Rating: 5 stars
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.
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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.
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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! ??
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The best theme to cope with elementor, in my opinion.
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I’ve used Nirvana for several years and I really like it.
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Thank you!
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Rating: 5 stars
One of my favorite themes. Easy to customize.
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EDIT (2021-july):
Since the latest update i had to drop another star for 2 reasons:
1. i had a static slider image and a button on it wrapped in a ‘a href’ tag, with the latest update that link doesn’t work anymore, adding it around a div tag is unconventional but it works, well worked, so i added it normally, still doesn’t work, so i had to use the Link field but it’s an external link and there is no way to make it open in a new window, so now i have to install yet another plugin and redo the banner in that instead, making the built in slider feature useless to anyone with external links.
2. the pop-up hover notifications are now displayed in a medium gray background and a very similar but slightly lighter gray text, it’s very hard to read.
(Old review below)
This used to be our favorite theme, until Fluida came along, still prefer the way the blog post excerpts are shown in Nirvana though (next to the text in a normal aspect ratio), so if you could update Nirvana to also have a sticky menu (i know it has a sticky top bar, not what i want because the logo is not included) and to use pages instead of text areas (like Fluida) that would make it my favorite again. Also i’m not sure if the logo images get resized now or not (like on Fluida), because the only way to get a sharp image on wordpress is to use an image at least twice the size you are showing it at. It would probably be easier to fix how Fluida shows it’s blog post excerpts.
I feel like this theme has mostly been abandoned in favor of the newer ones, which i understand.
But what i also understand is that themes are almost becoming a thing of the past with the rise of page builders, the home/presentation pages of all CryoutCreations themes are what set them apart and make you love them or hate them, but with a page builder you can pretty much design any and all of them and customize them a whole lot more, even if they might not be as fancy.
With current presentation page features, you either use them as is or you don’t, some themes, like Fluida, also may allow you to rearrange the order, quite limiting if you ask me, and CC themes are some of the most customizable out there, so that’s saying something, which is why some themes like Astra, come with over 50 page builder templates instead, which i think is the way of the future. So instead of maintaining 10 themes it would be easier to maintain 1 theme that has 10 templates (and they would be a whole lot more customizable) the problem is that there are many page builders and they are all different, but the default one (Gutemberg) and Elementor is all you would need.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Очень многое настраивается:
– цветовые схемы – готовые и свои собственные;
– количество столбцов до 3-х в разных вариациях (восхитительно!);
– шрифты от Google со своими размерами;
– стартовая страница – страница презентации, включающая и слайдер, и текстовые зоны, и презентационные плашки в несколько столбцов, и там же последние посты.
Все легко настраивается и тема становится уникальной.
Rating: 5 stars
great job!
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I just updated the theme Nirvana (just as usual), but discovered that when I did this almost the entire header disappeared (can only see the top of it) and that the side titles appears in the top left and that all the fonts on the whole page and in blog posts has become bigger and that all text on all of my pages, previously correct and divided into nice little paragraphs, now is without paragraph division.
I’ve never had a problem before with the Nirvana theme and have always been very happy with this.
Should I really need to change the text of each blog post and on each page or is there anything I can do to restore?
I’m not technical and can not change the codes. So I wonder if someone has had the same problem? What did you do to get it right? Are there any known problem with some plugins like Page Builder from SiteOrigin or Foo Gallery?
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Couldn’t ask for an easy and great theme. Love the setup!
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Не работает настройка темы совсем: “Неверное перенаправление на странице”. Удалил тему…
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Giving you a one for total lack of support as well as no information anywhere on how to change the size of the title in the header. Wasted an entire afternoon searching forums and Bluehost chat who were also useless, sending me unhelpful links. I notice a lot of other people wanting to change their title size in other themes – this was very easy to do in blogs I have had – why so tricky here?
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Thank You for all people in Cryout Creations who have created Nirvana theme. It’s a beautiful theme and very simple to customized. Please keep on improving this theme, so it is not only beautiful and simple but also more powerful in SEO…
]]>Rating: 5 stars
good one with many customization options
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All SEO checks on my site come up with severe warnings about poor SEO on the homepage – no ability to add alt-text to any images and no H1 headers. Have asked on the support forum both here on WordPress and on the Cryout Creations and had no meaningful response.
This would be a 5-star theme if it wasn’t for this severe problem and the poor support.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I’ve used both Nirvana and Tempera from this developer and they are excellent. They’re a great balance of flexibility and the basics. Once you learn the ins and outs of the theme’s Settings page, you’re off and running. Highly recommended.
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… very much
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Nirvana is one of the Best Theme (including the Child) I had the pleasure to work with over the years, very intuitive, not overloaded with stuff that you rarely need, leaves you with what matters, saving time.
I paid the 25 dollars to get support for the year, which I don’t think I’ll need, but it was a good way to show my appreciation, which allowed me to remove the credit as a bonus… Outstanding Work!
Rating: 5 stars
I love this theme, it’s a lot like customizer but it looks so much better. With the new wordpress update you need to download a quick plugin which they provide the link for and then it’s super simple to customize to your liking. For an example of what I did look at beautyfootzoning.com, please google it to help with my page rank and feel free to ask me any questions if you need help with the theme.
]]>Rating: 1 star
I liked the theme but then at one point it stopeed working as in beginning and writing to forum does not help either, no reply for 2 months..
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The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.
it means what
Rating: 5 stars
Without limitation, Polish version.
Beautiful.
Rating: 5 stars
I use Nirvana on a client site (and several other Cryout Creations themes on other clients’ sites). Responsiveness and flexibility are outstanding. Any time I have needed support, whether for theme issues or for plugin problems, Cryout Creations responds quickly and with all the information I need if they cannot fix the problem. I cannot speak highly enough of the Cryout Creations team.
Nirvana is clean, excellent on desktop and on mobile, and plays well with all plugins. It does everything I ask of it, except parallax view, but I have never asked it to do parallax view. So there.
Rating: 5 stars
We’re testing this theme for use on a small public library website. With the excessive Nirvana Settings editor options, there’s great potential to make a site that’s web accessible to all patrons (without employees having great know how of web design).
Also the ‘export theme’ options on the side has been useful as we switch between localhosts and live testing different things out.
Happy with how everything works so far. Keep up the good work!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Thank you this is the BEST theme like EVER!! It gives you so many different options that no two websites look the same using this theme and trust me I run five websites. Lol Again thanks and I hope you all have a fab new year!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Thank you this is the BEST theme like EVER!! It gives you so many different options that no two websites look the same using this theme and trust me I run five websites. Lol Again thanks and I hope you all have a fab new year!
]]>Rating: 1 star
This could be a great theme IF there was any support to help with issues. I’ve been waiting for two weeks for some kind of support, I’ve sent many emails, and nothing. Don’t bother with Nirvana cause if you get stuck you’ll not be listened to.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Very nice!
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