Free Genesis Child Theme Tutorials & Overviews

The Agency Child Theme is a perfect option for many kinds of business sites. What makes it so unique is that it puts your message front and center, without a lot of distractions. This tutorial will help you understand more about this theme—what it can do and not do— and help you confidently use it without any unexpected surprises

In this weeks Genesis Jaunt, I show you what you can and cannot do easily with this theme out-of-the-box.

A video tutorial of this premium theme for WordPress from StudioPress showing some of the homepage setup and other settings that are built in

See what you can and cannot easily do with the child theme Digital Pro and see how we use it on our Do the Woo Podcast site.

The Enterprise Pro Child Theme is a great option for many kinds of business sites. The homepage offers several widget areas that give you more control over what content shows up there.

The Executive Pro Child Theme is a great option for many kinds of business sites. The homepage offers several widget areas that give you more control over what content shows up there. 

The Joshua Child Theme is presented as a travel theme, but could be used for any kind of business, especially one that focuses on imagery. The widgetized homepage gives a up-front spot for a slider option, as well as two columns for blog posts. It also has a unique layout for the inside blog page as well. And as with most of these child theme, you can also set up a static homepage

The Lifestyle Pro Child Theme is a great theme for a business site, as well as a blog or a magazine style site/blog. With a totally widgetized homepage, the choices you have for pulling in and displaying content is really cool.

The Metro Pro Child Theme is shown as the perfect theme for a news or magazine style site, with the homepage focusing on content. But with a totally widgetized homepage, the choices you have for pulling in and displaying content is very flexible and this could easily work for any topical blog or even a business website.

The News Pro Child Theme is shown as the perfect theme for a news or magazine style site, with the homepage focusing on content. But with a totally widgetized homepage, the choices you have for pulling in and displaying content is very flexible and this could easily work for any topical blog or even a business website.

The Pretty Sweet Child Theme is shown as the perfect theme for a Pinterest styled blog or webiste. The unique homepage gives you the opportunity to share you content similar to how Pinterest does it. But of course, it being a Genesis child theme, you have other flexibility as well.

The Prose Child Theme is perfect for a simple and clean blog and/or website, whether its personal, a hobby or your biz site. Although the demo is pretty basic in color and design, the unique part of these theme is the design settings that come with it. This allows you to easily change a lot of the look of your site, such as fonts, font styles and colors, other colors of the theme and a lot more.

The Sixteen Nine Pro Child Theme is a great option for a blog. The unique formatting and simplicity also gives good attention to images. Although this could be used for a basic website, your homepage layout options are very limited.

The eleven40 Pro Child Theme is a great option for a blog. The formatting is perfect to put  a focus on your content. And as with most of these child theme, you can also set up a static homepage.

The Streamline Pro Child Theme is a flexible theme with three top and front widget areas. These are perfect for a business site that wants the focus on services, as well as a great space for highlighted images or call to actions. This theme is best used if you are incorporating a blog because if you want to use the layout of the homepage, you cannot hide the blog or use that space for something else.