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Nirvana has 10K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

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

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Nirvana requires WordPress false+ and PHP 5.6+. Check the theme's WordPress.org page for the latest compatibility information.

Nirvana

Name: Nirvana
Rating: 4.3 (69 reviews)
Author: Cryout Creations

By Cryout Creations·Blog·Free

4.3(69 reviews)

·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago

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As of April 2026, Nirvana is a WordPress theme with 10K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 69 reviews. It has been downloaded 775K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: Twenty Twenty-Five.

4.3/569 reviews

10K+active installs

775K+total downloads

12 yearssince 2014

Overview

Imagine a land of infinite beauty and overwhelming magnificence. Imagine seas of freedom and oceans of peace joining together with splashing waves of pure love. Imagine high mountains of hope, hills of reason and deep valleys of knowledge - all covered with dense forests of complete calm. In this mystic land, under a spotless sky of clarity and a bright, cleansing sun you will find Nirvana. The search is finally over; you can now rest, relax and take a deep breath. Nirvana will do the rest with a framework of over 200 settings in a user-friendly interface, a very effective responsive design, boxed or wide layouts with up to 3 columns, easy to use typography equipped with Google fonts, all post formats, 8 page templates (magazine and blog layouts included), 12 widget areas and a presentati…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.369 reviews

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Recent Reviews

Nirvana theme has been great for many years

by ac1643·2 years ago

I’ve been using this theme since about 2015 and its been very reliable, flexible and not let me down. The updates have been frequent enough so far and everything works as far as I’ve detected. I requested the menu to be made navigable by keyboard and the cryout were kind enough to add it in version 1.6.2. Excellent for a free theme.

Slightly concerned about no updates for two years now, however all websites are still working fine from a usability perspective. I hope they keep it compatible with at least wordpress version 6, as changing the theme on many websites will take me a lot of time.

The theme is not updated since 2021

by ana27·3 years ago

It used to be really good. Not anymore! The last update of this theme was more than a year ago (October 29, 2021), causing now major problems on Core Web vitals in Google Search Console. I would have paid for a premium version, but this option is not available. Now I have to change this theme.

A Great Theme!

by Sunborn·5 years ago

A great theme indeed, full of options, many of them are not easily available on most free themes! I am very satisfied thus i should give it easily 5 stars!
However i will give 4 stars (for now), for one reason only:

In presentation page (which acts as home page) the “columns” section is not responsive on mobile devices if they are on “animated” mode. To be more specific, the columns themselves (and their images) ARE responsive! However, the full animation is not.
It is one image cut in 4 pieces (as seen in the Nirvana demo), each one for a different column and it is brilliant and beautiful!!!
But on mobile devices it shows one image below the other and all this beauty is gone…
Now, i am not sure if this is a mobile bug (i am a computer person and i dislike mobiles, so i don’t really know their tech secrets), however i can’t believe that there is no solution for such a simple thing (i have searched the forums too)!

So, once this is fixed (or at least, explained why it can’t be fixed) i will return here and give the 5 stars that this theme truly deserves! 🙂

Robust and yet interoperable theme

by rcesarfs·5 years ago

The best theme to cope with elementor, in my opinion.

Great theme.

by Magnus Andreasson·5 years ago

I’ve used Nirvana for several years and I really like it.