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The 12 WordPress themes most like Herschel, by the tags they share, the most in common first. Installs, ratings and updates come from WordPress.org and refresh every night.

Herschel

80+ installs

Its stats

Closest match: Hestia; Shares 17 of Herschel's 18 tags.
Most installed: OceanWP; 400K+ active installs.
Best rated: OceanWP; 4.9 out of 5 from 5,720 reviews.
Most recently updated: Neve; Updated on Nov 6, 2026.

Hestia
by Themeisle
Hestia is a modern WordPress theme for professionals. It fits creative business, small businesses (restaurants, wedding planners, sport/medical shops), startups, corporate businesses, online agencies and firms, portfoli…
Installs
70K+
Rank
#31
Rating
4.8(563)
Updated
11 days ago
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Inspiro
by WPZOOM
Inspiro is a fast, ultra-lightweight, and versatile WordPress theme for small businesses, creative professionals, photographers, and visual portfolios. Launch your website in minutes with 20+ ready-made starter sites fo…
Installs
60K+
Rank
#24
Rating
4.7(127)
Updated
3 days ago
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ColorMag
by ThemeGrill
ColorMag is a fast, flexible WordPress theme built for news portals, online magazines, personal blogs, and publishing sites. Trusted by 50,000+ publishers worldwide, it's the #1 news & magazine theme on WordPress.org. W…
Installs
40K+
Rank
#67
Rating
4.9(1.6K)
Updated
8 days ago
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Nirvana
by CryoutCreations
Imagine a land of infinite beauty and overwhelming magnificence. Imagine seas of freedom and oceans of peace joining together with splashing waves of pure love. Imagine high mountains of hope, hills of reason and deep v…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#275
Rating
4.3(69)
Updated
9 months ago
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Parabola
by CryoutCreations
Welcome to a world of endless possibilities! Parabola awaits you with a huge assortment of theme settings that enable you to take a fully responsive, clean and elegant design to even newer heights. You can edit everythi…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#213
Rating
4.9(70)
Updated
9 months ago
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Botiga
by aThemes
Botiga is a fast, lightweight WooCommerce theme for building modern online stores and eCommerce websites. It works with both Elementor and the WordPress block editor to assemble pages quickly. A clean, modern design wit…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#75
Rating
4.9(164)
Updated
13 days ago
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Newsmatic
by blazethemes
Newsmatic is complete solution for your news website with full Elementor compatibility. By integrating the News Kit Elementor Addons plugin on your site, you can now customize any part of the theme with the Elementor pa…
Installs
10K+
Rank
#68
Rating
4.8(87)
Updated
12 days ago
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OceanWP
by oceanwp
OceanWP is the perfect theme for your project. Lightweight and highly extendable, it will enable you to create almost any type of website such a blog, portfolio, business website and WooCommerce storefront with a beauti…
Installs
400K+
Rank
#9
Rating
4.9(5.7K)
Updated
14 days ago
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Neve
by Themeisle
Neve is a next-generation, ultra-fast WordPress theme designed for top performance, SEO, and Core Web Vitals. Its lightweight codebase and small size ensure minimal overhead and lightning-fast load times. Fully compatib…
Installs
200K+
Rank
#16
Rating
4.7(1.3K)
Updated
3 days ago
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Twenty Eleven
by WordPress.org
The 2011 theme for WordPress is sophisticated, lightweight, and adaptable. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background -- then go further with available theme options for light or dark color scheme, c…
Installs
60K+
Rank
#54
Rating
4.6(50)
Updated
2 months ago
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Ashe
by WP Royal
Personal and Multi-Author Free WordPress Blog Theme. Perfect for personal, lifestyle, health & fitness, food, cooking, bakery, travel, beauty, fashion, wedding, photography, news, quotes blog, auto blog, small business…
Installs
30K+
Rank
#65
Rating
4.9(304)
Updated
18 days ago
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MH Magazine lite
by MH Themes
MH Magazine lite is one of the most popular free responsive magazine, news, newspaper and blog WordPress themes for modern online magazines, dynamic news websites, professional blogs and other editorial websites. This f…
Installs
10K+
Rank
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Rating
4.8(129)
Updated
2 years ago
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