Download websites that use Twenty Twenty-Three

About Twenty Twenty-Three

A default theme is the one design decision on a WordPress site that nobody actually made. Twenty Twenty-Three arrives with the platform already in place, so finding it on a live site says less about taste than about how far that install ever travelled from the state it shipped in. Some of those sites are deliberate, using the bundled theme as a clean base and restyling it through variations. Many are unfinished, parked, or run by an owner who never opened the design settings at all.

The bundled theme also works as a rough date stamp. Twenty Twenty-Three belongs to the generation of default themes built entirely as block themes, with layout defined by block templates and template parts rather than PHP template files. A site running it was set up or rebuilt after WordPress moved its editing model to the site editor, not carried forward from the classic template era. WordPress.org maintains the theme and publishes it under GPL v2, and the code underneath is ordinary PHP, so the site sits inside the same plugin, hosting and update economics as any other WordPress property.

Detection here is inferential and worth stating plainly. We recognise the theme from the asset paths and stylesheet references a page exposes, which works well for untouched installs and less well for sites that renamed the directory, run a child theme, or serve heavily concatenated assets. The bias runs in one direction. Our count leans toward installs left close to default and will miss sites that started from the theme and then buried the evidence.

As of October 2026 we detect Twenty Twenty-Three on 2,379 sites, and the useful thing is not the count but the shape of the list behind it. A WordPress install still wearing its bundled theme is a specific kind of prospect. Agencies selling redesigns, block and page builder vendors, hosting companies pitching managed migrations, and security teams studying how quickly neglected installs fall behind all want the same object, which is the population rather than a verdict on one domain. A per domain lookup answers whether a single site uses the theme. The downloadable WordPress themes dataset answers how many sites do, which countries and top level domains they cluster in, what else is installed alongside them, and how that population drains away as each new default theme replaces the last.