FindWeave

Find the text. See its source. Review the change.

An old phone number, a company name or a phrase you cannot find in the page editor? FindWeave helps you locate stored text across supported WordPress content and selected theme or plugin files.

See the source of each match, open its WordPress editor or inspect the matching line in a file. For supported content, compare the old and new text before confirming a change. All included tools work without a purchase or licence key.

What you can do with FindWeave

• Find content across WordPress. Search posts, pages, supported public content types, comments, categories, tags and media text, plus selected settings, widgets and non-protected custom fields.
• Locate text in themes and plugins. Search selected folders for text in HTML, TXT, Twig, PHP, JavaScript, CSS and other supported text files. View the matching line and its surrounding text without changing the file.
• Go straight to the source. Open the responsible WordPress editor when available. Use Copy path to copy that editor link or the full server path of a file.
• Narrow your search. Use content filters, case-sensitive or case-insensitive matching, and regular expressions with supported numeric capture references in replacements.
• Review before replacing. Compare before and after values, choose which supported values to include and confirm the change plan. Supported serialized strings and arrays retain their structure.
• Keep a change journal. Review completed changes and prepare a rollback while the journal is retained. Later edits are treated as conflicts rather than overwritten.
• Export findings and supported content. Download matches as CSV, or use the limited content export, domain/prefix tools and confirmed import. Content export is not a database backup or a complete site migration.
• Replace one image. Preview and confirm replacement of a supported local JPEG, PNG or WebP image, with a journal and conflict-checked rollback.

Start with a search

1. Open FindWeave in your WordPress dashboard and enter the text you want to find.
2. Choose the source. For HTML, TXT or theme text, select Plugin and theme files, then select the relevant plugins or themes.
3. Run the search and inspect a match. For supported content changes, enter the replacement text, review the preview and confirm a plan.

Searching and previewing do not change your content. Theme and plugin file matches are read-only. A stored match identifies where text is saved; it does not prove where that text appears on the public website.

Help when you need it

Open FindWeave > Handbook for the bundled German and English guide, including supported sources, limits and WP-CLI commands. The handbook works offline.

Before applying changes to a live site, test on staging and keep an independent backup.

About FindWeave

FindWeave is developed by NovaPlug and licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later.