Eavesdropping on your neighbours’ theme

Many of us, bloggers, surely must have had such encounter : getting on a blog which looks superb, and instantly we would try looking for the footer or somewhere else, through the blog for any hints of what theme that blog is using. Sometimes to use it ourselves afterwards, or just maybe out of curiousity. It might be discouraging though when we aren’t to find anything that might aid us in recognising the theme. In this article, I shall tell you how, a simple method of knowing what theme a particular blog is using when you’ve got no clue on the blog telling you what it might be.

The reasoning behind is simple. As any Wordpress blog pulls the stylesheet from the theme’s folder the blog is actually suiting, we’ll just have to find the name of that folder. Because most of the time, theme’s designer name the theme’s folder, the one containing all the theme’s files including the stylesheet, style.css, the actual name of the theme itself. It would be obvious, or 99.9% sure that the theme’s folder is the theme’s name.

To get this done, that is to find the name of that folder, here I’ll be doing it with Mozilla Firefox and that’s all we would need. Just get on any site. Let’s take for e.g, mine for instance, http://blogosquare.com. There are no instances on my blog where I’ve told what theme I’m using. So after loading blogosquare.com in Mozilla Firefox, just do a right-click somewhere and do View Source, then hit CTRL+F to find the first instance where style.css is called which will give you something in this line :


<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://blogosquare.com/wp-content/themes/Cutline2.0/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

And that’s it. So look for the above line when doing View Source for any blog and you’ll see from where the style.css is being called, ultimately the name of the theme. Here, it’s Cutline2.0. Just Google it and you’ll hit the theme’s download site. Simply.

Now, if you’ve spotted a site using a theme but can’t figure it out on the blog, using the above method, you can. Or else, just drop the site’s owner a mail asking him the question if he’s willing to reveal you the theme he’s using on his site. Your feedbacks on this, whether you find it an interesting method or not, are all welcomed through the comments.