and tell it to search just the plugin folder, this can’t find it… it really should read the plguin folder name from the config, not just assume it’s always going to be the default name. Seriously useful plugin otherwise, thanks. If you rename your plugin folder t

search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

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