=== Clean Box ===
Contributors: catchthemes
Tags: 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, grid-layout, blog, portfolio, photography
Requires at least: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Clean Box is a Simple, Clean, Grid Base Responsive WordPress Theme

== Description ==

Clean Box is an advanced version of Clean Box free theme. Clean Box is a Simple, Clean, Grid Base Responsive WordPress Theme which automatically adapts to the screen's size, ensuring that your content is always displayed beautifully no matter what device visitors are using. It is based in HTML5, CSS3 and WordPress Theme Customizer for real time customization. This theme is translation ready and also currently translated in Danish, German, Japanese and French language. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/clean-box/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/clean-box/

For more information about Clean Box please go to https://catchthemes.com/themes/clean-box/

== Installation ==

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

= Where can I find theme demo? =

You can check our Theme Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/clean-box/

== Support ==

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

== Translation ==

Clean Box theme is translation ready.
Added Translation for Danish by Pernille Kvamsdal (pkvamsdal@outlook.com) and Alex Fonnesbech (af@mindsiteacademy.dk)
Added Translation for German by Jürgen Zapp ( Email: j_m_z@hotmail.com ) and Micky261 ( Email: karlo261@hotmail.de )
Added translation for Japanese by IIOKA Shinji (Email: iiokashinji@gmail.com)
Added Translation for French

= Custom Menus =

Clean Box theme supports four custom menus that is primary, secondary, header right and footer menus.
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 Clean Box 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 =

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

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 usenarme echo123

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

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

= Theme Instructions =

For detail instructions, check out theme instructions page at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/clean-box/

= More FAQ =

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

== Changelog ==

= 3.1 (Released: December 14, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 3.0 (Released: June 16, 2025) =
* Added: Twitter X, Tiktok, Bluesky, and Threads icons
* Bug Fixed: Sidebar menu closing issue with an adminbar in mobile
* Replaced: Genericons library to Font Awesome
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 2.6.2 (Released: February 20, 2024) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 2.6.1 (Released: September 13, 2022) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.0 ready

= 2.6 (Released: February 10, 2022) =
* Removed: Cycle slider shuffle not compatible with theme check so it has been removed
* Updated: Transition Effect option
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 2.5 (Released: December 09, 2021) =
* Added: Core Blocks Support
* Bug Fixed: Added underline on the anchor tag
* Removed: Transition Effect JS files

= 2.4.1 (Released: May 28, 2020) =
* Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirements

= 2.4 (Released: October 04, 2019) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
* Added: Essential Widget Plugin compatibility CSS
* Bug Fixed: Updated Content delivered through the_content filter
* Bug Fixed: Keyboard navigation accessibility issue
* Updated: Content type label updated
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css update
* Updated: Readme as per the new requirement

= 2.3 (Released: March 22, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
* Bug Fixed: Textarea resize set to vertical (Reported By Marius)
* Code optimization
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file
* Updated: JS compression

= 2.2.1 (Released: May 24, 2017) =
* Added: Option to Display all Categories in Customizer
* Bug Fixed: Featured content image sizes changed from medium to clean-box-featured-content
* Code Optimization

= 2.2 =
* Bug Fixed: array_filter() in category types for slider,content, etc causing issues in some php versions
 * Solved by removing the function and type casting using (array)

= 2.1 =
* Added: French translation fr_FR.po and fr_FR.mo
* Updated: Reset all settings compatibility with WordPress v4.6
* Updated: Used the_archive_title() and the_archive_description() in archive.php
* Updated: Upgrade Button in customizer with respect to trt decision
* Updated: HTML Shiv script loading
* Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support ) for WP version 4.7
* Code Optimization

= 2.0 =
* Added: German translation de_DE.po and de_DE.mo
* Added: Japanese translation ja.po and ja.mo
* Updated: Danish translation da_DK.po and da_DK.mo
* Bug Fixed: white space issue
* Bug Fixed: Featured Slider: Slider Parameters escaping issues
* Bug Fixed: All instance of get_permalink() escaped properly
* Bug Fixed: `sprintf() too few arguments` issue on other languages
* Removed: pngfix class on some images
* Updated: All instances of https://catchthemes.com changed to https://catchthemes.com

= 1.2 =
* 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

= 1.1 =
* Fixed: Page menu class issue in mobile view
* Updated: Danish translation da_DK.po and da_DK.mo
* Updated: Sidr menu script to version 2.1.1.1
* Updated: Meta viewport for better responsive support

= 1.0 =
* Added: Disable scrollup option
* Added: Danish translation da_DK.po and da_DK.mo
* Bug Fixed: Genericions issue with To Top plugin
* Bug Fixed: Featured content layout issue in 4 columns layout (Reported by: Marius)

= 0.5 =
* Bug Fixed: Primary menu not showing on mobile (Reported by: dallaseventaudio)

= 0.4 =
* Added: Social Icons for Phone, Handset, Cart, Cloud, Link( Custom Link )
* Bug Fixed: Unnecessary codes in clean-box-metabox.php
* Bug Fixed: Output Sanitization on clean-box-custom-header.php
* Enhancement: 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

= 0.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Body Classes Layouts Issue
* Bug Fixed: Navigation css
* Bug Fixed: Page Header css
* Bug Fixed: Not Found and Error 404 page template

= 0.2 =
* Initial Release in CatchThemes.com

= 0.1 =
* Submitted to WordPress.org

== Copyright ==

Clean Box WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2025 Catchthemes.com
Clean Box is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Resources ==
* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2025 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* Images
    Images used are released under the CC0 license
    1. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/922583- 1st Grid Image
    2. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/618139 - 2nd Grid Image
    3. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1277810 - 3rd Grid Image
    4. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1131895/ - Custom Header Image
    5. All other images are self shot image by (CatchThemes.com)

* Font Icons
    Font Awesome icons, Copyright Dave Gandy
	License: SIL Open Font License, version 1.1.
	Source: http://fontawesome.io/

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

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

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