=== Rock Star ===
Contributors: catchthemes
Tags: blog, 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, front-page-post-form, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready
Requires at least: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Rock Star is an incredibly sleek and responsive music WordPress theme, built for artists, musician and bands aiming to promote their music and events.

== Description ==

Rock Star is an incredibly sleek and responsive music WordPress theme, built for artists, musician and bands aiming to promote their music and events. Created using HTML5 and CSS3, this aesthetically engaging music WordPress theme is very easy to use. Simple modules and features are available so you can build a complete and custom music website right away. Knowing the importance of the vast potential of social media, Rock Star allows you to update your followers regarding any activity, track release or event using the integrated social media support option. Its homepage is dominated by your logo, tagline, and a full-screen background image. With features like layouts, news ticker, featured content, featured slider, tours, breadcrumb, videos, social icons and instagram images gives you plenty of customizing power. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/rock-star/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/rock-star/

For more information about Rockstar please go to https://catchthemes.com/themes/rock-star-pro/

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the 'Add New' button.
2. Type in Rockstar 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/rock-star/ 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 and WooCommerce Plugin.

= Where can I find theme documentation? =

You can check our Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/themes/rock-star-pro in the Theme Instructions Tab.

= Where can I find theme demo? =

You can check our Theme Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/rock-star/

== Translation ==

Rock Star theme is translation ready.
Added Translation for French by Patrice ( Email: contact@drnradio.net )

== Getting Started ==

= Installation =

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.

= Custom Menus =

Rock Star theme supports one custom menu that is primary menu.
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 Rock Star 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 =

Rock Star 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
* PollDaddy
* Reddit
* RSS Feed
* Spotify
* StumbleUpon
* Tumblr
* Twitch
* Twitter
* Vimeo
* WordPress
* X-Twitter
* 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


= More FAQ =

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

== Changelog ==

= 2.1 (Released: December 16, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.0.2 (Released: October 13, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Email icon mailto link generating malformed URL
* Bug Fixed: Hover color issue on mail & feed icon

= 2.0.1 (Released: June 05, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Font Awesome CSS issue

= 2.0 (Released: June 02, 2025) =
* Added: Twitter X, TikTok, Bluesky, and Threads icons
* Removed: Polldaddy icon
* Replaced: Genericons library to Font Awesome

= 1.8.6 (Released: April 16, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Escaping author display name
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready
* Updated: Compress theme screenshot image

= 1.8.5 (Released: March 31, 2025) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.7 ready

= 1.8.4 (Released: August 07, 2024) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.6 ready

= 1.8.3 (Released: January 30, 2024) =
* Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready

= 1.8.2 (Released: September 21, 2022) =
* Added: Fitvids Option (Fixed Video Spacing issue)

= 1.8.1 (Released: August 22, 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) =
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 1.7.3 (Released: June 01, 2021) =
* Added: Core Blocks Support
* Bug Fixed: Check if empty CT:Tour widget

= 1.7.2 (Released: September 1, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Slider Issue on Image loader set to true on WP 5.5

= 1.7.1 (Released: August 11, 2020) =
* Updated : WP 5.5 Compatibility

= 1.7 (Released: June 30, 2020) =
* Updated: Theme Check Issues
* Updated: All images
* Updated: Screenshot
* Updated: data-vocabulary-org-schema deprecated now replaced by schema-org's JSON-LD
* Removed: Cycle slider shuffle not compatible with theme check so it has been removed

= 1.6.5 (Released: May 08, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Blog page template

= 1.6.4 (Released: April 30, 2020) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action
* Bug Fixed: Background image for larger devices
* Bug Fixed: Check isset for checkbox

= 1.6.3 (Released: February 15, 2019) =
* Bug Fixed: Header featured image on blog page (Reported by galaxyglinda)

= 1.6.2 (Released: January 17, 2019) =
* Added: Open in New tab check box option in CT:Tours widget
* Updated: Metabox UI
* Updated: Readme file as per new requirement

