Dox 1.4.0 (June 16, 2025) – Changelog
Compatible with WordPress 6.8+ and WooCommerce 9.9+. Ready for PHP 8+.

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Dox is a modern multipurpose WordPress theme developed to help you quickly create an accessible, fast-loading, and SEO-optimized business, portfolio, restaurant, music, blog, or e-commerce website.

The design is highly customizable and optimized for mobile, so the resulting website automatically adapts to any mobile or tablet device. The theme offers the complete blogging platform, portfolio projects management, music albums management, restaurant menu management, events management, gallery management, the reservation system for restaurants, and an online shop powered by WooCommerce.

The theme is highly optimized for great performance, fast loading, and web accessibility according to the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)” and “The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)”, ensuring excellent accessibility for assistive technologies and disabled users of the website.

The theme doesn’t have limitless options, but you can be sure that the result will always look professional for users, visitors, and search engines.

The theme is ready to use for everyone. No needed coding or design skills.

Everything you need to quickly create and effectively manage your business, portfolio, restaurant, music, blog, or e-commerce website.

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Dox Features

20 Complete websites to one-click import
Super-simple live customizing with WordPress Customizer (colors, fonts, menus, widgets & settings of the theme)
No dependency on third-party plugins or page builder plugins!
Gutenberg WordPress block editor compatible
- Perfect match between editor appearance and front-end content appearance
Standards, best practices, and accessibility
- Accessible for disabled users (WCAG 2.1, Level AA compliant)
- Accessible using keyboard
- WAI-ARIA landmarks for assistive technologies
- Structured data (rich snippets) for excellent results in search engines
- Search engine optimized (On-page SEO)
- Highly optimized for speed and performance
- Optimized for mobile devices
- Cross-browser and cross-device compatible
- Retina and HiDPI ready
- Valid HTML5/CSS3
- Lightweight as possible
Advanced design options
- 1300+ Google fonts
- Dozens of color customization options
- 16 Header image filters (optional)
- 89 Header patterns (optional)
- 25 Header masks (optional)
- 22 Decorative borders (optional)
Light and dark design
Translation ready
- Languages included: English (en_US), Greek (el), Czech (cs_CZ)
- POT file included
- Translatable into any language
- Loco Translate plugin compatible (Free)
Multi-lingual ready
- Polylang plugin compatible (Free)
- WPML plugin compatible
Easy-to-use admin interface
Blogging platform
- Standard post format
- Gallery post format
- Video post format
  - Self-hosted video
  - Embed video – YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, etc.
- Audio post format
  - Self-hosted audio
  - Embed audio – Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.
- Paginated posts
- Password protected posts
Slideshow management
- Touchable slideshow
- Gutenberg block editor ready
- Custom buttons
- Slider Revolution plugin ready (Not included)
Portfolio projects management [view projects]
- Project summary
- Image gallery
- Client information
- Preview button
- Purchase button
Music albums management [view albums]
- Album information (number, release date, price, status)
- Artist information
- Custom buttons
- Custom meta
Restaurant menu management [view menu]
- American and European menu style or whatever
- Multiple prices for different quantities
- Unlimited ingredients
- Unlimited tags
- Optional single pages
- Optional images
Reservation system [view reservations]
- Reservation form
- Reservations management with reservation status
- Email notifications
- Data validation
- Secured with reCaptcha v3 (optional)
- GDPR ready – terms and conditions assignment (optional)
Events management [view events]
- Start/end date
- Time
- Location information
- Status
- Ticket price
- Ticket button
Gallery management [view gallery]
Shop powered by WooCommerce (optional) [view shop]
- Add and manage products
- Product types:
  - Simple product
  - Variable product
  - Grouped product
  - Virtual/Downloadable product
  - External/Affiliate product
- Inventory management
- Flexible shipping options
- Built-in analytics & reporting
- Pre-installed payment gateways
  - Direct bank transfer
  - Cheque payment
  - Cash on delivery
  - Credit card payments with PayPal
  - Credit card payment with Simplify Commerce (US only)
- View all WooCommerce features
Pages management
- 29 custom page templates
- Featured images
Contact form
- In-built form
- Data validation
- Secured with reCaptcha v3 (optional)
- GDPR ready – terms and conditions assignment (optional)
- “Contact Form 7” plugin supported
3 Header layouts
- Sticky & autohide header (optional)
- Custom header image (optional)
Full or centered site width
Masonry or flexbox layout
Standard (with left or right sidebar) and full-width blog layout
4 post listing types
- Default
- Slide
- Cover
- Side
Video support
- Slideshow slide background
- Header background
- Page content
- Post content
13 Custom widgets
Widgetized homepage (3 widget areas)
Widgetized sidebars
Widgetized footer
Logo upload
Favicon upload
Bar image upload
Header image upload
Background image upload
Loading image upload
Footer image upload
Custom navigation (3 locations – bar, header, footer)
Coming soon page template
Sitemap page template
Lazy loading of images
Accessible image lightbox
5 Page loading types (optional)
Social network icons (optional)
Social share buttons (optional)
Compatible with popular plugins (optional)
- WooCommerce
- Contact Form 7
- SEOPress
- WPML
- Polylang
- Loco Translate
- MailChimp
- Autoptimize
- WP Super Cache
- And more …
Child theme included
Free lifetime updates
Automatic updates with Envato Market plugin (optional)
Extensive documentation
Top-notch support
And much more …

