How To Know If a Website Is a WordPress Website – 5 Ways

Landed on a good-looking website and need to make your website just like that but don’t know whether the technology behind making the website is a WordPress or not? Earlier anyone tells just by looking at Headers, Footer & Sidebars that the website is powered by WordPress. But nowadays it is not possible or hard to tell just by looking at the website whether it is powered by WordPress or not.

But don’t worry we are showing you some useful tricks from which you can easily tell the technology used for making the website.

Why is it important to identify a WordPress Website

Website created in WordPress has a powerful backend and it is optimized for every possible scenario and more than 25% of websites in the world from online stores to personal blogs use WordPress as their main platform. WordPress is now one of the internet standards. Suppose if you have created your website and the next step is to import a theme but you are confused about which theme is better or not.

Suddenly you’ve got landed on the website that you suppose is better but you do not know which WordPress theme they use. Then the below-listed techniques will permit you to recognize the website powered by WordPress and determine the theme also.

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5 Ways to Tell if a Website Uses WordPress

WordPress is one of the simplest, most popular ways to create your website or a blog. You can create any type of website with WordPress. It has a huge number of business websites and blogs are running. It also becomes one of the most popular ways to create an e-commerce store. WordPress is used by individuals, businesses, and everyone in between. So it’s profitable for anyone to know a website is running on WordPress.

1. Visit WordPress Login URLs
2. Using the Website Source Code
3. Use isitwp
4. Using Data Usage(Built With)
5. Visit the License.txt file

We have listed several ways above from which anyone tells about the theme of the website by following some steps. In some cases, you don’t need any tools to find the technology behind the website but in some cases you need. Also from the given list some of the methods are surely give the result but some of them wouldn’t because a website owner can hide or remove the features from the admin panel. That’s why sometimes WordPress websites are hard to identify. There are many approaches to cover the strains of WordPress from the general public eye.

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Visit WordPress Login URLs

This is the best way to identify if a Website is running on WordPress. If you are running a WordPress website then you are definitely aware of this. Because it is the URL from which you can log in to your website admin panel. Simply enter your website address and at the end type wp-admin that directly takes you to the admin login page.

Example: www.360webhub.com/wp-admin

Sometimes the owner of the website has changed the login address for their WordPress website because your login page shouldn’t be accessible to hackers. So the above steps may or may not give the result sometime.

Some common login URLs of WordPress websites.

1. Example.com/wp-admin/
2. Example.com/admin
3. Example.com/login

Using the Website Source Code

One of the best ways to know if a site is using WordPress is to check the source code.

• Visit the website.
• Right-click anywhere and tap on View Page Source(Ctrl + U).
• You can see the source code of the websites. Simply search(Ctrl + F) for WordPress and if you result then it is a WordPress website.

Use isitwp

A free and simple tool used to check whether the website is WordPress or not is by using isitwp. Simply head over to isitwp and enter your website URL and click on analyze the website. Once the analysis process is complete you can see the result whether the website is built on WordPress or not.

Using Data Usage(Built With)

BuiltWith is a website profiler that tells the usage analytics for the website. Simply head over to Builtwith and enter the website which you want to determine is a WordPress website or not.

Visit the License.txt file

This method will not surely give the results because most website owners block access to this URL. Simply head over to the website which you want to know and add the license.txt at the end of the website URL.

Example: www.360webhub.com/license.txt

You can check the below images as a result which you can see after entering the licencse.txt at the end of any WordPress website URL.

Advantages of WordPress Website

There are many advantages of using WordPress.

1. It is free and open-source.
2. It is easy to install and flexible in use.
3. WordPress is the most popular to build a website for a reason.
4. It is a great option to build from a blog to an e-commerce store.

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