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SimplyNews

70+ installs

Its stats
Closest match
OceanWP
Shares 12 of SimplyNews's 12 tags.
Most installed
GeneratePress
500K+ active installs.
Best rated
Sinatra
5.0 out of 5 from 41 reviews.
Most recently updated
Inspiro
Updated on Nov 6, 2026.
  1. 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
    15 days ago

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuEditor styleFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  2. Sinatra

    by sinatrateam

    Sinatra is a lightweight and highly customizable multi-purpose theme that makes it easy for anyone to create their perfect website. You can use it for any type of website from blogs, businesses, online shops, creatives,…

    Installs
    20K+
    Rank
    #74
    Rating
    5.0(41)
    Updated
    29 days ago

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuEditor styleFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  3. Crio

    by BoldGrid

    Crio is a WordPress SuperTheme that allows front-end designers, developers and other web professionals to create without bounds or restrictions. Crio's advanced customization options are completely integrated with the…

    Installs
    10K+
    Rank
    #130
    Rating
    4.2(5)
    Updated
    2 months ago

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuEditor styleFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  4. 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
    12 days ago

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  5. 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
    4 days ago

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  6. 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

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  7. 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

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  8. 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

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  9. 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
    13 days ago

    SharesBlogCustom backgroundCustom colorsCustom menuFeatured imagesFooter widgetsNewsRight sidebarSticky postTheme optionsThreaded comments

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  10. GeneratePress

    by Tom

    GeneratePress is a lightweight WordPress theme built with a focus on speed and usability. Performance is important to us, which is why a fresh GeneratePress install adds less than 10kb (gzipped) to your page size. We ta…

    Installs
    500K+
    Rank
    #11
    Rating
    4.9(1.4K)
    Updated
    11 months ago

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  11. Kadence

    by Nexcess

    Kadence Theme is a lightweight yet full featured WordPress theme for creating beautiful fast loading and accessible websites, easier than ever. It features an easy to use drag and drop header and footer builder to build…

    Installs
    500K+
    Rank
    #5
    Rating
    4.9(456)
    Updated
    4 days ago

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  12. Twenty Twenty

    by WordPress.org

    Our default theme for 2020 is designed to take full advantage of the flexibility of the block editor. Organizations and businesses have the ability to create dynamic landing pages with endless layouts using the group an…

    Installs
    200K+
    Rank
    #17
    Rating
    4.4(68)
    Updated
    12 days ago

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