=== Esotera ===

Contributors: Cryout Creations
Requires at least: 4.5
Tested up to: 6.8
Stable tag: 1.4.0
Requires PHP: 7.0
License: GPLv3
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Copyright 2019-25 Cryout Creations
https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/

== Description ==
 Colorful, clean and beautifully animated, Esotera is a highly customizable, multi-purpose responsive theme that’s perfect for your blog, portfolio, photography or business website. Demo: https://demos.cryoutcreations.eu/wp/esotera

== License ==

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html


== Third Party Resources ==

Esotera WordPress Theme bundles the following third-party libraries and resources:

TGM Plugin Activation
Copyright Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer
License: GPL-2.0 or later license
Source: https://github.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation

HTML5Shiv
Copyright Alexander Farkas (aFarkas)
License: Dual licensed under the terms of the GPL (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html) and MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) licenses
Source: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv/

FitVids
Copyright Chris Coyier - http://css-tricks.com + Dave Rupert - http://daverupert.com
License: WTFPLlicense
Source: http://fitvidsjs.com/

prepareTransition
Copyright Jonathan Snook
License: MIT license
Source: https://snook.ca/archives/javascript/preparetransition-jquery-plugin

== Bundled Fonts ==

Icomoon icons
Copyright Keyamoon.com
License: GPL license, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
Source: https://icomoon.io/#icons-icomoon

Entypo+ icons
Copyright Daniel Bruce
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Source: http://www.entypo.com/faq.php

Feather icons
Copyright Cole Bemis
License: MIT license, https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Source: https://feathericons.com/

Zocial CSS social buttons
Copyright Sam Collins
License: MIT license, https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Source: https://github.com/smcllns/css-social-buttons

== Bundled Images ==

The following bundled images are released into the public domain under Creative Commons CC0:

Header images:
https://www.nicepik.com/nikon-sunset-smile-jean-jacket-denim-blonde-camera-pier-ocean-beach-portrait-woman-free-photo-1304826
https://www.nicepik.com/closeup-shot-of-light-bulbs-various-technology-electric-lamp-lighting-equipment-illuminated-free-photo-403707

The rest of the bundled images are created by Cryout Creations and released with the theme under GPLv3.


== Changelog ==

= 1.4.0 =
*Release date: 2025.10.28*

* Major rewrite of all critical action and filter hooks to resolve the '_load_textdomain_just_in_time() was called incorrectly' notice introduced by WordPress 6.7.
	***If you're using a child theme to apply complex overrides, these may need adjusting to account for the new order of things***
* Added Bluesky social icon
* Added hint about header video limitations to WordPress' Header Media customizer panel
* Added hint (and link) about the landing page functionality in WordPress' Homepage Settings customizer panel
* Added banner/slider background color option
* Moved the landing page "Featured Content" option into the main Landing Page customizer panel
* Rearranged WordPress' built-in site identity options for better consistency
* Changed "Fixed Menu" option to "Sticky Menu" for clarity
* Changed all outgoing frontend links to be protocol agnostic and avoid warnings from automated quality check tools.
* Changed failover featured boxes 'camera' icon to only be visible when no featured image is used, to avoid interference with transparent images
* Fixed 'View all posts by' translation inconsistency in user-bio.php
* Fixed support for landing page text areas background images (broken since 1.3.0)
* Fixed side socials alignment with the Mystic personality
* Removed backwards support for pre-WordPress 4.5 logo functionality
* Bumped required PHP version to 7.0
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.7.1:
	* Added support to change built-in customizer panel priorities
	* Added support to customize priority for theme customizer panels
	* Added the Button customizer control (used for the personalities apply button)
	* Added the Personality customizer control (for personalities selection)
	* Merged 'hint' control as subtype of 'notice' control
	* Fixed "About theme" customizer panel layout issues due to WordPress 6.7 accessibility changes
	* Fixed theme indicator misplaced with WordPress 6.7 accessibility changes

