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Enable Template/Block Hints in Admin Panel

April 22, 2014

Magento provide a feature to enable template path hints for front end but does not provide this feature for back end, so using below steps we can enable the template path hints for back end.

Step1: Connect to database

Step2: Now run below query

INSERT INTO core_config_data (scope, scope_id, path, value)VALUES (‘default’, 0, ‘dev/debug/template_hints’, 1), (‘default’, 0, ‘dev/debug/template_hints_blocks’, 1);

Step3: Test in admin panel, Now you will see template hints in admin panel (Please see attached image)

Disabling Hints:

When you have finished development want to turn off template hints in the admin panel, open the core_config_data table and change the ‘value’ column of the two rows you inserted to “0”.