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

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Helpful info

Latest: v6.9.7 (Dec 03, 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/

Feature list

Core features

WordPress 6.9 compatible
30+ demos included to get started easier
Free lifetimes 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-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.

Fox WordPress Theme