=== Lucida ===
Contributors: catchthemes
Tags: one-column, two-columns, three-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
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

Lucida, the WordPress Theme for Magazine and Blogs represents simplicity and clarity.

== Description ==

Lucida, the WordPress Theme for Magazine and Blogs represents simplicity and clarity. Lucida is completely responsive and minimalistic, all you need for magazine and blog websites. The clean, super user-friendly interface and HTML5 and CSS3 codes used make it so stress-free to both use and view. Its vast range of features make it adept to be used in almost any site. With Lucida, create an individual online presence while worrying nothing of coding. Lucida takes care of everything. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/lucida/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/lucida/

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

== Installation ==

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

= Where can I find theme demo? =

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

= More FAQ =

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

== Translation ==

Lucida theme is translation ready.

== Getting Started ==

= Custom Menus =

Lucida 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 Lucida 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 =

Lucida 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
* Email
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Foursquare
* GitHub
* Google+
* Instagram
* LinkedIn
* Mobile
* Phone
* Pinterest
* Pocket
* 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

== Change Log ==

= 2.0.2 (Released: June 11, 2026) =
* Updated: WordPress 7.0 ready

= 2.0.1 (Released: December 16, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.0 (Released: June 02, 2025) =
* Added: Twitter X, TikTok, Phone, Bluesky, and Threads icons
* Bug Fixed: Recent Post float issue on small devices
* Removed: PollDaddy Icon
* Replaced: Genericons library to Font Awesome
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 1.9.1 (Released: February 26, 2024) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 1.9 (Released: February 03, 2023) =
* Added: Fitvids Option (Fixed Video Spacing issue)

= 1.8.1 (Released: August 21, 2022) =
* Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)

= 1.8 (Released: February 16, 2022) =
* Added: Core Blocks Support
* Bug Fixed: Added underline on the anchor tag
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 1.7.2 (Released: February 03, 2021) =
* Updated: data-vocabulary-org-schema deprecated now replaced by schema-org's JSON-LD

= 1.7.1 (Released: October 28, 2020) =
* Enhanced: HTML structure for Site Title and Page/Post Title

= 1.7 (Released: September 05, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Slider Issue on Image loader set to true on WP 5.5
* Removed: Cycle slider shuffle not compatible with theme check so it has been removed
* Updated: Readme
* Updated: Screenshot image

= 1.6 (Released: May 21, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Keyboard navigation issue
* Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirements

= 1.5 (Released: April 18, 2019) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
* Bug Fixed: CT:Instagram widget image size issue
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css update
* Updated Content delivered through the_content filter
* Updated: Content type label updated
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Readme file as per new requirement

= 1.4.2 (Released: April 17, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
* Updated: CT: Instagram Widget updated due to changes in instagram.com

= 1.4.1 (Released: January 13, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: CT: Instagram Widget thumbnail and small image sizes issue
* Updated: JS compression

= 1.4 (Released: July 18, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Metabox not taking Header Image Values
* Bug Fixed: Header Highlight Content Image not refreshing when changing Post Image, caused by transients (Reported By: fizzgigg)
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb custom post archive link
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file

= 1.3.9 (Released: June 8, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Removed unnecessary code that gave undefined index errors
* Bug Fixed: social icon styles
* Bug Fixed: Footer widget area layout
* Compatible with WordPress 4.8

= 1.3.8 =
* Bug fixed: Promotion Headline - $headline displayed instead of $sub_headline ( Reported By: sachyya )

= 1.3.7 =
* Compressed: Images
* Removed: Unnecessary images

= 1.3.6 (Merged 1.3.4 and 1.3.5) =
* Bug Fixed: Output Sanitization Issues
* Bug Fixed: Translation Issues
* Bug Fixed: excerpt_length and excerpt_more hooks now do not affect admin side
* Bug Fixed: Removed use of create_function for initializing widgets
* Bug Fixed: Prefixed localized objects
* Bug Fixed: Replaced wp_reset_query() with wp_reset_postdata() when used with WP_Query Class
* Removed: Unnecessary sidebar check on 404.php and sidebar-footer.php

= 1.3.3 =
* Removed: Image widget
* Removed: Text addition for social icon widget
* Enhanced: Style for blockquote, q and alignment

= 1.3.2 =
* Bug Fixed: Upgrade to Pro button link in customizer

= 1.3.1 =
* Bug Fixed: Widget layout issue in footer widget area

= 1.3 =
* Updated translation strings
* Internationalized footer date

= 1.2 =
* Added: Option to Display all Categories in Customizer
* Added: Display content option in customizer featured slider
* Bug Fixed: Drop down toggle arrow issue in Primary and Secondary menus
* Bug Fixed: Entry meta color css issue
* Bug Fixed: Slider Meta data
* Bug Fixed: jquery offset error on hide date option
* Enhanced: HTML structure to remove multiple h1

= 1.1 =
* Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support ) for WP version 4.7
* Code Optimization

= 1.0.4 =
* Bug Fixed: Layout issue in responsive design
* Bug Fixed: Secondary menu issue in responsive design
* Bug Fixed: Undefined variable error in core.php

= 1.0.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Compressed production version scripts
* Bug Fixed: Whitespace issues error hampering xml files display
* Updated: HTML script loading from lucida_head() function and added it as wp_enqueue_script() in lucida_scripts() function
* Updated: Used the_archive_title() and the_archive_description() in archive.php
* Updated: Styles/Scripts handle standardized

= 1.0.2 =
* Revert: "Used wp_add_inline_style for custom css" from v1.0.1 as this is method does not override light.css in light color scheme
* Removed: update_option for thumbnail image size and added new image sizes as lucida-small

= 1.0.1 =
* Bug fixed: custom style not enqueued. (Reported by jailma-santos)

= 1.0 =
* Initial Release

== Copyright ==

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

== Resources ==

* Images used are released under the CC0 license
1. Images used in screenshot:
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/outdoor-nature-EJ5OPA0IKX
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/girl-woman-TNK87N7464
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/woman-pose-1TRSFNIMK0
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/fishing-boat-BFB041CF3B
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/people-couple-IZCHKDUF0J
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/beach-coast-HGJ08ZTX4C
2. 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://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/

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