The Genesis framework is a popular theme framework for WordPress that has been built using clean and efficient code for a fast loading website. When using the Genesis framework, the appearance of your WordPress website can be enhanced and transformed by installing a Genesis child theme alongside the framework.
While Genesis provides the core functionality, its child themes build upon this with custom designs, unique features, and additional customization options.
By choosing one of the child themes on this list, you can apply a whole new design to your website, while still making use of the best of what the Genesis framework has to offer.
1. Essence Pro
Essence Pro is a stylish Genesis child theme for websites in the health, wellness, and lifestyles niches.
Thanks to the visually attractive and clutter-free design of this theme, your website should be able to appeal to your target audience without any problems. The default homepage design features a large full-width background display that can be replaced with your choice of photograph or another type of image. The banner text that overlays the image can be used to welcome your visitors to your site, with the option of asking them to join your email list via the optional optin form.
The rest of the homepage layout is set up to display the latest posts from your blog, using the featured image from the article, the title, and a short excerpt. You can also easily display links on the homepage to the key content on your site, again, with each link using the featured image from that page. Publishing inspirational quotes or testimonials from your clients or readers is possible too.
When setting up your site, you’re not limited to just using the default layouts, although, doing so will probably save you time and effort compared to trying to build your own. However, even if you do use the default layout, there are a good range of customization settings and options that allow you to personalize your site so that it matches your branding and stands out from the competition. Through the customizer, you can adjust the colors, change the fonts, and tweak the other display properties of your website. Adding your logo or just using some text in the header area instead of an image is an option too. For more control over the design of your site, Essence Pro includes six widgets areas that can be used to display the core WordPress widgets or any widgets are provided by the active plugins on your site.
Essence Pro looks great in its default mode while also giving you lots of opportunities to personalize your WordPress website.
2. Fearless
Fearless is a high-quality WordPress photography theme that’s powered by the Genesis Framework.
To help captivate your visitors as soon as they arrive at your site, Fearless gives you the opportunity to display your best work on your homepage. By using the full-screen slideshow tool on your homepage, you can automatically display a selection of your most stunning photographs with very little else to distract your visitors.
When your visitors do use the discrete menu to explore the rest of your website, they can then view your photography galleries, read your blog, and visit the other pages that make up your site.
Thanks to the multiple gallery modes available with the Fearless photography theme, you have plenty of options for deciding how your work should be displayed. Whether you choose the masonry grid, filmstrip, mosaic, slideshow, lightbox, or blog-style gallery mode, your photos will look great and your visitors will find it easy to browse your content.
If you want to sell your photos online, Fearless includes an attractive e-commerce mode. By enabling this feature, your visitors can scroll through your work, add items to their cart, and then checkout and make a payment via PayPal.
Fearless also includes a good selection of blog post layouts. These templates should appeal to anyone who wants to blog about their photographs and the other aspects of their work while also attempting to get more traffic to their website through content marketing.
As your visitors browse your online photography galleries, you have the option of displaying a range of widgets at the end of each collection. These widgets can then contain links to your other photo collections, the important pages on your site, and even mini photographic galleries that display more of your work.
The Fearless Genesis child theme from Imagely gives your photographs plenty of room to breathe while also offering multiple options for how your galleries are presented.
3. Foodie Pro
Foodie is another culinary-focused WordPress theme for the Genesis framework that would work equally well on any website with a strong need for a clean and subtle design.
Whether you are publishing your favourite recipes online, or building your creative portfolio, Foodie has the features and layout options to be flexible enough to present your content in the way you want. The system for filtering your content makes it very easy for your visitors to find exactly what they are looking for, whether that’s your latest kitchen creations or other creative endeavours.
If you are building a food-related website then Foodie is certainly worth taking for a test drive.
4. Mai Delight
Mai Delight is a good match for creating wellness blogs, food and recipe sites, and fitness and lifestyles websites.
Although you can use this theme to create pretty much any type of website with WordPress, if you are working in the health, wellness, and fitness industries, then Mai Delight is definitely worth a closer look. Like some of the other Genesis child themes in this collection, Mai Delight features a bright and lean design that should appeal to a certain demographic.
Despite the clutter-free style of this theme, the default homepage layout definitely isn’t lacking in useful features and element. If you want to set your website up to match the promotional theme demo, you’ll be able to welcome visitors to your site with a large full-width banner image that’s overlaid with text. You can then display the latest posts from your blog in a slider format, complete with their featured images, titles, and a short excerpt. If you want to grow your mailing list, there’s a homepage section that includes space for displaying an inspiring image alongside an email optin form.
The rest of your homepage can include a testimonials slider that shares feedback you’ve received from your audience, some links to your best content, and products from your ecommerce store. As the Mai Delight Genesis child theme is fully ecommerce-ready, if you do want to list physical and digital products for sale on your website, as well as services that your visitors can pay for, this theme is more than up to the task. Importantly, the ecommerce templates look great to ensure that your products and services are nicely presented to potential clients and customers.
With lots of built-in features as well as compatibility with many of the leading WordPress plugins, you can create the website you want with Mai Delight.
5. Authority Pro
Authority Pro has been designed to help you demonstrate your expertise and ability in your chosen field.
If you’re looking for a WordPress theme that will help you land more clients, generate new customers, and grow your profile, Authority Pro could be the best option. The homepage design has a layout that gives you plenty of opportunities to introduce yourself and the ways you can help you audience. With a large image area and a text section above the fold, your visitors can quickly get to know you as soon as they arrive at your site.
