=== Catch Adaptive ===
Contributors: catchthemes
Tags: blog, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-image-header, featured-images, flexible-header, front-page-post-form, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready
Requires at least: 5.9
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Catch Adaptive is a Simple, Clean and Bold Full Width Responsive WordPress Theme based on Catch Base Theme.

== Description ==

Catch Adaptive is a Simple, Clean and Bold Full Width Responsive WordPress Theme based on Catch Base Theme. Built on HTML5, CSS3, Masonry and Theme Customizer for real time customization, it comes with a whole set of interesting and rich features which makes this theme highly customizable and flexible. Make your beautiful yet professional website in no time. This theme is translation ready and also currently translated in French, Brazilian Portuguese and German languages. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-adaptive/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-adaptive/

For more information about Catch Adaptive please go to https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-adaptive/

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the 'Add New' button.
2. Type in Catch Adaptive in the search form and press the 'Enter' key on your keyboard.
3. Click on the 'Activate' button to use your new theme right away.
4. Go to https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-adaptive/ for a guide on how to customize this theme.
5. Navigate to Appearance -> Customize in your admin panel and customize to taste.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

Theme supports all plugins from catchplugins.com

= Where can I find theme documentation? =

You can check our Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-adaptive in the Theme Instructions Tab.

= Where can I find theme demo? =

You can check our Theme Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-adaptive/

== Translation ==

Catch Adaptive theme is translation ready.
Added French Translation by Jérôme Joseph ( Email: jerome.joseph28@hotmail.com )
Added Translation for Brazilian Portuguese by Valdir Trombini ( Email: valdir.trombini@gmail.com )
Added Translation for German by Micky261 ( Email: karlo261@hotmail.de )

= Custom Menus

Catch Adaptive theme supports one custom menus that is primary menu.
To create a custom menu, go to Appearance -> Menus in your dashboard.
For more about custom menu, check out https://catchthemes.com/blog/custom-menus-wordpress-themes/

= Featured Image =

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post/page is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider, Featured Post Slider and Featured Category Slider. For more about featured image, check out https://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-wordpress-postpage/

If you are migrating your old site to this new them then you need to regenerate thumbnails. You can do that easily with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/. This plugin allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes, which occurs by switching from one theme to another.

= Featured Slider =

In Catch Adaptive theme, there is option to select slider type from Featured Page Slider, Featured Post Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image slider.

To add featured image slider,
1. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Image Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides, upload images, add in links, title, content as per your need
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

To add featured page slider,
1. Create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.
2. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Page Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides and select your pages in "Featured Page #"
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

To add featured post slider,
1. Create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.
2. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Post Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides and add in Post ID in "Featured Post #"
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

To add featured category slider,
1. Create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.
2. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Category Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides and select categories in "Select Categories"
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

Note: You can also change Enable Slider, slider effects, delay and length under Featured Slider Settings.

= Social Icons =

Catch Adaptive has social icons for various social networking sites.
1. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Social Links" form your WordPress Dashboard
2. Add in your social profile links and click on "Save & Publish"

Note: By default social links will be added in Header Right Section. You can also add that in your sidebar from "Appearance -> Widgets"

Available icons:
* Codepen
* Digg
* Dribbble
* Dropbox
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Foursquare
* GitHub
* Google+
* Instagram
* LinkedIn
* Email
* Pinterest
* Pocket
* Reddit
* RSS Feed
* Spotify
* StumbleUpon
* Tumblr
* Twitch
* Twitter
* Vimeo
* WordPress
* YouTube
* Bluesky
* X Twitter
* Threads
* Tiktok

Skype Link:
Skype link can have several formats which are documented below:
Username:
    skype:profile_name?action

    Examples of such actions are
    * call        to call
    * chat        to chat
    * voicemail   to leave a voice mail
    * sendfile    to send a file
    * add         to add to contacts
    * userinfo    to view profile

    E.g: skype:echo123?call
    This will initiate test call use skype username echo123

