11103012-The Fox – Minimal Blog/Magazine Theme For Creators.zip

The Fox – Minimal Blog/Magazine Theme For Creators


DEMO

The Fox is a super fast, mobile friendly and SEO-optimized minimalist WordPress blog/magazine theme with 1,000+ options that allow you to customize every single element, say post title, content font face, font size, color.. All dedicated demos are one-click importable to help you build a clean and professional blog or magazine in no time.

The Fox is also super lightweight. No extra page builders required. All customizations are built-in theme. The theme supports Elementor very well with 10+ Fox-blocks but it’s not mandatory to install Elementor.

FOX DEMOS

  • Fox Classic: Original design with strong typography, big bold magazine style that’s suitable for Photography, Food, Politics, Opinion, Fashion, Travel, Illustration, Comics, Cartoon..
  • Fox Times: Inspired by popular online news sites such as New York Times, La Times, Telegraph.. that covers Politics, Opinion, Interview, World News, Arts, Cooking..
  • Fox Science: Inspired by Scientific American, clean magazine for Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Nature, Medical, History, Technology, Artificial Intelligence news..
  • Fox Fashion: Inspired by Bazaar, a minimalist and elegant, dedicated for Beauty, Fashion, Celebrities news, Lifestyle, Love, Cosmetics, Horoscope..

If you like blogging, Fox is great: 100% compatibility with WordPress 5.4 and Gutenberg Editor. It also supports YouTube videos, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok embed in post. You’ll love Fox’s minimalism in design and modern typography style.

Fox is also WooCommerce-ready for shop owners who wanna build a blog shop.

Latest Version: 4.3.0.1 (April 17, 2020) Click here to view the Change Log

Summary of Fox 4.3: Much more homepage page builder options, live-update post like New York Times, BBC, CNN, drop cap Gothic font, header stack 3, half-hero post dark skin, subtitle design, caption text design.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE?

  • Installable WordPress theme file
  • All demos with one-click import feature. Just click then your site looks 100% same as demo.
  • All necessary plugins
  • All photos in demo that are free to use
  • FREE lifetime updates
  • 6 months support by default (or 12 months if you choose). You can extend support later.
  • Theme Documentation

FULL FEATURE LIST

WordPress 5.4 compatible. Gutenberg editor ready

Fox is always update to date and will be compatible with future WordPress versions. We also support Classic Editor for those who doesn’t like the new editor.

Fox is also support PHP 7 and SSL friendly. In fact, The Fox is running in PHP 7 with SSL enabled.

Responsive and Mobile-Friendly

While mobile is an inevitable and trending, Fox is serious with mobile version.

Beautiful Off Canvas-menu:  Look like Facebook, nytimes, new yorker, elle with custom mobile menu. You can select mobile menu items different from desktop version.

Responsive Banner Ad: You can upload different images for desktop, tablet and phone.

Responsive Typography: You can set different font size for different devices. Each element: logo, body text, heading, navigation, blog post title, single post title, post meta etc.

Responsive Images: All images use srcset, mobile version always loads images with appropriate sizes that lighter than desktop so it’s faster.

Lazy Load compatible built-in lazy load helps your site loading faster significantly.

Retina-ready: Fox uses icon font for everything so it looks sharp even on iPhone X with 3x zoom or any retina device.

Upload custom mobile logo: You can upload mobile version of your site logo. By default, it’s text logo that’s very light-weight.

GDPR compliant

Fox  or none of our WordPress themes or plugins collect any kind of personal data, like email, name or IP addresses.

SEO Friendly

Fox is optimized for mobile, it’s definitely good for SEO.

It’s fast this is absolutely good for SEO.

Text Logo : Fox is a text logo WP theme, it’s good for SEO.

Theme is semantic in schema.org standard : article, header, footer, heading etc. Microdata supported.

Coded with latest HTML5 & CSS3 technique.

All headings H1, H2, H3 are well-organized.

CSS, JS files are minified to improve site speed.

All Google Fonts are combined into single-call to load, and only necessary font weights are loaded.

