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WordPress theme comparison

empteen vs Lightning

At a glance

  • Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 30+ for empteen.
  • On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 432 times, empteen about 0.
  • empteen has no reviews yet.
  • Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against May 10, 2019 for empteen.
  • Lightning has been around longer: since 2015, against 2018 for empteen.

Line by line

Lightning leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.

MetricempteenLightning
Popular rank–#28
Active installs30+100K+
Downloads, last 30 days019.8K
RatingNo ratings4.8(12)
Last release7 years ago2 months ago
Requires PHP–7.4

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