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StudioPress set the bar high when they released the Genesis Framework for WordPress – which is one of the most powerful, secure, and optimized frameworks on the market today.
Some of the biggest bloggers and websites use a framework to power their site (and Genesis users include ProBlogger, Chris Brogan, Yoast, & Copyblogger among others) – which allows you to build upon a beautifully coded back-end that has been optimized with sparkling, clean code that has been finely tweaked for maximum performance.
Developed by StudioPress (one of the world’s leading WordPress development and design shops) Genesis provides the functionality and features that have been carefully tuned and tested – ensuring your blog or website is running at its very best.
Over the past several years, this framework has been deployed on nearly 100,000 websites and blogs – a testament to how wildly popular and embraced it is by designers and developers.
Even out of the box, Genesis can easily run nearly any type of website or blog. However, because of the nature of the framework – you can hook in child themes (which use the base code but enhance some of the design and functionality of your site) to give you whatever design or features you might need.
Luckily, there are a handful of really excellent free child themes for Genesis that can help deliver a professional look for your website or blog.
If you’re looking for additional options to choose from, you might also want to take a look at the StudioPress theme shop. It features designs from third-party developers in addition to their own selection, and these themes make a good choice for those who might want support for customizing their design or help if they run into any obstacles (because premium themes include support).
I’ve rounded up some of the best child themes (with a ton of free ones as well) that can get you started and present a beautifully aesthetic look to your visitors.
While all of the themes on this page are free, they do require the Genesis Framework by StudioPress in order to function properly.
So… take ’em for a test drive and see what you think:
Atmosphere
Professional, clean, minimalist Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Atmosphere was designed to be extremely versatile yet maintaining a beautiful adaptable design that would work for many different types of websites or blogs.
Designed as a child theme for StudioPress’ popular Genesis Framework, it includes all of the features, power, and functionality of Genesis – yet gives you a crisp and clean, modern design.
Expertly coded with HTML5 & CSS3, this theme has been built with modern web techniques to ensure that your site is optimized for nearly everything. From SEO to speed and load time, every facet has been tweaked and tuned for optimal performance.
Additionally, this child theme is responsive, and has a powerful theme options panel/dashboard that allows you to modify and customize nearly every aspect of your site to your needs and wants.
If you’re needing clean-looking, professional theme for WordPress and Genesis, this would make the perfect choice!
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Solo
Responsive multi-purpose WordPress Genesis theme
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With a responsive layout and design, built-in portfolio, featured content slider on the homepage, and theme options you can customize – this is a very flexible and easy-to-use Genesis theme.
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Workstation
Minimalist agency/business Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Workstation is a premium genesis child theme for WordPress that is very versatile and flexible in its uses.
Designed for creative agencies and businesses, it would work as well for a single-person startup as it would a large creative agency or business.
The design features a very minimalist and clean look, allowing you to easily share your content with visitors – and giving you the ability to promote and showcase your most important content.
From the large, full-width images to the carefully-chosen typography – it includes all of the necessary components and features you might want to create a great-looking website.
While the Genesis framework powers your site with highly optimized coding and security, this child theme gives your site a unique look and includes: a theme options dashboard, built with HTML5 & CSS3, a responsive layout, custom headers, and much more!
This is a theme that can really adapt to suit nearly any type of content or site.
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Single
Single page Genesis portfolio theme
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With a bold and beautiful header area, amazing portfolio section, and a modern (responsive) design – Single provides the perfect way to showcase your work.
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Altitude Pro
Full-screen, parallax landing page Genesis theme
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Altitude Pro is a WordPress theme for the Genesis Framework that gives you an amazing-looking site that is both professional yet inviting.
Packed full of features, this single-page theme incorporates scrolling parallax effects with a full-screen layout that is sure to capture the attention of your visitors.
Perfect for a landing page, business, or promoting a product or service – you will have all of the features you might want to create a stunning website.
In addition to harnessing the power of the Genesis Framework, this child theme offers: multiple color schemes to choose from, an advanced theme customizer, HTML5 markup, a customizable header, and a responsive and mobile-friendly layout.
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Bijou
Business portfolio theme for Genesis
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If you’re wanting to build a business or portfolio site, then this clean and uncluttered theme will give you the perfect platform to build your site upon.
With a responsive design and special portfolio section, it’s a very appealing theme.
