ZoxPress – The All-In-One WordPress News Theme

Last update: Version 2.11.0 – March 4, 2024

ZoxPress is the culmination of 10+ years of WordPress theme development and customer input. With a host of new features combined with a slew of requested features over the years, ZoxPress gives you every tool and design you desire to publish the most professional news site possible. With 100 different homepage combinations, all-new Night Mode, Parallax Inline Article Ads, Auto Loaded Posts, One-Click Demo Install, and a host of other features, ZoxPress might just be the last news theme you ever purchase!

Testimonials

More Key Features

Over 50 Header Options – Easily set the width and height of each header section while choosing where to display the menu, logo, hamburger menu, Woocommerce shopping cart, social network buttons, or custom HTML. Also compatible with WordPress’ header image feature that allows you to set an image as the background of the top header.

14 Post Layouts – Choose your own stunning post layout for all posts, or for individual posts.

Google AMP Compatible – Deliver lightning-fast posts to all mobile devices with a Google AMP version of your posts, all while maintaining the same look and feel of your standard ZoxPress site.

WooCommerce Compatible – Set up a beautiful ecommerce section of your news site with full WooCommerce compatibility.

SportsPress Compatible – Want to set up a sports site with teams, schedules, standings, and scores? ZoxPress is fully compatible with the premier sports plugin SportsPress and SportsPress Pro.

900+ Google Fonts – Use any of the over 900 Google Fonts to set the font type, weight, and text transform for each different type of text on your site.

$81 In Plugins Included for Free! – Reviewer Plugin, Theia Post Slider, and Theia Sticky Sidebar are included in the theme at no extra cost.

Fully Responsive – ZoxPress delivers the same amazing layout and functionality on all devices and is built with a Mobile-First design.

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

Retina Ready – Easily upload separate retina logos to maintain a crisp, sharp look on all retina-ready devices.

Sticky Featured Videos – ZoxPress comes with an optional feature to allow the featured video on posts to shrink and stick to the bottom of the screen while scrolling down the page so it stays visible at all times, as seen on major news sites. The user can then click a button to close the video.

Unlimited Ad Units – ZoxPress 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. ZoxPress 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 6.6+
• SEO Optimized
• RTL Ready
• Google AMP ready
• HTML5 & CSS3
• Auto Load Posts
• Translation ready (contains .po/.mo files)
• Child Theme included
• One-Click Demo Import 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
• 900+ Google Fonts
• Threaded comments
• Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off
• Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off
• Custom copyright/footer text
• Custom favicon
• In-depth documentation
• And much more!

Online documentation: http://www.mvpthemes.com/zoxpress/documentation/

Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of ZoxPress 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 ZoxPress 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

v2.11.0 – March 4, 2024

• New Feature! -Adds ability to display Latest Posts in Featured Posts section
• Fixes issue with Twitter share button
• Fixes ID error

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin (updates to version 1.10.0)
/admin/options.php
/parts/featured/featured.php
/parts/featured/feat-ent-latest.php (new file)
/parts/featured/feat-fash-latest.php (new file)
/parts/featured/feat-net-latest.php (new file)
/parts/featured/feat-sport-latest.php (new file)
/parts/featured/feat-tech-latest.php (new file)
functions.php
style.css

v2.10.0 – November 24, 2022

• New Feature! – Includes scrolling video on mobile
• Fixes bug with clicking the close button on the fixed video
• Improves SEO accessibility

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

v2.09.0 – March 25, 2022

• Fixes bug with H1 tag on certain pages
• Fixes issue with modifying top navigation sections
• Fixes bug with json errors

Affected files:
/parts/header-bot.php
/parts/header-top.php
functions.php
style.css

v2.08.0 – November 8, 2021

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds video/gallery/audio icon to all applicable images across the site.
• Adds TikTok to the available Social buttons.

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin (updates to version 1.08.0)
/admin/options.php
/css/media-queries.css
/parts/art-blog.php
/parts/art-exlarge.php
/parts/art-exlargef.php
/parts/art-large.php
/parts/art-largef.php
/parts/art-mid.php
/parts/art-midm.php
/parts/art-search.php
/parts/art-small.php
/parts/flymenu.php
/parts/theme-options.php
footer.php
style.css

v2.07.0 – September 21, 2021

• Fixes bug with social scrolling buttons on smaller screens.
• Fixes bug with main menu logo overlap on some layouts on smaller screens.
• Fixes bug with transparent menu.
• Fixes WhatsApp button issue on mobile devices.
• Fixes bug with the “More” social sharing button option on auto load posts.

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin (updates to version 1.07.0)
/css/media-queries.css
/js/alp.js
/parts/post/post-foot.php
/parts/theme-options.php
style.css

v2.06.0 – August 10, 2021

• Fixes bug with social sharing buttons on auto load posts.
• Improves responsiveness of logos with fixed navigation off.
• Adjusts AMP navigation height to comply with Google recommendations.

