=== Chicago ===
Contributors: Catch Themes
Tags: one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, flexible-header, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-logo, editor-style, featured-image-header, featured-images, footer-widgets, full-width-template, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, blog
Requires at least: 5.9
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Chicago is beautifully crafted WordPress theme for Blogger with flexible and customizable theme customizer options. It is based on responsive design

== Description ==

Chicago is beautifully crafted WordPress theme for Blogger with flexible and customizable theme customizer options. It is based on responsive design where each element has been carefully configured for perfect display on all devices and platforms. It comes with a wide variety of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors, featured content, promotion headline, featured slider, pagination, icons, menus, breadcrumb, widgets and much more, directly from theme customizer. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/chicago/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/chicago/

For more information about Chicago please go to https://catchthemes.com/themes/chicago/

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the 'Add New' button.
2. Type in Chicago 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/chicago/ 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/chicago in the Theme Instructions Tab.

= Where can I find theme demo? =

You can check our Theme Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/chicago/

== Support ==

Support: https://catchthemes.com/support/
Support Forum: https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/chicago-free/

== Translation ==

Chicago theme is translation ready.

== License ==

Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 3, see file license.txt
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Chicago WordPress Theme, Copyright 2015 Catchthemes.com
Chicago is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3

Chicago is based on Underscores http://underscores.me/ - (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc. - [GNU General Public License v2 or later] and Catch Base theme https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-base/

= Custom Menus =

Chicago theme supports two custom menus. One is your primary and second one is for social links.
To create a custom menu, go to Appearance => Menus in your dashboard.

= How do I replace default page menu to custom menu? =

Chicago theme will display page menu as the default menu items. You can create custom menu and to replace this page menu with your custom menu items.
1. Create a new Custom Menu through "Appearance => Menus" from your WordPress Dashboard
2. You can now add in pages, custom links, category pages as per your need
3. Then assign your custom menu location as "Primary Menu", from "Appearance => Customize => Navigation" or "Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations"

= How do I add the social links to the social menu? =

Chicago theme allows you display links to your social media profiles, like Twitter and Facebook, with icons.

1. Create a new Custom Menu, and assign it to the Social Menu location.
2. Add links to each of your social services using the Links panel. For example, https://twitter.com/catchthemes is our Twitter link.
3. Icons for your social links will automatically appear if it’s available.

Available icons: (Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your social menu).

* Codepen
* Digg
* Dribbble
* Dropbox
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Foursquare
* GitHub
* Google+
* Instagram
* LinkedIn
* Email (mailto: links)
* Pinterest
* Pocket
* PollDaddy
* Reddit
* RSS Feed (urls with /feed/)
* Spotify
* StumbleUpon
* Tumblr
* Twitch
* Twitter
* Vimeo
* WordPress
* YouTube

= Widgets =

Theme supports four widgets, one is your Sidebar which will display in your left side of the content and other three are for the footer areas. You can mange it from your WordPress dashboard at Appearance => Widget.

= Featured Images =

Before getting started with your featured images, regenerate them first and you can do that easily with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/.
The plugin allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes, which occurs by switching from one theme to another.

= Jetpack =

Theme supports Jetpack logo and it can be easily uploaded from Customizer area. It also supports Responsive videos and Infinite Scroll as well.

= More FAQ =

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

== Changelog ==

= 2.2 (Released: May 27, 2026) =
* Updated: WordPress 7.0 ready

= 2.1 (Released: December 14, 2025) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.0 (Released: June 15, 2025) =
* Added: Discord, RSS, Telegram, Phone, Xing, Twitter X, Titok, Bluesky, Threads icons and more
* Removed: Polldaddy icon
* Updated: Social icons style
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 1.6.2 (Released: February 16, 2024) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 1.6.1 (Released: August 24, 2022) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.0 ready

= 1.6 (Released: February 17, 2022) =
* Added: Core Blocks Support
* Bug Fixed: Added underline on the anchor tag
* Removed: jQuery Cycle2 shuffle transition effect
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 1.5.2 (Released: May 28, 2020) =
* Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirements

