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

• WordPress 6.8 compatible


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  30+ demos included to get started easier


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  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

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  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.

• 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. First, It’s lightweight and fast on mobile. Google loves it.


• Compatible with major SEO plugins: Yoast SEO, Rank Math..

• 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
  
  
  
  

• 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 >>
  

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Quick Translate panel in Customizer > Quick Translate, no plugins needed.


• Loco Translate compatible


• Polylang compatible


• WPML compatible

• 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

Updates & Support

FAQs

Change log