In search of a lost text string (or variable)

  • Resolved lukefive

    (@lukefive)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    I inherited a site with a custom theme based on Underscores. The client wants me to change the text in the main headline in the header on ea page. I can’t find that text anywhere in Customize, or the database, or any of the files; PHP, JS, JSON, CSS. The original developer did a lot of his work with the ACF Pro plugin, where I think the headline was defined, but I can’t find this in any of the plugin files either.

    The closest I can get are the lines in header.php where this is called…

    // Make db calls
$header_title = get_field('header_title', $post->ID);
// Check and set default
$header_title = ($header_title) ? $header_title : get_field('header_title', $frontpage);

    Any tips?

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  • Thread Starter lukefive

    (@lukefive)

    OK I finally found this after several more searches of the database. For some reason the “Better Search and Replace” plugin didn’t find it. I found it in _postmeta, but even that required me placing % on either side of my search term. I used SQL to update it.
    Maybe the plugin doesn’t search some tables?

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by lukefive.
    Thread Starter lukefive

    (@lukefive)

    Resolved unless someone has a comment.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I don’t have experience with that search plugin, but using SQL wildcard % in searches is always a good idea just in case what you are looking for is in a serialized array. I don’t know if the plugin adds those or not.

    You’ll appreciate this, I had a very similar experience of not finding theme data. Couldn’t find a particular string anywhere, even with wildcards. Searched every table. Turns out the theme base64 encoded its non-senstive data! The way the encoding works, to find a fragment, one needs to encode the search string 4 different ways in order to find one fragment. Sheesh!

    Thread Starter lukefive

    (@lukefive)

    @bcworkz that sounds like even more of a headache than what I encountered. I have only used base64 to simplify handling of certain small images. Never thought it might be used to encode other things.

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