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

The Columnist

70+ installs

Its stats
Closest match
BlogHash
Shares 11 of The Columnist's 11 tags.
Most installed
GeneratePress
500K+ active installs.
Best rated
Sinatra
5.0 out of 5 from 41 reviews.
Most recently updated
ColorMag
Updated on Nov 2, 2026.
  1. BlogHash

    by peregrinethemes

    BlogHash is the perfect pick for bloggers seeking a lightweight, customizable theme that suits them just right. With plenty of options to adjust colors and typography, making your site unique is a breeze. It's SEO frien…

    Installs
    10K+
    Rank
    #38
    Rating
    4.7(13)
    Updated
    1 month ago

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  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
    11 days ago

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  5. 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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  6. Customizr

    by presscustomizr

    Customizr is a simple and fast WordPress theme designed to help you attract and engage more visitors. Provides a perfect user experience on smartphones. Powers more than 100K active sites around the world. Hundreds of 5…

    Installs
    30K+
    Rank
    #87
    Rating
    4.8(993)
    Updated
    1 year ago

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  7. Vantage

    by SiteOrigin

    Vantage is a flexible multipurpose theme. Its strength lies in its tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, Smart Slider 3 for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to…

    Installs
    30K+
    Rank
    #76
    Rating
    4.6(165)
    Updated
    7 months ago

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  8. 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

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  9. Graphene

    by silverks

    We believe that every theme should facilitate creative writing, not hinder it. We also believe that each site should have the opportunity to be unique. Since the beginning, we have listened to countless suggestions and…

    Installs
    10K+
    Rank
    #351
    Rating
    4.7(83)
    Updated
    2 months ago

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Bravada

    by CryoutCreations

    Bravada looks amazing, behaves flawlessly and scales to any screen. It goes anywhere, it's for everyone and everything. It's clear, clean and simply gorgeous. It has CSS powered animations that will bring users to their…

    Installs
    10K+
    Rank
    #96
    Rating
    3.6(14)
    Updated
    1 year ago

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