How to Find Out Which Platform a Blog or CMS Uses

October 22, 2009 by Russell Hall
Filed under Articles, Newbie Help, WordPress

Have you ever visited a blog or website and been curious or needed to know which platform they are using to generate the website?

Here's a brief tutorial on how to easily find out.

You can try it out on the page that you're on right here on The RussRave. If using Firefox click on the "View" tab in the top left hand corner of your browser.Then select "Page Source" from the drop down menu of the "View: tab.

You'll see the html source code page display on your screen and somewhere towards the middle or top of that page you'll see the blog/CMS title like this

<title>The RussRave</title> and immediately under that you'll see ,…
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress abc" />

Where you can see "generator" content ="Wordpress" means that the site is built on Wordpress. If it was Joomla or Drupal you'd see wording indicating that platform as the content generator.

If you're using Internet Explorer you still click on the "View" tab in the top left hand corner of the browser and then select "Source" from near the bottom of the drop down menu.

Hope that's of some use to you. If you have questions or comments please feel free to leave a comment,… for which you'll get backlink credit to your own blog via the CommentLuv plugin I have installed