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WordPress theme comparison

Composer vs Lightning

At a glance

  • Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 1K+ for Composer.
  • On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 451 times, Composer about 0.
  • Composer has no reviews yet.
  • Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against May 4, 2017 for Composer.

Line by line

Lightning leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.

MetricComposerLightning
Popular rank–#28
Active installs1K+100K+
Downloads, last 30 days219.3K
RatingNo ratings4.8(12)
Last release9 years ago2 months ago
Requires PHP–7.4

From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.

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