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Wintersong
Minimalist Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Winterstrong strips all of the extraneous styling and design element (which often distract readers) to present a WordPress theme that is highly readable and optimized for all devices.
With a style that is reminiscent of the popular Medium.com site, it delivers unmatched performance and ease-of-use that has been both optimized for visitors as well as the search engines.
A responsive layout and design as well as a floating author information box allow it to display your content prominently where your visitors can focus on it – minimizing distractions and unnecessary design features. It would make a great choice for the journalist, writer, or blogger looking for a minimal design that still offers the rich functionality of WordPress’ feature set.
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The Modern Studio
Minimalist Genesis WordPress child theme
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Modern Studio Pro is a creative Genesis theme for WordPress that delivers a crisp and clean, minimalist design.
The simple and uncluttered layout makes it perfect for those seeking to showcase their content in a stylish and contemporary fashion.
Whether you’re a blogger looking for a modern design or a creative worker looking to showcase your work – this theme delivers on all counts.
Because it is a child theme for the Genesis Framework, it offers up all of the carefully-crafted features that you have come to expect, as well as: HTML5 markup, a responsive and mobile-ready layout, an advanced theme options panel/customizer, custom header and backgrounds, and much more.
For a minimal design that delivers big results, this is definitely one worth checking out.
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Cafe Pro
Genesis child restaurant theme for WordPress
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Cafe Pro is a WordPress theme for the Genesis Framework that was built exclusively for the restaurant and food industry.
Visually striking with elegance, imagery, and sophistication – this child theme delivers an unbeatable solution for anyone wanting a cutting edge solution that looks and functions beautifully.
Combining various elements and components from two of StudioPress’ other popular themes, it provides the perfect foundation to build your site upon – delivering aesthetics, functionality, and a completely optimized design.
In addition to the amazing features found in the Genesis Framework, this theme also includes: parallax scrolling elements, HTML5 markup, a responsive and mobile-friendly layout, a special section built for restaurants, prominent display of your contact/store information, theme options panel/customizer, and the ability to easily change the header, background, and other elements of the site.
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The Daily Dish
Recipe & food blogging Genesis WordPress theme
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The Daily Dish Pro is a clean and professional-looking WordPress theme that was built for recipes or food bloggers.
Featuring a very clean and modern design, it allows you to showcase a variety of different types of content (whether it’s a standard blog post, recipe, or featured items), and contains multiple content sections that give it an almost magazine-style layout.
If you’re looking for a state-of-the-art theme, this would make an excellent choice.
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Whitespace Pro
Minimalist Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Whitespace Pro is a full-featured WordPress theme for the Genesis Framework that presents a beautiful, clean, and minimalist design.
Don’t let it’s simple appearance deceive you. Underneath the uncluttered, grid-style layout you will find one of the most powerful and robust WordPress frameworks available anywhere… Genesis.
Highly versatile and adaptable to nearly any type of website or blog, industry, or topic – it balances functionality and beauty to deliver a truly impressive theme.
In addition to all of the features you get with StudioPress’ Genesis framework, this theme also includes: a mobile-ready and responsive design, modern HTML5 markup, a theme customizer in the dashboard that allows for customizing nearly any aspect of your theme, and dozens of options and modifications you can make – without touching any code.
It’s a cutting-edge solution that would work great for almost any website.
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Foodie
Genesis child recipe theme for WordPress
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Foodie is a child theme for recipes that is built upon the popular Genesis Framework by StudioPress.
It gives you all of the great design elements and features you would want in a site, and is built upon one of the most tested and optimized WordPress frameworks available today.
In addition to the functionality and feature-set that you find with any site that runs Genesis, this theme also includes: three different color schemes, HTML5 markup, responsive layout and design, special widgetized recipe pages and homepage, six different layout options, and a featured slider – plus many more options that allow you to control the look and feel of your site.
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Modern Portfolio Pro
Minimal Genesis portfolio theme for WordPress
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Modern Portfolio Pro (is as its name implies) a portfolio WordPress theme that offers a modern solution for displaying your content.
No matter what industry you’re in or what type of site you’re setting up (freelancer, artists, consultant, photographer, etc.) – you will find that this theme delivers an amazing solution that looks amazing and professional.
Adhering to best practices in design and development, this HTML5-built theme uses a responsive design, SEO-optimized layout, and coding that makes it lightning fast – all of which make it one of the most appealing portfolio themes available.
