The Fox 7.0.0.1 - Minimal Magazine News WordPress Theme

Product at a glance

• Latest: v7.0 (Dec 19, 2025) |Changelog
• 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/hawaii/

Core features

• WordPress 6.9 compatible
• 30+ demos included to get started easier
• Freelifetime updates (you never have to pay for updates)
• WooCommerce 9.x, 10.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-intuitive & easy to understand; builder available immediately after installing
• Live preview for the builder (what you see is what you get)
• Supports section, row, column for layout and many elements: post grid, post list, post group, post carousel, post slider, post masonry, banner/advertisement, heading, button, spacer, divider, text editor, sidebar/widget, page content, HTML/shortcode
• Super-fast frontend loading with focus on homepage essentials
• Non-duplicated posts: no post appears twice
• Custom post type: 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 Super Cache, SiteGround Optimizer
• 9x/100 mobile and 99/100 desktop with optimization plugin; 8x/100 mobile and 8x/100 desktop without optimization plugin
• GTMetrix score up to 100
• Helps your site pass Google Core Web Vitals
• Handles websites up to 100,000 posts

SEO Friendly

• Lightweight and fast on mobile; optimized for search engines
• Compatible with major SEO plugins: Yoast SEO, Rank Math

High compatibility

• Tested with PHP 5, 7, 8 (requires at least PHP 5.4; most servers nowadays have PHP 7.x+)
• Tested with hostings: SiteGround, NameCheap, Cloudways, Bluehost, Hostinger, GoDaddy
• Compatible with many plugins: WooCommerce, Jetpack, Contact Form 7, All in One Security, Wordfence, Yoast SEO, Math Rank

Dark Mode/Night Mode

Supports forced dark mode (your site can be always in dark mode) and a dark-mode toggle button so readers can switch between dark and light preferences (view examples available).

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. Font settings for most elements: post title, meta, excerpt, category, logo, widgets—anywhere you see text. Each font position can be either a predefined primary font position or a new font selection. Fonts can be selected from system fonts (Arial, Georgia..), Google fonts or a custom uploaded webfont. You can limit loaded weights to optimize site speed.

Header builder

Drag & drop header builder, right in the Customizer, with live preview. Three sections: topbar, main, header bottom. Flexible to design your own header with light/dark/background and border options. Necessary header elements included: logo, menu, hamburger, button, dark mode, cart, social, search, HTML. Mega-menu support is available with a simple checkbox. Supports text or image logos with extensive typography options. Four search styles and drag/drop elements to build an off-canvas menu.

Versatile footer layouts

• Predefined layouts: 4 columns, 5 columns, 50-25-25, etc.
• Use widgets to build the footer sidebar area
• Drag & drop elements to design the 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

• 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 for guest authors or multiple authors per post
• View count options (most viewed posts by week, month, year)
• Reading progress indicator for single posts
• Reading time estimate
• Retina-ready and compatible with all retina devices
• All modern browsers supported: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge
• Auto updates with Envato Market plugin
• Show/Hide options across the site
• Mostly local and global options: per-post and global Customizer options
• Custom header logo URL
• Upload default thumbnail if no thumbnail is set
• Custom post blog thumbnail (set a blog image different from single post thumbnail)
• Multi-site ready
• Sentence base: word or character
• Human-reading time: e.g., 3 days ago, 19 hours ago
• Built-in theme lightbox with on/off toggle
• 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 expires
• 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 >>

Visit the landing page

Visit The Fox landing page for more detail: fox.withemes.com