=== Academic ===

By Theme Palace

Tags: education, translation-ready, custom-background, theme-options, custom-menu, threaded-comments, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, flexible-header, custom-logo, custom-header, footer-widgets, blog

Contributors: Theme Palace
Requires at least: 4.5
Tested up to: 4.9.4
Stable tag: 1.4
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

A clean and responsive education theme called Academic.

== Description ==

A clean, modern, engaging and responsive WordPress education theme ideal for educational institutions. Features including full width and boxed layout with slider, focused content, slick effects, posts/features/courses showcasing.  It is loaded with theme options and provides several features to make user-friendly, interactive and visually stunning website with implementation of all features of latest WordPress like partial refresh and validation. It is compatible with top WordPress plugins such as JetPack and Contact Form 7. A special accent is made on its cross-browser compatibility, mobile friendly design and responsive features.

== Copyright ==

Academic WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016-2017 Theme Palace
Academic is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Academic Theme bundles the following third-party resources:

HTML5 Shiv v3.7.0, Copyright 2014 Alexander Farkas
Licenses: MIT/GPL2
Source: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv

Font Awesome 4.2.0 by @davegandy
License: http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License)
Source: http://fontawesome.io

sidr - v2.2.1 - 2016-02-17, Copyright (c) 2013-2016 by Alberto Varela
License: MIT ( https://github.com/artberri/sidr/blob/master/LICENSE )
Source: https://github.com/artberri/sidr

Breadcrumb Trail - 1.0.0, Copyright (c) 2008 - 2015 by Justin Tadlock
License: GPL v2 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html )
Source: https://github.com/justintadlock/breadcrumb-trail

jQuery Smooth Scroll - v1.7.2 - 2016-01-23, Copyright (c) 2016 by Karl Swedberg
License: MIT
Source: https://github.com/kswedberg/jquery-smooth-scroll

Waypoints - 4.0.0 Copyright © 2011-2012 by Caleb Troughton
Licenses: MIT license ( https://github.com/imakewebthings/waypoints/blob/master/licenses.txt )
Source: https://github.com/imakewebthings/waypoints

Slick - 4.0.0 Copyright © 2013-2016 by Ken Wheeler
Licenses: MIT license
Source: http://github.com/kenwheeler/slick

== Google Fonts ==

Open Sans
Source:  https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans
License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Roboto Font
github:  https://github.com/google/roboto
License: https://github.com/google/roboto/blob/master/LICENSE

Montserrat Font
github:  https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/ofl/montserrat
License: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/license/montserrat

Courgette Font
github:  https://github.com/courgette
License: https://github.com/l1x/courgette/blob/master/third_party/LICENCE

Raleway Font
github:  https://github.com/theleagueof/raleway
License: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/license/raleway

Poppins Font
github:  https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/ofl/poppins
License: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/poppins

== trt-customizer-pro ==
github: https://github.com/justintadlock/trt-customizer-pro
Academic WordPress Theme incorporates codes from github repositiory: trt-customizer-pro, Copyright 2016 Justin Tadlock.
License: GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

== underscores ==
github: https://github.com/automattic/_s
License: GPLv2 or later

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button.
2. Click Upload and Choose File, then select the theme's .zip file. Click Install Now.
3. Click Activate to use your new theme right away.

== Images Screenshot ==

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/-Xv7k95vOFA

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/samford-hall-auburn-university-1614183/

Unless otherwise specified, all the theme images are created by us and licensed under the same license as the theme is.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

Academic includes support for Infinite Scroll in Jetpack.
Academic includes support for contact form in Contact Form 7.
Academic includes support for WooCommerce.

= What is Category blog first and second for? =

You can choose what taxonomy to display in these sections. If you select a specific category in blog first, then posts realted to that category are displayed.

Whereas in Category blog second, you can choose what to display either the categories name or sub categories name.

== Changelog ==

= 1.4 - February 9, 2018 =
* Add Upcoming Event Section in Homepage.

= 1.3 - September 26, 2017 =
* Fix responsive active menu item design.

= 1.2 - June 12, 2017 =
* Make compatible to 4.8
* Fix archive content type issue.

= 1.1 - June 7, 2017
* Fix excerpt length issue on blog archive page.
* Remove unused functions.
* Add archive options.
* Add title tagline color options.

= 1.0 - June 6, 2017
* Added custom-header tag.
* Change the category blogs' default values.
* Remove unwanted default values.
* Added escaping for pro URL.

= 0.9 =
* Manged the unminified css and js files with condition.

= 0.8 =
* Provide breadcrumb library license.

= 0.7 =
* Update breadcrumb library.
* Fix escaping, search, functions minor issues.

= 0.6 =
* Added topbar section.
* Added featured image option in About section
* Solved the link issue in comment date
* Changed default image
* Solved menu issue in responsive

= 0.5 =
* Fix active pager issue in testimonial
* Nothing found page design solved

= 0.4 =
* Rename category sections
* Move category section two
* Add widget social link widget
* Remove unwanted files

= 0.3 =
* Add home page sections
* Add metabox for layout
* Add widget
* Update language file, js and css

= 0.2 - JUl 1 2016 =
* Screenshot updated
* Sanitization functions added

= 0.1 - May 12 2016 =
* Initial release

== Credits ==

* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2016 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
