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 2026-07-14
The complete Theme Ecosystem in numbers
Listed in directory
8,398
56% of 14,895 in the repository
Downloads
759.1M
tracked across all 14,895 themes
Active installs
12.1M
estimated across all 14,895 themes
Average rating
4.8★
calculated across 5,133 themes with 57,716 reviews
Total authors
3,026
who published 14,895 themes
Average installs
814
per theme
Diversity score
90%
across all authors (HHI)
Listed vs hidden in the directory
The repository holds 14,895 themes, but WordPress.org's public browse and search show only about 8,398. 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 6,497 themes, 44% of the repository, effectively delisted.
56% Listed & maintained (8,398 themes · updated < 2 yrs)44% Hidden from browse (6,497 themes · 2+ yrs stale)
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.
Downloads
599.1M -21%
tracked across 14,874 themes
Active installs
8.8M -27%
estimated across 14,874 themes
Average rating
4.8★ +0%
across 5,114 themes with 56,674 reviews
Total authors
3,025 +-0%
who published 14,874 themes
Average installs
594 -27%
per theme
Diversity score
96% +7%
across all authors
Block vs Classic themes
14% Block (2,022 themes)86% Classic (12,873 themes)
Where themes cluster by install count
A finer-grained view of how the 14,895 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.
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 61.8% of every active WordPress install in the directory. That is what a power-law distribution looks like in numbers.
Top 10 themes hold
49.5%
of all installs · 18.6% of all downloads
Top 20 themes hold
61.8%
of all installs · 29.6% of all downloads
Top 50 themes hold
72.8%
of all installs · 41.2% of all downloads
Top 100 themes hold
77.1%
of all installs · 47% of all downloads
Theme ages
Best and worst rated themes
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.
New themes added per month
Abandoned themes
902,770 active WordPress sites are running themes that have not been updated in 2+ years. 6,497 of the 14,895 themes in the directory (43.6%) are in this state.
1+ year stale
7,980
53.6% of themes · 1.7M installs trapped
2+ years stale
6,497
43.6% of themes · 902.8K installs trapped
5+ years stale
4,308
28.9% of themes · 542.6K installs trapped
10+ years stale
1,905
12.8% of themes · 182.7K 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.
Default by WordPress.org10K+ installs · last updated 2010-06-14 (16.1 years ago)
Mercury by ryansommers10K+ installs · last updated 2015-02-26 (11.4 years ago)
Blank Canvas by Automattic10K+ installs · last updated 2021-02-26 (5.4 years ago)
Hemingway by Anders Norén10K+ installs · last updated 2022-12-23 (3.6 years ago)
Graphene by silverks10K+ installs · last updated 2024-03-21 (2.3 years ago)
Qi by Qode10K+ installs · last updated 2024-06-06 (2.1 years ago)
Understrap by Howard Development & Consulting9K+ installs · last updated 2024-04-02 (2.3 years ago)
NewsMag by Macho Themes8K+ installs · last updated 2021-09-30 (4.8 years ago)
Story by alex277K+ installs · last updated 2014-04-02 (12.3 years ago)
Hitchcock by Anders Norén6K+ installs · last updated 2022-12-23 (3.6 years ago)
