Yes, Kahuna is completely free to use. It is available on WordPress.org at no cost.

How many websites use Kahuna?

Kahuna has 2.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Kahuna alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Kahuna include Twenty Twenty-Five, Astra, Twenty Twenty-Four. You can compare them on our theme directory.

Does Kahuna work with the latest WordPress?

Kahuna requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Check the theme's WordPress.org page for the latest compatibility information.

Kahuna — Reviews, Rating & Alternatives (2026)

Name: Kahuna
Rating: 4.6 (18 reviews)
Author: Cryout Creations

As of April 2026, Kahuna is a WordPress theme with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 18 reviews. It has been downloaded 178K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: Twenty Twenty-Five.

4.6/518 reviews

2.0K+active installs

178K+total downloads

9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Kahuna is the big kahuna among WordPress themes. It proved itself with an exotic design, effective and easy to use customizer settings and a responsive, fully editable layout. Many personal and business sites have embraced it for a wide spectrum of uses, ranging from portfolio and photography sites to blogs and online shops. The features are too many to list but here are some of the main attractions: translatable, search engine optimized (both microformats and micordata), supports RTL (right-to-left) languages, supports eCommerce (WooCommerce), has both wide and boxed layouts, masonry bricks, socials, Google fonts, typography options, and a great customizable landing page. Now with full Gutenberg support. * DEMO: http://demos.cryoutcreations.eu/wp/kahuna/ *

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Ratings & Reviews

4.618 reviews

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Recent Reviews

Problems with Kahuna Plus – Warning

by schreiner·3 years ago

Problems with Kahuna Pro (payed), Support does not answer my questions for 12 days!

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This topic was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by schreiner.

The best Theme

by Writers & Spire·6 years ago

If you are looking for a theme that has the before and after content widget, this is the theme for you. Easy to customize and you can use your own brand colors.

The perfect theme

by sudosan·7 years ago

This theme just fits to all kinds of sites. It’s versatile and highly customizable. I love it!

Personnalisable et design

by tdlmidipy·7 years ago

Merci pour ce thème sobre, personnalisable et très design !

A versatile theme

by ahyangyi·7 years ago·1 reply

I just started my personal blog. Since I planned to keep it simplistic, I overlooked complex themes like Kahuna (and all other Cryout Creations themes). Until after spending two nights looking for suitable themes, I finally decided to give Kahuna a go.

It turns out that Kahuna is so customizable that it can be made into a very bare-bones simplistic theme with a few choices in the customization menu. And no matter what you do with it, it remains thematically coherent.

If you have seen this theme and thought “maybe it does not fit my need…”, my suggestion is
that you are probably just fooled by the screenshot or the demo site. They do not lie, but they can only tell you one of the many ways how your site can end up look like. You’d better just install the theme yourself, and give yourself ten minutes to explore the 100+ options that comes with it and see how it can adapt itself to fit your needs.