find themes in wordpress source code

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  williamsestateagents · Member · Oct 10, 2018 at 4:43 pm

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  How come when i search for a theme on a website i can rarely find the style.css . I see the following examples using wp plugins etc but when i use builtwith nothing appears in the framework (like my site does with a theme)
  http://www.broomfield.co.uk
  http://pjtradewindows.co.uk/

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Oct 10, 2018 at 4:56 pm

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  when i use builtwith nothing appears in the framework

  Hi there,

  The tool you’re using has a few limitations.

  It searches for a themes’s style.css file, then checks that file to determine the theme name – but it isn’t always possible to do that automatically; WordPress can be configured in many different ways.

  For example, it can’t find the style.css for broomfield.co.uk because that site uses a plugin to combine multiple CSS files (including style.css) into a single file to improve load times.

  It can’t find the style.css file for pjtradewindows.co.uk because the theme being used bypasses the traditional way WordPress loads style files – the CSS comes from multiple files in separate folders/directories in the theme.

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  williamsestateagents · Member · Oct 10, 2018 at 8:14 pm

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  how do you continue a thread convo?

  I Aaso the same result when I right click the site and check source code… is there a way to find a theme then?

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Oct 10, 2018 at 8:30 pm

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  is there a way to find a theme then?

  There is, but it’s a bit technical.

  When you view the page source of a WordPress site, search for references to /wp-content/themes/

  Here’s an example for http://www.broomfield.co.uk

  Screenshot – https://cloudup.com/cn8rGG5pkTX

  The text that comes directly after /wp-content/themes/ is the name of the theme folder. In this case it’s broomfieldalexander.

  Once you’ve found that info, manually add style.css after the folder name to view the stylesheet.

  Example – https://www.broomfield.co.uk/wp-content/themes/broomfieldalexander/style.css

  That site is using a custom theme that isn’t publicly available to purchase.

  The style.css for pjtradewindows.co.uk can be found at http://pjtradewindows.co.uk/wp-content/themes/pjs-trade-windows/style.css

  That site is using a heavily modified version of a starter theme called Sage.

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  williamsestateagents · Member · Oct 10, 2018 at 9:30 pm

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  great advice thanks

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Oct 10, 2018 at 9:44 pm

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  You’re welcome, glad I could help :)