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

Waves

90+ installs

Its stats
Closest match
OceanWP
Shares 9 of Waves's 9 tags.
Most installed
OceanWP
400K+ 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
    13 days ago

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  2. Twenty Sixteen

    by WordPress.org

    Twenty Sixteen is a modernized take on an ever-popular WordPress layout — the horizontal masthead with an optional right sidebar that works perfectly for blogs and websites. It has custom color options with beautiful de…

    Installs
    90K+
    Rank
    #30
    Rating
    4.1(83)
    Updated
    2 months ago

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  3. 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
    10 days ago

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  4. 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
    2 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
    #64
    Rating
    4.9(1.6K)
    Updated
    7 days ago

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  6. 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
    #74
    Rating
    4.6(165)
    Updated
    7 months ago

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  7. 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
    #72
    Rating
    5.0(41)
    Updated
    28 days ago

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  8. 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
    #349
    Rating
    4.7(83)
    Updated
    2 months ago

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  9. 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
    #273
    Rating
    4.3(69)
    Updated
    9 months ago

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  10. 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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  11. Consulting

    by ThinkUpThemes

    Consulting is the free version of the multi-purpose professional theme (Consulting Pro) ideal for a business or blog website. The theme has a responsive layout, HD retina ready and comes with a powerful theme options pa…

    Installs
    10K+
    Rank
    #119
    Rating
    3.0(19)
    Updated
    6 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
    #95
    Rating
    3.6(14)
    Updated
    1 year ago

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