=== Oceanly News Dark ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, entertainment, news, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, flexible-header, footer-widgets, full-width-template, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, wide-blocks
Donate link: https://scriptstown.com/
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 1.3.1
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Oceanly News Dark is a perfect, multipurpose dark theme for news, magazines, blogging, entertainment, and educational websites.

== Description ==

Oceanly News Dark is a perfect, multipurpose dark theme for news, magazines, blogging, entertainment, and educational websites. It offers clean typography and an elegant design with a featured posts grid section with many options, a hero header with a mesmerizing parallax effect and search form, a background image, breadcrumbs navigation, page templates, accessible multi-level dropdown menu, block areas, a sidebar either right or left, and multiple footer widgets columns. With its magnificent, eye-catching, and clean layout, this theme is perfectly suitable for bloggers, story writers, photobloggers, content creators, musicians, artists, photographers, professionals, vloggers, and gamers for publishing and posting stories, product reviews, movies, videos, images, photography, and study materials like documentation, guides, manuals, tutorials, and infographics. With an awesome dark look with a beautiful colors scheme, this theme offers an interactive and seamless user experience that can also be a great choice for creating websites related to technology, science, gadgets, sports, fitness, gaming, anime, novels, manga, and webcomics. You can create websites for a digital marketing agency, affiliates, travel, insurance, businesses, university firms, institutions, schools, academy, library hubs, news portals, corporate, consulting, freelancing, or personal blogs. It works well with the WooCommerce plugin for an eCommerce shopping website and offers compatibility with Jetpack Infinite Scroll. In the block sections, you can place any custom blocks to showcase any features, services, gallery, sliders, carousels, banners, portfolios, or testimonials. It is also a fully responsive, mobile-friendly, nicely built theme with a focus on accessibility, usability, and performance. This theme is SEO-friendly, dependency-free, minimal, and lightweight which is a great starting point for quickly building fast, good-looking, feature-rich, attention-grabbing, powerful, and unique websites.

== Installation ==

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

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

Oceanly News Dark includes support for WooCommerce and for Infinite Scroll in Jetpack.

= Where to find the theme options? =

All of the options can be found in the Customizer in 'Appearance > Customize'.

= How to change the header image and header background color? =

You can change the header image from the Customizer in 'Appearance > Customize > Header Image'. Also, you can change the header background color from 'Appearance > Customize > Colors'.

= How to configure the theme widgets? =

The theme widgets can be found in 'Appearance > Widgets'. You can drag and drop widgets to the widget area. Oceanly News Dark comes with 4 widgets area locations which include a main sidebar widget area and three locations for footer widgets.

= How to add the menus or social links? =

The menus can be found in 'Appearance > Menus'. First, create the menu and then assign it to a menu location. Oceanly News Dark comes with three menu locations which include the primary menu, footer menu, and social links menu. For social links, create a menu item with a custom link, enter the URL of the social page, and assign this menu to the 'Social Links Menu' location.

== Copyright ==

Oceanly News Dark is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

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 2 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.

== Changelog ==

= 1.3.1 =
* Tested up to 6.9.

= 1.3.0 =
* Fix: Focus must not be hidden from assistive technology users.
* Tested up to 6.8.2.

= 1.2.9 =
* Tested up to 6.8.
* Compatibility with PHP 8.4.

= 1.2.8 =
* Tested up to 6.7.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.7 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Tested up to 6.5.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.6 =
* Compatibility with PHP 8.3.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.2.5 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.4 =
* Tested up to 6.4.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.3 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.2 =
* Code improvements.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.1 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.0 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.1.0 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.9 =
* Tested up to 6.2.

= 1.0.8 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.7 =
* Tested up to 6.1.

= 1.0.6 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.5 =
* Added "Dark Mode Toggle" plugin recommendation.

= 1.0.4 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.3 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.2 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.1 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

Oceanly News Dark bundles the following third-party resources:

* Image 1 for theme screenshot, Jonas Svidras
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/OXWTHY7CJ2

* Image 2 for theme screenshot, Denys Nevozhai
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/BXYBYV5ZZ8

* Image 3 for theme screenshot, Rodion Kutsaev
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/RM5Y5VX7N6

* Image 4 for theme screenshot, zhangkaiyv
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/PBEGWAY6HY

* Image 5 for theme screenshot, Glenn Carstens-Peters
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/6DID58WECI

* Image 6 for theme screenshot, Vidsplay
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/N06ELOLAT9

* Image 7 for theme screenshot, Sawyer Bengtson
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/0GZ83DHBCE

* SVG UI Icons: calendar, user, tags, pin, menu, close
* License: SIL Open Font License (OFL)
* Source: https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/font-awesome

* SVG UI Icons: comment, chevron
* License: MIT License
* Source: https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/octicons

* Select Multiple Customizer Control (c) Cristian-Ungureanu
* License: MIT License, https://github.com/Codeinwp/customizer-controls/blob/master/LICENSE
* Source: https://github.com/Codeinwp/customizer-controls/tree/master/customizer-select-multiple

* TGM Plugin Activation - v2.6.1, http://tgmpluginactivation.com/, By Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer, License: GPL-2.0+
