Horde Trace

You change a sentence in the page editor, save, refresh, and the old sentence is still there. It lives somewhere else: a template file, a widget, a menu, a shortcode, a synced pattern or a theme setting.

Horde Trace finds it. Switch Trace on from the admin bar, click the thing you want to change, and Trace shows where it comes from, with a link straight to the screen where you can edit it.

What Trace can find

• Blocks, and the page, post or synced pattern they’re saved in
• Site editor template parts and navigation menus (block themes)
• Widgets, and the widget area they’re in
• Classic menus, by menu and item
• Shortcodes, and the plugin or theme that registered them
• Text hardcoded in theme files, with the file name and line number
• Site title, tagline, Customizer settings and other stored settings
• Text saved in custom fields and page builder layouts

Built to stay out of the way

• Only administrators who switch it on see anything. Visitors never load any of it.
• Read-only. Trace never changes, moves or deletes anything.
• Nothing is sent anywhere. Everything runs on your own site.