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I've been asked to change part of my client's website which has their social media icons in their footer. They're using WordPress, and while I'm very familiar with editing footer.php or the footer widgets, the HTML in this footer file is in neither one of them. I can't find it in any other files I've looked in, and none of the plugins have any of that functionality.

I figure if I can search all of the website files for the HTML code that's in the footer, I'll find the code and be able to update it. I checked with FileZilla, but it looks like I can only search by file title with that.

Any ideas? I heard that searching by grep is a possibility, but do people still do that?? And I've never done it. Here is a link I saw it in: Grep to find a file that contains a string in a directory

Thank you ahead of time!!!!

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    Can you download the website files and search them locally, or are you restricted to searching the files while they're online? – Suzanne Jan 16 '17 at 02:01
  • I can download them locally via Filezilla, I'd have to get access for phpMyAdmin for the database. – Clare12345 Jan 16 '17 at 02:46
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    Here are some full text searchers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/317944/tools-to-search-for-strings-inside-files-without-indexing – Suzanne Jan 16 '17 at 03:15
  • Thank you! While I'm sure this would have worked, my client just sent me to ask their previous web developer, and I found it. FYI if anyone is wondering, it was built into the theme files in the Contact page. – Clare12345 Jan 20 '17 at 13:38

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