===Welcome to Manta === Created by: PremiumWP Requires at least: WordPress 4.7 Tested up to: WordPress 4.8.1 Version: 1.3.2 PHP required : PHP 5.3+ IE Browser Support: IE11+ License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Tags: one-column, two-columns, three-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, flexible-header, accessibility-ready, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-logo, editor-style, featured-images, footer-widgets, microformats, post-formats, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready == Description == Manta is a minimal, lightweight and mobile first WordPress theme that is flexible and easy to use. It is built with accessibility, search-engine optimization (SEO), security, pagespeed and simplicity in mind. Manta is written with clean code, the most current HTML5 conventions and Schema.org microdata. With various header, footer and sidebar layout options, site dimension controls, numerous options for displaying featured images, typography options and more, Manta can serve as a solid base to build incredible websites. == 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. 4. Navigate to Appearance > Customize in your admin panel and customize to taste. == Usage Instructions == 1. To display a featured post(s) on the homepage you need to make them 'sticky'. To make a post sticky select the check box "Stick this post the front page" in the Publish panel (under Visability). You can display up to three featured posts on the homepage. 2. Layouts can be assigned globally in the Customizer, and/or on a per post/page basis in the editor on the specific post or page. Note: you need to add widgets to primary and/or secondary sidebar in order to see all the available layout options in the customizer and individual page layout option. 3. The complete usage instructions and documentation for Manta is here: https://www.premiumwp.com/themes/manta/ == Copyright == Manta WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016-2017 PremiumWP Manta 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see < http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >. Manta WordPress Theme is based on Underscores, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc. Licenses: [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) Source: http://underscores.me/ Manta WordPress Theme incorporates code from Twenty Fifteen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2014-2017 WordPress.org & Automattic.com Twenty Fifteen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. Manta WordPress Theme incorporates code from Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016-2017 WordPress.org & Automattic.com Twenty Fifteen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. Manta WordPress Theme incorporates code from Stargazer WordPress Theme, Copyright (c) 2013 - 2017, Justin Tadlock http://themehybrid.com/themes/stargazer. Stargazer WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. == Credits == Manta WordPress Theme bundles the following third-party resources: normalize.css, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal Licenses: [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Source: http://github.com/necolas/normalize.css Font Awesome SVG icons, Copyright Dave Gandy License: SIL Open Font License, version 1.1. Source: http://fontawesome.io/ Images Used in Screenshot https://unsplash.com/photos/th3rQu0K3aM by Averie Woodard (https://unsplash.com/@averieclaire) License: [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) https://unsplash.com/photos/JWiMShWiF14 by Jeff Sheldon (https://unsplash.com/@ugmonk) License: [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) https://unsplash.com/photos/jUPOXXRNdcA by Brooke Lark (https://unsplash.com/@brookelark) License: [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) https://unsplash.com/photos/Y_YSuBfQCmI by Ishan @seefromthesky (https://unsplash.com/@seefromthesky) License: [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) == Changelog == = 1.0.0 - Mar 01 2017 = * Initial release = 1.0.1 - Apr 14 2017 = 1. Minor theme corrections. 2. Customizer improvements. 3. SVG icons improvements and optimization. = 1.0.2 - Apr 21 2017 = 1. Removed border from image captions in post content. 2. Create bottom margin between featured posts on smaller screens. 3. Make entire featured posts box clickable. 4. Reduce gap between thumbnail image and post title. 5. Correct size for smaller thumbnails, preferbelly square thumbnails. 6. Correct Content and sidebar size for small size thumbnails. 7. Remove underline smaller thumbnail on hover. 8. Read more link underline or color change on hover. 9. Style change for Previous post/ Next post links. 