= 1.3.0 =
*Release date - 2025.02.15*

* Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors - reported by stealthcopter on patchstack.com
* Fixed theme reset styling overriding block file buttons
* Fixed PHP 8.2+ deprecation warning in presentation page boxes filter
* Added 'cryout_preslider_hook' hook to landing page slider section
* Added additional 'limited' selection for table appearance option for improved compatibility with content plugins
* Added 'esotera_navigation_compat' filter to allow overriding the "access" id on menu container and improve uber/mega menu compatibility
* Added generated 'esotera-accent-1/2' and 'esotera-accent-1/2-bg' classnames and 'esotera-accent-1/2' CSS variables for the main accent colors
* Added interactive hint to WordPress' Homepage Settings panel while using the landing page with a static homepage
* Added new social icons: AliPay, Apple, Behance, Bootstrap, Git, Gitlab, Google, Mastodon, Messenger, Microsoft, Teams, Person (simple, circle, square), QR Code, Rumble, Signal, Snapchat, Sourceforge, Substack, Telegram, Threads, Trello, Unity, Whatsapp, Xbox, and one that shall not be named
* Updated social icons: Twitter (X), Facebook, Github, Google Play, PayPal, Skype, Stripe, Steam, Spotify, Linkedin, Reddit, YouTube, WordPress (old icons are still available by adding the '-old' suffix to the classnames).
* Changed default social icon for tel: links
* Renamed 'striped' tables option and CSS classname
* Improved theme defaults to make all default configurable texts translatable
* Improved support for bare homepage content by removing the minimum height
* Improved styling to support more than two banner/slider caption buttons
* Improved compatibility with ShiftNav plugin by removing focus interception from buttons
* Improved accessibility:
	* Side menu / mobile menu toggler
	* Main menu
	* Back to top button
	* Loading of the built-in icon font
	* Width and height attributes for portfolio images, featured images and testimonials
* Updated Cryout Framework to 0.8.6.6:
	* Fixed deprecated ${var} usage with PHP 8.2+
	* Updated rich text schema support for comments
	* Precognitively fixed erroneous white square in customize screen panels with Zynith SEO plugin
	* Fixed whitespaces in font control title hint due to spaces in markup

= 1.2.6 =
*Release date - 2024.09.18*

* Accessibillity fixes for many elements including main menu, side menu, mobile menu, back to top button and others
* Fixed XSS vulnerability allowing the output of unsanitized user names set by rogue editors/contributors
* Fixed comments markup inconsistency (itemprop='discussionURL' visible)

= 1.2.5.1 =
*Release date - 2022.05.27*

* Improved Safari mobile browser detection for iPhones and iPads (for better handling of rendering quirks in social apps)
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.3:
	* Fixed fatal error on Customize screen due to inconsistent handling of empty categories since WordPress 6.0
	* Fixed 'Disable' and 'All Categories' options not available in category selector options on sites with no categories defined

= 1.2.5 =
*Release date - 2022.04.29*

* Added 'esotera_box_readmore' filter for landing page featured boxes read more texts
* Added support for using the associated featured images as header images on the static home and blog pages
* Improved JS compatibility with ShiftNav plugin
* Improved single posts fixed next/previous navigation by moving it to hookable esotera_fixed_nav_links() function and limiting links to same taxonomy
* Improved compatibility with script name collision in deferring check by increasing specificity
* Improved compatibility with sub-optimal SSI configurations
* Fixed landing page text areas content retaining incorrect narrow width on mobile devices
* Fixed landing page icon blocks using incorrect smaller widths with 2/4 columns settings
* Fixed portfolio type lists displaying slugs instead of properly formatted names
* Fixed featured images using the incorrect width in 3 post columns / left sidebar only configuration
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.6.2:
	* Added static blog page detection function (for featured images in header)
	* Added Polylang support for featured boxes category filtering (thanks to espasso)
	* Improved PHP 8 compatibility

= 1.2.4 =
*Release date - 2021.02.26*

* Added configuration hint for header image when the theme's slider / banner image is active on the homepage
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.7
	* Expanded hint control styling to apply in the Site Identity panel

= 1.2.3.1 =
*Release date - 2021.02.11*

* Really fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item

= 1.2.3 =
*Release date - 2021.02.05*

* Removed lazy loading functionality from featured images as it sometimes interferes with image sizes
* Fixed leftover border on main navigation
* Fixed mobile menu and sticky top bar z-index issues
* Fixed mobile menu search creating an extra focusable item
* Fixed breadcrumbs on one-column layouts on mobile
* Fixed breadcrumbs padding on mobile
* Fixed search widgets in footer
* Fixed author section border on single pages on resolutions between 800px and 1024px
* Fixed multiple RTL issues
* Added click-navigation to target panels in header content and site identity hints
* Changed preloader failsafe auto hide time
* Changed banner caption title animation option to toggle control and renamed/relocated for clarity

= 1.2.2 =
*Release date - 2021.01.13*

* Added lazy loading for featured images and landing page elements
* Optimized frontend.js structure
* Improved preloader handling when JavaScript is broken on the site or disabled in browser
* Fixed social icons in side-menu not being accessible with keyboard navigation
* Fixed header title animation support for HTML entities and special characters
* Fixed landing page blocks layout with 2/4 columns
* Fixed landing page blocks borders
* Fixed block editor galleries layout
* Fixed back to top button animation styling when using child themes