Built-in Homeage Builder

Fox has a built-in simple homepage builder with unlimited sections and live view to build your homepage. In fact, all demos are made out of built-in homepage builder. No extra page builders is required. No Elementor/Visual Composer or any page builder needed.

What’s advantages of a built-in page builder? Third-party builders often have a lot of redundant elements because they’re built for multi-purpose. Their options are often generic and difficult to set consitently. Also, their mobile design is bland.

The Fox homepage builder allows you to build as many sections as you want. Here’s list of each section options:

  • Choose what’s to display: from 9 predefined layouts: big post, slider, grid, masonry (pinterest-like), list, group 1, group 2, standard, vertical.
  • Choose post source: Latest posts, mos viewed, best rated, any category, author, post format or custom post type.
  • Shortcode is allowed: If you don’t want to display posts, you can enter any shortcode instead (eg. newsleter form or stock market table)
  • Customize components: Show/hide post title, thumbnail, excerpt, author.. or anything in each section
  • Sidebar: Display fullwidth or sidebar left/right. Select any sidebar or create a new one. Fox supports unlimited sidebars. Sidebar can set to be sticky.
  • Section heading: Choose among 10 predefined heading designs, you can set size, alignment, color and link to each heading.
  • Background, color and section border

Versatile Post Layouts

Fox contains a lot of blog post layouts, each has a lot of option so that you can customize each block for your need. Each of following layouts can be choosen for homepage builder section, main blog stream, archive category/tag/author, or each individual category/tag.

Advanced query options

Here’s what you can control:

  • Number of posts to show
  • Post source: Latest posts, sticky posts, featured posts, only gallery/video/audio posts, random posts or from custom post type
  • Categories to include/exclude,
  • Authors to include/exclude
  • Offset (number of posts to skip)
  • Order by: Title, date, view count, comment count or random
  • Write your custom query if you understand how to write WP custom query

Custom Post Type

Fox supports very well custom post type and custom taxonomy. To create custom post type, you can install Custom post type UI plugin, create your Book or Movie post type, Movie Genre taxonomies.. Fox can recognizes all of them and adds them to query in homepage builder.

Non-duplicating posts

Homepage builder allows you to load unique posts only. It means posts are being loaded in section 1 won’t show up again in section 2. It gives your readers a consistent experience.

Archive Top Area

In each category/tag, you may choose to display most viewed posts or featured posts of that category/tag in some manner: post group 1, group 2, vertical post, post grid..

Here’s an example of top area of archive page.

Category, Tag Options

Each category, tag has its own option set. You can choose different layouts for different categories. Here’s the list of options you can set for each individual category/tag:

  • Post layout: grid, masonry, list, standard..
  • Sidebar: Left, right or no sidebar
  • Top area: layout for top area or disable.
  • Category cover image. Example >>
  • Sidebar selection: It means you can display different sidebars for different categories.

Built-in author options

  • Social profile URL such as facebook, twitter, instagram..
  • Author avatar: So you don’t need to register a user avatar in Gravatar
  • Author cover image. Example >>

Unlimited Sidebars

Fox has a built-in simple Sidebar Manager that allows you to create as many sidebars as you want. Who needs this? You will need this in case:

  • Use a custom sidebar only only for homepage builder
  • Use a custom sidebar for some page
  • Use a custom sidebar for some post
  • Use a custom sidebar for some category/tag

All of those are possible with Fox.

Advanced Thumbnail Options

You can choose over landscape, square, portrait thumbnail for your blog posts or enter your custom thumbnail size that right to you, eg. 720×400.

Thumbnail hover effect:

  • None
  • Image Fade
  • Image darken
  • Your brand logo hover image
  • First letter of post title

Total Typography Control

Fox contains 3 primary font positions: body font, heading font and navigation font. For each position, you can choose to use system font (Helvetica, Georgia..), Google Font or upload your own font (woff2 and woff files).

For other elements (post title, content, widget title, post meta, button, input form etc), you can select either font from those primary positions or enter your own custom font.

Each Google font, you can select only font weights you need to load to improve loading speed. Latest Fox Google font list update: April 09, 2020

Each element, you can control font size, font size on tablet and mobile, font weight, font style, letter spacing, line-height, text transform, color, link hover text decoration.

