generatepress vs pennews

generatepress is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,287 use generatepress and 111 use pennews.

pennews sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (generatepress: 16, pennews: 36).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, generatepress went from 1.8% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while pennews went from 0.02% to 0.01%. pennews is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so generatepress and pennews 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.