One box, no guessing
Most theme detection tools make you pick the right platform before they'll even try to scan a site. That's fine if you already know a site runs WordPress — but plenty of the time you don't, and guessing wrong just wastes a scan. Auto-Detect fetches the page once, checks it against every platform's known signature, and routes you straight to the right result.
How it decides what a site is running
Each platform leaves a different, predictable fingerprint in its public HTML: WordPress sites reference wp-content/ and expose a /wp-json/ REST API; Shopify stores embed an inline Shopify.theme object; Moodle installs set an M.cfg configuration object; Drupal, Joomla, and PrestaShop each follow their own predictable theme-path conventions. Auto-Detect checks these signals in order of specificity, then falls back to the page's generic generator meta tag if nothing more specific matched — the same way you'd narrow it down by hand, just automated.
What happens after detection
Once a platform is identified, Auto-Detect runs that platform's real detector — the exact same scan you'd get from picking the WordPress, Shopify, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, or PrestaShop tab directly. There's no separate, lesser "auto" result; it's the full theme and plugin breakdown, just without having to know the platform up front.
When to use a specific tab instead
If you already know a site's platform, picking that tab directly skips the identification step entirely and scans slightly faster. Auto-Detect is built for the more common case: when you don't know, and don't want to guess.