Themes & Plugins for WordPress
WordPress that gets out of your way
We make magazine, news and sports themes for WordPress — plus a small set of plugins that fix the things WordPress leaves to you. Built on the block editor, shipped as clean code, licensed under the GPL. No page builder required, no subscription to keep your site running.
Not ready to buy? Start with a free theme or take any demo for a spin first.
16
Themes in the shop
$69
One-time, per theme
5
Free plugins
GPL
Licensed like WordPress
Standard tools. Nothing proprietary.
Everything we build runs on plain WordPress and the open web platform underneath it. If you ever stop using our themes, your content, your database and your site stay exactly where they are.
Themes and plugins for the CMS that runs a big slice of the web.
Block Editor
Edited with the editor already in your dashboard.
Written for modern PHP, on any ordinary host.
Semantic HTML5 markup and CSS you can actually read.
Same licence as WordPress itself — modify it freely.
WordPress and the WordPress logo are trademarks of the WordPress Foundation. PHP and the PHP logo are trademarks of The PHP Group. The HTML5 logo is © W3C, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. These marks identify the technology our products are built for; StepFox Studio is an independent developer and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by these organisations.
The Shop
Our newest WordPress themes
Designs for publishers who post every day: news sites, sports coverage, reviews and long-running magazines. Every theme has a live demo you can click through before you decide.
Free Plugins
Five plugins, each doing one job
We wrote these because we needed them for our own sites. They are free to download, and each one solves a specific problem instead of trying to be a suite.
StepFox Looks
Per-device styling for every block. Set typography, colour, spacing and layout separately for desktop, tablet and mobile — plus hover states and per-block CSS — without leaving the editor.
Regulator
Granular user access control. Decide exactly who can view, edit or delete any piece of content, build custom permission sets, and hand them out by user or by role.
Top List Manager
Ranking lists, leaderboards and top-ten countdowns built with drag and drop. Made for sports sites, review portals and anyone whose traffic lives on list posts.
Brand Reviews
Star ratings, customer reviews and testimonials in grid, list or carousel layouts — with schema markup so the stars can show up in search results too.
Multiple Sites Control
One dashboard for every WordPress install you look after. Bulk updates, health and uptime at a glance, scheduled backups and security alerts across the whole set.
Browse the plugin library →
Full feature lists, screenshots, GitHub repositories and direct downloads for all five plugins.
Why buy from a small studio
We are the people who write the code, answer the support tickets and update the themes. There is no layer in between.
No subscription holding your site hostage
A theme is $69, once. Nothing switches off, nothing phones home for a licence check, and your site keeps working whether or not you ever buy from us again.
Built for the block editor, not around it
Our newer themes are full site editing themes: headers, footers, archives and templates are all edited in WordPress itself. No third-party builder to learn, and nothing to migrate later.
Light pages by default
We keep the markup lean and the stylesheets small, because a magazine front page has enough to carry already. Fewer scripts means faster loads and happier readers on mobile data.
What you see is what you install
Every theme has a live demo, and the demo content ships with the download. You are not buying a screenshot and then rebuilding it yourself for a weekend.
The code is yours to change
Released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later — the same terms as WordPress. Edit it, extend it, hand it to your developer. No obfuscation, no encoded files.
A person, not a ticket queue
Ask a question on the support page and the reply comes from someone who has read the theme’s source. The tutorials cover the rest.
Questions we get asked
What is the difference between a block theme and a classic theme?
A classic theme is edited through the Customizer and widget areas. A block theme puts the whole site — header, footer, archive pages, single posts — into the WordPress editor, so you change the layout the same way you write a post. Our newer releases are block themes; several older favourites are still classic, and each product page says which it is.
Do I need a page builder plugin?
No. Everything is built with WordPress core blocks and the site editor. If you want finer control over responsive styling, our own StepFox Looks plugin adds it, and it is free.
Can I look before I pay?
Yes. Every theme in the shop has a live demo linked from its product page, so you can click through the real thing. There are also free themes if you would rather start there.
Are the plugins really free?
They are. All five are free to download from their pages in the plugin library, with source available on GitHub.
What licence do the themes use?
The GNU General Public License, version 2 or later — the same licence WordPress ships under. You are free to study the code, modify it and adapt it to your project.
Where do I get help after buying?
Start with the tutorials, which cover installation and demo import. Anything they do not answer, send to us through the support page or contact form.
Pick a theme and start publishing
Sixteen designs, one price, demo content included. Install it this afternoon and have a site worth reading by tonight.
