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The Box

By Design Lab·Blog·Free
4.4(21 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 10 months ago
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As of April 2026, The Box is a WordPress theme with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 152K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Top alternative: Twenty Twenty-Five.

4.4/521 reviews
1.0K+active installs
152K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

Clean and Simple WordPress Theme designed for blogs and online publications. With easy to use options The Box lets you focus on your awesome writing.
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Ratings & Reviews

4.421 reviews
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Recent Reviews

me gusta pero no compatible con buddypress
by felipeolivozn·4 years ago

me gusto el theme, pero al parecer no es compatible con buddypress ya que en el formulario de registro no se visualiza el botón “completar registro” tiene color blanco casi invisible

What I Am Looking For
by everyshowjoe·7 years ago

This seems to be the theme I’ve been looking for after three changes on my site. The only thing I wish it had, was a scaling version of my image banner that displayed on the mobile version. Otherwise, I’m pretty happy with it.

The Best
by kudlav·9 years ago

Everything is OK.

Drop-down menu
by jusimo·9 years ago·1 reply

Drop-down menu do not works on iOS! Support do not help.

Theme is nice but support is poor
by David Artiss·9 years ago·1 reply

I tried the theme a little under 5 months ago and was impressed by how it looked but had some issues I needed to iron out first. Now, 4 months and 3 weeks later, I’ve had a response. Needless to say I’ve moved on from this theme in the meantime.

The first query was of a bug – infinite scroll still showed pagination. Their response after all this time? Whether I have an example URL. Needless to say, I don’t. After 5 months it’s unlikely anyone would have left a broken feature in place on their site. Now I could re-install this theme on a test site to show them but I suspect it would be just as easy for them to do so. Besides, am I then going to have to wait another 5 months for them to look at it?

My second query was about featured images which, unless they’re the perfect rectangle shape for the theme, have blank space around them – the squarer your image, the worse this is. Now I know you can usually adjust the crop features when doing this but I wasn’t sure if I’d have to do this manually or whether there was a theme option. So, again after 5 months, I’ve been told I can’t. But they did then go on to try and sell me the premium version of the theme as it has “more options”. What they failed to say is whether this option is one of them – I’ve asked them (and unresolved the post) and will be less than impressed if it isn’t, as that is not what their reply suggests.

So, all in all, yes, it’s a nice looking theme. But the support isn’t much cop unless, I suspect, you splash out money for the premium version. Personally, I think if they support their free edition so badly, I’d question how good the rest of the support is.

  • This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by David Artiss.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Theme Info
Version
1.5.4
Last Updated
Jun 1, 2025
WP Requires
4.5+
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
152K+
Created
Jun 26, 2014
Type
Free

Tags

blogone columncustom menusticky posttwo columnspost formatscustom colorscustom headerright sidebartheme optionsfeatured imagescustom backgroundtranslation readyfull width template

Author

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Design Lab Themes
8 themes6K+ total installs

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