=== Clean Education ===
Contributors: catchthemes
Tags:  one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, grid-layout, 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, footer-widgets, blog, education, portfolio
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

Free WordPress theme for schools and academic institutions. Clean Education WordPress theme for education website is simple, clean and user-friendly

== Description ==

Clean Education - our first Free WordPress theme for schools and academic institutions stays true to its name. Clean Education WordPress theme makes sure that your education website is simple, clean and user-friendly. The responsive layout and beautiful design make your website look welcoming. It shows off your institution as a fun and inviting. With dedicated separate sections to display your best features to your visitors, Clean Education WordPress theme truly has everything you need. Your education website gains healthy exposure and creates the best first impressions. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/clean-education/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/clean-education/

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

== Installation ==

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

= Where can I find theme demo? =

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

== Support ==

Support: https://catchthemes.com/support/
https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/clean-education-free-wordpress-theme/

== Translation ==

Clean Education theme is translation ready.
* Added Translation for Spanish by Elvira Ortiz (elvira_ortiz@earthlink.net)

= Custom Menus =

Clean Education theme supports two custom menus that is primary and secondary.
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. 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 Education Free theme, there is only option to use Featured Page Slider, which is created to highlight your Page in the slider. But pro version has additional option to Featured Post Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image Slider.

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"

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

= Logo Slider =

For best effect, make sure all the images are of same size on logo slider.

= Social Icons =

Clean Education 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:
Available icons:
* Bluesky
* Codepen
* Digg
* Dribbble
* Dropbox
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Foursquare
* GitHub
* Google+
* Instagram
* LinkedIn
* Email
* Pinterest
* Pocket
* PollDaddy
* Reddit
* RSS Feed
* Spotify
* StumbleUpon
* Tiktok
* Threads
* 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-education/

= Why are my videos not resizing after updating WordPress and theme to version 5.0 or above?  =
Because Gutenberg ( Block editor from WordPress version 5.0 or onwards ) automatically resizes videos, we have removed fitvid support from WordPress version 5.0. If you still want to resize the videos, please install FitVid plugin from WordPress.org plugins repository.

= More FAQ =

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

== Changelog ==

= 2.5 (Released: June 04, 2026) =
* Updated: WordPress 7.0 ready

= 2.4.1 (Released: December 14, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.4 (Released: June 16, 2025) =
* Added: Twitter X, Tiktok, Bluesky, and Threads icons
* Replaced: Genericons library to Font Awesome
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 2.3.2 (Released: February 21, 2024) =
* Removed: CT: Instagram Widget
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 2.3.1 (Released: August 04, 2022) =
* Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)

= 2.3 (Released: February 10, 2022) =
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 2.2 (Released: June 30, 2020) =
* Updated: All images
* Updated: data-vocabulary-org-schema deprecated now replaced by schema-org's JSON-LD
* Updated: Screenshot
* Updated: Theme Check Issues
* Removed: Cycle slider shuffle not compatible with theme check so it has been removed

= 2.1 (Released: May 21, 2020) =
* Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirements

= 2.0.1 (Released: April 25, 2019) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action

= 2.0 (Released: January 28, 2019) =
* Added: Theme support for block styles
* Added: Theme support for full and wide align images
* Added: Theme support for for editor styles
* Added: Theme support for responsive embeds
* Added: Theme support for custom editor font sizes
* Added: Theme support for custom color scheme
* Updated: FitVid only loaded for WP < 5.0 as it breaks embeded videos on Block Editor
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Readme file as per the new requirement

= 1.4 (Released: October 26, 2018) =
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
* Bug Fixed: CT:Instagram widget image size issue
* Bug Fixed: Updated Content delivered through the_content filter
* Bug Fixed: Testimonial Typo corrected
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css

= 1.3.1 (Released: April 16, 2018) =
* Updated: CT:Instagram Widget updated due to changes in instagram.com

= 1.3 (Released: April 10, 2018) =
* Added Spanish translation es_ES.po and es_ES.mo
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
* Bug Fixed: Discarded use of 'create_function'
* Code Optimization

= 1.2.8 (Released: January 13, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: CT: Instagram Widget thumbnail and small image sizes issue
* Bug Fixed: Unnecessary output in courses element (Reported by valeska-conducere)

= 1.2.7 (Released: November 24, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Courses layout issue for two column layout (Reported by elham-rahimzadeh70)
* Bug Fixed: Infinite scroll layout issue
* Bug Fixed: Post Requiring Password showing Featured Image
* Optimized: Theme images
* Updated: JS compression

= 1.2.6 (Released: September 18, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Infinite scroll button styling issue

= 1.2.5 (Released: September 05, 2017) =
* Code optimization
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file

= 1.2.4 (Released: April 27, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Closing div in portfolio section (Reported by sinfomac)

= 1.2.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Widget layout issue in footer widget area

= 1.2.2 =
* Code Optimization

= 1.2.1 =
* Bug Fixed: CT:Social Icon widget not displaying

= 1.2 =
* Added: Headline and Sub-headline in Demo Featured Content
* Bug Fixed: Margin issue with section header
* Bug Fixed: Missing closing div of #site-branding with logo is enabled
* Code Optimization

= 1.1.2 =
* Bug Fixed: Slider display issue before loading
* Updated: Demo images and Screenshot

= 1.1.1 =
* Added: Option to Display all Categories in Customizer
* Bug Fixed: Site title font size in rem value
* Enhanced: HTML structure of site title and tagline

= 1.1 =
* Changed default excerpt length to 40 words
* Enhanced: Slider content width as per responsive design
* Added: Upgrade to pro button
* Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support ) for WP version 4.7
* Code Optimization

= 1.0 =
* Added courses section
* Added events section
* Added hero content section
* Added news section
* Added news ticker section
* Added our professors section
* Added portfolio section
* Added testimonial section
* Separated Custom CSS
* Initial Release in https://catchthemes.com/


= 0.2 =
* Added Slider in featured content
* Bug Fixed: `sprintf() too few arguments` issue on other languages
* Code Optimizations
* Updated Scripts for menu (Removed sidr and added core twentysixteen menu)

= 0.1 =
* Submitted to WordPress.org

== Copyright ==

Clean Education WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2026 Catchthemes.com
Clean Education 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)

Clean Education is based on Catch Base theme https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-base/

* Images
    Images used are released under the CC0 license

    --- Header Image and Screenshot Slider image ---
    Three Images Combined
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/woman-pregnant-W6KDUGJ4LR
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/books-library-GTWPBBTRRN
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/interior-table-6F8QGSMGLW

    Screenshot Hero Content
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/city-street-EOXUUZXICK

    --- Featured Content ---
    All images in Featured Content are icons from dashicons
        Dashicons is licensed under GPLv2, or any later
        https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons

    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/

* PHP files
    WPTT_WebFont_Loader
    License https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
    Source: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader
