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Can I copy someone else's wordpress theme and website layout and build my own wordpress website same as theirs?

I know this sounds illegal however one of my friend owns a wordpress website and brags about it’s security BS that one cannot copy a wordpress web layout/theme however my little experience in web development says that it is possible to copy someone else’s wordpress web layout/theme and use it as your own.

Now he has challenged me to copy his theme and make my own website on wordpress and I have his consent to do so.

So, is it possible to perform such activity and if yes then how?

I tried looking for some WP Plugins but no luck.

I also tried using Figma plugin "HTML to Figma by Builder.io" but when I imported the .json file, it was all messy and not worth anything.

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    You can copy the HTML and theme style, but not the PHP. You can rebuild the front-end by creating a new WordPress theme and doing everything from scratch, but there’s no automatism to do what you say.

    If your friend has a PHP filter that modifies Wordpess behavior, you will never be able to replicate it. If you want to replicate the front-end only, you can do it from scratch.

    In summary, if you are looking for an automatic tool to do it quickly, forget it.

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    Use CTRL+SHIFT+I to open up inspect and copy the code. Or just CTRL+s to save it and then modify the code. For the backend, you will need to hack.

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