WordPress theme comparison
Lightning vs Onward
At a glance
- Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 30+ for Onward.
- On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 432 times, Onward about 0.
- Onward has no reviews yet.
- Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against Nov 7, 2025 for Onward.
- Lightning has been around longer: since 2015, against 2022 for Onward.
Line by line
Lightning leads on 4 of 4 comparable lines.
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