WordPress theme comparison
Hacker vs Lightning
At a glance
- Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 50+ for Hacker.
- On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 451 times, Hacker about 0.
- Hacker is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review, against 4.8 from 12 reviews.
- Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against Jun 15, 2016 for Hacker.
- Lightning has been around longer: since 2015, against 2016 for Hacker.
Line by line
Lightning leads on 3 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
More comparisons
Is one of these yours?
Track your theme against its rivals every day: rank, installs, downloads, ratings and their releases, with alerts when anything moves.
Start free