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Settings options not showing up on Sub Menu page in WordPress plugin?

If I see a feature working in someone's WordPress site obviously via a plugin, how can I find out the plugin maker? (if not by asking the webmaster nor searching by guessing keywords in WordPress Plugins page)

  • Another way to see this question is "Is there a way to demonstrate plugin maker's name in WordPress site?"

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    Look at the HTML source. Look for references to JavaScript or CSS files that mention things related to the function the suspected plugin performs. For example, you see some cool Pinterest integration. You look at the source and see <script src="http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/pinterest-sharing-mega-awesome-sauce/js/sauce.min.js"></script> Google for "Pinterest sharing mega awesome sauce plugin WordPress" and see what turns up. Alternate approach: look at the HTML markup around the output of the feature. If it has <div class="pinterest-sharing-mega-awesome-sauce-wrapper"> around it, search for that. Some plugins announce themselves with an HTML comment: <!-- Pinterest Mega Awesome Sauce plugin --> Without those hints, you'll have to fall back to searching for "{thing it does} WordPress plugin" and doing a lot of sleuthing of the code you find.

Mark Jaquith at Quora Visit the source

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Try this plugin and theme detection site: http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/ When using the source code to find a plugin's details, you might find a source code search engine useful: https://nerdydata.com/

Lee Hodson

Fully agree with BDB: SpyBar tells you in a second, links to the plugins, and offers other instant insights such as WhoIs and ahrefs. Works in Firefox and Chrome.

Keith Gillespie

To add to Mark's answer, 99.995% of WordPress plugins have a readme.txt file, which you can try and view in the plugin directory to see if the developer put info there, in case the HTML search turns up nothing. So using Mark's example, you would look for: http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/pinterest-sharing-mega-awesome-sauce/readme.txt

Marc Gottlieb

If you're willing to spend some money in exchange for a more practical and easy way of doing that, try SpyBar for WordPress :)

Bonaventura 'bdb' Di Bello

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