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Prestige
Responsive WordPress theme for Genesis
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Able to accommodate many different types and styles of sites, the Prestige theme makes the perfect choice for those wanting a professional-looking site.
The theme includes a large, full-width featured slider on the homepage, 5 unique color schemes to choose from, and more than a dozen custom-built shortcodes are included.
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Parallax Pro
Parallax design Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Parallax Pro is (as its name implies) a WordPress theme that heavily features a parallax design element in the layout.
Capture your visitor’s attention as they land on your site and scroll down the homepage, with a unique perspective that will entice and intrigue them.
Built on the famous Genesis Framework by StudioPress, it offers unmatched reliability and is built upon one of the world’s most popular frameworks – ensuring that you have a site or blog that looks great, functions amazingly, and has been hand-crafted by some of the finest WordPress developers in the world.
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Neo
Responsive minimalist theme for Genesis
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For a crisp and clean theme that has many uses and applications, look no further than Neo.
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News Pro
HTML5 Genesis news WordPress theme
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News Pro delivers a theme that has been rigorously tested for speed, optimized for SEO, designed for visitors, and built for online publications.
Built upon the rock-solid Genesis Framework for WordPress, it has been expertly-coded and hand-crafted for optimal results.
A minimal-style design hides the underlying features and functionality that include: a responsive HTML5 design, 5 unique color schemes, 6 different layout options, customizable elements (menu, header, colors, background, etc.), and a clean and useful magazine-style layout (which allows you to display multiple types of content in a small amount of space).
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Beautiful Pro
Feminine blogging Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Beautiful Pro is a Genesis child theme for WordPress that offers up a clean and crisp design that is as versatile as it is visually striking.
With a laid-back, yet professional and inviting look – this theme would make the perfect choice for bloggers or writers wanting a simple-to-use solution.
Relying on the Genesis Framework as its underlying foundation, it is packed full of features and functionality that you will love.
In addition to all of the features found with every Genesis theme, it also offers: social network integration (via an Instagram widget), banner ad zones built into the layout, a responsive and mobile-friendly design, HTML5 markup, optimized for speed and SEO, a full-width header image, customization options via the dashboard/panel, and a nearly limitless number of applications and uses.
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Away
Business and corporate Genesis theme
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One of the most most beautiful and feature-rich Genesis child themes for businesses and corporate sites, Away gives you a full range of features that are sure to impress your visitors.
From the design elements like parallax scrolling, clean content carousel/scroller, and video backgrounds, this responsive theme looks great with nearly any type of content on nearly any type of screen.
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Outreach Pro
Church child theme for Genesis framework
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Outreach Pro is a child theme for the Genesis Framework that utilizes a modern, flat-style design to give your church website the updated look that you’re striving for.
Built on the Genesis Framework for WordPress, your site will have best-in-class coding, design, and development that has been tested by some of the world’s leading experts.
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Sixteen Nine
Unique Genesis blogging theme for WordPress
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Sixteen Nine Pro WordPress Theme is a modern Genesis child theme for WordPress that gives your blog a cutting edge look, that is built upon one of the most well-coded frameworks available on the market today.
Coded with HTML5 and featuring two sidebars (one floating and one fixed), it gives you a clean-looking design that would make the perfect choice for a personal blog.
If you’re looking for one of the most optimized themes for WordPress available (in terms of styling, SEO, and speed) – then you can’t go wrong with this amazing child theme.
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Chic
Genesis fashion theme for WordPress
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With WooCommerce support and integration, beautiful CSS animations, a responsive layout, and a theme options panel that allows for further customization – this child theme would make the ideal choice for fashion bloggers, style magazines, or beauty and style-related websites.
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Expose Pro
Photography WordPress Genesis child theme
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Expose Pro WordPress Theme was created to allow photographers (or those who are involved in the photography field) to easily display their photos and images.
Set up in a single-column layout, the design incorporates the native post formats functionality of WordPress and styles each post type differently.
Responsive and built with HTML5/CSS3, this theme was built upon the popular Genesis Framework – giving you one of the most robust foundations for your site of any options out there.
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Going Green
Nature-inspired blogging Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Going Green is a beautifully-designed Genesis child theme for WordPress built to fit a wide variety of uses, topics, and sites.
While the color palette makes it a perfect choice for any site that involves nature, organic topics, health, and ecology – it can accommodate nearly any topic or type of blog that you’re wanting to use it for.
