WordPress Child Theme Generator
Broadside Child Theme
— free, instant, no coding
Generate a fully-working Broadside child theme instantly — free, with no coding required. Customize the name, author, colors and CSS, then download a ready-to-install ZIP.
Generate Broadside Child Theme →Free forever. No signup. ZIP downloads in 2 seconds.
About Broadside
A block theme for news publications and journals of record. Broadside dresses a modern WordPress site as a broadsheet newspaper: a blackletter masthead, a folio rule, a three-column lead grid, and a long-read article layout with editorial furniture — a short-answer box, key takeaways, a table of contents, an FAQ, and a sources list. Every colour, rule and section name is a Customizer setting, so one codebase can dress two mastheads without a single hard-coded brand.
By Shadow Software LLC.
Why use a child theme for Broadside?
Every time Broadside ships an update, any direct edits you made to its files are overwritten. A child theme isolates your changes — custom CSS, template overrides, additional functions — so the parent can update freely while your customizations stay intact.
- ✓Survive Broadside updates without losing your edits.
- ✓Override any Broadside template file by copying it into the child.
- ✓Add custom hooks, shortcodes, or enqueue your own scripts.
- ✓Roll back to the parent at any time by deactivating the child.
How to install your Broadside child theme
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Configure and generate
Open the generator (already pre-filled with Broadside as the parent), enter your child theme name and any custom CSS.
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Download the ZIP
The generator builds a ready-to-install ZIP containing
style.css,functions.php,screenshot.pngandREADME.txt. -
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Upload to WordPress
In WordPress: Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme. Choose the ZIP, click Install Now, then Activate. Make sure Broadside itself is also installed (the parent must be present).
Ready for your Broadside child theme?
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Generate Broadside Child ThemeFrequently asked questions
What is a Broadside child theme? +
A child theme is a separate WordPress theme that inherits all functionality, design, and templates from Broadside (its parent). You make your customizations in the child so they survive updates to the parent theme.
Do I need to know code to use this generator? +
No. The generator creates a complete, valid Broadside child theme with style.css, functions.php, screenshot.png, and README.txt. You can customize via the form fields, and if you want to add custom CSS or PHP later you can edit the files directly.
Will the child theme break when Broadside updates? +
That's exactly what a child theme is designed to prevent. Broadside can be updated freely without losing your customizations, because they live in the child theme files.
Is this generator really free? +
Yes. There is no signup, no payment, and no limit on how many Broadside child themes you can generate. The zip is built on demand and downloaded directly to you.
