Title: Use themes in plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Use themes in plugins

 *  Resolved [bhavlice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhavlice/)
 * (@bhavlice)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/)
 * How do determine what theme the current user of my plugin is using (what themes
   are installed)?

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 *  Thread Starter [bhavlice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhavlice/)
 * (@bhavlice)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068247)
 * How do I incorporate a theme into my plugin pages?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068253)
 * Themes != plugins (though some plugins have themes – generally these are mobile
   site themes).
 * Why does your plugin need a theme of it’s own?
 *  Thread Starter [bhavlice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhavlice/)
 * (@bhavlice)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068258)
 * Sorry. I didn’t mean a theme of it’s own. I wanted to emulate the current theme
   the plugin user is using into my plugin pages. Is this even possible?
 * Thanks,
    Bill
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068275)
 * On the back end of WordPress? You want your plugin ADMIN area to look like the
   FRONT end of the site?
 *  Thread Starter [bhavlice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhavlice/)
 * (@bhavlice)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068307)
 * Exactly! is that possible?
    You sound like you know your stuff. What is your 
   email direct email address? Mine is: _[email removed]_. Are you on linked in?
   I’m sort of new to PHP. I’ve made a living off of .NET for years.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068340)
 * I don’t do free email support (and I’m not a consultant for hire right now – 
   day job booked me through the year end, which is nice).
 * In theory, yes, it’s possible. If you were to solely rely on the standard CSS
   calls in every theme, sure. The problem is you can’t rely on them. Not all themes
   are reliable. There’s a way to get your post editor to display content formatted
   like your theme [http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/05/editor-style-wordpress-30.html](http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/05/editor-style-wordpress-30.html)
   but that was specially folded into the editor so I’m not sure how you’d leverage
   that into a plugin page. You’d have to experiment with making calls to style 
   sheets and such.
 *  Thread Starter [bhavlice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhavlice/)
 * (@bhavlice)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068434)
 * Thank you very much for the information. If there is anything I can do to help
   you with anything, I would be more than happy to do so. Thanks again.

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 * Last reply from: [bhavlice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhavlice/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-themes-in-plugins/#post-2068434)
 * Status: resolved

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