=== Decree ===
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, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, custom-logo, blog, education, portfolio
Requires at least: 5.9
Requires PHP: 5.6
Tested up to: 7.0
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Decree is a simple yet power packed WordPress theme for Lawyers, Law Firm and Attorney website.

== Description ==

Decree is a simple yet power packed WordPress theme for Lawyers, Law Firm and Attorney website. Unlike other WordPress themes, Decree may not look exquisite at the first glance but it is a completely need-based WordPress theme for lawyers. Decree comes with strong and bold design, advanced functionality and customization options. It’s packed with optimizations and features made especially to bring more clients to your page. The theme is very suitable to present your strong professional personality in a unique way. Decree is fully responsive, optimized and offers utilitarian features as Header Top Section where you can add or remove quick links, Header Right Sidebar where you can display your contact number, custom menu and widget areas and many more. Decree offers some cleverly arranged content blocks that will help you market your services better and it makes sure that no important information has been left out. Decree gives you the perfect online niche that is dynamic, multifunctional and upfront. Decree is an ideal professional WordPress theme for counsel, law firm, legal officer, adviser, solicitor, consultant, and corporate websites. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/decree/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/decree/

For more information about Decree Pro please go to https://catchthemes.com/themes/decree-pro/

== Installation ==

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

= Where can I find theme demo? =

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

= More FAQ =

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

== Translation ==

Decree theme is translation ready.

== Getting Started ==

= Installation =

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the Add New button.
2. Click Upload and Choose File, then select the theme's .zip file. Click Install Now.
3. Click Activate to use your new theme right away.

= Custom Menus =

Decree 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 =

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
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.

= Social Icons =

Decree 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
* Phone
* Pocket
* Reddit
* RSS Feed
* Spotify
* StumbleUpon
* Threads
* Tiktok
* Tumblr
* Twitch
* Twitter
* Vimeo
* WordPress
* X-Twitter
* 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/decree/

== Change Log ==

= 2.3 (Released: June 04, 2026) =
* Updated: WordPress 7.0 ready

= 2.2.1 (Released: December 15, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.2 (Released: August 27, 2025) =
* Added: Tiktok, Threads, X-twitter, Tel, Bluesky, Etsy, and Telegram icons
* Updated: Font Awesome 6.7.2
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 2.1.2 (Released: March 05, 2024) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 2.1.1 (Released: August 14, 2022) =
* Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)

= 2.1 (Released: February 17, 2022) =
* Removed: jQuery Cycle2 shuffle transition effect
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 2.0.4 (Released: May 28, 2020) =
* Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirements

= 2.0.3 (Released: September 06, 2019) =
* Added: Yelp icon in social icons
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action

= 2.0.2 (Released: February 26, 2019) =
* Bug Fixed: Testimonial default image issue

= 2.0.1 (Released: February 07, 2019) =
* Bug Fixed: HTML validation for Testimonials
* Bug Fixed: HTML validation for section headings
* Bug Fixed: HTML validation for Footer Contact Form
* Bug Fixed: HTML validation for Consultation Form
* Removed: Unnecessary banner role for masthead
* Updated: article id for Team and Logo Slider demo

= 2.0 (Released: January 22, 2019) =
* Added: Theme support for block styles
* Added: Theme support for full and wide align images
* Added: Theme support for editor styles
* Added: Theme support for responsive embeds
* Added: Theme support for custom editor font sizes
* Added: Theme support for custom color scheme
* Bug Fixed: Updated Content delivered through the_content filter
* Bug fixed:Metabox featured image option disable issue fix
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Readme file as per new requirement

= 1.0.7 (Released: September 10, 2018) =
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css

= 1.0.6 (Merged 1.0.5) (Released: May 10, 2018) =
* Bug fixed : Portfolio section layout issue fixed

= 1.0.4 (Released: April 17, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin

= 1.0.3 (Released: March 01, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Footer Social Icon color issue
* Bug Fixed: Discarded use of `create_function`
* Bug Fixed: Homepage/Frontpage option when blog page is selected as static page
* Bug Fixed: CT: Instagram Widget thumbnail and small image sizes issue
* Bug Fixed: Search box not showing in mobile menu
* Bug Fixed: Search box issue in iOS devices
* Updated: Bundle images compression
* Updated: JS compression
* Updated: Code Optimization

= 1.0.2 (Released: October 20, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Missing Container div on Featured Page Slider (Reported By: margarida-verissimo)

= 1.0.1 = (Released: September 18, 2017)
* Bug Fixed: Featured Header Image metabox option

= 1.0 (Released: September 11, 2017) =
* Update: Theme description
* Update: Screenshot
* Update: Support forum URL in readme file
* Mark it as Stable version release

= 0.4 (Released: August 1, 2017) =
* Added proper tags in styles.css
* Bug Fixed: Sticky post label
* Bug Fixed: Escaped translated strings in searchform.php
* Bug Fixed: Escaped first image source
* Removed: Featured/Recent Posts Widget

= 0.3 (Released: July 14, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Undefined function in comments.php
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb custom post archive link
* Changed file header doc
* Code optimization
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file

= 0.2 (Released: June 23, 2017) =
* Removed demo featured sections
* Bug Fixed: Sanitization and escaping issues
* Updated: Readme file, removed unnecessary documentation

= 0.1 =
* Initial Release

== Copyright ==

Decree WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2026 Catchthemes.com
Decree is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3

== Resources ==

* Images used are released under the CC0 license
1. Screenshot Image
    - https://pixabay.com/en/life-beauty-scene-library-books-863148/
    - https://pixabay.com/en/business-man-businessman-corporate-1042706/
    - https://unsplash.com/photos/0sT9YhNgSEs
5. All other images are self shot image by (CatchThemes.com)

* Fontawesome
    Copyright (c) 2024 Fonticons, Inc. (https://fontawesome.com)
    Full Font Awesome Free license: https://fontawesome.com/license/free.
    License: SIL OFL 1.1
    URL: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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

Ct: Contact Info Widget is basaed on Jetpack Contact Info Widget

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