The Fox – Minimal News, Blog, Magazine WordPress Theme

Compatible with WordPress 5.8, WooCommerce 5.5, Elementor 3.3, WPML, Polylang.

Fox listed among best-seller WordPress Blog themes, is the best WordPress theme for blogging, newspaper and eCommerce shop with trending design, regular updates and outstanding support.

BEAUTIFUL DEMOS

Pine: A charming & sexy site for showcasing your beautiful posts having versatile image sizes.

Square: A super-clean magazine template with perfect grid ratios, modular typography and neutral tone.

John: A white and clean theme with square & grid layout, plus narrow content + wide images very suitable for telling stories.

Massa: Inspired by MIT Technology Review Magazine. This is a super clean & pure demo for writing purpose.

Newspaper: Newspaper style with grid masonry layout on posts and two-column text column for single layout.

Times News: Inspired by New York Times, LATimes, Independent, The Times UK. This is a very clean theme for newspaper with focus on readability.

Times Writer: Inspired by NyTimes and Medium.

Deodar: Hipster style. Yet simple & elegant. Vintage taste.

Fashion: Inspired by ELLE Fashion Magazine.

Commentary: Inspired by The Newyorker. This is best for Commentary Magazine, Satire, Poem, Illustration, Cartoon, Comics, Politics

Original: The original demo of The Fox with old-school style like a paper newspaper

Interior: Elegant design with light colors for Home Decor Magazines or Apartment Therapy Blogs.

Food: A clean food blog for food bloggers to share your recipes, dishes, cooking secrets and food photos.

Clean: It’s just a clean blog for writers who want a clean and highly-readable blog like Medium, Lifehacker, Gizmodo..

Geometry: Colorful WP demo for Tech, AI, Science, Geeks, Game, Fiction..

Travel: A demo for backpackers, travellers, travel bloggers or photographers who want a white, light & clean blog to tell greate stories.

Science: Inspired by Scientific American, the #1 science magazine. This is for science news, tech, biology, physics, chemistry, maths, artificial intelligence..

Smooth: Inspired by Kinfolk magazine, this is a demo for Arts and Portfolio.

Lifestyle: This demo is for fashion, chic, girls, minimalist bloggers

View All Demos >>

BOTH BLOG WORDPRESS THEME AND MAGAZINE WORDPRESS THEME

Fox is built for both Blog and Magazine purpose with a powerful page builder and flexibility in design mindset. You will find it really smart after start using it.

WORDPRESS 5.8 COMPATIBLE. GUTENBERG EDITOR READY

Fox is compatible with WordPress 5.8 and always up to date, compatible with future WordPress versions. We also support Classic Editor for those who doesn’t like the new editor.

PHP 8 READY

Fox has been tested and and ready for PHP 8

ONE-CLICK IMPORT DEMO

All Demos are included in the download package. To make your site look 100% same as demo, you just need to click to single button “Import” and wait for couple of minutes.

100% RESPONSIVE + MOBILE FRIENDLY

Fox is serious with mobile version. We offers off-canvas menu that looks like popular websites such as Facebook, NyTimes, New Yorker, ELLE.. with two different skins: light or dark. You can also set background image for your off-canvas menu like this >>.

Everything is responsive: You can choose different ad images for mobile screen, smaller font size for text, smaller padding/margin for elements..

Fox supports custom mobile logo: You can upload mobile version of your site logo. By default, it’s text logo that’s very light-weight.

GDPR COMPLIANT

Fox or none of our WordPress themes collect any kind of personal data, like email, name or IP addresses.

SEO FRIENDLY

Fox is coded with standard HTML 5 & CSS3 technique. We bring semantic into your code so that search engines like Google, Bing.. can read easily and understands what your site is about, where’s the headline, where’s the main image etc.

Text logo is default unless you want to use image. All headings H1, H2, H3.. are well orgazined as well as CSS, JS files are minified by default to improve site speed.

All Google Fonts are combined into single-call to load, and only necessary font weights are loaded.

BUILT-IN DRAG & DROP HOME BUILDER

Fox is a Page Builder WordPress theme with Drag & Drop Homepage Builder being integrated right in the customizer. You don’t need to install additional page builder. Choose among 11 layouts with options to customize each layout. Here’s the list of all possible layouts to choose from:

• Standard Post
• Grid: 2 – 5 columns
• Masonry: 2 – 5 columns
• List
• Vertical Post
• Post Group 1
• Post Group 2
• Classic Slider
• Modern Slider
• Post Carousel
• Big Post
• Newspaper

You can also play around with section heading, display sidebar left/right, display some banner/ad.