= 1.6.1 (Released: October 25, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: News Ticker Position (Reported by ravanh)

= 1.6 (Released: October 10, 2018) =
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
* Bug fixed: Metabox Single Page/Post Image Layout (Reported by ravanh)
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css
* Updated: Content delivered through the_content filter
* Updated: Content type Label updated

= 1.5.1 (Released: May 24, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Footer widget area design issue (Reported by Eduardo Aladren)

= 1.5 (Released: May 23, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: CT:Instagram widget image size issue
* Bug Fixed: PHP 7 compatibility for [] operator fatal error

= 1.4 (Released: April 11, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
* Bug Fixed: Discarded use of 'create_function'
* Code Optimization
* Updated: CT:Instagram Widget updated due to changes in instagram.com

= 1.3.2 (Released: January 13, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: CT: Instagram Widget thumbnail and small image sizes issue

= 1.3.1 (Released: October 20, 2017)=
* Bug Fixed: Featured Content missing div opening '<' (Reported By: jdornan)

= 1.3 (Released: September 13, 2017) =
* Added: French translation
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb custom post archive link
* Code Optimization
* Removed: changelog.txt file and added changelog in readme.txt file

= 1.2.4 (Released: May 24, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Responsive videos issue
* Bug Fixed: Featured Content Category showing all posts/pages issues
* Code Optimization

= 1.2.3 =
* Bug Fixed: Set footer widgets to center align, when there is widget only in Footer Area 1

= 1.2.2 =
* Bug Fixed: Background Image blurred in ios mobile devices

= 1.2.1 =
* Added: Option to Display all Categories in Customizer
* Enhanced: HTML structure
* Code Optimization

= 1.2 =
* Added CSS to support for bbPress forum
* Bug Fixed: Margin issue in footer widget list items
* Bug Fixed: Mobile menu issue with admin bar
* Bug Fixed: Body class issue when header image is disabled

= 1.1 =
* Bug Fixed: Replaced 'wp_reset_query' with 'wp_reset_postdata' where $wp_query is defined as global
* Updated: Custom CSS to Additional CSS( Core Support ) for WP version 4.7
* Code Optimization

= 1.0 =
* Marking it as stable version release

= 0.8 =
* Removed: update_option for thumbnail image size and added new image sizes as rock-star-small

= 0.7 =
* Revert: "Used wp_add_inline_style for custom css" from v0.5 as this is method does not override light.css in light color scheme

= 0.6 =
* Bug Fixed: Undefined index issue in about widget

= 0.5 =
* Bug Fixed: Featured Header Image Link URL not linked to header image
* Bug Fixed: Header Image not applying via metabox
* Bug Fixed: Empty div header-image-slider being displayed when slider and header image both disabled
* Updated: Used wp_add_inline_style for custom css and js scripts for widgets
* Updated: removed and added inline css for widgets background
* Updated: Upgrade Button in customizer with respect to trt decision
* Removed: Unused js files
* Renamed: fitvids handle to jquery-fitvids

= 0.4 =
* Added: Upgrade to Pro Button
* Bug Fixed: Missing output sanitization

= 0.3 =
* Added: Theme Options
* Added: Featured Slider Options
* Added: Featured Content Options
* Added: News Ticker Options
* Added: Social Links Options
* Updated: Code Optimization
* Updated: Theme Description

= 0.2 =
* Updated Styles and added scripts

= 0.1 =
* Submitted to WordPress.org for review

== Copyright ==

Rock Star WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2025 Catchthemes.com
Rock Star is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3

== Resources ==

* Images used are released under the CC0 license
1. Screenshot Image and Header Image
    https://stocksnap.io/photo/people-man-BG9IPYM7G0
2. Background Images
    * Dark: https://stocksnap.io/photo/blackandwhite-people-J6PZCSL30H
    * Light: https://stocksnap.io/photo/street-performer-ZYKKIUKRZP
3. 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
