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    Emphasize
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Emphasize offers a clean design concept, so much that even my main website is using it! Simple to use with many features to give you better flexibility, customizability, stability, and other things like being mobile responsive, several blog styles, page templates, unlimited colours using the built-in WordPress Customizer, post formats, social networking, Schema microdata (structured data) for Google, and more more...

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

http://demo.shapedpixels.com/emphasize/


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    Pro Version of Emphasize
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If you feel you need more features, you will want to check out the pro version of Emphasize:
http://www.shapedpixels.com/premium-wordpress-themes/51-emphasize-pro

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    Quick Specs
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1. The main content width with a sidebar is 740px.
2. The main content width without a left or right sidebar is 1140px.
3. The sidebar width is 340px.
4. Featured Images can be as wide as 1140px, but are responsive which means they will downsize to fit a container.
5. This theme is responsive and uses Twitter's Bootstrap version 3 for the primary layout.
6. You get 15 widget positions.
7. You get 4 blog layout styles
8. Unlimited colours

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    Recommended (Optional) Plugins for this Theme
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* 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 'Colours'. Click this tab.
3. You can now change your colours for most of the theme by selecting your choice of colour from the built-in colour selectors. 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 the footer?

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. Codepen
 2. Digg
 3. Dribbble
 4. Dropbox
 5. Facebook
 6. Flickr
 7. Foursquare
 8. GitHub
 9. Google+
10. Instagram
11. LinkedIn
12. Email (mailto: links)
13. Pinterest
14. Pocket
15. PollDaddy
16. Reddit
17. RSS Feed (URLs with /feed/)
18. Spotify
19. StumbleUpon
20. Tumblr
21. Twitch
22. Twitter
23. Vimeo
24. WordPress
25. 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

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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