WordPress theme comparison
Cartel vs Lightning
At a glance
- Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 200+ for Cartel.
- On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 432 times, Cartel about 0.
- Cartel has no reviews yet.
- Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against Jul 14, 2020 for Cartel.
- Lightning has been around longer: since 2015, against 2018 for Cartel.
Line by line
Lightning leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.
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