The clean and uncluttered layout makes the design elements, colors, and fonts really make an impact with your visitors – while not distracting from the content and intention of your site.
This child theme for the Genesis framework comes equipped with a number of extremely useful features and enhancements, like: a built-in newsletter sign-up box in the sidebar, a responsive and mobile-friendly layout, social media account integration, highly optimized for speed and load time, 4 unique color schemes to choose from, HTML5 markup, built-in landing page template, 3 different layout options to choose from, custom background, and a powerful theme options dashboard are all just among the many powerful enhancements you will find.
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Education Pro
Genesis education child theme for WordPress
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Education Pro is one of the most tested and optimized educational WordPress themes available on the market today.
Featuring one of the most popular WordPress frameworks in the world, your site comes automatically optimized for speed, SEO, and usability to deliver an unparalleled experience for both your visitors and administrators of your site.
The modern design ensures that your facility’s website conveys the professionalism and contemporary look that you would want your visitors to see, while still retaining all of the functionality you need to create a world-class site.
With HTML5 markup, a responsive layout and design, 6 unique color schemes to choose from, and a dozens of customization options available to you in the administration area – you can create a site that is both high in function and aesthetics.
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Engrave
Business and portfolio Genesis theme
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Engrave is a portfolio and business Genesis child theme for WordPress that allows you to easily showcase and share your work, projects, clients, or any other type of portfolio content.
The theme has been highly optimized for load time, SEO, and efficiency – while the clean and modern design will convey style and professionalism.
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Vanilla
Minimalist Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Vanilla is an extremely versatile and easily adaptable Genesis child theme for WordPress.
With a minimalist design that prominently features your content and allows your visitors to easily find the content they’re looking for.
In addition to running on the powerful Genesis Framework for WordPress, this theme also includes an optimized and responsive layout and design – ensuring that your site or blog loads blazingly fast and adapts easily to any screen size.
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Focus Pro
Clean & simple Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Focus Pro is a clean and professional blogging Genesis child theme for WordPress that strips the layout and design of distractions.
The simple and straightforward look allows your visitors to easily browse your content. The design of this particular child theme makes it very easy to adapt to many different types of content and types of sites, whether you’re wanting a business website or a personal blog – you will find that it matches your needs with ease.
Included with this child theme you will find: a responsive layout and design, 3 unique color schemes to choose from, a built-in newsletter subscription/sign-up box, 6 unique layout options, a custom background and header, a theme options panel, and all of the features that come packed with the Genesis Framework – optimized for SEO, speed, and security.
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Agency Pro
Business Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Agency Pro is a professional business WordPress theme built for the Genesis framework by StudioPress.
Conveying a polished and sleek look, the design emphasizes its visual appeal with several bold and striking elements. Featuring parallax scrolling, a full-width layout, an integrated portfolio and blog, and a handful of features that will help you stand out from the competition – it’s a theme that certainly delivers an unmatched experience.
Additionally, this child theme includes: HTML5 markup, a mobile-friendly and responsive layout, a built-in theme options customizer/dashboard, 5 unique color schemes to choose from, 6 page templates/layouts to choose from, support for custom menus, featured images, and many more extras!
Whether you’re a creative agency, a small business, or a freelancer – this theme delivers on all counts.
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Malcolm
Free WordPress business Genesis child theme
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Malcom would make an ideal theme for businesses or websites looking for a polished and professional look.
With a featured content slider, sticky navigation bar, responsive layout and design, featured content blocks, and a call-to-action area that is built into the theme – it was built with corporate or business sites in mind.
It provides you with a great-looking site or blog with a modern appeal.
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Jemma
Free Genesis child theme
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Clean and simple with great-looking typography, this theme features a full-width header and a categorically-based (if you’d like) navigation bar.
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Formo
Minimalist portfolio, blog, and shop theme
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A truly full-featured theme for WordPress, this Genesis theme incorporates eCommerce, blog, and a beautiful minimalist portfolio that you can use to showcase your work, projects, clients, or any other type of content you want to share.
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BloggingCage
Free blogging Genesis child theme
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If you’re wanting to set up a personal or business blog, then this theme is worth taking a peek at.
Set up with the traditional blog-style layout, it features a full-width header that sits atop a two-column layout. If you’re trying to monetize your blog, it includes all of the ad zones already built into the design – allowing you to easily set up ads and start making money.
