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WordPress theme comparison

Dusky vs Lightning

At a glance

  • Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against fewer than 10 for Dusky.
  • On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 451 times, Dusky about 0.
  • Dusky has no reviews yet.
  • Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against Oct 4, 2013 for Dusky.
  • Dusky has been around longer: since 2013, against 2015 for Lightning.

Line by line

Lightning leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.

MetricDuskyLightning
Popular rank–#28
Active installsFewer than 10100K+
Downloads, last 30 days019.6K
RatingNo ratings4.8(12)
Last release13 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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