=== blogbox WordPress Theme === Theme Name: blogBox Author: Kevin Archibald Author URI: http://kevinsspace.ca/ Theme URI: http://demo1.kevinsspace.ca/ Version: 4.2.2 License: GNU General Public License V3 License URI:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html Tags: blue,brown,gray,white,light,dark,one-column,two-columns,left-sidebar,right-sidebar, custom-background,custom-colors,custom-header,custom-menu,editor-style,flexible-header, featured-images,front-page-post-form,full-width-template,post-formats,responsive-style, sticky-post,theme-options,threaded-comments,translation-ready blogBox is a full featured responsive theme that provides the user with numerous options for background colors, text colors, font styles, static pages, sidebars, captcha for comments and contact page. == Description == blogbox is a full featured responsive WordPress theme offering the user many options to control the look of the theme, and many options for special pages and content. 1) Home Page - full width feature slider, button, thumbnail, or no navigation - small feature slider with a text area, button, thumbnail, or no navigation, complete with an option to widgetize the text area - single image options - two slogan areas - service area with three sections where you can post an image, a title, and some text. - select a home blog template with all the above features and your blog posts. 2) Header Options - header image, logo or full width banner - widgetized area for social links, phone number - optional display for blog title and description - Menu can be positioned left, right, or center 3) Footer Options - Option to exclude footer - footer can be 3 or 4 columns - Option to exclude copyright strip - Copywrite area with editable html text left, center, and right 4) Post Options - Post Formats - All post formats are available - Post Format Helper Plugin - Separate post format plugin is available for Audio, Quote, and Video post formats - Display single posts with a sidebar or fll width - Optionally display Timestamp, Author, Categories, and Tags 5) Custom Styling - Background Colors - change 16 different background colors - Text Colors - change 17 different text colors - Post Formats - change background colors and text colors for Aside, Audio, Chat, Link, Status, and Quote post formats - Fonts - choose from 9 standard fonts and 13 Google Fonts for Headers and Body - Menu - menu can be styled separately from header. - Skins - use preset skins if you don't want to select your own colors 6) Social Widget - delicious, digg, facebook, google+, linkedin, pinterest, myspace, rss, tumblr,twitter - 24x24px or 32x32px - select only the social links you want for each widget instance 7) Templates - full width - full width blog - Siteplan template - two left sidebar templates - with separate widgetized sidebar - two right sidebar template - with separate widgetized sidebar - Archive template - up to 5 different Portfolio Templates, that you can customize with up to 4 columns, c/w post content or feature media text options 8) Other Features - Fully Responsive, user can optionally disable this feature - Colorbox - Display galleries and photos using Colorbox. - Font Awesome - great vector font icon package now part of blogbox - PageNavi ready - download the PageNavi plugin for great page navigation features. - Child Theme Ready == License == License: GNU General Public License V3 License URI: see the license.txt file for license details. blogBox is a full featured WordPress Theme Copyright (C) 2015 Kevin Archibald 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 3 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 . == Other Licensed Add Ons == ICONS ---------- Social Media Icons : -------------------- - all social media icons were developed by Kevin Archibald, the theme author. These icons were developed (highly modified) from icons in the Public Domain (no copyright) or in the case of Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter using icons available from the originating site. These icons are included as part of the theme license. Font Awesome --------------- Font Awesome 4.3.0 by @davegandy - http://fontawesome.io - @fontawesome License - http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License) Nivo Slider --------------- - Nivo Slider is "The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider". - See http://nivo.dev7studios.com for more info. - Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Dev7studios,The MIT License (MIT), Copyright (c) 2011 Dev7studios Custom Menu System ------------------- - Superfish - jQuery menu widget - Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors - http://jquery.com fitvids.js ------------- - @ChrisCoyier, @davatron5000, @TrentWalton, @raygunray - Intrinsic Ratio Method by Thierry Koblentz - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-video/ Image Viewer (Colorbox) ------------------------ - http://jacklmoore.com/colorbox/) - Released under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). == Installation == 1) Upload to the themes directory of your wordpress setup. Ensure all sub directories are maintained. 2) Make sure you install only the parent folder of the blogbox files....meaning wp-content/themes/blogbox/...files. There should not be 2 blogbox folders....ie wp-content/themes/blogbox/blogbox/....files. 3) The alternative is to go to your WordPress installation. Go to Appearance => Themes and select the Install tab. You can search for the blogbox Theme and install it from there. 4) Activate the theme through the Wordpress Admin panel under "Appearance" and "themes" == Custom Options == Use of the custom options for blogbox is detailed in user documentation abailable at the theme demo site http://demo1.kevinsspace.ca/ == Frequently Asked Questions == The faq will be developed as common questions arise. == Changelog == - see changelog.txt included with this theme