Tools Of The Trade #18: What WordPress Theme Is That?

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As a designer, when I land on a cool new blog and fall in love with the design, I’m often curious: is it built from scratch or is it a theme?

When Star was in town for a Branch meeting a few months back, I mentioned how much I liked a particular site and wanted to design something similar for a project. I couldn’t tell if it was based off a theme or not. Right then, she pulled up What WordPress Theme Is That? and answered my question. Within seconds, I’d located the theme.

Even better, What WordPress Theme Is That? not only detects what theme is being used but also what particular plugins the site is using. What a timesaver!

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15 Responses to Tools Of The Trade #18: What WordPress Theme Is That?

Kate says:

July 22, 2014 at 5:55 am

GREAT find! Thank you for sharing this :). I am always wondering about this.

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Hata Trbonja says:

July 22, 2014 at 8:09 am

What a brilliant idea!!!
I wish I had that a month or so ago when I was designing my blog. Or trying to.
Brilliant.
Thanks for sharing.
Hata
http://www.chicagotofrance.com

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Ayanna says:

July 22, 2014 at 9:52 am

AAHHHHH!!! Love that!!! It’s amazing these times we live in!! …I’m off to check out a few blog themes I’ve had my eye on lately!!! Thanks Shauna!

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- Shauna says:
  
  July 23, 2014 at 10:52 am
  
  Ayanna: You’re welcome! Glad you’re finding it helpful!
  
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tara victoria says:

July 22, 2014 at 4:28 pm

i’ve never heard of this before, what a useful tool! i don’t know how many times that’s happened to me, i will definitely remember this next time. thanks for sharing

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Jessica says:

July 22, 2014 at 9:34 pm

This is fantastic! I can’t wait to play around with this. The plugins finder is such a life-saver!

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Vic Mae says:

July 23, 2014 at 12:31 am

This is great! Very helpful, thanks for sharing

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Pearl says:

July 23, 2014 at 2:39 am

This is such a great idea – I also often wonder whether some sites are custom made or templates so this website is a great resource for curious ladies like me Being able to see what plug ins they use is also very interesting.

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- Shauna says:
  
  July 23, 2014 at 10:51 am
  
  Pearl: Totally! It’s so nice to finally take all of the guesswork out of it. 😉
  
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  - Pearl says:
    
    July 23, 2014 at 8:37 pm
    
    I may or may not have looked up your site 😉
    
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    - Shauna says:
      
      July 25, 2014 at 2:51 pm
      
      Pearl: Haha! All three of my sites (Nubby Twiglet / Branch / Blogcademy) are custom but I get asked about them all the time so now people can figure it out on their own. 😉
      
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Stephanie Graham says:

July 23, 2014 at 6:28 am

Thank you Lord!! What a God send this website is!! God Bless the creative world

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Sara says:

July 24, 2014 at 7:26 am

What will they think of next?! Brilliant tool! And even though I don’t do development, I like that if I’m contemplating using a less common navigation style, for example, that’s similar to one on another site, I can check out what theme they’re using and be able to pitch my developer theme suggestions to go along with my designs! So clever.

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- Shauna says:
  
  July 25, 2014 at 2:50 pm
  
  Sara: Totally! It helps to know the sources of less standardized features and this site can help with that.
  
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