Veppa WP Detector — Chrome Extension

Lightweight Chrome browser extension to detect WordPress theme and plugins for the website you are viewing.

Veppa WP Detector features

Detect if a website is built with WordPress CMS. See which plugins and theme used.
Find more sites using particular theme or plugin for inspiration, research, finding potential clients.
Quickly see if WordPress website is fast enough via checking LCP value. Check which popular speed optimization plugins used or missing.

Not all plugins leave identifiable traces on frontend. They cannot be detected.
Some security or optimization plugin can hide plugin traces on front end. Those plugins or in some cases WordPress CMS cannot be detected.
Extension available in developer mode only. It is not submitted to chrome web store or any other public extension stores.

Download extension .zip file from veppa website.
Extract to the folder where it will not be deleted. Chrome will use this folder in order to enable extension.
Navigate in chrome “Three dot menu” -> “Extensions” -> “Manage Extensions” page.
Switch to enable “Developer mode” toggle at the top right corner.
Click “Load unpacked” button on left top corner.
Select folder where you unpacked zip file.
Extension will be installed. Switch enable toggle to enable extension in Chrome browser.

After installing you will see extension icon in chrome browser navigation bar next to search / URL field. Same place where all extension icons visible.
Visit any website that you want to check.
Then click extension button. It will detect if page is built with WordPress and list detected theme and plugins.
To learn more about plugin /theme click on its name. Related google search results will open in new window.
To find more websites using same theme/plugin click “Search” icon next to detected name. publicwww website will open with results.
To see how particular plugin/theme detected hover over its name. Tooltip will show detected string identification related to it.
On slow pages where LCP bigger than 2,5 seconds you will see actual LCP value at the bottom of extension popup.

Extension created and managed by veppa.
Initial extension draft and plugin detection data generated via Free Gemini AI assistant version 2.5.

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