Last updated on August 29, 2017
The Voux is a premium news and magazine theme launched in May 2015 by the Fuel Themes, an Envato Elite author. This template comes packed with custom widgets, predefined templates, sliders and a lot of different styles, all combined in a beautiful WordPress theme. Every WordPress user can manage The Voux with ease, and the author developed a lightweight and responsive theme that will fit in news websites.
Design
Designed to be a news theme, The Voux can easily be suited for a blog theme. This template has a beautiful, clean, airy design, and the content combines short excerpts with big grids and blocks with high scaled images. Fuel Themes author designed a template with an interesting typography, that alternates italic or bold options and combines different fonts.
If you want to see how the theme is working, you can test one of the seven predefined demos. This theme uses the page infinite scrolling feature, which is very helpful on a mobile device. On pages, only the header and footer elements can have a full-width look.
Functionality
The Theme Options panel has a clean structure. You can navigate through general, demos, header & footer settings. In the Category Settings, you can change colors and header images for each category.
With the Visual Composer front-end and back-end page builder, you can create compelling and beautiful pages. The Voux has a front-end and also a back-end page editor. Over 15 custom designed templates by Fuel Themes will join the Visual Composer’s predefined features to power up your website. With different banner styles and border containers, grids, and sliders, you can design and customize your beautiful page.
Also, with the Ad system provided in this theme, you can include advertisements on your website. Advanced users must know that The Voux includes a child theme in the installation package which is ready to secure important files without damaging the actual data.
| GENERAL | |
|---|---|
| Item name | The Voux |
| Category | News / Blog / Magazine |
| Type | Premium |
| Author | Fuel Themes |
| Envato elite author | Yes |
| Tested version | 4.0.0 |
| COMPATIBILITY | |
| Content width | 1200 px |
| Browser compatibility | IE8+ / Chrome / FF / Opera / Safari / Edge |
| WooCommerce | Yes |
| bbPress | Yes |
| BuddyPress | Yes |
| WPML | Yes |
| FONTS AND TRANSLATION | |
| Integrated translation | - |
| Google fonts | Yes |
| Custom fonts | - |
| Typekit fonts | Yes |
| RTL support | Yes |
| POST FEATURES | |
| Video posts | Yes |
| Audio posts | - |
| Post templates | 4 |
| Review system | Yes |
| Post view counter | - |
| Smart lists | - |
| Social share | Yes |
| Custom image lightbox | - |
| Custom image galery | Yes |
| PAGE FEATURES | |
| Page templates | 2 |
| Blocks | 18 |
| Widgets | 13 |
| Header styles | 5 |
| Footer styles | 4 |
| Category layouts | 1 |
| Masonry layout | Yes |
| Mega menus | Yes |
| Sticky menu | Yes |
| Sticky sidebars | Yes |
| Social networks | Yes |
| Social counter | Yes |
| Video playlists | Yes |
| Instagram widget | Yes |
| Currency widget | - |
| Pinterest widget | Yes |
| Weather widget | - |
| OTHER FEATURES | |
| Mobile theme | - |
| Demos included | 7 |
| SEO optimized | Yes |
| ADS | |
| Ad system | Yes |
| Adsense support | Yes |
| Background image ad | - |
| Custom ads | Yes |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| CSS file size | 318 kb |
| Overall speed | Medium |
| Performance documentation | - |
| USER EXPERIENCE | |
| Total ratings | 192 |
| User rating | |
| Learnability | Easy |
| DESIGN | |
| Responsive design | Yes |
| Retina ready | Yes |
| DOCUMENTATION | |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Explanations | Less Detailed |
| Explicit screen shots | Yes |
| Video tutorials | - |
| Search option | - |
| Extra documentation | - |
| VALUE | |
| Price | $49 |
| Value for the money | Average |
Performance
In our era, time has become a precious commodity. We value a product by the benefits it offers, but we also judge it by the speed delivered by its output. We have tested The Voux theme’s default demo on different page speed tests, and it loads the content with a slow page speed.
Downsides
The Voux is still under development, so loading content is problematic, and the website frequently encounters errors. For example, the first attempts to import a predefined demo failed. The second demo did load, with a slow speed though. Also, the front-end editor often faces failures so it turns the customization into a slow and hard process.
It’s a beautiful thema but the speed is so bad, so slow.