kadence vs Newspaper-child

kadence is used by more websites in our catalog: 11,712 use kadence and 197 use Newspaper-child.

Newspaper-child sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (kadence: 15, Newspaper-child: 47).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, kadence went from 1.7% to 1.3% 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 kadence 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.