Zox News – Professional WordPress News & Magazine Theme

Last update: Version 3.17.1 – February 10, 2025

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Zox News helps you go from blogger to boss by giving you a wide range of tools and options to give you the most professional-looking and functioning news site on the net. Zox News comes with a mobile-first-design, 8 article layouts, 4 Featured Posts layouts, parallax leaderboard ad, Theia Post Slider, Theia Sticky Sidebar, Reviewer Plugin, Woocommerce-ready, and so much more!

More Key Features

One-Click Demo Import – Quickly set up the theme like the demo with the One Click Demo Import plugin!

RTL Ready – With access to over 800+ Google fonts and a built-in RTL feature that lets you switch the stylesheet to RTL with the click of a button, it has never been easier to set your site to RTL.

Featured Headlines – Most major news and magazine sites use shorter “teaser” headlines in their featured content sections. Zox News gives you the same option to spruce up your featured items in the Featured Posts section on the homepage and category pages.

Video/Audio Posts – Easily replace the standard featured image in posts with embedded video or audio from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.

Retina Ready – The theme and its images look sharp and crisp on retina-ready devices!

800+ Google Fonts – Use any of the over 800 Google Fonts to set the fonts for the general text, navigation menu text, Featured Posts & Headlines, article title, and headings.

Unlimited Colors – Easily change the colors of the main background, navigation background/text, the primary theme color, and links to any color from within the Theme Options.

Unlimited Ad Units – Zox News takes full advantage of available ad space to give you a myriad of options to place your ads. The ad units include a main leaderboard area with adjustable height and width that can accommodate any size ad, an Ad Widget that can accommodate 300px wide ads of any height in the sidebar as well as any size leaderboard ad in the homepage widget area. Zox News also comes with a Wallpaper Ad that spans the width of the screen and site behind the content area.

Complete List of Features

• Compatible with WordPress 6.8+
• SEO Optimized
• RTL Ready
• Gutenberg Ready
• Google AMP ready
• HTML5 & CSS3
• Translation ready (contains .po/.mo files)
• Child Theme included
• Comes with XML dummy data (posts, tags, categories, menus, dummy images)
• Easy implementation with Google Adsense ads
• WordPress Featured Image support
• WordPress Custom Background support
• WordPress Custom Menu support
• Unlimited Colors
• Youtube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud integration
• Schema.org Rich Snippets
• Custom Fly-Out Navigation
• WooCommerce compatible
• bbPress compatible
• Infinite Scroll
• Custom Theme Options panel
• Custom CSS section in Theme Options so users will not lose custom changes to CSS when you update to a new version
• Full-Width Posts
• Megamenus
• Facebook comments support
• Built-In Disqus comments support
• Free lifetime updates
• Easy logo customization
• 800+ Google Fonts
• Threaded comments
• Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off
• Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off
• Optional Caption/Photo Credit below Featured Images in posts
• Custom copyright/footer text
• Custom favicon
• In-depth documentation
• And much more!

Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of Zox News that are not covered by the theme documentation or if you run into any bugs with the theme, please submit a ticket at the MVP Themes Support Center.

Unfortunately, MVP Themes cannot perform customization work for each of our customers, so Zox News comes “as-is”. Any customization you would like to make to the theme outside of fixing bugs will need to be done by you or a third party.

Updates

v3.17.1 February 10, 2025

• Fixes FontAwesome issue from previous update

Affected files: /font-awesome/ (entire folder) header.php style.css 

v3.17.0 January 12, 2025

• Important security updates
• Fixes CSS issues created by latest iOS update
• Updates Font Awesome to latest version

Affected files: MVP Theme Social Buttons Plugin (1.3.0) /admin/admin-page.php /parts/post-single.php fly-menu.php footer.php functions.php header.php style.css 

v3.16.0 August 1, 2023

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds ability to set Featured Posts to display latest posts.

Affected files: /admin/options.php featured-latest.php (new file) page-home.php style.css 

v3.15.0 November 24, 2022

• Improves SEO accessibility

functions.php header.php style.css 

v3.14.1 April 27, 2022

• Fixes bug with archive images on mobile
• Fixes bug with lazy loading on homepage

Affected files: /css/media-queries.css /js/scripts.js style.css 

v3.14.0 March 25, 2022

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds large image every 5 posts in blog sections of homepage and archive pages
• Adds separate menu for Google AMP flyout menu
• Fixes bug with Twitter author link on posts
• Fixes bug with json errors

Affected files: /css/media-queries.css /parts/post-single.php amp-fly-menu.php archive.php category.php functions.php page-home.php style.css 

v3.13.0 January 1, 2022

• Fixes social sharing bug in full width pages
• Fixes bug with FontAwesome and Child Themes
• Fixes bug with Google AMP console errors
• Fixes bug with video embeds

Affected files: zox-news-child.zip /alp/alp-single.php amp-single.php page-fullwidth.php style.css 

v3.12.0 October 21, 2021

• Adds Tiktok social link to footer and flyout menu
• Updates FontAwesome to version 5.15.4

Affected files: MVP Social Buttons Plugin (version 1.2) /admin/options.php /font-awesome (entire folder) fly-menu.php footer.php functions.php header.php style.css 

v3.11.1 August 10, 2021

• Fixes bug with comment replies

Affected files: comments.php style.css 

v3.11.0 July 7, 2021

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds ability to place inline ads in articles every X paragraphs.
• NEW FEATURE! – Adds Google AMP Ads via the inline article ad feature.

