WordPress Child Theme Generator
Founder Child Theme
— free, instant, no coding
Generate a fully-working Founder child theme instantly — free, with no coding required. Customize the name, author, colors and CSS, then download a ready-to-install ZIP.
Generate Founder Child Theme →Free forever. No signup. ZIP downloads in 2 seconds.
About Founder
Founder's minimalist design presents your content in a simple, clean, and professional manner. As a responsive theme, Founder is beautiful on phones, tablets, and laptops, and is optimized to load quickly on each. Built with Google's multilingual font, Noto Sans, it is compatible with hundreds of languages. Lastly, as an accessibility-ready theme, visitors around the world can appreciate your content regardless of disability. Use Founder for a travel blog, business website, photography portfolio, or even a fashion blog. Thanks to the clean, minimal design, Founder can be used for nearly any kind of site. Get excited to share your site, and download Founder today. Now fully compatible with the new Gutenberg post editor. Preview Founder now on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices with our interactive live demo: https://www.competethemes.com/demos/?theme=founder
By Ben Sibley. Theme homepage ↗
Why use a child theme for Founder?
Every time Founder 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 Founder updates without losing your edits.
- ✓Override any Founder 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 Founder child theme
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Configure and generate
Open the generator (already pre-filled with Founder 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 Founder itself is also installed (the parent must be present).
Ready for your Founder child theme?
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Generate Founder Child ThemeFrequently asked questions
What is a Founder child theme? +
A child theme is a separate WordPress theme that inherits all functionality, design, and templates from Founder (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 Founder 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 Founder updates? +
That's exactly what a child theme is designed to prevent. Founder 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 Founder child themes you can generate. The zip is built on demand and downloaded directly to you.