Requirements

Your server should meet the standard WordPress requirements (https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/) and with PHP limits set to:

upload_max_filesize: 256M
memory_limit: 256M
post_max_size: 512M
max_input_time: 300
max_execution_time: 300

Need help? We are here for you

Please read our documentation – and then if you will need some help or talk with us, please let us know via the comments or drop us an email securely through the contact form.

Changelog

## [1.4.0] — 2025-06-16

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.8+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 9.9+
- Fixed minor bugs

## [1.3.9] — 2025-02-01

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.7+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 9.6+

## [1.3.8] — 2024-07-22

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.6+

## [1.3.7] — 2024-06-04

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 8.9+

## [1.3.6] — 2024-04-09

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.5+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 8.7+
- Improved bar icon appearance

## [1.3.5] — 2024-03-08

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 8.6+

## [1.3.4] — 2023-11-08

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.4+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 8.2+

## [1.3.3] — 2023-07-19

- Added workaround of the bug with loading images in the Safari 15.4+
- Improved loading of images above the fold

## [1.3.2] — 2023-01-18

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.1+ and Gutenberg 14+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 7.3+
- Improved single pages performance with featured image preload
- Fixed issues with content image dimensions
- Updated WooCommerce templates
- Updated components

## [1.3.1] — 2022-12-14

- Fixed issue with the background image

## [1.3.0] — 2022-12-07

- Improved homepage templates and homepage sections
- Improved block editor integration
- Updated WooCommerce templates
- Updated components
- Updated editor settings
- Fixed accessibility issues if using the shop sidebar
- Fixed minor bugs

## [1.2.9] — 2022-04-07

- Added the option to replace the slideshow with another one using shortcode [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Slideshow > Shortcode]
- Improved block editor integration
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Updated components
- Fixed minor bugs

## [1.2.8] — 2022-03-22

- Upgraded outdated shortcodes within sections "Products - Featured" and "Products - Recent" 
- Fixed issues with invalid CSS in a CSS validator
- Improved "Columns" block
- Updated components

## [1.2.7] — 2022-03-04

- Updated translations configuration file

## [1.2.6] — 2022-02-22

- Updated translations configuration file

## [1.2.5] — 2022-02-17

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.9
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 6.2
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved block editor integration
- Improved minor accessibility issues
- Improved minor design issues
- Fixed bug in translation files
- Updated components

## [1.2.4] — 2022-01-13

- Fixed issue with the product gallery on the product page
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 6.1

## [1.2.3] — 2022-01-12

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 6.1
- Improved minor details

