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Hestia

By ThemeIsle·Blog·Commercial
4.8(560 reviews)
·80K+ active installs·Updated 7 months ago
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As of April 2026, Hestia is a WordPress theme with 80K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 560 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP 5.4.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Offers a premium version with additional features. Top alternative: Twenty Twenty-Five.

4.8/5560 reviews
80K+active installs
4.6M+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Hestia is a modern WordPress theme for professionals. It fits creative business, small businesses (restaurants, wedding planners, sport/medical shops), startups, corporate businesses, online agencies and firms, portfolios, ecommerce (WooCommerce), and freelancers. It has a multipurpose one-page design, widgetized footer, blog/news page and a clean look, is compatible with: Flat Parallax Slider, Photo Gallery, Travel Map and Elementor Page Builder . The theme is responsive, WPML, Retina ready, SEO friendly, and uses Material Kit for design.
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Ratings & Reviews

4.8560 reviews
5 ★
494
4 ★
39
3 ★
6
2 ★
8
1 ★
13

Recent Reviews

Very Good Material Design
by sanjibdebsinha·4 months ago·1 reply

I love the simple, yet elegant design.

Infleizmente esta quebrnado quando se atualiza a pagina principal
by Markus Harum·6 months ago·1 reply

Apos atualizar as pagina principal o tema quebra e não volta mais algo muito estranho acontece

ATTENTION! Support is ignoring vulnerabilities
by Stephan·8 months ago·4 replies

Support ignores vulnerabilities that have existed for month/years, which pose a potential threat to every Hestia and Hestia Pro user. According to support, these are not critical vulnerabilities, but network scanners still detect them. Finally, support informed me that they would not fix these vulnerabilities, even though my website was still under a valid support contract.


CVE2024-6484 is particularly problematic because it is rated medium, not low, and security measures on the web server cannot be migrated. Since Heatia’s customizer only works if ‘unsafe-inline’ and ‘unsafe-eval’ are set in the CSP, this potentially increases the risk. The other CVE’s are not medium or critical, but would be easy for support to fix!

However, according to EU regulations, they are obligated to close these vulnerabilities and are liable if websites are demonstrably compromised due to these vulnerabilities. Support refused to acknowledge this. It’s a shame. I cannot recommend the theme for the security reasons stated and behavior of the support.

Here are existing vulnerabilities:
CVE-2024-6484, CVE-2018-14040, CVE-2018-14042, CVE-2018-20676, CVE-2016-10735

Detailed explanations and ratings can be found at cve.org

As evidence test you website with on pentest-tools.com – Website Scanner (light)

  • This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by Stephan. Reason: Wrong rating after saving issue due to included links
Hestia: Pretty design, but only for the cover. Afterwards, chaos.
by Efi·9 months ago·1 reply

Hestia has an attractive cover, but it’s like a closed box. You can’t modify the structure, style, or layout. Even if you pay, you don’t have the freedom to customize headers, paths, or visual content. The design is outdated. I wanted to make something modern and visual to keep visitors engaged longer… but it’s impossible. They tell you you have control, but you can only change colors and text. Nothing else.

Great theme
by faserng·11 months ago·1 reply

Great theme even in free edition

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Frequently Asked Questions

Theme Info
Version
3.3.3
Last Updated
Sep 4, 2025
WP Requires
false+
PHP Requires
5.4.0+
Active Installs
80K+
Downloads
4.6M+
Created
May 19, 2017
Type
Commercial

Tags

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Author

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