Further down the default homepage layout, you’ll find placeholders for listing your partners and previous clients, an area for sharing your most valuable content, and a slider for presenting testimonials and reviews from happy people you’ve worked with. The other homepage sections that you can choose to add to your website include a feed containing your latest blog posts, call to action areas, and newsletter sign up forms. As the Authority Pro Genesis child theme features a widgetized homepage, you can easily rearrange the elements and widgets on your website, as well as choose which ones are displayed or hidden.
Authority Pro has a number of different blog post layouts to ensure your content is published using the most appropriate template. You’ll also find a good selection of templates for the most important pages your website is likely to need, including the about page, the pricing table page, and a landing page layout. Authority Pro has full ecommerce support too, making a it a good option for anyone who wants to carry out online transactions from their website.
Authority Pro is a good business focused Genesis child theme that will help you promote your services and strengthen your personal brand.
6. Monochrome Pro
Monochrome Pro has a sleek and simple design that’s sure to impress your visitors.
Thanks to the two-tone color scheme and choice of elegant fonts, it won’t take you long to launch a visually striking website with this Genesis child theme from StudioPress. If you use Monochrome Pro in its default configuration, your website will have a stylish and feature-rich homepage that includes a large section for welcoming your visitors with some text and a background image, followed by a three-column panel for highlighting your key areas of expertise.
Other sections of the default homepage layout give you the ability to share the logos of clients and companies you’ve worked with, display a preview of the latest posts from your blog, and add a call-to-action bar to encourage your visitors to click through to another page on your site.
While the default homepage template looks great, it can easily be adjusted as well. This Genesis child theme uses widgets to handle the layout of the homepage elements, giving you the ability to drag and drop the available options into place. When adding other pieces of content to your site, you can use the full-width content blocks to display images, videos, and other items that break free of the constraints of the post area. You can also easily insert grid layouts into your posts and pages that display images in attractive new ways.
Like many of the best Genesis child themes, Monochrome Pro comes with a contact page, pricing page, and landing page templates to speed up the process of adding these essential pieces of content to your site. You also get access to a full set of ecommerce templates for adding an online store area to your website.
As Monochrome has a lightweight design, your website should load as quickly as possible if you choose this theme.
7. Refined Pro
Refined Pro has a classic design and style that is ideal for bloggers, service providers, and online vendors.
With good ecommerce support, Refined Pro is suitable for anyone who wants to sell items online and present their products in a clutter-free store. Thanks to the full set of ecommerce templates, you can use this theme to create an online shop or simply add a few products to your blog or another type of site. However, even if you aren’t selling anything, Refined Pro could still be a great choice for your website.
Due to the elegant appearance of this theme, any site created with Refined Pro will appeal to a certain type of visitor. So if you think your target audience will respond favorably to pastel tones and swirling serif fonts, Refined Pro could be the theme for you. However, you don’t have to use this Genesis child theme in its default configuration. Carrying out tasks like changing the fonts and adjusting the colors are easily achieved, thanks to the intuitive interface of the WordPress Customizer. So regardless of your level of WordPress experience, you should be able to make cosmetic changes to your website without much effort at all.
Another nice aspect of this theme is that it comes with an email newsletter signup form that integrates perfectly with the rest of your website. You also get a good amount of control over the navigation menus on your website, thanks to the control panel that lets you easily define what links the menus contain and how they are presented. The library of layouts included in the Refined Pro package should come in handy too, with stylish designs for your blog posts, about page, and a landing page template for promoting offers and opportunities to your audience.
Behind the deceptively simple look of Refined Pro, you’ll find a wealth of useful features and functionalities.
8. Altitude Pro
Altitude Pro provides an attractive template for anyone looking to create a website with a full width background image and welcome message that takes center stage.
The theme also features eye catching parallax scrolling that gives off a faux 3D effect as your visitors work their way down the long form home page layout. Each section that makes up the home page can have its own formatting and background image, helping to break up the content into more manageable chunks of information.
Altitude Pro includes plenty of opportunities to add call to action buttons to your website. This means that if there’s a certain page you want your visitors to reach, or action you’d like them to perform, you can increase your chances of success with some well-placed buttons.
With clean code and a minimal design, using Altitude Pro is a surefire way to ensure that your Genesis powered WordPress website is not only fast loading, but easy to use.
9. Infinity Pro
Infinity Pro is a stylish and modern Genesis child theme for creating business websites with WordPress.
Infinity Pro features an elegant design that aims to help you elevate your brand above the competition. The default homepage layout includes space for a large full-screen image above the fold, complete with a text area and a call to action button.
As your visitors scroll down the homepage of this business WordPress theme, you can display the mission statement of your brand. If your audience wants to find out more at this point, they can click the button to visit a page of your choice. Other homepage sections you can make use of include another opportunity to display a full-width image with a text slogan, a feature table that can be used to highlight your key services or best attributes, followed by a section to display team member profiles and pictures, before finishing off with the widget-ready footer area.
However, as the Infinity Pro Genesis child theme is a flexible option you can easily customize the default homepage layout to better meet your needs. Other pre-built layouts included in the Infinity Pro theme package include an author page template for your blog, blog posts and category page templates, and a contact page design. If you’re planning to generate leads from your WordPress website, the landing page and lead generation page templates are sure to come in handy.
Infinity Pro is also fully ecommerce ready with all the page templates your WooCommerce-powered online store will need.
