We have a new free theme to announce today: Goran!
Goran
Designed by yours truly, Goran is a functional, responsive, multi-purpose theme that’s a perfect option for your business website.
Learn more about the free Goran theme at the theme showcase, or preview it by going to Appearance → Themes.
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This theme looks very similar to Edin — I even had to check these two side by side to make sure they are different — but it looks great! I very much love it to have a new theme each Thursday, and Goran is my current favourite 🙂
Feels like *Edin* but a lot better. 🙂
Impressive!
Looks good; striking and understated. Hope it will be available for hosted WordPress sites, I mean other than on WordPress.com, sometime soon.
Thank you 🙂
Goran will be submitted to WordPress.org very shortly.
Why 90% of the new themes do not show blog description, categories under posts and also don’t support gallery post format? All are mainly white whitout option to change in black
Understated and beautiful at the same time. Unlike its parent Edin, which has a very strong business touch, Goran is definitely multi-purpose.
Handsome, and amazingly versatile for a free theme.
Goran is a name from Serbia and Edin from Bosnia. Are the authors from Balkan or this is just a coincidence? Sadly, I don’t like those name (one is from communistic period and the other is Islamic one), those dogmatic and conformist reminiscences.
I am French. Edin was called after the city of Edinburgh, Scotland because that’s where the project started. Goran was just to play around the Serbian/Bosnian name Edin.
I feel much better! I’m from Serbia, but don’t consider myself Serbian, maybe I would say I am Serbian just because of language, but people there (and at the hole Balkans, to be honest) are narrow minded. Name Guillotine would be grate for the next effort, something dark and bloody.
I like the design with red. It’s bright and innovative. Looks good on my site.
Awesome. I just started a business on computer gadgets and I am looking for a good host website that could offer good deals for my business. Will look into this then.
This is a good looking theme! 😀
In Goran, while creating new post there’s no Gallery post format. It supports only galleries made with the post format from other themes, previously used
Sorry about that. It should be fixed now.
That will be great. Thank you
The same is situation with Edin theme. It support but in the old editor gallery is not shown
Great job. This is one of the best themes I’ve seen in a while. Will be using it on several sites. Thanks!!
Is that correct for the dimensions? It seems big for the size down the page to be so big compared to other themes I am used to?
“While you can crop images to your liking after clicking Add new image, your theme recommends a header size of 1230 × 1230 pixels”
It is recommended yes.
I always optimise for Web and try to get my file sizes down below 40KB.
I am just thinking about the file size, which on an image that size is likely to be big unless the image is mostly #000000 – whether JPEG or PNG.
Or does WP.com have a way of smushing images for headers?
it’s a really good theme ….great work
This new theme looks very smart. Awesome.
Beautiful elegant understated design. Bravo. Love it.
It’s a beautiful, clean responsive theme that has so many features that will appeal to bloggers with blogs in multiple niches.
Clean precise design, minimalist and beautiful.
I like it. Very clean, modern and sophisticated. I’d use it.
This is a great theme, clean and precise design.
Thank you WordPress 😉
Hello Thomas Guillot,
Congratulations for making another nice multi-purpose theme, I am liking your style so far, and currently Goran and Edin are in my top five best/favorite free WordPress.com themes of 2014. 🙂
There are a few things that I would like to see for both themes like a tagline option, an option for timestamps for posts, the blog title width/space limit to be increased for Goran when there is enough space to fit a longer title on one line instead of two or more lines, and a few other things that I mentioned in my Goran bug report at the WordPress.com Forums.
Your design style is making me reconsider how I use/view/interact with/expect of themes, like using an even shorter blog title, and so your design style could possibly help me evolve my thoughts/views on themes. 😉
Thank you for making two of the best free themes this year. 🙂
-John Jr
I have decided to try this theme and have run upon a few issues already. The demo shows a nice photograph on the man page (what I thought was the header) Apparently I was mistaken, and what I have installed as a header only shows up when I open a whole set of files under a category. I wonder if there is some kind of tutorial to show how to get a picture like you have on the first page. Is that a static page? I am also wondering how to get the grid page style.
The theme’s documentation is available here. Hope it helps! 🙂
amazing!! 😀
This theme looks great!
Love the look of this theme!
Really looks AWESOME!
I will try it as soon as possible!
I almost used this theme, but I went with Sketch instead. Beautiful themes they have on here!