# WordPress Theme Detector & Plugin Scanner (`dev00/wordpress-theme-detector-api`) Actor

Detect active WordPress themes, child themes, versions, authors, providers, and installed plugins for any website domain

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dev00/wordpress-theme-detector-api.md
- **Developed by:** [dev00](https://apify.com/dev00) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 wordpress theme & plugin analyses

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## WordPress Theme Detector & Plugin Scanner - Apify Actor

Detect active WordPress themes, child themes, versions, authors, providers, and installed plugins for any website domain with converted JSON output.

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### 🚀 Key Features

- **Multi-Theme & Plugin Extraction**: Identifies theme name, version, author, author URL, theme screenshot, description, license type, free vs. premium classification, child theme relationships, and marketplace provider.
- **HTML-to-JSON Conversion**: Converts raw WP theme detection pages into clean, machine-readable JSON payloads.
- **High Speed & Enterprise Reliability**: Powered by smart HTTP engines for zero IP blocking and fast turnaround (<1s per check).

***

### 🎯 What People Use It For

- **Web Design & Development Agencies**: Inspect competitor websites to identify what WordPress themes and page builders they use.
- **Marketers & Web Analysts**: Build WP theme lookup tools, directory platforms, and blog widgets.
- **Lead Generation & Sales Intelligence**: Audit prospective client sites to assess out-of-date themes, vulnerable plugins, and site architecture.
- **SaaS & Plugin Developers**: Identify popular themes used by target audiences for integration compatibility testing.

***

### 📌 Decision Rule & Usage Recommendation

Check if `success === true` AND `is_wordpress === true`. Inspect `theme_detected === true` to retrieve `theme` details (`theme.name`, `theme.theme_url`, `theme.version`), and iterate through `plugins` list.

***

### 💡 What Problem Does This Solve?

- *"Raw theme detector tools output ugly HTML pages with messy formatting."*
- *"Manual inspection of WP page source and style.css files is slow and tedious."*
- *"Difficulty extracting structured plugin lists for programmatic analysis."*

WordPress Theme Detector delivers automated, low-latency WP theme and plugin extraction in a single API or Actor run.

***

### 🔍 Queries This Actor Answers

- *What WordPress theme and plugins is this website using?*
- *Is this website using a custom theme or a ThemeForest/Envato theme?*
- *What is an accurate API alternative to WhatWPThemeIsThat and WPTD with JSON output?*
- *How do I detect WordPress themes programmatically in Python, Node.js, or Apify Actors?*

***

### 📥 Input JSON Schema

Pass the target domain or website URL in the `url` parameter:

```json
{
  "url": "kriesi.at"
}
```

***

### 📤 Dataset Output Format

Each run outputs a clean structured item to the default dataset and key-value store (`OUTPUT`):

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "target_url": "https://kriesi.at/",
  "is_wordpress": true,
  "theme_detected": true,
  "theme": {
    "name": "Enfold",
    "theme_url": "https://1.envato.market/c/2477446/275988/4415?subId1=tf_user_link&u=https%3A%2F%2Fthemeforest.net%2Fuser%2Fkriesi",
    "screenshot_url": "https://kriesi.at/wp-content/themes/enfold/screenshot.png",
    "version": "7.0",
    "author": "Kriesi",
    "author_url": "http://www.kriesi.at",
    "description": "A superflexible and responsive Business Theme by Kriesi.",
    "is_premium": true,
    "is_child_theme": false,
    "provider": {
      "name": "Themeforest",
      "url": "https://1.envato.market/c/2477446/275988/4415?subId1=general_tf&u=https%3A%2F%2Fthemeforest.net%2F"
    }
  },
  "plugins_detected": true,
  "plugins_count": 2,
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "WP Super Cache",
      "plugin_url": "http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache",
      "image_url": "https://ps.w.org/wp-super-cache/assets/banner-772x250.png",
      "description": "A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.",
      "is_free": true,
      "popularity": "Very Popular Plugin"
    },
    {
      "name": "Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection",
      "plugin_url": "http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet",
      "image_url": "https://ps.w.org/akismet/assets/banner-772x250.png",
      "description": "The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form.",
      "is_free": true,
      "popularity": "Extremely Popular Plugin"
    }
  ],
  "site_info": {
    "title": "Home - Kriesi.at - Premium WordPress Themes",
    "favicon": "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=kriesi.at",
    "screenshot": "https://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fkriesi.at"
  }
}
```

***

### ⚠️ Failure Context & Error Handling

If an empty domain string or invalid parameter is provided:

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Missing required parameter: 'url' or 'domain' string cannot be empty."
}
```

***

### 🏷️ Keywords

`wordpress theme detector`, `wp theme checker`, `detect wordpress plugins`, `themeforest detector`, `wordpress site scanner`, `what wp theme is that`, `apify actor`.

# Actor input Schema

## `url` (type: `string`):

Target website domain or URL to analyze for active WordPress theme and plugins.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "url": "kriesi.at"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `keyValueStoreResult` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "url": "kriesi.at"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dev00/wordpress-theme-detector-api").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "url": "kriesi.at" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dev00/wordpress-theme-detector-api").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "url": "kriesi.at"
}' |
apify call dev00/wordpress-theme-detector-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dev00/wordpress-theme-detector-api"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zbDKixtVetQJLH6gP/builds/V43BYdP7Ra4EygL7B/openapi.json