10. Fixed featured posts appear on paged archives. 11. Change sidebar width for larger screens. 12. Footer widget minor style correction. = 1.1 - May 18 2017 = 1. New: Additional manta customizer options introduced. 2. Error Fix: Drop down sub-menu erroneous behavior on hover-off on Google chrome/ Opera. 3. Error Fix: Thumbnails hidden on Small thumb both sidebar layout ( 1024<= screen <= 1200px). 4. Error Fix: Hover on sticky main menu does not work when it is just above Featured posts. 5. Error Fix: WooCommerce Sidebar appearing below main content (should be floated on side). 6. Error Fix: Page 404, Sidebar appearing below main content (should be floated on side). 7. Error Fix: Wrong header action hook in search results template. 8. Styling Issue: Footer widget should be hidden while Jetpack infinite scroll. Make it visible again at the end of infinite scroll. 9. Styling Issue: Button and input text height mismatch in several wooCommerce forms. 10. Styling Issue: Paragraph rich text buttons font color remain black on hover (while background color changes, which affects visibility ). 11. Modify: Increase number of footer widgets from 3 to 5. 12. Modify: Background color for featured posts without featured image. = 1.1.1 - June 20 2017 = 1. Styling improvements for Featured Posts. 2. Styling changes of post meta items and read more link. 3. Header image size adjustment to accommodate larger screen sizes. 4. Changed Copyright customizer option from JS refresh to select refresh. 5. Error Fix: IE bug in which on using keyboard navigation, tab key focuses on inline SVG. 6. Error Fix: Inline SVG icons display error on customizer preview screen fixed for versions prior to WordPress 4.7. = 1.2 - Jul 03 2017 = 1. Error Fix: Page/Post edit screen layout options not working properly. 2. Improved copyright customizer option. 3. Search button in Primary navigation bar. 4. Featured posts should not reappear in main query. 5. Sticky icons on sticky posts which are not featured posts. 6. Separate admin and front css/js assets. = 1.2.1 - Jul 19 2017 = 1. Error Fix: Header sub menu items height styling issue. 2. Error Fix: 404 page styling issue. 3. Error Fix: Minor styling issue in featured posts. 4. Add: Custom recent posts widgets with post thumbnails. 5. Add: Support to Jetpack subscription widget and related posts. = 1.2.2 - Aug 15 2017 = 1. Error Fix: Primary menu jumping on scroll when not sticky. 2. Error Fix: Overall site width customizer option not working in live preview. 2. Error Fix: Various minor styling issues. 3. Add: Option to put custom header image above or below navigation menu. 4. Add: Thumbnails display on search results page. = 1.2.3 - Aug 24 2017 = 1. Error Fix: Header sub-menu items not visible on parent menu-item focus, if there is a primary menu. 2. Add: short circuit filter to manta_markup function. 3. Customizer option for moving header-image above or below primary menu is moved to header-image section. 4. Optimzation of navigation.js for better performance. 5. Search page template is merged with main content template in main loop. 6. Remove checking for single post or page before displaying comments. It is already checked by core functions. 7. All post and page meta markup has been moved to separate files in template-parts/meta. 8. Display Post ID after closing 'article' tag of post/page main content. 9. Change in register widget area script in functions.php 10. Global content-width modification has been hooked to 'template_redirect' instead of 'after_setup_theme'. 11. Change comment title script. 12. Minor changes in drop-down menu style. = 1.3 - Sep 14 2017 = 1. Separation of theme specific and reusable code in different folders. 2. Move addons out of core library. 3. Template parts are now part of core library. 4. Remove built-in theme mods and theme settings from template parts. 5. Remove template part for 'menu' and replace it with a menu markup function. 6. Remove template part for 'widgets' and replace it with a widget markup function. 7. Change header and footer entry meta markup methods. 8. Change theme customizer script to make it more extendable and manageable. 9. Inject screen reader text (localize script) to navigation JS using a filter (which makes it possible to alter data on the fly). 10. Replace hard coded element IDs with variable IDs in navigation JS. = 1.3.1 - Sep 21 2017 = 1. Error Fix: Footer widgets appearing side by side for single widget area. 2. Error Fix: Menu toggle button appearing for footer menu. = 1.3.2 - Nov 03 2017 = 1. Add: Add full list of google fonts to be used in Manta theme. 2. Modify: Minor modification in site footer text. 3. Optimize sticky navigation script in navigation.js 4. Error Fix: Layout class for custom post types has been set as global.