CONTROL EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT

Fox gives you total font control on each single element: general body text, heading, menu, logo, post title, meta.. 1,000+ options included and well organized, building a magazine yourself has never been more fun. Here’s the full list of typography elements you can control:

• Body font
• Heading font
• Navigation first level
• Navigation dropdown
• Logo font
• Off-canvas mobile menu
• Section heading font
• Blog post title
• Blog post meta
• Standalone category (above post title)
• Single post title
• Single post subtitle
• Single post content
• Single label heading
• Archive title font
• Widget title
• Button
• Form input
• Block quote
• Drop cap (with Gothic font option)
• Image caption
• Copyright text

WOOCOMMERCE READY

Fox is a WooCommerce WordPress theme and WooCommerce 5 ready. You can build an online shop within WordPress platform by using Fox + WooCommerce. Here’s the example shop >>

ELEMENTOR PAGE BUILDER

Elementor is a free page builder has powered more than 4 millions of WordPress sites. Fox is an Elementor WordPress theme and works well with Elementor and includes following builder elements:

• Post Standard Layout
• Post Newspaper Layout
• Post Grid Layout
• Post Masonry (Pinterest-like) Layout
• Post List Layout
• Post Vertical Layout
• Post Big Layout
• Post Slider Layout
• Post Group 1 (2 columns)
• Post Group 2 (3 columns)
• Heading
• Author Grid/List
• Button
• Responsive Ad

MULTILINGUAL POLYLANG COMPATIBLE

Fox is 100% compatible with Polylang so you can turn your site into a multi-languages site.

SHOWING FRESH CONTENT BY UPDATED DATE

People always love up-to-date content. Fox allows you to display updated date instead of publishing date so that your site will look more fresh and attract both visitors and search engines.

CO-AUTHORS PLUS COMPATIBLE

If your website has multiple authors or multiple-contributors for a post, Fox is 100% compatible with Co-Authors Plus plugin. You can set few authors for a post or even guest authors.

OTHER FEATURES

Custom sidebar on homepage: You can choose to display sidebar between post sections. Put your ad, newsletter form, contact form, intro boxes or Instagram grid. Whatever you want.

Custom post type: Fox supports custom post type and custom taxonomy. Instead of showing standard posts, you can choose to display Book, Movie or any custom post type.

Non-duplicating posts: If a post appears in section 1, it won’t appear in section 2 even it’s in category 2. Your visitors will always being feed with fresh news.

Archive top area: In each category/tag, you may choose to showcase most viewed posts or featured posts of that category/tag in some manner: post group 1, group 2, vertical post, post grid.. View example >>

Individual category, tag options: Each category, tag has its own option set so you can display category A differently from category B. Category 1 is in grid layout, category 2 is in list layout. It’s ok.

• Post layout: grid, masonry, list, standard..
• Sidebar: Left, right or no sidebar
• Top area: layout for top area or disable.
• Category cover image. Example >>
• Sidebar selection: It means you can display different sidebars for different categories.

Built-in author options: Social profile URLs such as twitter, facebook, instagram, pinterest.. Fox allows you to upload author avatar and author cover image without installing additional plugins (note that other WP themes require a plugin to do that)

Advanced thumbnail options: You can choose over landscape, square, portrait thumbnail for your blog posts or enter your custom thumbnail size that right to you, eg. 720×400.

Thumbnail hover effect: Fox includes 4 thumbnail hover effects: Image fade, darken, brand logo hover or the first letter of post title. You can also choose not to use any of them.

Wide or boxed layout: See sample wide layout >> and boxed layout >>

Content width can be set to 1020px, 1170px or any number you want. Feel free to change the sidebar width too.

5 Header layouts:

• Stack 1: Navigation bar – Logo
• Stack 2: Logo – Navigation bar
• Stack 3: Search, Logo, Social – Menu
• Stack 4: Menu – Search, Logo, Social
• Inline: Logo Left – Menu Right
• Minimal Header with Primary Menu disabled.

Sticky header can be enabled/disabled.

Mega menu: To enable mega menu, you just need to check to the menu item: Enable this. Very simple. Fox supports 2, 3, 4 column mega menu item.

Loads latest posts from category: You can enable this feature for category menu item in the back end, so that when your visitors hover a category menu item, it loads latest posts in that category.

Off canvas menu: Build a professional site with off canvas menu that opens by a hamburger button, like Facebook, Nytimes, Elle.. Fox offers off canvas menu with 2 different skins: Light and Dark. You can choose an off canvas menu that differs from your main header menu.

Text logo and image logo: Fox supports text logo with customizations like font face, size, color.. Text logo is practically good for SEO and is a simple solution if you don’t want to design an image logo.

9 footer layouts: Fox supports flexibly footer layouts:

• 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4
• 2/4 + 1/4 + 1/4
• 1/4 + 2/4 + 1/4
• 1/4 + 1/4 + 2/4
• 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3
• 2/3 + 1/3
• 1/3 + 2/3
• 1/2 + 1/2
• fullwidth

You can align each column left, center or right to build your own footer with creativity. Also, light and dark skin with background color, image are supported for footer.

Versatile single post layouts: There’re 6 predefined single post layouts, that you can set locally for each individual post or globally for all posts

• Layout 1: Thumbnail – Title – Content
• Layout 1b: Title – Thumbnail – Content
• Layout 2: [Title] – [Thumbnail] – [Content]
• Layout 3: [Thumbnail] – [Title & Content]
• Layout 4: Hero Full
• Layout 5: Hero Half (Dark and Light)

5 Post formats supported:

• Standard post
• Video post: YouTube, Vimeo or any popular video service. You can also upload your own mp4 video file.
• Audio post: Spotify, Soundcloud or any popular audio service. You can also upload your own audio file.
• Gallery post: with 7 gallery styles
• Link format: Your post in blog can point to an external link

Autoload next post: Create an infinite scroll for single posts to keep your visitors on site. When visitors reach to the bottom of single post, it loads a new post automatically.

