Theme Downloader
A handy dandy plugin that tries to let you download any installed theme as a zip file.
3.6(14 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, Theme Downloader is a WordPress zip plugin with 200 active installations and a 3.6/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 29K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: BackUpWordPress.
3.6/514 reviews
200active installs
29K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Most themes are licensed under the GPL, which makes it completely legal for you to do whatever you like with them, so long as you don’t restrict what other people, in turn, can do with them. This is a type of copyleft license, and it means that you are free to redistribute any GPL-compliant themes any way you like!
Unfortunately, it’s often hard to actually do. While it’s easy to upload a theme as a zip file, it’s difficult to get the theme back afterwards! This plugin aims to make that a bit easier.
If your server is capable of making Zip archives, and your user account has the edit_themes capability, then this plugin will let you download any of your themes — including any modifications you’ve made to the code of it — as a Zip file that you c…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.1
- Add compatability for WordPress 3.8 and 3.9, as they dropped a filter when implementing the new Theme Experience (THX-38)
- See: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26930
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