Plugins are added to WordPress blogs to enhance them. Plugins make sure that the functionality of these blogs is improved. These days’ blogs is no more a personal dairy kind of thing instead they are more commercial now. People want to share their ideas, tricks and knowledge with everyone. To share this in a better way they add plugins to their blogs. Now what can be done if you loved someone else’s blog and want to use the same plugins? You need to find them out and install to your on WordPress blog. There are three main ways of searching the plugins used on somebody else’s blog. These are:
Using Some Other Website to Find Used Plugin
There are third party sites available on the internet these days that may not only reveal the theme links of a blog post but also engender the WordPress list of plugins used.
The site is termed as whatwpthemeisthat.com, which reveals the information about the WordPress themes as well as the Plugins. A figure demonstrating the way the results are produced by the site is shown below and the result also includes a Google icon that on clicking will search about that WordPress plugin as well.
The best and the most used method: Google Search
There are blogs that do not block WordPress folders like wp-content from indexing and hence, can be seen by even normal Google Search. This only applies to few blogs.
Using the image URL structure or Admin log in URL structure one can query everything in the above dork on Google. This will list all the active as well as deactivated plugins for the blog too.
The most reliable way: Source Code
The advanced web browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox offer an amazing feature named as The Inspect element feature which has made it very easy for a developer to dig up the source code of a particular site. This feature normally shows up source code as a HTML, JavaScript or CSS code file.
When one needs to discover the plug-in used by a site using the source code then one can do it by just right clicking on the place where one inferred a new feature being available used by WordPress by some plugin. This method of detecting the plugins used requires good source code analytical skills.
After analysing the source code one can just Google the raw code and effortlessly obtain the plugin name that was required.
These are the BEST 3 WAYS OF DETERMINING THE plugin USED ON A PARTICULAR BLOG.
