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.