Affected files: /admin/options.php /css/amp-style.css functions.php style.css 

v3.10.0 June 5, 2021

• Adds ability to use shortcodes in all ad areas

Affected files: /parts/post-single.php /widgets/widget-ad.php /widgets/widget-feat2.php /widgets/widget-flex.php featured.php header.php style.css 

v3.9.0 March 20, 2021

• Fixes bug with video embeds
• Fixes various javascript-related bugs

Affected files: functions.php style.css 

v3.8.0 February 28, 2021

• Allows comments on AMP page without clicking comment button
• Fixes conflict with Events Calendar Plugin

Affected files: /css/amp-style.css amp-single.php functions.php style.css 

v3.7.0 December 19, 2020

• Fixes bug with sticky navigation after WordPress 5.6 update
• Fixes bug with Video Embed box in post editor

Affected files: /parts/post-single.php functions.php style.css 

v3.6.0 October 26, 2020

• Fixes second bug with video embeds after WordPress 5.5 Update
• Fixes bug with Featured Videos not appearing in AMP version of posts

Affected files: amp-single.php style.css 

v3.5.0 August 22, 2020

• Fixes bug with video embeds after WordPress 5.5 Update
• Fixes bug with Comments not displaying after WordPress 5.5 Update

Affected files: functions.php style.css 

v3.4.0 June 28, 2020

• Adds ability to toggle Megamenu feature on/off via the Theme Options
• Updates AMP Plugin to latest version (1.5.4)

Affected files: /admin/options.php functions.php style.css 

v3.3.2 April 2, 2020

• Fixes bug with Gutenberg after WordPress 5.4 update

Affected files: functions.php style.css 

v3.3.1 December 13, 2019

• Fixes minor issue with default Theme Settings

Affected files: page-home.php style.css 

v3.3.0 September 7, 2019

• Fixes small bug with AMP post template
• Updates article Schema to include time updated
• Updates category Featured Posts function

Affected files: /alp/alp-single.php /parts/post-single.php amp-single.php category.php style.css 

v3.2.0 June 5, 2019

• New Feature! – Adds Gutenberg compatibility
• New Feature! – Adds ability to backup and reset Theme Options
• Fixes bug related to Google Ads

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php functions.php style.css 

v3.1.1 Marrch 19, 2019

• Fixes error notice with AMP plugin
• Fixes minor bugs

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php functions.php style.css 

v3.1.0 January 22, 2019

• Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (2.1.3)
• Updates Google AMP plugin to latest version (1.0.2)
• Fixes bug with Theme Options permissions
• Fixes RTL bug with posts
• Fixes bug affecting some installations with AMP responsiveness

Affected files: /css/amp-media-queries.css /css/media-queries-rtl.css /plugins/amp.zip /plugins/theia-post-slider.zip functions.php style.css 

v3.0.0 December 21, 2018

• New Feature! – Adds Auto Load Posts feature!
• Fixes minor styling issue
• Updates MVP Social Buttons plugin to version 1.1

Affected files: All files 

v2.1.1 – December 6, 2018

• Fixes bug with Google Adsense in leaderboard caused by last update

Affected files: /admin/admin-page.php /admin/options.php style.css 

v2.1.0 – November 28, 2018

• New Feature!– Updates to new and improved Theme Options panel
• Fixes bugs with AMP post template
• Fixes bug with Twitter button on Teaser posts
• Fixes minor bug with mobile styling

Affected files: All 

v2.0.1 – July 19, 2018

• Fixes minor bugs with Google AMP feature

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php amp-single.php functions.php style.css 

v2.0.0 – July 17, 2018

• New Feature! – Adds Google AMP compatibility
• Updates Theia Post Slider to the latest version (2.0.0)

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php /css/amp-style.css /css/amp-media-queries.css amp-fly-menu.php amp-single.php functions.php style.css 

v1.6.0 – April 24, 2018

• Adds One Click Demo Import function
• Fixes Flexible Widget wide version sidebar responsiveness
• Now hides Twitter icon if author does not have one

Affected files: All files in /import/ folder /css/media-queries.css /css/media-queries-rtl.css functions.php single.php style.css 

v1.5.0 – December 13, 2017

• Fixes bug with Woocommerce country/state dropdowns on checkout page

Affected files: functions.php style.css 

v1.4.0 – November 4, 2017

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds new Featured Posts layout for homepage
• NEW FEATURE! – Adds new Featured Posts layout for category pages
• Includes latest version of Theia Post Slider plugin (1.15.1)
• Fixes bug with reply button on author comments
• Fixes bug with translation on Featured 5 layout
• Fixes minor bug related to Continue Reading mobile button feature
• Fixes bug with sidebar on Latest News page template
• Fixes bug with PHP7 compatibility with widgets

Affected files: All files 

v1.3.0 – August 23, 2017

• Fixes bug with Flexible Widget responsiveness
• Fixes bug with default post layout
• Fixes bug with Tabber Widget creating additional post below main article

Affected files: /css/media-queries.css /css/media-queries-rtl.css /widgets/widget-tabber.php functions.php single.php style.css 

v1.2.0 – August 10, 2017

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds new Featured Post layout
• Fixes bug with new Facebook API update affecting sharing posts
• Fixes bug with Featured 1 layout and Tabber section when no image is used

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php /css/media-queries.css /css/media-queries-rtl.css /css/rtl.css /widgets/widget-tabber.php featured.php header.php style.css 

v1.1.1 – August 6, 2017

• Fixes bug with translation of “ago”
• Fixes bug with leaderboard ad when using Post Layout 5 or 6 as the default

Affected files: All files 

v1.1.0 – August 1, 2017

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds RTL support
• Fixes minor bug in bottom nav menu in Safari
• Fixes bug with Featured Posts 4 layout
• Fixes bug with Woocommerce thumbnail zoom

Affected files: /css/media-queries-rtl.css /css/rtl.css functions.php style.css