= 1.5.1 (Released: November 06, 2019) =
* Bug Fixed: Comment Section labels not visible

= 1.5 (Released: September 27, 2019) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action
* Bug Fixed: Keyboard navigation accessibility issue
* Bug Fixed: Updated Content delivered through the_content filter
* Updated: HTML structure of site title, tagline and widgets
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css update
* Updated: Readme file as per the new requirement

= 1.4.2 (Released: March 22, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
* Code optimization
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file

= 1.4.1 (Released: June 08, 2017) =
* Code Optimization
* Compatible with WordPress 4.8

= 1.4 =
* Added: Option to Display all Categories in Customizer
* Code Optimization
* Removed: Backward compatible functions
* Removed: Unnecessary codes
* Updated: Screenshot to new size requirement of TRT

= 1.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Reset Options in customizer updated
* Updated: Upgrade Button in customizer with respect to trt decision
* Updated: Content Width implementation
* Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support ) for WP version 4.7
* Code Optimization

= 1.2.5 =
* Bug Fixed: White space issue
* Updated: Theme tags
* Updated: All instances of https://catchthemes.com changed to https://catchthemes.com

= 1.2.4 =
* Removed: Renaming of title-tagline section
* Updated: Favicon and Web Clip Migration to Site Icon( Core Support )
* Updated: Logo to Custom Logo( Core Support ) for WP version 4.5

= 1.2.3 =
* Added: Disable scrollup option
* Added: Changelog.txt file to list all change logs
* Bug Fixed: Featured Slider Transition Effect Not Updating
* Updated: Jetpack Scroll Pagination Option to enable infinite scroll in Reading Settings

= 1.2.2 =
* Bug Fixed: Changed Featured content position action hook
* Bug Fixed: Pagination Type not showing in theme options
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb css issue in IE 11

= 1.2.1 =
* Bug Fixed: Text domain

= 1.2 =
* Bug Fixed: Pagination Options not saving Issue
* Bug Fixed: Changed esc_attr_e to echo esc_attr in searchform.php
* 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

= 1.1 =
* Added: Upgrade to Pro button in customizer
* Bug Fixed: Social widget padding issue
* Bug Fixed: Escaped missing options in breadcrumb implementation
* Bug Fixed: Promotion Headline issue (Reported by Nikita Devereaux )
* Optimized: Customizer Scripts
* Updated: Handling of default hex color values of custom background color and custom header text color

= 1.0 =
* Added Custom Logo Options
* Added Color Scheme: Light and Dark
* Added Header Image Options
* Added Footer Area Sidebars
* Added Theme Options
 ** Breadcrumb Options
 ** Custom Css Options
 ** Excerpt Options
 ** Homepage / Frontpage Options
 ** Icon Options
 ** Layout Options
 ** Pagination Options
 ** Promotion Headline Options
 ** Search Options
* Added Featured Content and its Options
* Added Featured Slider and its Options
* Bug Fixed: header width issue
* Bug Fixed: Remove extra container in Social menu
* Updated: Theme descriptions and tags
* Updated: Style to match with Pro version

= 0.2 =
* updated readme.txt file as per the review guideline

= 0.1 =
* Submitted to WordPress.org

== Copyright ==

Chicago WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2026 Catchthemes.com
Chicago 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. http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=28116&picture=chicago-skyview - Header Image and screenshot image
	2. http://pixabay.com/en/chicago-illinois-city-cities-398715/ - 1st slider image
	3. http://pixabay.com/en/chicago-usa-america-united-states-690364/ - 2nd slider image
	4. http://pixabay.com/en/central-park-new-york-city-benches-535645/ - 1st Featured Content Image
	5. http://pixabay.com/en/home-office-workstation-office-336373/ - 2nd Featured Content Image
	6. http://pixabay.com/en/vespa-street-night-city-517227/ - 3rd Featued Content Image
	7. http://pixabay.com/en/clock-city-antique-architecture-426079/ - 4th Featued Content Image
	8. 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.comm/

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