What is the best alternative to essentials?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to essentials are hello-elementor, Divi, astra, generatepress, kadence. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to essentials are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 176 other wordpress themes used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. essentials itself is used by 117 websites.

Which WordPress theme has the most websites?

hello-elementor leads this category with 23,153 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

essentials Alternatives & Competitors

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Looking for an alternative to essentials? Site Stats Database tracks 176 other wordpress themes; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. essentials itself is used by 117 websites. Back to essentials.

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essentials Alternatives & Competitors

The top essentials alternatives in depth

hello-elementor

Divi

astra

generatepress

kadence

Avada

bb-theme

Newspaper

flatsome

salient

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