The Fox theme is a comprehensive WordPress solution for local news websites, newsrooms, online magazines and independent reporters. We take care everything to make sure you have a stable website in long-term: Ads, SEO, Newsletter, Tracking, WooCommerce, ACF, Translation, Paywall & paid content, Multilingual site (WPML, Polylang), Performance (Core web vitals on mobile), Forms, Builder & Writing. The Fox is made for a novice who has zero coding skills, a newsroom without tech department, an independent journalist that only wants to focus on writing or a blogger start building a review magazine.
Visit The Fox landing page for more detail: fox.withemes.com Helpful info Latest: v6.9.1 (Apri 18, 2025) | Change log → User Community: Fox’s users Facebook group Online docs: Online docs Official support desk: Support desk Performance test: 95/100 Mobile – Core Web Vitals | 100/100 GTMetrix – test demo fox.withemes.com/washington/ Feature list Core features WordPress 6.8 compatible 30+ demos included to get started easier Free lifetimes updates (you never have to pay for updates) WooCommerce 8.x, 9.x compatible Responsive and mobile friendly Gutenberg + Classic Editor supported Classic widgets supported Wide/boxed site layout Custom content width, sidebar width Custom site background, border, margin, padding Sticky sidebar option SEO Optimised (compatible with Yoast SEO, Rank Math..) Online Documentation – View The Fox theme documentation Top-notch Support Page Builder Drag and drop Homepage Builder right in the Live Customizer Super-intuitve & easy to understand. You have builder immediate after installing, no further steps. Live preview for the builder.
What you see is what you get. Supports section, row, column for the layout and lot of elements: post grid post list post group post carousel post slider post masonry banner/advertisement heading button spacer divier text editor sidebar/widgets page content html/shortcode Super-fast for the frontend while It focuses on the homepage with only necessary materials being loaded. The fatest page builder for your a news website builder you can find, we guarantee.
Non-duplicated posts: If you check, it shows no posts twice Custom post type: each news block has option to choose custom post type & custom taxonomy. Super-Fast & Optimized for High-performance Compatible with major optimization plugins: WP Rocket, Imagify, LiteSpeed, Autoptimize, W3Total Cache, WP Supercahce, Sitegroud Optimizer 8x/100 (mobile) and 8x/100 (dekstop) without optimization plugin 9x/100 (mobile) and 99/100 (desktop) with optimization plugin 99/100 GTMetrix Helps your site to pass Google Core web vitals Can handle websites up to 100,000 posts. We have lot of customers having from 10,000 – 100,000 posts.
SEO Friendly SEO Friendly. First, It’s lightweight and fast on mobile. Google loves it.
Compatible with major SEO plugins: Yoast SEO, Rank Math.. High compatibility Tested with PHP 5, 7, 8 (require at least PHP 5.4 but most servers nowadays have PHP at least 7.x) Tested with hostings: SiteGround, NameCheap, Cloudways, Bluehost, Hostinger, Godaddy.. Compatible with lot of plugins: WooCommerce Jetpack Contact form 7 All in one Security Wordfence Yoast SEO Math Rank So on Dark Mode/Night Mode Supports forced dark mode (ie.
your site is always in dark mode) view example >> Supports dark-mode toggle button, reader can change their dark/light preferences, view example >> GDPR Compliant The Fox or none of our WordPress themes collect any kind of personal data, like email, name or IP addresses. Comprehensive font settings 5 primary font positions: body, heading, nav, custom 1, 2 Have font settings for most of elements: post title, meta, excerpt, category, logo, widget.. anywhere you see text Each font position can be either predefined primary font position or a new font selection Font can be selected from system font (Arial, Georgia..), google font or your custom uploaded webfont.
You can limit only weights google font will load to optimize site speed Header builder Drag & drop header builder, right in the Customizer, live preview, what you see is what you get 3 sections: topbar, main, header bottom. Flexible to design your own header Set light/dark/background, border.. for each header section Necessary header elements included: logo, menu, hamburger, button, darkmode, cart, social, search, html.
Sticky header option Mega-menu, easy to set up. Just check a box in the menu item to make mega-menu. Hassle-free.
Text or image logo with comprehensive typograhy options 4 search styles to choose from Drag/drop elements to build off-canvas menu. Versatile footer layouts Predefined footer layouts: 4 columns, 5 columns, 50-25-25, .. Use widgets to build footer sidebar area.
Drag & drop elements to design footer bottom area. Single post Choose 7 predefined single post layouts, including 2 hero styles like nytimes. 5 post formats supported: standard, video, gallery, audio, link 7 gallery styles Sidebar position: right/left/none Content width: Full or narrow Live post: View example >> Post Review Many ad spots The Fox allows you to have ad in: Header: with a header sidebar, set respectively for desktop/mobile.
Footer: Any of footer sidebar Main sidebar Single post: before & after post content Any position in the homepage builder with the Banner/Ad element. Translation Ready Quick Translate panel in Customizer > Quick Translate, no plugins needed. Loco Translate compatible Polylang compatible WPML compatible Miscellaneous Co-authors support, you can have guest author or 2, 3 authors in one post.
View count: You can display most viewed posts by week, month, year.. Reading process: Cool reading progress for single post. Reading time: Indicates how long the post is.
Retina ready, supports all retina devices All modern browsers supported: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge.. Auto updates with Envato Market plugin Show/Hide everything in your site. Most of options are local and global: ie.
there’s an option for each single post and there’s an option in Customizer that applies for all posts. Custom header logo URL Upload default thumbnail in case there’s no thumbnail Custom post blog thumbnail, ie. you can set blog image that’s different from single post thumbnail.
Multi-site ready Sentence base: word or character Human-reading time: 3 days ago, 19 hours ago.. Built-in theme light box, which can be set on/off Unlimited sidebars with the sidebar manager Child theme included & supported Online Documentation – View The Fox theme docs Top-notch Support What’s included in the download package? Installable WordPress theme file All prebuilt demos with one-click import.
All necessary plugins FREE lifetime updates even when support expired. 6 months support by default (or 12 months if you choose). Direct support by theme author Online theme documentation The Fox docs See the documentation here >> Updates & Support Once purchased, you have LIFE TIME FREE updates.
You can enable auto-updates if you want. See update guide >>. For support, please open ticket in our support desk.
FAQs View The Fox FAQs here >> Change log View change log here >>
