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Zox News helps you go from blogger to boss by giving you a wide range of tools and options to give you the most professional-looking and functioning news site on the net. Zox News comes with a mobile-first-design, 8 article layouts, 4 Featured Posts layouts, parallax leaderboard ad, Theia Post Slider, Theia Sticky Sidebar, Reviewer Plugin, Woocommerce-ready, and so much more!

More Key Features

One-Click Demo Import – Quickly set up the theme like the demo with the One Click Demo Import plugin!

RTL Ready – With access to over 800+ Google fonts and a built-in RTL feature that lets you switch the stylesheet to RTL with the click of a button, it has never been easier to set your site to RTL.

Featured Headlines – Most major news and magazine sites use shorter “teaser” headlines in their featured content sections. Zox News gives you the same option to spruce up your featured items in the Featured Posts section on the homepage and category pages.

Video/Audio Posts – Easily replace the standard featured image in posts with embedded video or audio from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.

Retina Ready – The theme and its images look sharp and crisp on retina-ready devices!

800+ Google Fonts – Use any of the over 800 Google Fonts to set the fonts for the general text, navigation menu text, Featured Posts & Headlines, article title, and headings.

Unlimited Colors – Easily change the colors of the main background, navigation background/text, the primary theme color, and links to any color from within the Theme Options.

Unlimited Ad Units – Zox News takes full advantage of available ad space to give you a myriad of options to place your ads. The ad units include a main leaderboard area with adjustable height and width that can accommodate any size ad, an Ad Widget that can accommodate 300px wide ads of any height in the sidebar as well as any size leaderboard ad in the homepage widget area. Zox News also comes with a Wallpaper Ad that spans the width of the screen and site behind the content area.

Complete List of Features

Compatible with WordPress 6.8+
SEO Optimized
RTL Ready
Gutenberg Ready
Google AMP ready
HTML5 & CSS3
Translation ready (contains .po/.mo files)
Child Theme included
Comes with XML dummy data (posts, tags, categories, menus, dummy images)
Easy implementation with Google Adsense ads
WordPress Featured Image support
WordPress Custom Background support
WordPress Custom Menu support
Unlimited Colors
Youtube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud integration
Schema.org Rich Snippets
Custom Fly-Out Navigation
WooCommerce compatible
bbPress compatible
Infinite Scroll
Custom Theme Options panel
Custom CSS section in Theme Options so users will not lose custom changes to CSS when you update to a new version
Full-Width Posts
Megamenus
Facebook comments support
Built-In Disqus comments support
Free lifetime updates
Easy logo customization
800+ Google Fonts
Threaded comments
Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off
Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off
Optional Caption/Photo Credit below Featured Images in posts
Custom copyright/footer text
Custom favicon
In-depth documentation
And much more!

Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of Zox News that are not covered by the theme documentation or if you run into any bugs with the theme, please submit a ticket at the MVP Themes Support Center.

Unfortunately, MVP Themes cannot perform customization work for each of our customers, so Zox News comes “as-is”. Any customization you would like to make to the theme outside of fixing bugs will need to be done by you or a third party.

Updates

v3.17.1 February 10, 2025

Fixes FontAwesome issue from previous update

Affected files:
/font-awesome/ (entire folder)
header.php
style.css

v3.17.0 January 12, 2025

Important security updates
Fixes CSS issues created by latest iOS update
Updates Font Awesome to latest version

Affected files:
MVP Theme Social Buttons Plugin (1.3.0)
/admin/admin-page.php
/parts/post-single.php
fly-menu.php
footer.php
functions.php
header.php
style.css

v3.16.0 August 1, 2023

NEW FEATURE! – Adds ability to set Featured Posts to display latest posts.

Affected files:
/admin/options.php
featured-latest.php (new file)
page-home.php
style.css

v3.15.0 November 24, 2022

Improves SEO accessibility

functions.php
header.php
style.css

v3.14.1 April 27, 2022

Fixes bug with archive images on mobile
Fixes bug with lazy loading on homepage

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/js/scripts.js
style.css

v3.14.0 March 25, 2022

NEW FEATURE! – Adds large image every 5 posts in blog sections of homepage and archive pages
Adds separate menu for Google AMP flyout menu
Fixes bug with Twitter author link on posts
Fixes bug with json errors

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/parts/post-single.php
amp-fly-menu.php
archive.php
category.php
functions.php
page-home.php
style.css

v3.13.0 January 1, 2022

Fixes social sharing bug in full width pages
Fixes bug with FontAwesome and Child Themes
Fixes bug with Google AMP console errors
Fixes bug with video embeds

Affected files:
zox-news-child.zip
/alp/alp-single.php
amp-single.php
page-fullwidth.php
style.css

v3.12.0 October 21, 2021

Adds Tiktok social link to footer and flyout menu
Updates FontAwesome to version 5.15.4

Affected files:
MVP Social Buttons Plugin (version 1.2)
/admin/options.php
/font-awesome (entire folder)
fly-menu.php
footer.php
functions.php
header.php
style.css

v3.11.1 August 10, 2021

Fixes bug with comment replies

Affected files:
comments.php
style.css

v3.11.0 July 7, 2021

NEW FEATURE! – Adds ability to place inline ads in articles every X paragraphs.
NEW FEATURE! – Adds Google AMP Ads via the inline article ad feature.

