33 free WordPress themes – Anders Norén

For blogs, portfolios and personal sites. Downloaded over 4.7 million times.
Updated for WordPress 7.1.
You can support the development of my themes by sponsoring me on Ko-fi, GitHub, or PayPal. Thank you!
A quirky free block theme for blogs and portfolios.
Pulitzer is a minimal free blog theme designed for writers.
Vermeer is a free profile theme with an eye-catching marquee at the top of the page.
Norrsken is a simple, stylish and free blog theme.
Hideo is a clean, free portfolio and blog theme with bold headings and subdued colors.
Abisko is a stylish free blog theme with bold typography and lots of whitespace.
Oaknut is a free block theme designed to help you create Linktree-esque profile pages.
Beaumont is a simple free block theme for your words.
Björk is a simple, clean, fast and free block theme for blogs and personal websites.
Poe is a clean, flexible, free and very fast block theme built for portfolios and blogs.
Davis Blocks is a tiny free block theme, built for blogs or as a foundation for greater things.
Tove is a fun multi-purpose free block theme built entirely for Full Site Editing.
These themes were built for old versions of WordPress. They lack support for modern WordPress features like the Site Editor.
Since 2012, my 33 free WordPress themes have been downloaded 4,752,465 times. That’s pretty crazy.
Can’t find an answer here? Feel free to send me an email.
You’re probably using one of my free WordPress themes, which include a ”Theme by Anders Norén” text in the footer. If you don’t want to include it, you can either remove it with custom CSS or switch to a different theme.
If you do decide to remove the ”Theme by…” string, I’d appreciate it if you consider sending a small donation my way. You can find the PayPal donation page here.
First, visit the WordPress.org support forum for the theme you’re using. You can find it by going to the WordPress.org page for the theme and clicking the “View support forum” button. There’s a decent chance that your question has already been asked and answered. If it hasn’t, create a new forum thread for your question. That way, other people with the same question can find the answer in the future.
I rarely have time to help out with modifications to my themes, even paid ones, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Feel free to send me an email, and I’ll try to get back to you.
Sure, go right ahead! If you do, please let me know. I’d love to see it.
No. Anyone can download my themes from WordPress.org and use them for any purpose, and I don’t have any means of reaching those who do. If it’s a legal matter, I’d recommend you to get in touch with the hosting company or domain registrar. They probably won’t give you the contact details to the owner, but most of the time, they can pass along a message to whoever has the website/domain.
Yes, all of my free WordPress themes are in public repositories. You can find them through my GitHub profile.
Any changes you want! You can add, remove or change stuff, remove my name from the footer, change the names of the themes, and so on. The only requirement is that your modifed version of the themes also use the GPL 2.0 open source license.
The versions released on WordPress.org, which can be downloaded and installed on any server, are developed and maintained by me. The versions released on WordPress.com, which is a paid service maintained by Automattic, are developed by Automattic based on the original designs.
They mostly look and work the same, but there are some differences in functionality. If you’re using one of my themes on WordPress.com and want to use that same theme on a self-hosted server, I can’t guarantee that you’ll be able to retain all of the features you’re used to. Mostly because a lot of those features are tied into the WordPress.com service itself, rather than a specific theme.
If you have a question about a theme on WordPress.com, you should post a message in the WordPress.com support forums. If you have a question about a theme for the self-hosted version of WordPress, you should post a message in the WordPress.org support forums.
All of my WordPress themes are released under the GPL 2.0 license – same as WordPress itself. The short summary of what that license entails is that you can do whatever you want with my themes – modify them, rename them, sell them – as long as the end result is also made available under the GPL 2.0 license. There’s a good summary of it on WordPress.org.
Yes, all of my themes have been updated to support the new Gutenberg editor included in WordPress 5.0.
None of my themes have specific support for third-party page builders like Elementor and Beaver Builder. Those plugins will still work when one of my themes are active, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you run into some visual bugs. If you plan on using a third-party page builder, I would recommend you to pick a theme built with them in mind.
Sullivan is built from the ground-up to work as a WooCommerce theme. None of my other themes have styles and functionality specific to WooCommerce, but most of them should more or less work with the built-in WooCommerce styles. I would recommend you to pick a theme built specifically with WooCommerce in mind though.