The Fox - Modern Magazine Blog Newspaper WordPress Theme

The Fox is a no-nonsense, super-fast magazine WordPress theme for creators — news sites, online magazines and blogs. No heavy third-party plugins or page builders, no messy WordPress things. Three steps: install, import a demo, and you have a fast, clean magazine. In development since 2015.

• Current version: v7.1.2 – Sep 22, 2026 (changelog)
• Live demo: fox.heronwp.com
• Online docs: heronwp.com/docs/fox
• Support: heronwp.com/support

Features

• WordPress 7.0 ready & Gutenberg + Classic Editor supported
• PHP 7, 8
• Ultra-fast: 95/100 core web vitals | 100/100 GTMetrix
• High-performance: handles large sites well, tested with 100,000+ posts
• Minimal + modern design, refreshed for 2026
• Responsive and mobile friendly, on any device
• Cross-browser compatible: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari
• Compatible with all hostings, including wordpress.com
• 30+ prebuilt demos — news, magazine, blog and WooCommerce concepts. Every demo is just a different configuration of the same theme, so any layout or feature you see in one can be used in another
• Preconfigured builder & header templates included with every demo
• No page builder required: works with the Classic editor, Gutenberg or Elementor — none of them are mandatory
• 6–12 months of support included, plus a 14-day money-back guarantee
• Trusted by 6,400+ publishers, in development since 2015
• One-click import demo, plus the option to import demo style only (ie. not demo posts, for sites having content already)
• Built-in page builder (immediate use after install), very simple, lightweight & magazine-focused instead of general-purpose
• Header builder, very simple header builder to reorder elements, included in Live Customizer
• Simple mega-menu, enable by checking a box
• 7 predefined single post layouts
• Live post feature, for broadcasting
• Post review, for review magazines
• Bunch of ad spots, works with Google Adsense
• Co-authors support
• View count supported. Display most-read posts
• Dark Mode / Night Mode
• Text/image logo option
• Fonts: Google fonts, self-hosted, third-party fonts
• SEO friendly: works with Yoast SEO and Rank Math
• Works with LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, Imagify & other optimization plugins
• Translation ready. Compatible with Polylang, WPML, qTranslate
• Compatible with WooCommerce
• Multi-site ready, one licence for a multisite network
• Child theme included & supported
• Free lifetime updates
• GDPR compliant
• Native WordPress code: 100% standard WordPress code, 100% hand-crafted design
• Long-term development. Regular updates. It has been around since 2015
• Well documented: heronwp.com/docs/fox

Credits

Icons and fonts: Font Awesome, Feather and Google Fonts.

Scripts: Flickity, Masonry, imagesLoaded, Magnific Popup, Tooltipster, FitVids.js and Theia Sticky Sidebar.

Images used on the demo sites are for demonstration only and are NOT included in the theme.

Changelog

View changelog: heronwp.com/docs/fox/changelog

Support

Visit our support desk: heronwp.com/support