Theme Name: Apprise
Theme URI: http://vpthemes.com/apprise/
Author: Vitaly Pinchev	
Author URI: http://vpthemes.com
Description: Apprise is modern WordPress theme that is packaged with a lot of nice features such as: advanced admin panel, responsive design, unique featured posts layout for the home or featured image slider, customizable home page About Us and Content Boxes sections, custom logo and favicon, Google Fonts, unlimited colors for the menu, widgets, header and footer, localization support, from full screen layout to 1 or 2 sidebars to the left or right, 4 footer widget columns, Scroll to top feature, social links, support for Contact Form 7, 8 post formats and more.
Version: 1.0.7.3
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

=== Installation ===

Follow the steps below to install via Wordpress Administration Panel:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. Select Install Themes.
4. Use the sub-menu or the Search or Filter options to locate a Theme you would like to use.
5. Click on the Install link to upload the Theme to your blog.
6. Use the Upload link in the top sub-menu to upload a zipped copy of a Theme that you have previously downloaded to your machine.

Follow the steps below to install Manually via FTP:

1. Unzip theme file. Do not change the name of the folder by adding extra characters or upper case letters.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, create a directory to save your Theme in the wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress.
3. Upload the Theme files to the new directory on your host server.

Activation and Use:

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
2. Go to Appearance > Themes and click the Activate link to activate the installed theme.

=== License ===

Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images
are licensed under GNU General Public License version 2, see file license.txt.

The exceptions to this license are as follows:

* The script html5.js is licensed under MIT and GPLv2 license (HTML5 Shiv v3.6. Source: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv)
* The script jquery.flexslider.js is under the GPLv2 license (jQuery FlexSlider v2.1. Source: http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/)
* The script jquery.refineslide.js is licensed under MIT license (jQuery RefineSlide plugin v0.4.1. Source: http://github.com/alexdunphy/refineslide)
* The script imgLiquid-min.js is dual licensed under MIT and GPL (imgLiquid v0.9.944. Source: https://github.com/karacas/imgLiquid)
* The script superfish.js is dual licensed under MIT and GPL (Superfish v1.5.8 - jQuery menu widget. Source: http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/)
* The script supersubs.js is dual licensed under MIT and GPL (Supersubs v0.2b - jQuery plugin. Source: http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/)
* The script tinynav.min.js is licensed under MIT license (Responsive navigation plugin. Source: http://tinynav.viljamis.com)

* Font Awesome License

	Font License - http://fontawesome.io
	License: SIL OFL 1.1
	License URI: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
	Copyright: Dave Gandy, http://fontawesome.io

	Code License - http://fontawesome.io
	License: MIT License
	License URI: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
	Copyright: Dave Gandy, http://fontawesome.io

	Brand Icons
	All brand icons are trademarks of their respective owners.
	The use of these trademarks does not indicate endorsement of the trademark holder by Font Awesome, nor vice versa.

* All Fonts used in the theme are from the Google Font API and are GPL-compatible licensed. http://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about
	Open Sans font (available through Google web Fonts: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans), licensed under Apache License, version 2.0
	Roboto font (available through Google web Fonts: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto), licensed under Apache License, version 2.0

* This theme supports WooCommerce (An open source eCommerce plugin for WordPress created by WooThemes. Source: https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce)

* Files "line.png", "placeholder.png", "slide.jpg" and "tag.png" located in the 'images' folder, are the theme's designer personal creations and are free for personal and commercial use.
* File "bg_direction_nav.png" located in the 'images' folder is under GPL v2 License and part of FlexSlider v2.1 used in the theme. (Source: http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/)
* Files "black10.png" and "black60.png" located in the 'images' folder ate under MIT License and part of jQuery RefineSlide plugin used in the theme. (Source: http://github.com/alexdunphy/refineslide)
* File "top.png" located in the 'images' folder is under  MIT License and part of scrollup v2.1.0 used in the theme. (Source: https://github.com/markgoodyear/scrollup)

* Theme screenshot images
	CC0-licensed (GPL-compatible) images from http://pixabay.com/
	
	pixabay ID: 123406 http://pixabay.com/en/rock-island-illinois-house-home-123406/
	pixabay ID: 290980 http://pixabay.com/en/tokyo-japan-city-cities-urban-290980/
	pixabay ID: 201491 http://pixabay.com/en/dog-m%C3%BCnsterl%C3%A4nder-high-key-201491/
	pixabay ID: 293161 http://pixabay.com/en/bike-wall-parking-space-lean-on-293161/
	pixabay ID: 292988 http://pixabay.com/en/twitter-facebook-together-292988/
	
=== Other Licenses ===

See headers of files for further details.

	
=== Theme Options Panel ===

Apprise theme comes with Theme Options panel. The theme options are organized into logical groups and have descriptions for each item. Please take some time and navigate through each option tab, most things are self explanatory. Go to Appearance > Theme Options to start. Don’t forget to click on Save Options to save your settings once you are finished.

For theme support and general questions please fill the contact form in the following link.
http://www.vpthemes.com/support/

=== Additional Notes ===

The theme is released for free under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
and some parts under their respective licenses.
Feel free to use, modify and redistribute this theme as you like.
You may remove any copyright references (unless required by third party components) and crediting is not necessary.


=== Change Log ===

== 1.0.0 ==
* Initial Release

== 1.0.1 ==
* Escaped the home url in header.php and copyright.php

== 1.0.2 ==
* Properly enqueued javascript in header and footer of the theme with wp_enqueue

== 1.0.4 ==
* Replaced query_posts() with WP_Query() class in featured-posts.php and apprise-image-sliders.php
* Referenced jquery in an array for wp_enqueue_script()

== 1.0.5 ==
* Add Instagram icon to social links
* Add option to enable / disable featured image to appear as part of the post.
* Captions of the image slider are clickable.
* Add CSS styles to navigation menu

== 1.0.7.2 ==
* Add CSS style to social links icons.
* Updated ScrollUp functionality.
* Add option to uppercase navigation menu.

== 1.0.7.3 ==
Updated Font Awesome.
Minor CSS changes.
Updated apprise_paging_nav() function.