WordPress theme statistics for the entire WordPress.org directory — 14,000+ themes, install distribution, top authors and abandoned themes. Updated weekly.
A snapshot of every theme in the WordPress.org directory · scanned 2026-08-18
The complete Theme Ecosystem in numbers
Listed in directory
8,546
57% of 15,087 in the repository
Downloads
765.7M
tracked across all 15,087 themes
Active installs
11.9M
estimated across all 15,087 themes
Average rating
4.8★
calculated across 5,142 themes with 57,781 reviews
Total authors
3,075
who published 15,087 themes
Average installs
786
per theme
Diversity score
91%
across all authors (HHI)
Listed vs hidden in the directory
The repository holds 15,087 themes, but WordPress.org's public browse and search show only about 8,546. Themes that haven't been updated in 2+ years are hidden from the directory (they stay reachable by direct link and the API) — that's 6,541 themes, 43% of the repository, effectively delisted.
Without default themes — the rest of the ecosystem
These figures exclude the bundled "Twenty *" themes that ship with WordPress (Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four, etc.), since they are auto-installed and skew the ecosystem-wide numbers. The badge shows the difference vs. the totals above.
A finer-grained view of how the 15,087 themes in the directory distribute by active-install count. Most of the population lives in the 10–300 range — the long tail at the top holds vanishingly few but extremely widely-used themes.
0
1–9
4,373
10–49
3,263
50–99
4,022
100–299
1,709
300–999
457
1K–2.9K
135
3K–9.9K
38
10K–29K
26
30K–99K
9
100K–299K
10
300K+
Heights use a square-root scale so the long tail stays visible against the bulk; the exact counts are shown above every bar.
Concentration: how few themes hold most of the installs
The 20 most-installed themes together account for 61.5% of every active WordPress install in the directory. That is what a power-law distribution looks like in numbers.
Limited to themes with 20+ reviews so a single five-star opinion can't dominate the list. The default themes that ship with WordPress show up among the worst-rated — they are reviewed more critically than their adoption numbers might suggest.
909,550 active WordPress sites are running themes that have not been updated in 2+ years. 6,541 of the 15,087 themes in the directory (43.4%) are in this state.
1+ year stale
7,942
52.6% of themes · 1.8M installs trapped
2+ years stale
6,541
43.4% of themes · 909.6K installs trapped
5+ years stale
4,359
28.9% of themes · 539.6K installs trapped
10+ years stale
1,938
12.8% of themes · 185.6K installs trapped
Most-installed abandoned themes
No update in 2+ years, yet still in active use on thousands of sites. Some of these were once flagship community themes that quietly stopped being maintained.