Here’s the list of typography elements you can control:

  • Body font
  • Heading font
  • Navigation first level
  • Navigation dropdown
  • Logo font
  • Off-canvas mobile menu
  • Section heading font
  • Blog post title
  • Blog post meta
  • Standalone category (above post title)
  • Single post title
  • Single post subtitle
  • Single post content
  • Single label heading
  • Archive title font
  • Widget title
  • Button
  • Form input
  • Block quote
  • Drop cap (with Gothic font option)
  • Image caption

Also full option for languages supported: Latin, Latin Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese.

Boxed Layout with custom background

Content width can be set to 1020px, 1170px or any number you want. Feel free to change the sidebar width too.

4 Header Layouts

Sticky header can be enabled/disabled.

Powerful Menu Options

Mega menu: To enable mega menu, you just need to check to the menu item: Enable this. Very simple. Fox supports 2, 3, 4 column mega menu item.

Loads latest posts from category: You can enable this feature for category menu item in the back end, so that when your visitors hover a category menu item, it loads latest posts in that category.

2 dropdown skins: Light and dark dropdown menu.

Menu icon: You can enter menu icon from Font Awesome 5 set or Feather icon set.

Off canvas menu

Build a professional site with off canvas menu that opens by a hamburger button, like Facebook, Nytimes, Elle.. Fox offers off canvas menu with 2 different skins: Light and Dark.

You can choose an off canvas menu that differs from your main header menu.

The hamburger button can be enabled for disabled. Example of minimal header with no menu, only hamburger button >>.

Fox supports text logo with full customization over logo style: font face, size, weight, color.. Text logo is practically good for SEO and is a simple solution if you don’t want to design an image logo.

If you have your own design, image logo is supported. Fox also has option for logo on mobile (a smaller logo for mobile header).

Flexible Footer Sidebars

Fox offers 2 footer sidebar skins: Light and dark. Here’s footer sidebar layouts:

Widgets often being used in footer sidebars:

  • Copyright
  • Instagram
  • Text widget
  • About widget
  • Post List
  • Menu links
  • Footer Menu
  • Footer Logo
  • Newsletter form
  • Search form

Build your own footer with your creativity while Fox supports custom color and background color/image for footer sidebars.

Versatile single post layouts

There’re 6 predefined single post layouts, that you can set locally for each individual post or globally for all posts

Post Formats Supported

  • Standard post
  • Video post: YouTube, Vimeo or any popular video service. You can also upload your own mp4 video file.
  • Audio post: Spotify, Soundcloud or any popular audio service. You can also upload your own audio file.
  • Gallery post: with 7 gallery styles, see below.
  • Link format: Your post in blog can point to an external link

Autoload Next Post

Create an infinite scroll for single posts to keep your visitors on site. When visitors reach to the bottom of single post, it loads a new post automatically.

This is a feature inspired by qz.com or elle.com

Here’s an example. Note: it loads only 1 post for sample. When you enable it in your site, it loads infinitely.

Automatic video thumbnail

Once Youtube or Vimeo video URL set for your video format post, Fox automatically pulls thumbnail from the video for your post.

Two column text

Example of 2-column text post >>

One-column text post >>

You can control column text for each individual post in post settings area. It can be set globally as well.

Drop cap

Beautiful drop cap for your post. Drop cap can be set globally as initial letter of every post, or being set for any paragraph. There’re 3 drop cap styles:

  • Simple letter
  • Dark background
  • Color background

Drop cap fonts can be choosen: Same body font, heading font, navigation font or Gothic font. Example of drop cap with Gothic font >>

Built-in Light box

Fox integrates a beautiful light box. See example of gallery with light box >>

Reading Progress

The reading progress indicates how much your post content has been read. You can enable/disable it, set it at top or bottom with custom thickness and color. See example of reading progress >>

Post View Counter

Fox integrates a simple post view counter but in a separated plugin. You may choose to install it or not. It counts post views by session so it’s pretty correct. It means refreshing the post 10 times in 1 minute still counts as 1 view.

