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Really simple admin-side plugin that searches your pages, forms and articles (body, exceprt, overrride_form) for mentions (or not) of something else.

Very useful if, like me, you’re on revision #4 of a site and you have about 14 sections, 35 plugins and 42 forms floating around from previous iterations and you’re scratching your head going “where the hell have I used this form?” or “can I delete this plugin?”

Just install, activate, go to ‘Extensions->Where used’, type and click. If what you typed exists in your design it’ll be listed with a hyperlink to the offending item so you can check it/edit it or simply delete it. When you’re done tidying up, delete the plugin.

Yes, the admin side does give warnings on some items now if they are in use, but it won’t check for plugins or if you have referred to forms from articles.

Note that if smd_where_used reports that something’s not used it’s probably safe to assume it isn’t. But backup first, just in case. I don’t particularly relish an angry mob on my doorstep complaining that the ‘hamper_trombone’ form played a pivotal role in someone’s site.

Possible enhancements:

• check override_form and see if it’s used Added in v0.11
• Search other places if deemed appropriate. Any recommendations?
• Look in plugin source code to find tag names if they don’t match the plugin names Fixed in v0.15

Have fun.

Download smd_where_used : Requires TXP 4.3.0+

Revision history
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All available versions and changes are listed here. Each entry indexes the relevant post(s) in the thread to learn about the features.

• 16 Jun 08 | 0.1 | | Initial release
• 16 Jun 08 | 0.11 | Added section and override_form to the searches
• 16 Jun 08 | 0.12 | Added include/exclude (thanks mrdale)
• 16 Jun 08 | 0.13 | Added ability to match whole words (thanks zanza)
• 17 Jun 08 | 0.14 | Added ability to search for orphans (thanks uli/net-carver)
• 18 Jun 08 | 0.15 | Fixed plugin orphan search to go deep inside the plugin source
• 18 Jun 08 | 0.16 | Added client/admin plugin toggle ; extended search to title/keywords (both thanks uli)
• 18 Jun 08 | 0.17 | Article hyperlink encompasses title and ID (thanks uli)
• 18 Jun 08 | 0.18 | Added case sensitive searches (thanks geoff777)
• 11 Mar 09 | 0.19 | Added long-awaited input auto-focus
• 12 Aug 09 | 0.2 | Added the ability to specify which article fields to search in (thanks uli/makss)
• 19 May 10 | 0.30 | Requires TXP 4.3.0 ; added searching inside Stylesheets

Last edited by Bloke (2010-11-05 09:44:40)