Newspaper-child vs oceanwp

oceanwp is used by more websites in our catalog: 197 use Newspaper-child and 2,328 use oceanwp.

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

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Newspaper-child went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while oceanwp went from 0.29% to 0.26%. Newspaper-child is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so Newspaper-child and oceanwp 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.