Probably not a day goes past where I don’t wonder what WordPress theme are they using on a particular site.
It can happen at any time – whilst researching for articles, stumbling on blogs, looking for graphics commenting, almost anything! I often come across a theme and wonder what it is,or, what wordpress plug-in produces that particular action? … Have you ever thought the same?
I’ve often wished for a magic button to tell me what theme and plugins a site uses – but more about that later.
How To Find What WordPress Theme Are They Using
You can view the source code of the website and find out what theme and plug-ins is a site is using. It’s quite easy to do and it only requires a few simple steps.
Firstly on the website homepage that you want to find out what theme using right click on the page itself not an image or anything, and a drop-down should allow you to view the page source.
Here you’ll see the html source code used for producing the website. You can then scroll down and look for the words… wp-content/themes but that could take a loooong time to find what you’re looking for.
What I would suggest is you hit the search function on your keyboard, on a Mac it is CMD+F and with Windows it’s Ctrl+F. Once that pop-up box appears then just search for the word theme and it will take you straight to the area and should identify what wordPress theme that site is using.
You can use the same function to search for plug-ins, however the results are even more tedious as you search past lots of html code that includes the word plug-ins before you can ‘harvest’ a list of which plugins are used.
What Theme Is It Websites
That process above can be a bit time-consuming so using the affiliate’s third eye good old Google I searched for >> “What website are they using” I found a few useful websites that You can use to find out what WordPress themes or plugins a site is using.
I tested the sites with my own mission0ps.com domain. I use pagelines wordpress themes here and have 23 plugins installed. All of these websites performed in roughly the same way:
- You enter the domain you want to gather the information from
- The website produces a summary of the installed theme, and lists plug-ins that have been installed on the theme
WordPress Theme Detector was the first site I came across and it looks simple enough and does just what it says on the tin. However it was the longest to load the results and that did kind of geek me out a bit.
But WPTD came back with the most “theme” info of all the websites, and found 11 plugins and even included results for # of alexa backlinks.. WPTD are here.
What WordPress Theme Is That a simple looking site that again does the job of just what you expect, and did it pretty quickly too.
They came back in a couple of seconds with my basic theme info and they managed to pick up 10 out of the 23 plugins. You can take a look at WTS here.
What Theme – I thought this was looking like a winner clean and sleek – but! They couldn’t identify what theme mission0ps was running.
so I won’t bother offering you a link you to the whattheme.com site!
Find The Theme Magic Button
Well I’m pretty impatient and I do like to see my results on the fly. I mean working online and even waiting for slow results to load can easily cause a click out!
I use a magic button – OK it’s not magic it’s a browser extension called SpyBar that works in Chrome or Firefox with both Windows or Mac. My button collects info of the the installed and returned 16 plugins, the most of those I tested.
I’ll show you how it works below:
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Now as I said that “magic button” of mine does cost $12:95 however for me that’s a price well worth paying for the info I get and the spying it allows me to do. B)
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