essentials vs hello-theme-child-master

hello-theme-child-master is used by more websites in our catalog: 117 use essentials and 1,201 use hello-theme-child-master.

essentials and hello-theme-child-master sites have a similar median Ahrefs Domain Rating.

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, essentials went from 0.02% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while hello-theme-child-master went from 0.15% to 0.14%. essentials is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so essentials and hello-theme-child-master 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.