WordPress and your browser can’t search inside the text area where you edit a Custom HTML block. Press Ctrl+F there and the browser searches the rendered page, not the markup you’re editing, so finding a class name or a string in a long block means scrolling and hunting. Loupely Canvas adds a real find and replace bar inside the HTML boxes themselves.
How to use it
Put your cursor inside an HTML box and press Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. A find and replace bar opens and searches the actual contents of that box. Type what you’re after, a class name or a string like 8:14, and step through the matches.
What it supports
- Case sensitivity.
- Whole word matching.
- Regular expressions, for pattern matches across a long block.
Where it works
The find bar works in Custom HTML blocks, the code editor view, the classic editor, and the theme’s own settings and per page boxes. It runs only while you edit, and every replacement is a normal, undoable edit, so searching never changes your live site on its own. This is the feature hand coders tend to react to first, because it’s the thing the editor never let them do.
