blocksy vs Newspaper-child

blocksy is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,285 use blocksy and 197 use Newspaper-child.

Newspaper-child sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (blocksy: 14, Newspaper-child: 47).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, blocksy went from 0.30% to 0.26% of all tracked sites, while Newspaper-child went from 0.03% to 0.02%. Newspaper-child is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so blocksy and Newspaper-child are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.