WordPress Theme Detector
Detect whether a site uses WordPress, and which theme and plugins.
How to use the WordPress Theme Detector
- Enter a WordPress site URL.
- Click Detect.
- See whether it is WordPress and its theme, version and plugins.
About the WordPress Theme Detector
This tool fetches a page and looks for the fingerprints WordPress leaves in its HTML. If it finds them, it reports that the site is WordPress and tries to name the active theme (from the wp-content/themes/… path in the markup), the WordPress version (from the generator meta tag, when present), and any plugins it can see referenced under wp-content/plugins/….
It is useful for competitor research — seeing what theme and page builder a site you admire is built on — and for a quick tech audit of your own or a client's site. Because roughly two in five websites run WordPress, "is this WordPress, and how is it put together?" is a common first question, and this answers it without any guesswork about where to look in the source.
Detection is deliberately honest about its limits: it can only see what appears in the public HTML, so a theme or plugin that leaves no marker, or a site behind heavy caching or a security plugin that hides paths, may show up as partial or blank. A confident "WordPress: yes" is reliable; an empty plugin list means "none detected", not "none installed". For the page's meta tags use the meta tags analyzer.
Frequently asked questions
How does it know a site is WordPress?
It looks for WordPress fingerprints in the HTML, such as wp-content and wp-includes paths and the generator meta tag. Those are strong, reliable signals.
Why did it not find the theme or any plugins?
It can only read the public HTML. Caching, a security plugin, or assets served from elsewhere can hide the paths it relies on, so some sites show partial results.
Is the plugin list complete?
No — it lists only plugins that leave a visible reference in the page. Treat an empty list as "none detected", not proof that none are installed.
Can it detect the WordPress version?
Only when the site exposes it in the generator meta tag. Many sites remove that for security, so the version is often unavailable.
Does it work on any site?
It works on any public URL, but only reports meaningful details for sites actually built with WordPress.