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Lisa Marie
Hair salon & spa Genesis child theme
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Lisa Marie is a theme for the Genesis Framework for WordPress, and one of the only of its kind built for those in the beauty industry.
Combining best-in-class design with a multitude of features, this child theme relies on a powerful framework – ensuring that your site is optimized for speed, SEO, and much more.
The theme comes with: custom images for pages, multiple sidebars, a rotating image slider on the homepage (which is also widget-ready), a responsive layout, integrates with Facebook, and has been coded with HTML5 and Schema.org support to offer you the very latest in web development techniques and best practices.
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Mobile First
Free mobile-optimized responsive child theme for Genesis
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Mobile-First is a child theme for the Genesis Framework that was created by none other than the founder of StudioPress, Brian Gardner.
Based upon the default sample theme that comes with every installation of Genesis, this theme delivers a crisp and simple design that takes a… mobile-first approach.
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Jano
Free one page/single page Genesis theme
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Jano is an ultra-modern, one page design that features beautiful looks and aesthetics to deliver a captivating experience for your visitors.
Built with HTML5, smooth scrolling, and CSS3 – it is a fully-responsive theme that can be used to showcase your portfolio, promote your products or services, or any of a number of other applications where a single-page layout might be useful.
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Karl
Full-screen child theme for Genesis
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With a modern and trendy design, this theme conveys cool style and sophistication with its large and attention-grabbing layout.
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Trestle
Free HTML5 Boilerplate Genesis child theme
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Built with a mobile-first development approach, this theme delivers all of the power and functionality that you have come to expect from WordPress along with all of the expert development in coding.
Built utilizing the HTML5 Boilerplate as its foundation, it’s a theme that makes development simple, yet flexible enough to be used for nearly any site.
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Minimum Pro
Responsive minimalist Genesis child theme for WordPress
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Minimum Pro takes a “less is more” approach to delivering an amazing-looking solution for your website or blog.
Built with HTML5, a sticky navigation menu, and a responsive design, you can create a state-of-the-art site that contains just the bare essentials – but still looks amazing on any device. Customize the header, background, and other aspects of the theme – and even incorporate a parallax design element into your site for a look that is clean yet highly captivating.
This child theme has been designed to work for one of the world’s most popular WordPress frameworks – Genesis. With Genesis, you can build a site that has been rigorously tested and optimized for optimal performance, blazing fast speeds, and utilizes SEO best practices.
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Pristine
Free real estate Genesis theme
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Utilizing the popular AgentPress Listing plugin (available free on WordPress.org), this theme gives those in the real estate industry a great way to set up their site, showcase their properties/listings, and integrate with nearly any existing Genesis installation.
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One-Pager
Free single page, parallax portfolio Genesis child theme
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One-pager is one of the most modern and clean-looking themes for Genesis showcased in this roundup. With a single-page layout that features a responsive design and parallax elements, it can be used across a wide variety of sites or blogs.
Integrated into the theme you will find that it supports a portfolio among other elements which allow you to create a great-looking site.
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Diligent
Free business or consultant Genesis theme
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The designer of the theme created it to work well for business sites – specifically consultants, entrepreneurs, coaches, or personal service businesses.
It features a clean look that incorporates a large full-width content slider as well as specific areas for your newsletter signup, pages, and more.
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Equilibre
Free freelancer, corporate, or business theme for Genesis
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Businesses, freelancers, or those looking for a clean and simple corporate site will find that this theme delivers a modern-looking design that will convey professionalism and trust.
It includes an image content slider and full-width header that provides the uncluttered and sophisticated look that you will find in the layout.
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Bigg
Free WordPress theme like Digg for Genesis
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Claiming inspiration was drawn from the new design of the popular Digg.com, this somewhat-clone theme offers up a clean and modern design for your website or blog.
The responsive layout and minimalist qualities allow your content to be easily read by your visitors no matter what type of device they are on. It includes several features that you would also typically only find in premium designs like the elegant animation effects, jQuery enhancements, and several other cool additions that certainly make this something worth checking out.
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Latitude
Free WordPress child theme for Genesis
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Built upon one of StudioPress’ original free themes, Latitude features a bold color swatch and clean look for any theme running on the Genesis Framework.
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Gallery
Full-screen photography Genesis theme
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Photographers and photography sites will find that this is one of the most beautiful and eye-catching designs out there.
Featuring a full-screen layout and a homepage that rotates through a slider – you can easily showcase your photos.
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