Is there a way to tell what plugins a theme is using?

  • So I’m curious to know if there is a way to find out what plugins wordpress themes are using.

    For example I am curious to know if this site https://freelanceswitch.com/about/

    is using a certain plugin for the “About us, Authors,Contact, Press” section. I want to incorporate that type of sub navigation in my site but wasnt sure if it was a custom script or a plugin!

    Does anyone know of any tools out there to see what plugins a wordpress theme is using?

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  • I’m not aware of a tool to do that but the effect you’re looking for could be done easily with a menu and CSS/HTML.

    So I’m curious to know if there is a way to find out what plugins wordpress themes are using.

    Semi-generic answer:

    You can usually see them in the source code. When you visit a wordpress site, go to your browsers tool bar once the page has loaded, and select
    View > Page Source (or Source) and the source code will open, then back to the tool bar in the source view and select Edit > Find , and in the search box that opens, type; plugins and then select “highlight all” , and scroll through the highlighted entries until you find the one you were looking for.

    Another addendum – themes don’t use plugins 99% of the time. Sites do. Themes use functions – most of which you would not be able to analyse or even guess at by using the page source.

    Good catch. Huge distinction! ??

    Thread Starter christinarule

    (@christinarule)

    thanks for all the advice!!! I dont know why I just assumed it was a plugin. I should have just looked at the code!!

    Turns out its just a simple style they are using in css!

    Thanks for all the comments some good points were made and noted!!

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