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How to check that site built using WordPress

Sometimes developers remove “powered by WordPress” label from bottom of wordpress based sites. It’s not illegal: WordPress released under LGPL and keeping this label is not required by license. It’s correct for derivative works (themes and plugins) too.

Suppose we have www.possiblybuiltonwordpress.com site. How to be sure that wordpress really used?

Two ways each of them can be gone manually or programmatically:

1. Go to www.possiblybuiltonwordpress.com/wp-admin. If site built on wordpress — login page will be opened, otherwise 404 file not found.

2. Open page source (with browser or programmatically) and look for meta name=“generator” . Probably 

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.8.4" />

will be found.

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