Number:
    callto://+***********

    E.g: callto://+14044627491
    This will initiate Skype to call phone number 14044627491

= More FAQ =

For more FAQs, visit https://catchthemes.com/frequently-asked-questions/

== Changelog ==

= 2.3.2 (Released: May 25, 2026) =
* Updated: WordPress 7.0 ready

= 2.3.1 (Released: January 20, 2026) =
* Bug Fixed: Fixed header issue with admin bar

= 2.3 (Released: December 09, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.2 (Released: June 04, 2025) =
* Added: Twitter X, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads icons
* Replaced: Genericons library to Font Awesome
* Removed: Polldaddy icon
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 2.1.8 (Released: September 04, 2024) =
* Bug Fixed: Escaping author display name
* Updated: WordPress 6.6 ready

= 2.1.7 (Released: November 26, 2023) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 2.1.6 (Released: August 29, 2022) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.0 ready

= 2.1.5 (Released: February 05, 2022) =
* Add: Default Blocks Support
* Bug Fixed: Added underline on the anchor tag
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 2.1.4 (Released: August 20, 2020) =
* Fix: WP 5.5 compatibility for jquery

= 2.1.3 (Released: August 11, 2020) =
* Removed: Cycle slider shuffle not compatible with theme check so it has been removed
* Updated: Screenshot and other images
* Updated: Theme Check Issues

= 2.1.2 (Released: February 03, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb issue with disabled on homepage

= 2.1.1 (Released: January 31, 2020) =
* Updated: schema-org's JSON-LD

= 2.1 (Released: January 24, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Keyboard navigation accessibility issue
* Updated: data-vocabulary-org-schema deprecated now replaced by schema-org's JSON-LD

= 2.0 (Released: July 30, 2019) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action

= 1.9.4 (Released: January 30, 2019) =
* Bug Fixed: Updated Content delivered through the_content filter
* Bug Fixed: Added function_exists check for get_the_privacy_policy_link function usage
* Bug Fixed: JS issue in IOS devices
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css update
* Updated: Content type label updated
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Readme file as per new requirement

= 1.9.3 (Released: July 12, 2018) =
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer

= 1.9.2 (Released: March 30, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin

= 1.9.1 (Released: February 06, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Escaping get_template_directory_uri()
* Bug Fixed: iOS compatibility for Featured Content background

= 1.9 (Released: November 25, 2017) =
* Major Update: Enhanced HTML structure
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb custom post archive link
* Bug Fixed: Fixed header issue with admin bar
* Bug Fixed: IOS issue with background blurred for featured content

= 1.8.4 (Released: June 28, 2017) =
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file

= 1.8.3 (Released: June 28, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Featured Content Slider layout
* Code Optimization

= 1.8.2 =
* Added: Option to display all categories in Customizer
* Code Optimization
* Compatible with WordPress 4.8
* Removed: Backward compatibility functions

= 1.8.1 =
* Bug Fixed: typo issue in the_archive_title() in catchadaptive_archive_page_header() function (Reported by ptrebilco )

= 1.8 =
* Bug Fixed: Reset Options in customizer updated
* Updated: Used the_archive_title() and the_archive_description()
* Removed: HTML script loading from catchadaptive_head() function and added it as wp_enqueue_script() in catchadaptive_head() function
* Updated: fitvids handle to 'jquery-fitvids', sidr handle to 'jquery-sidr'
* Updated: Upgrade Button in customizer with respect to trt decision
* Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support ) for WP version 4.7
* Code Optimization

= 1.7.1 =
* Bug Fixed: Upgrade to pro button link

= 1.7 =
* Bug Fixed: white space issue
* Bug Fixed: `sprintf() too few arguments` issue on other languages
* Updated: Content Width Implementation Code
* Updated: Tags in style.css header
* Updated: All instances of catchthemes.com converted to https

