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The 12 WordPress themes most like Ascend, by the tags they share, the most in common first. Installs, ratings and updates come from WordPress.org and refresh every night.

Ascend

2K+ installs · #917 most popular

Its stats

Closest match: Hestia; Shares 18 of Ascend's 18 tags.
Most installed: Astra; 1M+ active installs.
Best rated: Astra; 4.9 out of 5 from 6,555 reviews.
Most recently updated: Neve; Updated on Nov 6, 2026.

Hestia
by Themeisle
Hestia is a modern WordPress theme for professionals. It fits creative business, small businesses (restaurants, wedding planners, sport/medical shops), startups, corporate businesses, online agencies and firms, portfoli…
Installs
70K+
Rank
#31
Rating
4.8(563)
Updated
10 days ago
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Botiga
by aThemes
Botiga is a fast, lightweight WooCommerce theme for building modern online stores and eCommerce websites. It works with both Elementor and the WordPress block editor to assemble pages quickly. A clean, modern design wit…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#73
Rating
4.9(164)
Updated
12 days ago
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Neve
by Themeisle
Neve is a next-generation, ultra-fast WordPress theme designed for top performance, SEO, and Core Web Vitals. Its lightweight codebase and small size ensure minimal overhead and lightning-fast load times. Fully compatib…
Installs
200K+
Rank
#16
Rating
4.7(1.3K)
Updated
2 days ago
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Inspiro
by WPZOOM
Inspiro is a fast, ultra-lightweight, and versatile WordPress theme for small businesses, creative professionals, photographers, and visual portfolios. Launch your website in minutes with 20+ ready-made starter sites fo…
Installs
60K+
Rank
#24
Rating
4.7(127)
Updated
2 days ago
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Vantage
by SiteOrigin
Vantage is a flexible multipurpose theme. Its strength lies in its tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, Smart Slider 3 for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to…
Installs
30K+
Rank
#74
Rating
4.6(165)
Updated
7 months ago
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Phlox
by averta
Phlox is a modern, lightweight and customizable theme perfect for almost any type of website including, blog, portfolio, business, agency, news & magazine, food & restaurant, travel, and photography as well as WooCommer…
Installs
30K+
Rank
#59
Rating
4.8(867)
Updated
3 months ago
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Responsive
by CyberChimps
The Responsive theme by CyberChimps is a superfast, lightweight, and customizable WordPress theme for building professional websites without coding. Build your website quickly with 100+ free WordPress starter templates…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#151
Rating
4.7(559)
Updated
4 days ago
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Crio
by BoldGrid
Crio is a WordPress SuperTheme that allows front-end designers, developers and other web professionals to create without bounds or restrictions. Crio's advanced customization options are completely integrated with the…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#129
Rating
4.2(5)
Updated
2 months ago
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TutorStarter
by Themeum
Tutor Starter is a free WordPress LMS theme powered by Tutor LMS, the popular eLearning plugin for WordPress. It is designed to let Tutor LMS take center stage while also letting you pick what feels right. Tutor Starter…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#100
Rating
4.0(4)
Updated
1 month ago
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Astra
by Brainstorm Force
The Astra WordPress theme is lightning-fast and highly customizable. It has over 1 million downloads and the only theme in the world with 6,000+ five-star reviews! It’s ideal for professional web designers, solopreneurs…
Installs
1M+
Rank
#3
Rating
4.9(6.6K)
Updated
11 days ago
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Kadence
by Nexcess
Kadence Theme is a lightweight yet full featured WordPress theme for creating beautiful fast loading and accessible websites, easier than ever. It features an easy to use drag and drop header and footer builder to build…
Installs
500K+
Rank
#5
Rating
4.9(456)
Updated
3 days ago
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ColorMag
by ThemeGrill
ColorMag is a fast, flexible WordPress theme built for news portals, online magazines, personal blogs, and publishing sites. Trusted by 50,000+ publishers worldwide, it's the #1 news & magazine theme on WordPress.org. W…
Installs
40K+
Rank
#64
Rating
4.9(1.6K)
Updated
7 days ago
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