This is a feature inspired by qz.com or elle.com

Automatic video thumbnail: Once Youtube or Vimeo video URL set for your video format post, Fox automatically pulls thumbnail from the video for your post.

Two column text: single column text or 2-column text layout.

Built-in light box: Fox integrates a beautiful light box.

Reading progress: The reading progress indicates how much your post content has been read. You can enable/disable it, set it at top or bottom with custom thickness and color.

Post view counter: Fox integrates a simple post view counter but in a separated plugin. You may choose to install it or not. It counts post views by session so it’s pretty correct. It means refreshing the post 10 times in 1 minute still counts as 1 view. In each builder section or post list widget, you have option to display most viewed posts: all time, yearly, monthly or weekly.

Related posts: Fox integrates related posts in few positions: after post content, bottom of single post or in footer sliding box. Related post source can be: same tags, same category, same author, latest posts, featured posts.

Review post: Fox integrates a simple built-in review system that helps you to build a review blog/magazine such as book review, movie review etc. Sample review post >>

Sponsored post: Example of sponsored post >> You can change the sponsor label, name, image logo, image width and the sponsor URL.

Live post: For live events like football match or an outbreak (Coronavirus, Forest Fire..), it has a label as “Live post” and the time indicator of latest update time. This feature is inspired by news sites like NyTimes, BBC, CNN.. See Live Post >>

Professional Image Align: You can choose to set each image in your post to be aligned wide (120px larger than the post content width) or fullwidth (to the edge of screen). Those options can be set for each image, each post or all posts.

7 Gallery Styles:

• Image Grid gallery with options 2 – 5 columns
• Masonry image gallery with options 2-5 columns
• Carousel gallery
• Stack Images
• Image Slider
• Metro gallery style
• Rich-content slider

Ads Spots:

Fox has a lot of ad spots you can use responsive banner ad or enter your own ad code, say Adsense. Each banner ad has option for desktop banner, tablet and mobile ad.

Here’re spots you can insert your ads:

• Before Header
• After Header
• After Logo
• Before each homepage builder section
• Before the main stream posts in homepage builder
• Main Sidebar
• 4 Footer Columns
• Before single post title
• Before single post content
• After single post content
• In a page if you use Elementor.

Widget List:

• About widget
• Image box
• Coronavirus data
• Instagram Feed (third-party)
• Facebook Like Box
• Pinterest Feed
• Responsive Ad (Banner or custom Adsense Code)
• Post List (Latest, Most Viewed, Best Rated)
• Author List
• Social List
• Mailchimp Form For WP (third-party)
• Button
• Copyright
• Header, Footer Logo
• Header, Footer Menu

Social Share: Fox supports share icons of all popular social sites. You can display share icons before, sticky along post or after the post content.

• Facebook
• Messenger (only rare themes support this)
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• WhatsApp
• Reddit
• Email

(Note that Instagram doesn’t have a share button)

Built-in Coronavirus Data Widget included: With world wide spread of the Covid 19 pandemic, many sites now require a live update of the pandemic locally or globally. Since v4.4, Fox includes a built-in Coronavirus widget update with data from Johns Hopkins University, New York Times and Worldometers combined. See a live demo here >>. You can display number of total cases, new confirmed cases, total deaths from:

• Worldwide
• Any country, say USA, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia etc
• Any continent, eg. Europe, Asia, North America etc
• Any U.S. State, eg. New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey etc
• And a table below with data from all countries around the world or all U.S states

With smart data cached you can set from 15 mins – 24 hours, it doesn’t slow down your site while the data is still up to date. This widget is EXCLUSIVELY included in The Fox theme and you’ll see it right after install the theme under Appearance > Widgets tab. Enter your own country/state. No further actions needed.

Compatible with essential plugins:

• Elementor page builder
• WooCommerce plugin for shop
• Contact Form 7
• Mailchimp For WP
• SEO Yoast
• Instagram Feed
• Wordfence
• All in one security
• Akismet
• Jetpack
• Autoptimize
• WP Rocket (premium)
• Lazy Load
• Loco Translate
• WPML
• Polylang
• WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache

Fully Translatable: Fox supports more than 20 essential translation words right inside the customizer panel so you don’t need to install a third-party translation plugin. Words you can translate quickly in Customizer: More, Keep Reading, Read More, Previous, Next..

MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES

• Human-reading time: 3 days ago, 19 hours ago..
• Sentence base: word or character
• Multi-site ready
• Cross browser compatibility: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Edge.
• Retina ready
• Support for multi page articles
• Child theme supported
• Reading time in post meta
• CSS, JS Compressed by default. However, you can select to load many individual files if you want for your own purpose.
• 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.
• Font Awesome 5 icon list
• 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.