WordPress Child Theme Generator
Formwork Child Theme
— free, instant, no coding
Generate a fully-working Formwork child theme instantly — free, with no coding required. Customize the name, author, colors and CSS, then download a ready-to-install ZIP.
Generate Formwork Child Theme →Free forever. No signup. ZIP downloads in 2 seconds.
About Formwork
Formwork is a brutalist theme for fashion magazines. Enormous uppercase headlines sit against monospaced body text on a near-black page, and the front page is composed as a spread rather than a feed — unequal columns, one image to a cell, and a pinned column for featured stories. The structure is left on show: hairline rules divide the sections and frame the images, corners stay square, and paragraphs are indented the way a printed magazine sets them.
By Automattic. Theme homepage ↗
Why use a child theme for Formwork?
Every time Formwork 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 Formwork updates without losing your edits.
- ✓Override any Formwork 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 Formwork child theme
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Configure and generate
Open the generator (already pre-filled with Formwork 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 Formwork itself is also installed (the parent must be present).
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Generate Formwork Child ThemeFrequently asked questions
What is a Formwork child theme? +
A child theme is a separate WordPress theme that inherits all functionality, design, and templates from Formwork (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 Formwork 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 Formwork updates? +
That's exactly what a child theme is designed to prevent. Formwork 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 Formwork child themes you can generate. The zip is built on demand and downloaded directly to you.
