WordPress theme comparison
Dark vs Newsmatic
At a glance
- Newsmatic has more active installs: 10K+, against 300+ for Dark.
- On a typical day, Newsmatic is downloaded about 88 times, Dark about 1.
- Newsmatic is rated higher: 4.8 out of 5 from 87 reviews, against 3.0 from 1 review.
- Newsmatic was updated more recently: Oct 28, 2026, against Dec 8, 2020 for Dark.
- Dark has been around longer: since 2017, against 2023 for Newsmatic.
Line by line
Newsmatic leads on 4 of 4 comparable lines.
From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.
Tags they share
- Top Blog themes
- Top Custom background themes
- Top Custom colors themes
- Top Custom header themes
- Top Custom menu themes
- Top Featured images themes
- Top Flexible header themes
- Top Footer widgets themes
- Top Grid layout themes
- Top Left sidebar themes
- Top News themes
- Top One column themes
- Top Post formats themes
- Top RTL language support themes
- Top Sticky post themes
- Top Theme options themes
- Top Threaded comments themes
- Top Translation ready themes
- Top Two columns themes
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