It’s been a few months now since Twenty Eleven launched with the release of WordPress 3.2. As child themes are all the rage these days, I thought I’d take a look around the net and see what free Twenty Eleven Child Themes are on offer. There’s surprisingly few! I had planned to write about 20 Twenty Eleven Child Themes, then dropped to 10 Twenty Eleven Child Themes, but I’ve only managed to find eight to share with you. Methinks I sense a gap in the market.
Paper
Demo | Download
Silver
Demo | Download
Hum
Demo | Download
NomNom
Download
Colors
Download
Blue Splatter
Download
Twenty Eleven with Sidebar in Posts
Demo | Download
(header image CC license KayaL)
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Great info, thanks.
Already see a couple I want to have on file… will come in handy for some quick set ups and projects… thanx for sharing…
Linda =}
It’s even worse than you thought: I only count seven: Paper, Silver, Hum, Nomnom, Colors, Blue Splatter, Twenty Eleven with Sidebar in Posts.
And one of them has an expired website. ;-) (paper)
Nope its working, please try again :)
Clicked on download link, took me to another page but no download?
Why only seven themes? You said eight! Cheap…
I think one was removed as it turned out to be dodgy!
every time i try to download the silver theme it just reloads the page wtf?
I’m looking for a twentyeleven child theme with 4 columns, featured slide show, content slider, dropdown menu and post excerpt image function. Thanks! Please post download link!
Framework like Twenty Eleven is very useful for microblogs and also it is an SEO friendly theme. Other than that it is easy to customize.
Indicates a Gap in the market, indeed! Thank you for this wonderful collection of stellar examples to learn from. Hopefully this will inspire many more child themes from the CSS masters out here!
Hey Siobhan, you inspired me to build a child theme based on twenty-eleven. So I built IceColdLAVA.com. Check it out and give me your feedback.
Looks nice but, I think there should be drastic changes from the default theme if offering a child theme for download.
Simply adding a new font for the title, border radius, box shadow and creating even more wasted space in the header can be done in 5 minutes.
All of the posted child themes above make drastic changes to either the functionality or design of the theme.
In my opinion Twenty Eleven is a horrible starting point for child themes in the first place. There’s far too much customization done to it for a default theme, hopefully Twenty Twelve will be a mix of Twenty ten and eleven.
Any possibility of getting the homepage look like a feed of articles with picture thumbnails ?
Great way to spice up the default. Thanks!