I find that many times, as I build a WordPress site, I need to edit the plugins or themes to my liking. It sure would be handy to have a quick way of searching the entire contents for a phrase, or an HTML or PHP code snippet. Is there a plugin, or an easy way to search these files? For example, I install a plugin, and I don't like the way that a certain phrase is worded that it displays, but I don't know which file (out of MANY) in the plugin contains that phrase for me to edit. Is there a tool I can use to search the files on the back end? THANKS!
I select all the files in Explorer and open them with Notepad++, then I use its "Find in files" dialog to search them. I'm pretty sure you can do this with other code editors, but you can't do it with Windows Notepad.