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Starter Sites & Templates by Neve
Fast site building with a tiny bit of leftover cloud clutter.
Healthy
85/100
Users love the quick setup and niche templates despite some persistent cloud components.
Active installs
~182,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.7★
77 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-4%
Holding steady
953 → 912 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -4% in the last year
953/day a year ago→912/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayNeve is a well-liked free WordPress theme praised for its ease of use and ready-made starter templates, though a small number of users report specific functional issues and difficulty removing bundled components.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and work with, even for non-technical users×5
- +Starter templates cover specific niches (e.g. bands) with realistic demo content that is straightforward to customise×2
- +Responsive out of the box — works on phones, tablets, and desktop automatically
- +Free version is considered fast and efficient
- +Supports blocks, widgets, CSS/HTML, and layout tools for further customisation
Common complaints
- −Templates Cloud component cannot be easily removed, even when the user no longer wants the theme
- −Saving posts triggers a 'Leave Site — Changes you made may not be saved' error, causing concern about data loss
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.73★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 77 total
Latest reviews · 77 analyzed
- 2026-02-12★★★★★Très bienkerdelhué
- 2025-11-24★★★★★My ratingpallag
- 2025-11-17★★★★★A great theme that's super fastsaeedamnab
- 2025-11-11★★★★★Thème accessible et évolutifchristinedeunepetitelaine
- 2025-09-10★★★★★goodjybyky
- 2025-09-08★★★★★Fantastic Themepablodi71
- 2025-07-03★★★★★I love this Themepatsolutions
- 2025-06-23★★★★★Niceivan5590
- 2025-04-05★★★★★Reliable Themestevejones13
- 2025-03-20★★★★★Great tooltaniacz
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
845
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
938
Prior 7-day baseline
862
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
34,021
Mean release-day peak (30d)
816
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-9.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.12
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-86%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.71 → 4.73★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered