WordPress Theme Screenshoter; This script was written to take screenshots of 1500+ legacy WordPress themes using a WAMP local host and Selenium. Very hacky!

autotheme.py

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
import shutil
import time
import os

wp_home = 'http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/'
wp_themes_folder = 'C:\\wamp64\\www\\wordpress\\wp-content\\themes\\'
wp_active_theme = 'twentytwentytwo'

r = 'C:\\Users\\Eric\\Desktop\\Wordpress themes\\'
logs = r + 'logs\\'
doing = r + 'doing\\'
done = r + 'done\\'
screenshots = r + 'screenshots\\'
err_done = r + 'err_done\\'
err_screenshots = r + 'err_screenshots\\'

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.set_window_size(800, 600)

for file_name in os.listdir(doing):
    i = os.path.join(doing, file_name)
    if os.path.isfile(i):
        # # delete contents of wp_active_theme_folder
        # print('Resetting active theme folder')
        try:
            shutil.rmtree(wp_themes_folder + wp_active_theme)
        except FileNotFoundError:
            pass

        # # extract the zip into wp_active_theme_folder
        print(file_name)
        shutil.unpack_archive(doing + file_name, wp_themes_folder)
        halt = False
        try:
            shutil.move(wp_themes_folder + file_name.replace('.zip', ''), wp_themes_folder + wp_active_theme)
        except:
            print('{0} was skipped, something went wrong with extraction'.format(file_name))
            halt = True
            pass
        if not halt:
            driver.get(wp_home)
            driver.save_screenshot(screenshots + file_name.replace('.zip', '.png'))
            shutil.move(doing + file_name, done + file_name)

            if 'xdebug-error' in driver.page_source:
                print(file_name + ' theme throws errors; noting this')
                with open(logs + 'themes with errors.txt', 'a') as f:
                    f.write(file_name + '\r\n')
                shutil.move(screenshots + file_name.replace('.zip', '.png'), err_screenshots + file_name.replace('.zip', '.png'))
                shutil.move(done + file_name, err_done + file_name)

The resulting archive is here, by the way! https://mega.nz/folder/RPYTlCIL#lXphlKRT5lAq-cYbZwjqEQ

For context: All of these themes were recovered from an archive of WordPress' own theme gallery at http://web.archive.org/web/20070209220132/http://themes.wordpress.net/page/2. If memory serves, I used wayback-machine-downloader to download all of them from the subdomain. All said and done this amounts to 1502 themes done and with screenshots generated. 248 threw PHP errors on the index with the tested WordPress version, and were put in a separate folder.

You'd might like to read these posts from Cammy's old blog for a lil more information on these themes. His WordPress Theme Archive hadn't panned out at the time, because putting each page together with screenshots and metadata took really long, but I hope to bring that idea back in the future with a healthy dose of automation.. 👀