WordPress Child Theme Generator
Twenty Seventeen Child Theme
— free, instant, no coding
Generate a fully-working Twenty Seventeen child theme instantly — free, with no coding required. Customize the name, author, colors and CSS, then download a ready-to-install ZIP.
Generate Twenty Seventeen Child Theme →Free forever. No signup. ZIP downloads in 2 seconds.
About Twenty Seventeen
Twenty Seventeen brings your site to life with header video and immersive featured images. With a focus on business sites, it features multiple sections on the front page as well as widgets, navigation and social menus, a logo, and more. Personalize its asymmetrical grid with a custom color scheme and showcase your multimedia content with post formats. Our default theme for 2017 works great in many languages, for any abilities, and on any device.
By WordPress.org. Theme homepage ↗
Why use a child theme for Twenty Seventeen?
Every time Twenty Seventeen 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 Twenty Seventeen updates without losing your edits.
- ✓Override any Twenty Seventeen 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 Twenty Seventeen child theme
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Configure and generate
Open the generator (already pre-filled with Twenty Seventeen 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
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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 Twenty Seventeen itself is also installed (the parent must be present).
Ready for your Twenty Seventeen child theme?
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Generate Twenty Seventeen Child ThemeFrequently asked questions
What is a Twenty Seventeen child theme? +
A child theme is a separate WordPress theme that inherits all functionality, design, and templates from Twenty Seventeen (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 Twenty Seventeen 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 Twenty Seventeen updates? +
That's exactly what a child theme is designed to prevent. Twenty Seventeen 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 Twenty Seventeen child themes you can generate. The zip is built on demand and downloaded directly to you.