= 1.6 =
* Bug Fixed: Slider image handle issue replaced catchadaptive_slider with catchadaptive-slider (Reported by mupa)
* Removed: Extra code for function (image_slider, post_slider, category_slider)
* Updated: Content Width Implementation
* Updated: Theme Layout retrieval via function
* Updated: Favicon and Web Clip Migration to Site Icon( Core Support )
* Updated: Logo to Custom Logo( Core Support ) for WP version 4.5

= 1.5 =
* Added: Disable scrollup option
* Added: Social Icons for Phone, Handset, Cart, Cloud, Link( Custom Link )
* Bug Fixed: Featured Slider Transition Effect Not Updating
* Bug Fixed: Genericions issue with To Top plugin
* Enhanced: Used antispambot() function on emails output on social icons
* Updated: Genericons to 3.4.1
* Updated: Jetpack Scroll Pagination Option to enable infinite scroll in Reading Settings
* Updated: Text Domain in style.css updated to catch-adaptive
* Updated: Sidr menu script to version 2.1.1.1
* Updated: Meta viewport for better responsive support

= 1.4 =
* Added German translation de_DE.po and de_DE.mo
* Updated responsive menu js (jquery.sidr.js)

= 1.3 =
* Added Brazilian Portuguese translation pt_BR.po and pt_BR.mo
* Bug Fixed: broken link for upgrade to pro button ( Reported by Brenda Evans )

= 1.2.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb css issue in IE 11
* Removed panel for featured slider for WordPress version greater than 4.2
* Updated Customizer active callback scripts (previously handled by jQuery)

= 1.2 =
* Added French translation fr_FR.po and fr_FR.mo

= 1.1 =
* Bug Fixed: Changed esc_attr_e to echo esc_attr in searchform.php
* Bug Fixed: Header image issue in Mobile devices ( Reported by flypig )
* Compatible with WordPress 4.3
* Removed support for WordPress version less than 4.1
* Updated codes to comply with deprecating PHP4 style constructors in WordPress 4.3
* Updated text-domain

= 1.0 =
* Added: Missing keywords esc_attr_x:1,2c in .pot file
* Updated: Theme Description and corrected link in readme.txt
* Bug Fixed: Page header overlapping ( Reported by Jeff )
* Bug Fixed: Replaced color for customizer
** Light: Background color from #000000 to #ffffff
** Dark: Background color from #000000 to #202020
** Dark: Header Text color from #dddddd to #bebebe

= 0.4 =
* Changed screenshot

= 0.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Escaped missing options in slider, social icons and breadcrumb implementation
* Changed the link for html5shiv in readme file
* Made strings in demo featured content and slider translatable
* Optimized Customizer Scripts
* Removed unnecessary codes and bundled image file
* Renamed Catchcatchadaptive to Catchadaptive

= 0.2 =
* Official release at CatchThemes.com
* Bug Fixed: Color Scheme
* Bug Fixed: Slider control font size
* Bug Fixed: Page slider show excerpt option not working
* Bug Fixed: Infinite Scroll issue with masonry

= 0.1 =
* Initial Release =

== Copyright ==

Catch Adaptive WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2026 Catchthemes.com
Catch Adaptive is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Resources ==
* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2018 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* Images
    Images used are released under the CC0 license
    1. Header Image: https://stocksnap.io/photo/nature-landscape-KFQ3J3JTU3
    2. Other Screenshot Images:
       https://stocksnap.io/photo/nature-landscape-OD54DFNVGN
       https://stocksnap.io/photo/sea-ocean-MTQ82SZQOT
    All other images are self shot image by (CatchThemes.com)

* Font Icons
    Font Awesome Free is free, open source, and GPL friendly.
    Copyright (c) 2024 Fonticons, Inc. (https://fontawesome.com)
    with Reserved Font Name: "Font Awesome".
    Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1 License
    https://fontawesome.com

* JS Files
    HTML5-Shiv is Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses
    https://github.com/afarkas/html5shiv

    jQuery Cycle 2 is Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses
    http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/

    fitvids is Licensed under the  WTFPL license
    http://fitvidsjs.com/

    Sidr is Licensed under the MIT License
    https://github.com/artberri/sidr
