=== Oceanly News ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, education, 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 is a perfect WordPress theme for personal blogs, magazines, and newspapers.

== Description ==

Oceanly News is a perfect WordPress theme for personal blogs, magazines, and newspapers. The theme offers a modern and elegant design with a refreshing and minimalistic look. The simplicity and quality it provides are very crucial to nicely showcase any content, portfolios, and stories by creators, publishers, bloggers, editors, authors, novelists, story writers, consultants, journalists, vloggers, and freelancers. The theme offers a parallax header background image with a search form, multiple customization options with multiple page templates and settings, and compatibility with RTL languages, WooCommerce, Jetpack infinite scrolling, and Elementor page builder. This multipurpose theme is also perfectly suited for business promotion, consultancy, agency, travel, finance, corporate, affiliate websites, institutions, schools, academy training, e-learning platforms, and online shops. It is a fast-loading theme with great user experience, performance, and usability. It comes with SEO-optimized breadcrumbs navigation, an accessible multi-level dropdown menu, clean typography, and a mobile-friendly layout design. It also comes with a sidebar, and footer widgets area for placing any blocks including advertisement banners script like Google Adsense, etc. The theme offers a featured posts section that gives a magnificent and eye-catching look. This is great for photography websites, gaming websites, posting product reviews, movies, videos, and educational materials like documentation, tutorials, and guides. If you are looking for a beautiful theme for news or blogging, don't go astray. This is a dependency-free, SEO-friendly, and lightweight theme that can be a great starting point for creating professional, fast, attractive, and powerful 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 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 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 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 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 =
* Tested up to 6.4.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.5 =
* Code improvements.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.4 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.3 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.2 =
* Tested up to 6.2.

= 1.2.1 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.2.0 =
* Readme updated.
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.1.0 =
* Tested up to 6.1.

= 1.0.9 =
* Readme updated.
* Tested up to 6.0.2.

= 1.0.8 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.7 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.6 =
* Locally host Google fonts.

= 1.0.5 =
* New: "Dark Mode Toggle" added to plugin recommendation list.

= 1.0.4 =
* Updated customizer links.

= 1.0.3 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.2 =
* Updated readme.

= 1.0.1 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

Oceanly News bundles the following third-party resources:

* Image 1 for theme screenshot, Denis Linine
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/RSJHQZIRHO

* Image 2 for theme screenshot, Serpstat
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/959IURDRGJ

* Image 3 for theme screenshot, Kristin Hardwick
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/XJMBMTYYN2

* Image 4 for theme screenshot, Domenico Loia
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/IHIHTFK8YH

* Image 5 for theme screenshot, Startup Stock Photos
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/LEJ7HJ5BEA

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

* Image 7 for theme screenshot, Jeff Sheldon
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/NCMEKZE1QP

* 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+
