WordPress Child Theme Generator
Period Child Theme
— free, instant, no coding
Generate a fully-working Period child theme instantly — free, with no coding required. Customize the name, author, colors and CSS, then download a ready-to-install ZIP.
Generate Period Child Theme →Free forever. No signup. ZIP downloads in 2 seconds.
About Period
Period is a dark, clean, and SEO-optimized blogging theme. As a responsive theme, it displays your content beautifully across phones, widescreen monitors, and everything in between. With special attention to typography, accessibility, and minimalism, Period has a design you can trust for presenting your content. Now with WooCommerce support, you can include an eCommerce shop right on your website (for free). Use Period to blog about the news, music, travel, business, gaming, you name it! It’s equally well-suited for a corporate blog or personal podcast. Period also has full compatibility with the new Gutenberg post editor. Preview Period on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices with the interactive live demo: https://www.competethemes.com/demos/?theme=period
By Ben Sibley. Theme homepage ↗
Why use a child theme for Period?
Every time Period 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 Period updates without losing your edits.
- ✓Override any Period 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 Period child theme
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Configure and generate
Open the generator (already pre-filled with Period 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 Period itself is also installed (the parent must be present).
Ready for your Period child theme?
No signup. No paywall. Generated and downloaded in 2 seconds.
Generate Period Child ThemeFrequently asked questions
What is a Period child theme? +
A child theme is a separate WordPress theme that inherits all functionality, design, and templates from Period (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 Period 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 Period updates? +
That's exactly what a child theme is designed to prevent. Period 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 Period child themes you can generate. The zip is built on demand and downloaded directly to you.