= 1.2.1 =
*Release Date - 2020.12.29*

* Improved comment placeholder/label option functionality
* Renamed landing page 'static image' element to 'banner image' for clarity
* Removed all padding/margins from before/after content and top/bottom inner widget areas
* Fixed header titles support for HTML entities and special characters
* Fixed header widget area sometimes overlapping interactive content
* Fixed block editor font sizes using the incorrect 'regular' slug
* Fixed site title overlapping mobile menu toggler on certain configurations
* Fixed left sidebar navigation not being displayed when there are no widgets assigned
* Fixed incorrect scroll position after closing mobile menu on Firefox since v1.2.0
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.6:
	* Fixed issues with font families that contain multiple words

= 1.2.0 =
*Release Date - 2020.12.16*

* Added accessibility for mobile menu
* Added 'Tested up to' and 'Requires PHP' header fields in style.css
* Improved handling of font weights
* Improved visibility of featured boxes images when no images are present
* Code cleanup and sanitization improvements according to the theme sniffer rules
	* Fixed empty else statements in core.php, landing-page.php, styles.php
	* Added extra sanitization in includes/landing-page.php, includes/meta.php, includes/core.php, admin/main.php
* Cleaned up and optimized frontend scripts, including for WordPress 5.5/5.6 jQuery updates
* Renamed content/author-bio.php file to content/user-bio.php to avoid name collision with WordPress' templating system
* Fixed plural forms in comments count for more complex languages - https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Plurals
* Fixed non-prefixed global variables in content.php and comments.php
* Fixed logo using incorrect height after assignment in the customize preview
* Fixed accessibility for side menu
* Fixed malfunctioning preloader, header image and content animations with WordPress 5.6
* Fixed (hopefully) printing on Chrome prints the side menu background over the site content
* Fixed "Inherit General Font" option not working as expected
* Fixed team members photos having a weird aspect ratio after Team Members plugin update
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.5.5:
	* Improved JS code to remove jQuery deprecation notices since WordPress 5.6
	* Changed custom post type label in breadcrumbs from singular_name to name
	* Added echo parameters to cryout_schema_microdata() and cryout_font_select() functions
	* Fixed color selector malfunction since WordPress 5.3
	* Fixed Select2 selectors no longer working with WordPress 5.6 on Firefox
	* Additional sanitization and even more sanitization changes to comply with current wp.org requirements

= 1.1.1 =
*Release Date - 2019.10.11*

* Fixed extra top margin on body when no header image is used
* Improved fixed mobile menu functionality to only execute when fixed menu option is enabled
* Fixed mobile side menu close button not usable in some instances since 1.1.0
* Fixed some landing page elements missing effects on older Edge releases due to :focus-within changes in 1.1.0

= 1.1.0 =
*Release Date - 2019.10.02*

* Fixed paragraphs indentation option not working
* Fixed boxes ratio issue
* Added 'esotera_header_image' and 'esotera_header_image_url' filters to allow custom control over featured images in header functionality
* Fixed breadcrumbs missing link on home icon on WooCommerce pages
* Added option to disable default pages navigation and improved mobile menu functionality to hide toggler when main navigation is empty
* Fixed 'wp_body_open' action hook support for WordPress versions older than 5.2
* Improved main navigation usability on tables by adding the option to force the mobile menu activation
* Fixed Gutenberg lists displaying bullets outside of content on landing page sections
* Improved list bullets styling in landing page text areas
* Improved dark color schemes support for HTML select elements
* Added visibility on scroll functionality on the fixed menu on mobile devices
* Improved mobile menu dark color schemes support by using non-link texts to use the configured menu text color
* Updated fixed menu styling to account for WordPress admin bar responsiveness breakpoints changes
* Improved keyboard navigation accessibility:
	* Added 'skip to content' link
	* Added focus support for post featured images, landing page featured boxes, landing page portfolio, main navigation search form
	* Converted menu close element to button
* Added support for future official child themes
* Updated to Cryout Framework 0.8.4.1:
	* Optimized options migration check to reduce calls
	* (Finally?) fixed 'Too few arguments' warning in breadcrumbs on Polylang multi-lingual sites
	* Removed news feed from theme's about page per TRT requirements - https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/73150#comment:3

= 1.0.0 =
*Release Date - 2019.07.04*

* Added option to enable/disable the static slider title animation
* Fixed sub-submenus under-menu indicators being always visible on the right margin
* Fixed sub-submenus having an extra bottom border
* Fixed items with sub-menus having no right padding
* Fixed hamburger menu button in the main navigation not being clickable in some cases
* Updated style.css description

= 0.9.1 =
*Release Date - 2019.06.23*

* Fixed submenus having wrong background color on IE11 and Edge
* Fixed Site Title not being vertically aligned on some rare occasions on Chrome
* Fixed Site Title size on mobile on Chrome
* Scaled down menu items size on mobile
* Fixed dot character being inside link in footer link

= 0.9 =
*Release Date - 2019.06.21*

* First Esotera release