Affected files:
/admin/options.php
/css/amp-style.css
functions.php
style.css

v3.10.0 June 5, 2021

Adds ability to use shortcodes in all ad areas

Affected files:
/parts/post-single.php
/widgets/widget-ad.php
/widgets/widget-feat2.php
/widgets/widget-flex.php
featured.php
header.php
style.css

v3.9.0 March 20, 2021

Fixes bug with video embeds
Fixes various javascript-related bugs

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

v3.8.0 February 28, 2021

Allows comments on AMP page without clicking comment button
Fixes conflict with Events Calendar Plugin

Affected files:
/css/amp-style.css
amp-single.php
functions.php
style.css

v3.7.0 December 19, 2020

Fixes bug with sticky navigation after WordPress 5.6 update
Fixes bug with Video Embed box in post editor

Affected files:
/parts/post-single.php
functions.php
style.css

v3.6.0 October 26, 2020

Fixes second bug with video embeds after WordPress 5.5 Update
Fixes bug with Featured Videos not appearing in AMP version of posts

Affected files:
amp-single.php
style.css

v3.5.0 August 22, 2020

Fixes bug with video embeds after WordPress 5.5 Update
Fixes bug with Comments not displaying after WordPress 5.5 Update

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

v3.4.0 June 28, 2020

Adds ability to toggle Megamenu feature on/off via the Theme Options
Updates AMP Plugin to latest version (1.5.4)

Affected files:
/admin/options.php
functions.php
style.css

v3.3.2 April 2, 2020

Fixes bug with Gutenberg after WordPress 5.4 update

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

v3.3.1 December 13, 2019

Fixes minor issue with default Theme Settings

Affected files:
page-home.php
style.css

v3.3.0 September 7, 2019

Fixes small bug with AMP post template
Updates article Schema to include time updated
Updates category Featured Posts function

Affected files:
/alp/alp-single.php
/parts/post-single.php
amp-single.php
category.php
style.css

v3.2.0 June 5, 2019

New Feature! – Adds Gutenberg compatibility
New Feature! – Adds ability to backup and reset Theme Options
Fixes bug related to Google Ads

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
functions.php
style.css

v3.1.1 Marrch 19, 2019

Fixes error notice with AMP plugin
Fixes minor bugs

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
functions.php
style.css

v3.1.0 January 22, 2019

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (2.1.3)
Updates Google AMP plugin to latest version (1.0.2)
Fixes bug with Theme Options permissions
Fixes RTL bug with posts
Fixes bug affecting some installations with AMP responsiveness

Affected files:
/css/amp-media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/plugins/amp.zip
/plugins/theia-post-slider.zip
functions.php
style.css

v3.0.0 December 21, 2018

New Feature! – Adds Auto Load Posts feature!
Fixes minor styling issue
Updates MVP Social Buttons plugin to version 1.1

Affected files:
All files

v2.1.1 – December 6, 2018

Fixes bug with Google Adsense in leaderboard caused by last update

Affected files:
/admin/admin-page.php
/admin/options.php
style.css

v2.1.0 – November 28, 2018

New Feature!- Updates to new and improved Theme Options panel
Fixes bugs with AMP post template
Fixes bug with Twitter button on Teaser posts
Fixes minor bug with mobile styling

Affected files:
All

v2.0.1 – July 19, 2018

Fixes minor bugs with Google AMP feature

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
amp-single.php
functions.php
style.css

v2.0.0 – July 17, 2018

New Feature! – Adds Google AMP compatibility
Updates Theia Post Slider to the latest version (2.0.0)

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/amp-style.css
/css/amp-media-queries.css
amp-fly-menu.php
amp-single.php
functions.php
style.css

v1.6.0 – April 24, 2018

Adds One Click Demo Import function
Fixes Flexible Widget wide version sidebar responsiveness
Now hides Twitter icon if author does not have one

Affected files:
All files in /import/ folder
/css/media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
functions.php
single.php
style.css

v1.5.0 – December 13, 2017

Fixes bug with Woocommerce country/state dropdowns on checkout page

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

v1.4.0 – November 4, 2017

NEW FEATURE! – Adds new Featured Posts layout for homepage
NEW FEATURE! – Adds new Featured Posts layout for category pages
Includes latest version of Theia Post Slider plugin (1.15.1)
Fixes bug with reply button on author comments
Fixes bug with translation on Featured 5 layout
Fixes minor bug related to Continue Reading mobile button feature
Fixes bug with sidebar on Latest News page template
Fixes bug with PHP7 compatibility with widgets

Affected files:
All files

v1.3.0 – August 23, 2017

Fixes bug with Flexible Widget responsiveness
Fixes bug with default post layout
Fixes bug with Tabber Widget creating additional post below main article

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/widgets/widget-tabber.php
functions.php
single.php
style.css

v1.2.0 – August 10, 2017

NEW FEATURE! – Adds new Featured Post layout
Fixes bug with new Facebook API update affecting sharing posts
Fixes bug with Featured 1 layout and Tabber section when no image is used

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/css/rtl.css
/widgets/widget-tabber.php
featured.php
header.php
style.css

v1.1.1 – August 6, 2017

Fixes bug with translation of “ago”
Fixes bug with leaderboard ad when using Post Layout 5 or 6 as the default

Affected files:
All files

v1.1.0 – August 1, 2017

NEW FEATURE! – Adds RTL support
Fixes minor bug in bottom nav menu in Safari
Fixes bug with Featured Posts 4 layout
Fixes bug with Woocommerce thumbnail zoom

Affected files:
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/css/rtl.css
functions.php
style.css

Zox News WordPress Theme