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
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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