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    Longevity
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Longevity is a powerful responsive and multipurpose theme offering a minimalist design style with a unique curved graphic to help showcase your images and sliders on every page. Easy to configure with a plethora of features and a live preview of your customization from the WordPress customizer. You get features like 9 preset colour options, but also Unlimited colour selectors, 21 Widget sidebar positions, 4 blog styles and layouts, 4 webpage sizes, show or hide various page elements, customizable Sticky featured and Read More labels, post formats, page templates,  and a lot more. For theme info, support and more, visit the Longevity Info under the Appearance menu.

Requires at least WordPress version 4 for the best experience.
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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    Longevity Demo Website
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To see a live demo of Longevity, visit:

http://demos.shapedpixels.com/longevity/

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    Longevity Professional Version
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If you decide you want a lot more features, you can check out the Pro version of Longevity:

http://www.shapedpixels.com/longevity-pro/

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    Quick Specs
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1. The main content width with a sidebar offers a semi-fluid width as your browser resizes.
2. The main content width is maxed out at 1140px.
3. The sidebar offers custom background images per post and page.
4. Featured Images can be as wide as 1140px, but are responsive which means they will downsize to fit a container.
5. This theme gives you a responsive layout from desktop to mobile devices.
6. You get 19 widget positions.
7. You get 4 blog layout styles
8. Preset colours using the built-in WordPress customizer


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    Animation
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This theme originally had animation built into it for various elements that you can apply CSS classes to them. However, this generally requires you to
go into files and modify them, so I decided to delete the animation CSS file to recommend a plugin called Animate It! to give you a lot more
flexibility without touching source code because this uses shortcodes.

For more info about plugins, see below... 

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    Recommended (Optional) Plugins for this Theme
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* Animate It! - I recommend the Animate it! plugin which uses shortcodes
* Jetpack - Gives you several plugins rolled into one
* Simply Exclude - Allows you to exclude categories, posts, etc., from areas of your site
* Remove Widget Titles - Allows you to hide widget titles from the front-end
* Hide Title by Brandon Kraft & Randall Runnels - Allows you to hide a page title
* TinyMCE Advanced - Adds more editor features and customizable
* HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter by Petr Mukhortov - Colours HTML code in the editor for better viewing

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    Change Log
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I recommend that you read the changelog.txt file that comes with this theme to find out what changes
were done with each new version update. This will help you determine if there will be any problems
with your current setup.

***Always make a website and theme backup whenever you update/upgrade themes, plugins, and WordPress.

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    Installation
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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.

If you prefer to install your theme manually, unzip the theme package and use your FTP program to upload your theme
to the themes folder of your WordPress installation. Your theme will go here: /wp-content/themes/


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    Quick How To?
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* How do I change the colours?

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Customize.
2. Now you will see the Customizer and a tab called 'Site Options'. Click this tab.
3. You can now change your colour scheme with one of 5 styles (many more with the Pro version). You can preview the change in the Customizer.
4. Once you are happy with your color changes you can click save and your changes will be reflected on your live site.

* How do I add the Social Links to my sidebar?

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.
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).


 1. Digg
 2. Dribbble
 3. Facebook
 4. Flickr
 5. GitHub
 6. Google+
7. Instagram
8. LinkedIn
9. Pinterest
10. Reddit
11. RSS Feed (URLs with /feed/)
12. StumbleUpon
13. Tumblr
14. Twitter
15. Vimeo
16. WordPress
17. YouTube

* How do I change Styles or Modify the Theme?

You have a couple options available, but 

1. Making "only" stylesheet (CSS) changes, you can use a plugin for editing CSS
2. To make CSS and/or modify the theme files, it's recommended to use a child theme so that you can keep your original theme up to date without losing your modifications/changes.

More Info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Note: Only the pro version includes a premade child theme

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    Minified Scripts and Stylesheets
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To help speed up page load times, this theme uses the minified versions of certain scripts and stylesheets.
However, if you need access to the unminified versions, you can find them in the theme files:

/css/bootstrap.css

/js/imagesloaded.pkgd.js


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    Theme Documentation
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If you need more documentation (tutorials) to help you setup your theme, you can find them here:

http://www.shapedpixels.com/support



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    Longevity License and Credits
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Please review the /license.txt file located within the theme for full license details
and attributes.