The Genesis Framework by StudioPress is quickly becoming one of the most popular Theme Frameworks for WordPress. StudioPress currently offers 30+ turn-key designs that may be purchased individually or you can get the Pro Plus All-Themes package which gets you all updates and future themes. If that’s not enough, you can take advantage of these free Genesis Child Themes that developers release from time to time just to give back to the growing community.
Free Child Themes for Genesis
Here’s an updated list of the free child themes for the Genesis Framework. Themes are listed in alphetical order by author.
- Adaptation by Aaron Hartland
- Latitude by Aaron Hartland
- Tee Box by Alan Smith
- Base by Bill Erickson
- Genesis CRM by Bill Erickson
- Buster by Bradley Potter
- Full Width by Christopher Cochran
- Charisma by Cristian Antohe
- Autobahn by David Decker
- Fringe by Greg Rickaby
- Twenty Diez by Jared Atchison
- Bookmarks by John Hawkins
- Sinatra by Josh Stauffer – that’s me 😉
- Transchild by Josh Stauffer – that’s me again 😉
- Go Green by Len Kutchma
- Birow by Marco Galasso
- Inzornade by Marco Galasso
- Zirconium by Mark Howe
- FlipBlog by Marx Benzon
- Mini Press 1.0 by Rafal Tomal
- Fairway by StudioPress
- Georgia by StudioPress
- Nomadic by StudioPress
- Sample by StudioPress
- Simply Sweet by Susan Nelson
- Persevero by WPBeginner
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Please keep in mind that although these are free child themes, they will require the Genesis Framework to run properly.
Nice collection, though there are many more I believe.
Thank you for compiling a list of the FREE Child Themes for Genesis! If you could, it would be super helpful if you would add this under Blog, WordPress in your nav & keep it up to date. It’s the only place on the web I could find a collection of all the FREE themes for Genesis!
Thanks again,
Kari
Good idea, Kari. And I’m glad you find the list useful. 😉
Hi Josh Stauffer… Nice collection of Genesis Child themes… Thank you. Is your header background javascript?
Thanks and yes, the moving background effect is done with JavaScript.
Great post Josh,
Just a question though, you said they still need to have the Genesis framework to run properly. So do I still have to purchase that from StudioPress?
You are correct. While these child themes are free to you, the Genesis framework is not. However, you will have unlimited usage of the framework. Excellent question, John.
Thanks for creating this list of free Genesis child themes. As Kari said this would make a great list once more and more themes become available for free.
Are you aware of any free Genesis child themes that support Post Formats??
Andrew, I’m glad you find this list useful!
To answer your question, I think Buster may but other than that I’m not aware of any free themes that support post formats. Perhaps I should release such a theme if time allows.
I received a copy of Tapestry, so I’m hoping to learn from that to create my own theme. Maybe I’ll put a tutorial together afterwards
Awesome collection! How are you keeping tabs on all the free stuff. Google Alerts?
Thanks. Nope, just by searching.