Kadence
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Performance-focused WordPress theme and block toolkit with starter templates and WooCommerce options.
Overview
Kadence is a lightweight WordPress theme with built-in controls for headers, footers, typography, colours, layouts, and responsive design. It works with the block editor and popular page builders, while the companion Kadence Blocks plugin and paid products add a broader design and marketing toolkit. Starter templates can accelerate common site types, including business, ecommerce, course, and content sites. Kadence is a good fit for users who want substantial theme-level control without committing every layout to a visual page builder. Buyers should distinguish the free theme, Kadence Theme Pro, Kadence Blocks, and bundled cloud or marketing products because features and licensing differ across them. WordPress.org currently reports 500,000+ active installations for the Kadence theme. This number represents active copies of the free repository theme and should not be combined with installation figures for Kadence Blocks or renamed products in the same ecosystem.
Best for
WordPress projects needing a maintained design foundation and Customizer or block-editor controls.