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My dad has a website that was developed by someone he had hired. Now, my dad is sort of letting me take over.
Is there a way to see any of the themes that the previous developer used for the website?
I see Avada Slides on the dashboard, but not sure if I need to buy Avada too
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Appearance > Themes. You can only have 1 theme active.
To find the theme, go to the site, do View -> Source (usually on windows, CTRL-U) then do CTRL-F to search, and look for `wp-content/themes/`
On the search result, whatever is next is usually the theme. To find out more info browse to the default stylesheet themes are required to have.
For example, if doing the search I see it is finding it for the following asset:
`https://www.ladybirdeducation.co.uk/wp-content/themes/ladybird/assets/images/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png`
Then I can browse to `https://www.ladybirdeducation.co.uk/wp-content/themes/ladybird/style.css` (always just `style.css` in the root of the theme directory). If you do you will see something similar to:
/*
Theme Name: Ladybird Education
Theme URI:
Author: illustrate Digital
Author URI:
Description: Bespoke development for Ladybird Education
Version: 1.0
License: UnderStrap WordPress Theme, Copyright 2013-2017 Holger Koenemann
UnderStrap is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2
License URI:
This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL.
UnderStrap is based on Underscores , (C) 2012-2016 Automattic, Inc.
Resource Licenses:
Font Awesome: (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License)
Bootstrap: | (Code licensed under MIT, documentation under CC BY 3.0.)
Owl Carousel 2: | (Code licensed under MIT)
and of course
jQuery: | (Code licensed under MIT)
WP Bootstrap Navwalker by Edward McIntyre: | GNU GPL
*/
That gives you the name of the theme, version, author and URL to it.
Now some sites may use something that will compress and combine CSS files and place them in a CDN, so there could be NO matches when you search, but for most sites, that will work.