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Dark Reader – Beautiful Dark Mode for any Website

Dark Reader – Beautiful Dark Mode for any Website

Design & Customization Dark Mode & Color Schemes

Dark Reader is a WordPress plugin for Dark Mode & Color Schemes. It ranks #11 of 12 in that group by active installs and was last updated 5 days ago.

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200 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
5.0 Rating out of 5 From 5 ratings
28 Releases Since 18 May 2025
Nov 2026 Last release 5 days ago

Maintenance check

Is Dark Reader still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 5 days ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Dark Reader alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Dark Mode & Color Schemes. Dark Reader itself ranks #11 of 12. How plugins are grouped.

#1

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Dark Mode for WP Dashboard

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Dark Mode Toggle

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StylizedX – Variation Switcher Dark Mode for Full Site Editing (FSE) Themes

stylizedx 2K installs · 5.0 stars #5

Darklup – Enhanced WordPress Dark Mode, Dark Theme, Night Mode & Accessibility Plugin

darklup-lite-wp-dark-mode 1K installs · 4.5 stars #5

Darkify – Dark Mode & Night Mode for Website & Admin (Dark Theme Included)

darkify 1K installs · 4.7 stars

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Standing

More installed than 72.8% of the directory

Ahead of 34,752 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

72.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
34,752 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
12,981 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
1.3.0
Requires WordPress
6.0
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
18 May 2025
Last updated
1 November 2026
Contributors
6
Author
bdthemes
Support threads resolved
0 of 1

Its own tags

  • dark
  • dark mode
  • dark theme
  • Night Mode
  • wp dark

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