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justinw
14,517 PointsIdentify Wordpress Page in Inspector
I'm utilizing Firefox to inspect pages within my Wordpress site to know where to customize CSS within a theme that I'm using.
Right now, I'm struggling to identify which PHP page is being used when inspecting. Is there a way to identify this?
4 Answers
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsHi Justin,
If you you have body_class set in the body tag you should see the template in use displayed as a class, e.g. page-template-default.
Failing that, for testing, I tend to drop a little text in to home.php, page.php, etc. so that if it displays on the page I can identify which is being used.
Hope that helps.
-Rich
Tim Knight
28,888 PointsTo add to Rich's suggestions if all else fails, sometimes I'll install a plugin called "What the File" which adds the name of the rendered template into the admin bar.
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsGood suggestion. Zac covered this in one of his videos (although it may have been one that has since been replaced with an updated version - can't remember which).
-Rich
Kevin Korte
28,148 PointsTo echo Rich, I just drop in little comment at the beginning of the file so when you inspect in the developer mode, that comment will be in the markup.
justinw
14,517 PointsGuys this feedback is phenomenal. Thank you all so much for these informative responses.
Rich Bagley
25,869 PointsNo problem. Glad you found them useful :)
-Rich