In each builder section or post list widget, you have option to display most viewed posts: all time, yearly, monthly or weekly.

There’s a graph in the dashboard  to represent view statistics.

Related Posts

Fox integrates related posts in few positions: after post content, bottom of single post or in footer sliding box.

Related post source can be: same tags, same category, same author, latest posts, featured posts.

You can display related posts in grid 2 – 4 columns or in a list.

Review Post

Fox integrates a simple built-in review system that helps you to build a review blog/magazine such as book review, movie review etc.

Sample review post >>

In widgets, you can choose to display latest reviews or best rated articles.

Sponsored Post

Example of sponsored post >>

You can change the sponsor label, name, image logo, image width and the sponsor URL.

Live Post

For live events like football match or an outbreak (Coronavirus, Forest Fire..), it has a label as “Live post” (both on blog and in single post) and the time indicator of latest update time. This feature is inspired by news sites like NyTimes, BBC, CNN..

See example of live post >>

Align Wide & Fullwidth Images

You can choose to set each image in your post to be aligned wide (120px larger than the post content width) or fullwidth (to the edge of screen).

Those options can be set for each image, each post or all posts.

Post with all images set fullwidth >>

Post with all images set wide >>

7 Gallery Styles

Ads Spots

Fox has a lot of ad spots you can use responsive banner ad or enter your own ad code, say Adsense. Each banner ad has option for desktop banner, tablet and mobile ad.

Here’re spots you can insert your ads:

  • Before Header
  • After Header
  • After Logo
  • Before each homepage builder section
  • Before the main stream posts in homepage builder
  • Main Sidebar
  • 4 Footer Columns
  • Before single post title
  • Before single post content
  • After single post content
  • In a page if you use Elementor.

Widget List

  • About widget
  • Instagram Feed (third-party)
  • Facebook Like Box
  • Pinterest Feed
  • Responsive Ad (Banner or custom Adsense Code)
  • Post List (Latest, Most Viewed, Best Rated)
  • Author List
  • Social List
  • Mailchimp Form For WP (third-party)
  • Button
  • Copyright
  • Header, Footer Logo
  • Header, Footer Menu

WooCommerce Ready

Fox is WooCommerce 4 ready. You can build an online shop within WordPress platform by using Fox + WooCommerce. Here’s the example shop >>

Elementor page builder ready

Elementor is a free page builder has powered more than 4 millions of WordPress sites. Even not required but Fox works very well with Elementor and comes with extra Elementor addons:

  • Post Standard Layout
  • Post Newspaper Layout
  • Post Grid Layout
  • Post Masonry (Pinterest-like) Layout
  • Post List Layout
  • Post Vertical Layout
  • Post Big Layout
  • Post Slider Layout
  • Post Group 1 (2 columns)
  • Post Group 2 (3 columns)
  • Heading
  • Author Grid/List
  • Button
  • Responsive Ad

Compatible Plugins

Social Share

Fox supports share icons of all popular social sites. You can display share icons before, sticky along post or after the post content.

  • Facebook
  • Messenger (only rare themes support this)
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Linkedin
  • Whatsapp
  • Reddit
  • Email

(Note that Instagram doesn’t have a share button)

Quick Translation

Fox supports more than 20 essential translation words right inside the customizer panel so you don’t need to install a third-party translation plugin. Words you can translate quickly in Customizer:

  • More
  • Keep Reading
  • Read More
  • Previous
  • Next
  • Type and hit enter
  • by %
  • Published on
  • Latest posts
  • You might be interested in
  • and many words

Miscellaneous Features

  • Human-reading time: 3 days ago, 19 hours ago..
  • Sentence base: word or character
  • Multi-site ready
  • Cross browser compatibility: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Edge.
  • Retina ready
  • Support for multi page articles
  • Child theme supported
  • Reading time in post meta
  • CSS, JS Compressed by default. However, you can select to load many individual files if you want for your own purpose.
  • Show/Hide everything in your site.
  • Most of options are local and global: ie. there’s an option for each single post and there’s an option in Customizer that applies for all posts.
  • Font Awesome 5 icon list
  • Custom header logo URL
  • Upload default thumbnail in case there’s no thumbnail
  • Custom post blog thumbnail, ie. you can set blog image that’s different from single post thumbnail.

