=== BlogCentral ===
Author: 4bzthemes
Author url: http://4bzthemes.com/
Tags: black, blue, white, right-sidebar, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, four-columns, responsive-layout, custom-colors, custom-menu, featured-images, post-formats, sticky-post, editor-style, theme-options, threaded-comments, full-width-template, translation-ready
Requires at least: 3.8
Tested up to: 4.1
Stable tag: 3.8.1

A Blog-Central Wordpress theme where the blog is foremost.

== Description ==

BlogCentral is a responsive wordpress theme that focuses on the blog. It is scalable, retina ready, highly customizable, SEO friendly, and translation ready. It comes with 3 predefined demos, 5 color schemes, unlimited color options, 3 page header layouts, 3 blog posts listing layouts, and much more. It includes advanced features for the BlogCentral Shortcodes & Widgets Pack plugin, which is required and is available for download from wordpress.org.

You can find [docs](http://4bzthemes.com/knowledgebase/), and more detailed information about BlogCentral on [4bzthemes.com](http://4bzthemes.com/theme/blogcentral).

If you have any questions about BlogCentral, consult the following in this order:

1. [Docs](http://4bzthemes.com/knowledgebase/
3. [Support Forum](http://4bzthemes.com/support/forum/blogcentral)

= Recommended Plugins =

The following are recommended plugins.

* [BlogCentral Shortcodes & Widgets Pack](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogcentral-shortcodes-widgets-pack/) - This plugin contains all of the shortcodes, widgets, shortcode builder, multiple featured images, video and audio embed input, and user profile data input supported by the BlogCentral theme.

= Translators =

BlogCentral needs translations. If you have created or updated a language pack, you can send [gettext PO and MO files](http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress) to [4bzthemes](http://4bzthemes.com/about/) so that it can be bundled into BlogCentral.

== Installation ==

First you will need to download the theme files from WordPress.org. Once the files are obtained, you can install either through wordpress or ftp.

WordPress Installation

On the wordpress admin screen, go to Appearance->Themes, click on the Add New button, then click the Upload Theme button. Navigate to the location you saved the BlogCentral file, which should be in zip format. Click on the file, then click on the Install Now button. After the theme is uploaded, hover over the BlogCentral theme and click the activate button.

FTP Installation

After you login to your host, upload the folder in the extracted BlogCentral folder to /wp-content/themes. Then in the wordpress admin panel, go to Appearance->Themes, activate BlogCentral.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

If you have any questions about BlogCentral, consult the following in this order:

1. [Docs](http://4bzthemes.com/knowledgebase/)
2. [Support Forum](http://4bzthemes.com/support/forum/blogcentral)

= Report a bug =

You can report any bugs through the [Support Forum](http://4bzthemes.com/support/forum/blogcentral).

