⚡ WordPress Themes in South Africa

WordPress themes are collections of templates, stylesheets, and configuration files that define the visual appearance and layout of websites built on WordPress, including page structure, typography, responsive design, and support for the block editor and full site editing.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, WordPress themes are used on 46.6% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top WordPress themes in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Other Theme, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85% share.
It is followed by Divi with 10.1% and Avada with 3.9%.

Other Theme 85%
Divi 10.1%
Avada 3.9%
Neve 0.5%
Bricks 0.4%
Hestia 0.1%
GeneratePress 0.05%
ClassiPress 0.02%

✨ Best WordPress Themes

Below is a more detailed list of 8 WordPress themes used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Other Theme A WordPress theme that is different from the specific themes we detect.	85%
2	Divi Sonoma, California, United States A popular WordPress theme with a built-in visual drag-and-drop page builder that lets users design and customize websites without writing code. $89+/year	10.1%
3	Avada Tampa, Florida, United States A popular WordPress theme that features a live drag-and-drop visual website builder, 120+ design elements, multi-step forms, Woo integration and more. $69	3.9%
4	Neve Bucharest, Romania A lightweight multipurpose WordPress theme fully compatible with the block editor, popular page builders (Elementor, Bricks, Oxygen, etc.), and WooCommerce. Free$69+/year	0.5%
5	Bricks Paphos, Cyprus A commercial visual site builder theme for WordPress that enables full-site editing and layout design directly in the browser. $79+/year	0.4%
6	Hestia Bucharest, Romania A modern, responsive, one-page WordPress theme based on Material Design principles. Free$69+/year	0.1%
⏳	GeneratePress Victoria, British Columbia, Canada A lightweight WordPress theme designed for fast-loading websites with a focus on usability and flexible layout control. Free$59+/year	0.05%
8	ClassiPress San Francisco, California, United States A paid WordPress theme designed for building classified ads websites with built-in listing management and monetization features. $69	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 WordPress Themes in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 18,122 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 9 WordPress themes across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on April 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.