
As of April 2026, Sydney is a WordPress theme with 90K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 790 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Offers a premium version with additional features. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Hello Elementor.
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very good
Been very happy using this Theme, very reliable.
I found Sydney when looking for a theme to replace an old, abandoned theme that I really liked. Sydney is almost the perfect replacement. It’s fast, it’s light, and its easy to configure. Much easier than my old theme. But… In some ways its a bit too light!
For instance, while you can choose different fonts for your headers and you content, there’s no differentiation between the “header” and the “Site Title”. Whatever font you choose for the former applies to the latter—and that’s silly! The font used in the site title is part of the the branding, so it’s often very a very pretty, calligraphic font. Not the kind of thing you want for your blog post headings, which need to be easily readable. There’s also no place to put your site logo up in the title block. You can upload your logo, but the only place it’s used is on search engines and stuff. Not on your actual site. Also rather silly.
Then there’s a disappointing limitation with the “Hero Slider”. My old theme had a beautiful slider setup that showed the Featured Image, category, and title of the latest blog posts. I thought I’d be getting something similar with the Hero Slider. Alas, not. Not only can such things not be automated (even in the paid version), you can’t even add links! It’s images only. I’m rather baffled by that, actually. If you can’t even add links to the hero images, of what is is the darned thing?
So anyway, good theme, but it could use some simple improvements.
Sydney is easy to use and professional-looking. The starter site saved me a lot of time. Athemes has great customer service.
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