## [1.2.2] — 2022-01-05

- Added WooCommerce Single Product Gallery Slider as
  Default [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Shop > Product > Gallery Slider]
- Added off-canvas shop sidebar on mobile devices
- Updated slideshow component
- Updated off-canvas component
- Updated translation files
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 6.0
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved block editor integration
- Improved icons accessibility
- Improved minor details

## [1.2.1] — 2021-12-15

- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved video controls
- Fixed issue with duplicated IDs
- Fixed issue with the contrast of some block editor elements
- Fixed issues with CSS properties
- Updated slideshow component

## [1.2.0] — 2021-11-19

- Added Greek translations [el]
- Added search to the shop toolbar (top bar/header) to search products in the shop
- Added new options for the fonts settings in the customizer [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Fonts]
- Added new action hook 'dox_logo' to add the logo image using the action
- Added new action hook 'dox_bar_icon' to add the bar icon image using the action
- Added new action hook 'dox_footer_logo' to add the footer logo image using the action
- Improved CSS transitions performance
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 5.9
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved multiple responsivity issues
- Improved multiple design issues
- Improved the design and settings of the demo sites
- Fixed issue with the background image of the shop pages
- Reworked typography

## [1.1.6] — 2021-10-28

- Improved design consistency of homepage sections
- Improved minor styling details
- Updated scripts

## [1.1.5] — 2021-10-21

- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved WooCommerce accessibility
- Improved minor accessibility issues
- Improved performance of some query loops
- Updated slideshow component

## [1.1.4] — 2021-09-07

- Improved block editor integration
- Improved accessibility of the mobile navigation
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved minor details

## [1.1.3] — 2021-08-28

- Improved mobile navigation
- Improved player styles
- Fixed minor bugs

## [1.1.2] — 2021-08-26

- Fixed issue with the 'alt' tag of the image gallery items
- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.8+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 5.5+
- Improved editor appearance to be closer to the front-end content appearance
- Improved performance
- Improved structure of headings on menu pages
- Improved design consistency
- Refactored templates
- Updated components

## [1.1.1] — 2021-03-11

- Added button font options [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Fonts > Button]
- Added mobile navigation color options [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Navigation > Mobile]
- Added option to control heading title font size [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Heading > Title]
- Added option to control slideshow title font size [Appearance > Customize > Dox > Heading > Title]
- Fixed minor accessibility issues
- Updated WooCommerce templates
- Improved default color palette contrast
- Improved color palettes of demos
- Improved overall typography scale
- Improved mobile navigation
- Improved structured data (rich snippets)
- Improved icons
- Improved post navigation
- Updated components

## [1.1.0] — 2020-12-23

- Improved structured data (rich snippets)

## [1.0.9] — 2020-08-23

- Improved structured data (rich snippets)
- Refactored javascript
- Updated components

## [1.0.8] — 2020-07-16

- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 4.3+
- Updated javascript
- Updated components

## [1.0.7] — 2020-07-03

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.4+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 4.2+
- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Improved structured data
- Improved pagination

## [1.0.6] — 2020-02-07

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.3+
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.9+
- Improved WooCommerce integration
- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Improved lazy loading of images
- Improved structured data

## [1.0.5] — 2019-11-01

- Improved headings

## [1.0.4] — 2019-10-29

- Improved speed and performance
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.7+
- Improved lazy loading of images
- Improved accessibility
- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Refactored templates

## [1.0.3] — 2019-03-10

- Improved Gutenberg editor support
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.5

## [1.0.2] — 2018-11-21

- Added Gutenberg editor support
- Improved compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.1

## [1.0.1] — 2018-09-23

- Added "Mobile Navigation on Desktop" option to enable/disable mobile navigation on
  desktop [Appearance > Customize > Dox Theme > Navigation > Settings]
- Added WPML config to the child theme
- Improved header

## [1.0.0] — 2018-07-16

- Initial Release

Dox WordPress Theme