The Fox – Minimal Magazine WordPress Theme for News & Blogs

The Fox is a WordPress theme for online magazines, news websites, newspapers and blogs. It comes with 37 demos that import in one click, a built-in page builder and a header builder, so you don’t need Elementor or any other page builder plugin. In development since 2015.

• Current version: v7.1.3 – Oct 05, 2026 (changelog)
• Live demo: fox.heronwp.com
• Online docs: heronwp.com/docs/fox
• Support: heronwp.com/support
• Featured on wp-collections and athemes

Demos

37 demos, plus Elementor versions of some of them. Every demo is a different configuration of the same theme, so a layout from one demo can be used in any other. You can import a demo with its sample posts, or import only its settings and styles if your site already has content.

• News and newspaper: Newspaper, Times News, Times Writer, New York, Stockholm, Washington (opinion and politics), Street (business and finance news), Guard (news and sport)
• Magazine: Classic, Time Magazine, Hawaii, Cambridge (business and leadership), London, Hague, Massa, Square, Bern, Los Angeles, Mazed (film, music and culture), Brooklyn (entertainment)
• Topic sites: Science (science news), Commentary (criticism, fiction and satire), Fashion (fashion and beauty), Food (recipes and cooking), Travel, Decor (interior design), Nordic (Scandinavian living), Smooth (art and culture)
• Blog: Medium, Deodar (lifestyle blog), Willow (travel and photography blog), Clean, Pine, Paris, John, Daniel, Paper

Features

Page building and layout

• Built-in page builder for the homepage and category pages. Blocks: post grid, post list, post masonry, post carousel, post group, heading, text, image, ad, subscribe form, authors, sidebar
• Header builder in the Customizer, with sticky header and off-canvas menu
• Mega menu, turned on per menu item
• 7 single post layouts, including full-width hero and half hero
• Dark mode, with its own text and background colors
• Text or image logo
• Fonts: Google Fonts, or upload your own font files
• Responsive on phones, tablets and desktops

Editorial tools

• Live blog: mark a post as live for breaking news. It is labelled on the homepage and in the post header
• Review posts with scores, and a best-rated posts widget
• Co-authors, with the Co-Authors Plus plugin
• View counts and most-viewed posts, with the Post Views Counter plugin
• Autoload next post, reading progress bar
• Author box, related posts, share buttons (Facebook, X, Pinterest, WhatsApp, email)
• Post formats: video, gallery, audio. The featured image can be taken automatically from a YouTube or Vimeo link
• Newsletter signup form, with the MC4WP Mailchimp plugin

Ads

• Ad slots at the top and bottom of single posts and before and after the post content, plus an ad block in the page builder and an ad widget
• Each ad slot takes an image with a link, or ad code such as Google AdSense, with separate versions for desktop, tablet and mobile

Performance

• Critical CSS option: above-the-fold styles are printed inline
• Tested with 100,000+ posts
• Works with LiteSpeed Cache, WP Rocket, Imagify and other optimization plugins
• Test any demo yourself: PageSpeed Insights

Compatibility

• WordPress 6.0 to 7.1, PHP 7.4 and 8
• Block editor (Gutenberg) and Classic Editor. Elementor is supported but not required
• WooCommerce
• Translation ready. Works with WPML and Polylang
• SEO plugins: Yoast SEO, Rank Math
• Contact Form 7
• WordPress Multisite
• Child theme included
• Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari

Changelog

Support