=== Kalon ===
Author: Rara Theme (http://raratheme.com)

Tags: Blog, two-columns, right-sidebar, footer-widgets, custom-background, custom-menu, featured-image-header, featured-images, post-formats, threaded-comments, translation-ready, full-width-template, theme-options

Requires at least: 4.4.2
Tested up to: 4.5.2
Stable tag: 1.0.3
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html


== Description ==

Kalon is a responsive, clean and elegant WordPress theme for blog and magazine. It is created using HTML5, CSS3 and _s theme. It has featured slider, full-width pages, all the post formats options, custom widgets, sidebar and footer widgets. Kalon is designed by our small team of talented designers with passion, desire to make an elegant WordPress blog theme for you. It is easy to configure and use. Kalon is also translation ready.  


== 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.

== Documentation ==
1. Setting Slider 
    * Activate Slider 
    * Go to Appearance >Customize>Slider Settings.
    * Check Enable Home Page Slider to show the featured slider the homepage
    * Select the category of posts which you want to display in the slider. (Featured images of the posts of the selected category will be displayed as slider images.)
    * Featured images of posts should be at least 1920 px in width and 500px in the height for displaying slider images properly.
    * Use regenerate thumbnail plugin to crop all the images if you have already uploaded the Images.
    * Click Save & Publish

2. Configuring Slider 
    * Check Enable Slider to Auto Transition for the slides to transition automatically (auto-scroll) without a click. 
    * Check Enable Slider Loop to continue the slide transition in the loop
    * Check Enable Slider Control to allow manual navigation for paging control of each slide?
    * Check Enable Slider Caption to show the post title to appear on the slider post image
    * Check Enable Slider Thumbnail  to show the tiny thumbnail feature images of the slider Posts to appear at the bottom
    * Select the slider animation type to "fade" or "slide"
    * Enter the Readmore text to set the text of the button  
    * Enter Slider Speed: 
    * Set the Interval (in milliseconds) at which the slider should change posts(if automatic transition is enabled). Default: 7000 (7 seconds) 
    * Enter Animation  Speed: 
    * Set the speed of animations, in milliseconds. Default: 600  
    * Click Save
    
3. Social Media 
    * Go to Appearance> Customize>Social Setting
    * Check Enable Social Links  to show the social media links on the homepage
    * Enter your social media links 
    * Click Save & Publish.

4. Custom CSS
    * Go to Appearance >Customize>Custom CSS settings.
    * Enter the required custom CSS. For example, to change the body font size to 17 Pixels: body{font-size: 17px}
    * Click Save & Publish.

== Copyrights and License ==

Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GPLv2 or later


External resources linked to the theme.
* Montserrat Font by through Google Font 
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat
* Dancing Script Font by through Google Font 
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Dancing+Script
* Lato Font by through Google Font 
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato

*Font Awesome
https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

# Images
All images are under Creative Commons Public Domain deed CC0.

https://pixabay.com/en/girl-looking-down-outside-young-1031641/ 
https://pixabay.com/en/teenagers-prom-formal-young-699784/
https://pixabay.com/en/portrait-studio-girl-nice-grey-487081/

Other images are self taken or self created and are GPL compatible.

# JS
All the JS are licensed under GPLv2 or later
https://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
http://www.meanthemes.com/demo/meanmenu/demo.html
http://www.psd2html.com/js-custom-forms/

* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)


* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)


All other resources and theme elements are licensed under the GPLv2 or later


Kalon WordPress Theme, Copyright Rara Theme 2015, Raratheme.com
Kalon WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 or later


*  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 ==
    1.0.3
    * Data escaped in all widgets.
    
    1.0.2
    * Added basic documentation for installing theme
    
    1.0.1
    * Added Popular Post, Featured Post and Social Links Widgets.
    * Added ability to add Custom CSS in theme options.
    * Added compatibility for custom logo feature.
    * Updated and integrated new theme tags in style.css