WordPress theme comparison
hexo vs Lightning
At a glance
- Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 60+ for hexo.
- On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 451 times, hexo about 0.
- hexo 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 Jan 18, 2017 for hexo.
- Lightning has been around longer: since 2015, against 2017 for hexo.
Line by line
Lightning leads on 3 of 4 comparable lines.
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