How to find out what wordpress theme & plugins is being used in a site

Posted in How to, Wordpress By Sureyea

You might visit a wordpress site and wonder what wordpress theme is being used. Here in this post let’s see how to find out what wordpress theme & plugin a site uses.

WordPress is an open source and powerful blogging tool which is free as well as easy to use. Across the World Wide Web there are 60+ million sites powered by wordpress. You can get tons of free themes and plugins from wordpress.org. Other than that you can get premium eye catching wordpress themes from Themify, Elegant themes, Theme Forrest, Mojo Themes and Theme Fuse. But what if you wish to know or buy Theme that you are attracted to some site.

Below are two common and simple methods on how to find out what wordpress theme someone is using as well as plugin. This two method works for most of the sites, but however there are some who hide their themes. Also there are plugins that even hides wordpress that is being used in a website. Use Hide My Wp plugin and no one knows that you are using wordpress.

How to find out what wordpress theme a site uses

Go to a wordpress site that attracts you the most
Just right click and view page source
Now a new page will open up with all source codes
Just press Ctrl+F and type the word ”themes” in search bar
You will get few results and it looks like this wp-content/themes/name-of-the-theme

How to find out what wordpress plugin a site uses

It’s the same what you did for finding themes, Pick a wordpress site
Right click and select view page source
Press Ctrl+F and type the word “plugins” in search bar and you will get the results like one below.

Third party service to find out wordpress theme and plugins

You can use two sites wpthemedetector.com and whatwpthemeisthat.com to find out what wordpress theme and plugins a site is using.

Go to any one of the above two sites and just enter the name of the site and check site. These two sites will get you the available information of the theme and plugin that’s been used in a site. It shows you the theme name, theme version, theme site, theme author as well as theme screen shot.