Title: HTML text string search
Last modified: April 19, 2021

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# HTML text string search

 *  [gm9090xyz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshstateca/)
 * (@dshstateca)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-text-string-search/)
 * Hi all – I want to do a simple text string search thru the HTML of all 100+ Pages(
   and footer, header, sidebar.php files) we have in our site so we know know what
   web pages contain certain text (thereby allowing us to know exactly what web 
   pages link to, say various PDFs, docs, image files, etc etc). Thought this would
   have been a standard default function in WP but apparently not, unless I’m completely
   missing something. I see tons of plugins for implementing a search function for
   end users but that’s not what we want. I’m hoping to find a basic tool that produces
   results of what web pages contain certain text, pdfs, images, etc etc. Please
   help!

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 *  [Mateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateico/)
 * (@mateico)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-text-string-search/#post-14338400)
 * Hey there!
    My advice is to install this plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/string-locator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/string-locator/).
   It could solve your issue fastly. Any doubt i’m here to help.
 *  Thread Starter [gm9090xyz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshstateca/)
 * (@dshstateca)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-text-string-search/#post-14338524)
 * Hi Mateo – greatly appreciate the reply, unfortunately that plug-in doesn’t work
   for me. I need to be able to specifically search only the html of all 100+ Pages
   that we have in our site. So basically my problem is that I know we have a file
   called 2016.pdf linked in about 5 or 6 web pages but which Pages I don’t know.
   So I need a way to search just the html for 2016.pdf so I know which Pages that
   exists in….that plugin unfortunately doesn’t search the html of Pages. Bummer!

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 * Last reply from: [gm9090xyz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshstateca/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-text-string-search/#post-14338524)
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