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title: Create a Zen Sub-theme Using Drush
nav: blog
description: How to quickly create a Zen sub-theme using Drush.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-planet
- drush
- zen
- theming
First, download the [Zen](https://drupal.org/project/zen "The Zen theme") theme if you haven't already done so.
$ drush dl zen
This will now enable you to use the "drush zen" command.
$ drush zen "Oliver Davies" oliverdavies --description="A Zen sub-theme for oliverdavies.co.uk" --without-rtl
The parameters that I'm passing it are:
1. The human-readable name of the theme.
2. The machine-readable name of the theme.
3. The description of the theme (optional).
4. A flag telling Drush not to include any right-to-left elements within my sub-theme as these aren't needed (optional).
This will create a new theme in sites/all/themes/oliverdavies.
For further help, type `$ drush help zen` to see the Drush help page for the zen command.