Online Documentation

Fox offers dedicated & comprehensive online documentation you can access quick & easy.

Updates & Support

Once purchased, you have LIFE TIME updates. Update can be done automatically within single-click by using Envato Market plugin. See how to update the theme >>

We offer great support & friendly help at withemes.ticksy.com

REAL REVIEWS

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HOW PEOPLE USE THE FOX

Here’s a showcase of few real customers who are using The Fox theme.

BEFORE PURCHASE

Please note that WordPress theme is a digital product, we worked hard for it and do not accept refund. Think twice before you buy. Refund is only issued when item is broken, lacks of support/docs or malfunctions. See Refund policy here.

CHANGE LOG

Version 4.3.0.1 – April 17, 2020

- fix the issue checkbox can't be saved in single post back end.

Version 4.3 – April 17, 2020

- homepage builder: non-duplicate posts option
- homepage builder: more post layout options: masonry, vertical, standard, newspaper
- homepage builder: section design option: color, background, border
- homepage builder: more heading styles
- homepage builder: more heading options: size, color, align
- homepage builder: custom query option
- homepage builder: supports custom post type taxonomy query
- homepage builder: option to include/exclude multi-categories
- homepage builder: option to include multi-authors
- homepage builder: banner ad option for tablet/mobile
- homepage builder: allow to use sidebar for each section
- homepage builder: allow to display shortcode in each section

- header: new stack 3 layout
- header: social size, social style options
- header: heavy shadow for header sticky
- header: sticky header logo
- header: allow to disable primary menu
- header: option for hamburger button

- footer: footer bottom, footer widgets custom color
- footer: footer sidebar vertical align
- footer: disable footer logo option

- blog: supports grid 5 cols, masonry 5 cols for archive layouts
- blog: thumbnail showing effect
- blog: more options for each blog type: group 1, group 2, slider, vertical..

- post: "live post" feature for breaking news
- post: post hero dark skin
- post: option to disable scroll down button for hero posts
- post: minimal header logo height for hero posts
- post: single post, top banner
- post: allow to display related posts after both content and sidebar
- post: support stretch wide and full for each individual image
- post: query options for footer sliding box
- post: allow to display featured posts in related posts, bottom posts, footer sliding box

- design: block quote quote icon, alignment
- design: design option for caption text
- design: add drop cap font option, Gothic font
- design: design options for subtitle

- widget: 2, 3 column option for author grid widget

- general: update google font list
- general: built-in user avatar option

- improve: overall design
- improve: off-canvas menu design
- improve: post group on mobile design
- improve: social share
- improve: mega menu item load on hover to improve site speed
- improve: Recommend Instagram Feed plugin due to Instagram policy changes
- improve: No longer requires Elementor
- improve: Sidebar 2 columns on tablet for better responsive display
- improve: post group on mobile
- improve: contact form button
- improve: hero post design
- improve: CSS Sass structure

- fix: can't disable header sticky
- fix: alt tag for image logo
- fix: drop cap issue when first letter is not in <p> tag
- fix: review display when no review criteria
- fix: empty metabox value in classic editor
- fix: lightbox gallery issue
- fix: sidebar missing when import demo
- fix: woocommerce number of related products

- deprecate: lazy load due to lack of consistence. supports third-party lazyload plugins

CREDITS

All photos are credited to authors on Unsplash and Pixabay. Those photos are 100% free and you’re allowed to use any of them.

Font Information

  • Fox Classic: Oswald for heading and navigation, Merriweather for post body. The logo font is Futura Condensed.
  • Fox Times: Ultra for section title, Rokkitt font for the logo. Libre Franklin for the homepage title and Merriweather for post content. Nanum Myeongjo for single post title, Baskervville for the sub title.
  • Fox Fashion: Arapey for the logo, heading. Gothic A1 for navigation and Tinos for post content.
  • Fox Science: Bentham for post title, Lora for post content and Libre Franklin for header navigation.

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