== Changelog ==
== 1.0.0 ==

* Initial Release

== 1.0.1 ==
- Updated: Theme URI link
- Fixed: made almost every function pluggable, and the theme child theme ready.
- New: Added function blogcentral_initialize_global_opts.
- Updated: comments for the blogcentral_get_option_defaults function.
- New: Added blogcentral_get_demos_opts function.
- New: Added theme support for custom background.
- Deleted: deleted functions blogcentral_create_pages, blogcentral_add_meta_boxes, blogcentral_display_meta_boxes, blogcentral_display_media_meta_box, blogcentral_save_postdata, blogcentral_profile_form, blogcentral_save_user_cfs, and their associated actions, as they strayed into plugin territory. This functionality can now be found in the BlogCentral Shortcodes & Widgets Pack Plugin.
- Deleted: requirement for the BlogCentral Shortcodes & Widgets Pack Plugin.
- Updated: Table of contents for functions.php.
- Updated: blogcentral_admin_scripts to not include scripts on the widget, post edit, and user profile pages.
- Updated: some of the options for the blog demos.
- Updated: some of the options for the blogcentral_initial variable.
- Updated: screenshot.jpg.
- Updated: blog demos screenshots.
- New: Added screenshots for the page header layouts on the theme options page.
- Updated: changed some labels, and instructions on the theme options page.
- Updated: under the "Posts" tab, changed the "Posts Landing" tab to "Post Listing Pages" on the theme options page.
- Deleted: requirement for the BlogCentral Shortcodes & Widgets Pack admin js script in the blogcentral_admin_scripts function.
- New: Added support for the aside, chat, and status post formats.
- New: Added the font awesome variable in blogcentral_admin_scripts for script localization.
- Fixed: Added translation for BlogCentral and BlogCentralPro in the blogcentral_theme_options function.
- Fixed: removed the $tagline, $page_header_title, and $cust_fields['title'] variables from translation.
- Updated: Language files blogcentral.mo and blogcentral.pot to include the new translatable strings.
- New: Added the General Background, Colors, & Sizes tab on the theme options page. These options were originally under the General tab.
- New: Added the Page Header tab on the theme options page. Was originally under the General Tab.
- Updated: Help tab on the theme options page.
- Updated: use stripslashes on custom_css.
- Fixed: run the $description variable through the wp_strip_all_tags function in the blogcentral_construct_meta_tag function, as it should not contain any tags because it is used as the value for the content attribute.
- Fixed: image sizes as tested in the theme unit test image alignment.
- Updated: blogcentral_comments_layout function, changed the <p class="nocomments"> to <span class="nocomments", deleted the checking of the comment number when display the comments are closed message.
- Updated: moved the add_theme_support functions to the blogcentral_theme_setup function.
- Updated: the index.php, archive type files, posts.php file template, and the blog demo files to check for the bcswp_plugin and to get the postmeta from that plugin, if exists, instead of from the theme postmeta options.
- Fixed: the index.php, archive type files, posts.php file template, and the blog demo files to check for the chat, aside, status plugin.
- Updated: on single.php page to set the show_title option to false, this is so the post title will not be displayed twice.
- Deleted: removed wp_link_pages() in single.php file, added it to the postmeta-layout.php file.
- Updated: the if/else statement to get the excerpt or content in the postmeta-layout.php file.
- Deleted: the if/else statement to check the quote layout in the postmeta-layout.php file.
- Deleted: blogcentral-wordpress.xml and widgets.json files. These files are now available for download on the 4bzthemes website.
- Updated: Licensing information for the flickr images used.
- New: original, non-minified javascript files for html5, imagesLoaded, jquery.flexslider, jquery.waypoints, masonry, and easing.
- Deleted: the border on .wp-caption.
- Updated: the margin on .wp-caption.alignnone,.wp-caption.alignleft, .wp-caption.alignright.
- Deleted: color for b and strong tags.
- Updated:  ol li { to ol {.
- New: background color for body.
- Updated: #logo img style to have max-width: 100% instead of width: 100%.
- Deleted: text-align: center; for .wp-caption.
- New: vertical-align: top; and margin-bottoM: 18px; to .gallery-item.
- Updated: the .gallery .gallery-caption style.
- Updated: .auto-height img to .auto-height .component-media-wrap img to target images in the component-media-img container only.
- Updated: .full-height img to .full-height .component-media-wrap img to target images in the component-media-img container only.
- New: Added style for post page links.
- Updated: ul.commentlist ul to ul.commentlist ul.children.
- New: Added style for pingbacks and trackbacks.
- New: Added cursor: pointer to admin.css for the icon chooser when a user hovers over an icon.
- Updated: All style for the post edit page in admin.css.
- New: Added the blogcentral_hide_show, blogcentral_display_icons_box, blogcentral_update_file_url, blogcentral_display_media_uploader functions, and associated event handlers to admin.js.
- Deleted: code for the post meta boxes in the blogcentral_update_file_url function in admin.js file.
- New: $( '.sortable' ).sortable(); to the admin.js file.
- Updated: Table of contents for the admin.js file.

== 1.0.2 ==
- Deleted: Global variable BLOGCENTRAL_THEME_NAME_TXT.
- New: hooked the blogcentral_initialize_global_opts function into the parse_query action.
- Deleted: blogcentral_construct_meta_tag function, associated hook, and theme options for seo tag, as it strayed into plugin territory.
- Deleted: remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wpautop' )
- Deleted: theme options for background color and image, and code to implement the background color and image.
- Updated: Custom css value for demo 3.
- Updated: blogcentral_initialize_global_opts function comments.
- Updated: blogcentral_admin_scripts to include scripts on the widget, and post edit pages.
- Fixed: Added translation for contact address, page header title, Website, Email, and Some of My Recent Work, Search,
- Updated: Language files blogcentral.mo and blogcentral.pot to include the new translatable strings.
- Updated: instuctions on the help tab located at the top of the theme options page.
- Updated: blogcentral_validate_options function to not validate body background options, since these options have been deleted.
- Updated: blogcentral_enqueue_inline_css function and its comments.
- Updated: changed Blog Demos to Demos.
- Updated: blogcentral_choose_demo function.
- Updated: blogcentral_display_breadcrumbs function. Checks for is_tag, and is_author and displays appropriate breadcrumb.
- Deleted: $extra_title variable in the blogcentral_construct_wrapper function.
- Updated: call to wp_link_pages() in postmeta-layout.php file.
- Updated: call to comments_popup_link() in postmeta-layout.php file.
- Updated: the author-bio.php to check for the bcswp_plugin and to get the user meta from that plugin, if exists.
- Updated: in header.php changed html5.js to html5shiv.min.js
- Updated: changed the $blogcentral_header variable in the layout-wrapper-begin.php file.
- Updated: search.php file.
- New: height: auto; for img in style.css.
- New: color and background-color for #header.
- New: #header a style
- Updated: submenu style with background-color: #ededed;
- Updated: removed background from submenu <li>s
- New: style for link colors in submenus.
- Updated: changed margin-bottom for #copyright img style.
- New: style for component layout2 to display, at the most, 2 columns.
- Updated: deleted right margin for layout2.component .component-media-wrap
- Updated: style for .component-content-wrap
- New: style for embed, and object.
- New: added style for img, iframe, object, video, and embed.
- Updated: style for table.
- Updated: responsive.css file: added style for column designs in Max Width: 1023px + Min Width: 769px section and updated the table of contents.
- Updated: changed blogcentral-my-color-field to blogcentral-color-field.


== Credits ==
* Image packaged with theme, source: unsplash.com, license information: Creative Commons Zero.