What WordPress Theme Is That? 4 Ways to Find Out Any Site's Theme and Plugins

Short answer: paste the website's address into our free WordPress Theme Detector. It reads the site's theme files and tells you the theme name, version, author, the parent theme if it is a child theme, and the plugins it can see. To check by hand, open the page source and search for /wp-content/themes/: the folder name after it is the theme.

1. Open the WordPress Theme Detector.
2. Paste the full address of the site, for example https://example.com.
3. Click detect. In a few seconds you get the result.

What it shows:

• Whether the site runs WordPress, and how sure it is, based on the generator tag, /wp-content/ and /wp-includes/ files and the WordPress REST API link
• The theme name, version and author, read from the theme's own style.css file
• The parent theme, if the site uses a child theme (very common: the parent is the theme you would actually buy or download)
• The plugins visible on the page, with versions when the site shows them
• Other technology: page builders such as Elementor or Divi, JavaScript libraries, analytics and the server, from the page's files and headers

A detector can only see what the page loads. Plugins that only work in the admin area, or that add nothing to the front-end, never show up in any detector.

1. Open the site, right-click and choose View page source (or press Ctrl+U, Cmd+Option+U on a Mac).
2. Press Ctrl+F and search for /wp-content/themes/.
3. The word right after it is the theme's folder name, which is usually the theme's name.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://example.com/wp-content/themes/astra/style.css?ver=4.8.1">
                                                      ^^^^^
                                         the theme folder: Astra

If you find two different folders, the site uses a child theme: one folder is the child (often named like astra-child) and the other is the parent. Search for /wp-content/plugins/ the same way to see plugin folders.

Every WordPress theme has a style.css file that starts with a header describing it. Open it directly in your browser:

https://example.com/wp-content/themes/THEME-FOLDER/style.css

The comment at the top tells you everything:

/*
Theme Name:  Astra Child
Theme URI:   https://wpastra.com/
Author:      Brainstorm Force
Description: Child theme for Astra
Template:    astra
Version:     1.0.0
*/

This is the same file our detector reads, so method 1 is simply this done for you.

• Footer credit: many themes print "Powered by [theme]" or "Theme by [company]" at the bottom of the page. Site owners often remove it, so treat it as a hint.
• Generator tag: in the page source, search for name="generator". It shows the WordPress version and sometimes the page builder (for example Elementor). Many sites hide it for security.

A child theme's name is rarely useful on its own. Look at its "Template:" line or the parent theme our detector shows: that is the theme you can actually get.

If the theme is a lightweight base like Hello Elementor or Astra, most of the design usually comes from the page builder, so you need the builder too to get the same look.

Yes, finding out which theme a site uses is fine: the information is public in every page. Using it is fine too: buy or download the theme yourself from its official source. Do not copy the site's own content, images, logo or custom code, which belong to the owner.

Paste the URL into a theme detector such as our free WordPress Theme Detector, or open the page source and search for /wp-content/themes/. The folder name after it is the theme.

Look in the page source for /wp-content/ or /wp-includes/, a generator tag that says WordPress, or a link to /wp-json/. Our detector checks all of these and tells you how confident it is.

Partly. Plugins that load files on the page show up under /wp-content/plugins/ and in our detector. Plugins that only run in the admin area or on the server cannot be seen from outside by anyone.

It is probably a custom theme made for that site, a renamed theme, or a child theme. Check the parent theme, or open the theme's style.css and look at the Theme URI and Author lines.

Our detector tells you when a site does not appear to run WordPress, and still lists the technology it found, such as Shopify, Wix, Next.js or the web server.