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin (updates to version 1.06.0)
/admin/options.php
/parts/amp/amp-single.php
/parts/theme-options.php
style.css

v2.05.0 – May 30, 2021

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds additional social sharing button options (Reddit, copy link button, Whatsapp, and Pinterest)
• Fixes bug with dark mode logos
• Fixes bug with Featured Posts in RTL
• Fixes bug from previous version with shortcodes in ads

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin (updates to version 1.05.0)
/css/media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/css/rtl.css
/js/scripts.js
/parts/header-bot.php
/parts/header-top.php
/parts/theme-settings.php
/parts/alp/alp-side.php
/parts/post/post-foot.php
functions.php
style.css

v2.04.0 – April 24, 2021

• Makes navigation dark in dark mode and allows for separate dark mode logos
• Allows shortcode in all ad areas
• Uses large images when sharing to Twitter from AMP pages
• Adds hover scroll feature to auto load post sidebar
• Updates AMP Plugin to latest version (2.0.11)

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin (updates to version 1.04.0)
/admin/options.php
/images/logos (entire folder)
/parts/amp/amp-single.php
/parts/fly-menu.php
/parts/header-bot.php
/parts/header-top.php
/parts/theme-options.php
functions.php
header.php
style.css

v2.03.0 – March 13, 2021

• Now allows comments directly on AMP page without clicking to be taken away to non-AMP page
• Fixes bug with sticky navigation and scrolling social buttons on some installations
• Fixes bug with Flex Widget on mobile devices

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

v2.02.0 – February 9, 2021

• Fixes bug with Sports 3 Featured layout
• Fixes bug with Theme Options styling in some installations
• Fixes bug with mobile logo in some installations

Affected files:
/admin/css/main.css
/css/media-queries.css
/parts/feat-sport.php
style.css

v2.01.0 – January 7, 2021

• Fixes bug with megamenus not displaying properly on some pages
• Fixes bug with mobile menu on smaller devices
• Fixes bug with layout images not displaying in One-Click Demo Import
• Fixes bug with Top Navigation
• Other minor bug fixes

Affected files:
/admin/options.php
/css/media-queries.css
/import/images (entire folder)
/parts/theme-options.php
demo-import.php
header.php
style.css

v2.0.0 – November 24, 2020

• MAJOR UPDATE! – One-Click Demo feature now allows you to import all widgets, menus, and other demo data and also allows you to easily customize each setting within the Theme Options without any extra steps!
• Makes mobile flyout menu animation smoother
• Updates Lazy Load function to latest version
• Updates ZoxPress Plugin to version 1.03.0 with fix for widgets

Affected files:
zoxpress-plugin.zip
/css/media-queries.css
/imports (entire folder)
/js/lozad.min.js
/parts/theme-options.php
demo-import.php
functions.php
style.css

v1.09.0 – October 26, 2020

• Fixes various styling issues
• Fixes bug with embedded videos
• Fixes bug with scrolling navigation
• Fixes bug with Sticky Sidebar in Fashion 1 layout

Affected files:
/parts/featured/feat-fash.php
/parts/theme-options.php
style.css

v1.08.0 – August 21, 2020

• Fixes bug with Comments not displaying after WordPress 5.5 Update
• Fixes bug with video embeds after WordPRess 5.5 Update
• Fixes bug with link hover color on sidebar widgets
• Fixes bug with Related Posts on AMP pages
• Updates dark mode function with WooCommerce

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

v1.07.0 – June 22, 2020

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds ability to turn on/off the Dark Mode option, and well as adds the option for a permanent Dark Mode
• Now displays large image on Twitter
• Fixes bug with using “None” option for Featured Posts section on category pages

Affected files:
ZoxPress Plugin
/admin/options.php
/css/media-queries.css
/js/scripts.js
/parts/featured/(all files)
/parts/header-bot.php
/parts/theme-options.php
funnctions.php
header.php
style.css

v1.06.0 – May 1, 2020

• Fixes bug with Tech 2 layout on category pages
• Fixes bug with mobile styling of Flexible Widget
• Fixes bug with Auto Load Posts with widget sidebar
• Fixes small styling issues

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/parts/featured/feat-tech.php
/parts/theme-options.php
style.css

v1.05.0 – April 2, 2020

• Updates Google Fonts list
• Adds Social buttons styling for top header
• Fixes bug with Gutenberg after WordPress 5.4 update
• Fixes bug with Custom HTML area in top header

Affected files:
/admin/options.php
/parts/header-top.php
/parts/theme-options.php
functions.php
style.css

v1.04.0 – March 19, 2020

• Updates Google Fonts list
• Fixes comments issue on Auto Load Posts
• Fixes mobile Woocommerce styling
• Fixes bug with Featured layouts when using custom skin

Affected files:
/parts/theme-options.php
style.css

v1.03.0 – February 27, 2020

• Expands Parallax Inline Article Ads to include Google Adsense Ads
• Fixes Twitter embed styling
• Fixes bug with search results page
• Fixes bug with RTL version

Affected files:
/parts/theme-options.php
style.css

v1.03.1 – February 27, 2020

• Fixes bug with Auto Load Posts layouts from previous update

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/css/media-queries-rtl.css
/css/rtl.css
/parts/art-search.php
/parts/blog-wrap.php
/parts/theme-options.php
functions.php
search.php
style.css

v1.02.0 – February 18, 2020

• NEW FEATURE! – Adds ability to choose social sharing buttons style
• Fixes bug with Auto Load Posts function on new installations
• Fixed bug with AMP video posts
• Fixes mobile styling of Author pages
• Fixes bug with category menu dropdowns
• Fixes bug with mobile layout on category pages
• Fixes bug with responsive video embeds
• Fixes various styling issues

Affected files:
/admin/options.php
/css/media-queries.css
/parts/amp/amp-functions.php
/parts/theme-options.php
/plugins/zoxpress-plugin.zip
functions.php
single.php
style.css

v1.01.0 – February 12, 2020

• Fixes bug when AMP Plugin is not active
• Fixes bug with WooCommerce dropdowns
• Fixes various styling issues

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