=== Kvarken ===
Contributors: poena
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 5.2
Requires PHP: 5.2
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Copyright: 2013-2019 Carolina Nymark

== Description ==

A responsive customizable theme that works out of the box. 
-Leave the options as is or go wild and change them all! 
Two widget areas, header image and menu placement, logo upload, sticky posts, 
threaded comments and unlimited colors. Change details such as breadcrumb navigation, 
rounded corners and icons. 
Includes several header images related to the Kvarken Archipelago and Swedish translation.

== Important Notes ==
-The header image is not shown on archives, pages or single posts.
-The code is sometimes commented in both english and swedish. -In those cases, the swedish comment is to the right.

2.8 Upgrade notice: 
The container css class has been removed.
The mobile / responsive menu is now active by default.

== 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.

== Changelog ==

-3.0 2019-07-26-
The theme has passed the accessibility review! Yay! So the tag has been added.

-2.9 2019-07-25-
Improved color contrast of the comment form area.


-2.8 2019-07-21-
Changed the HTML markup to use HTML5.
The featured image size restrictions has been removed.
The mobile / responsive menu is now active by default.
Changed the submenu direction to vertical since it was overflowing the viewport.
Added underlines to submenu item links.
Improved support for CSS grid.
Fixed a problem with the color settings for links in the comment area.
Changed the footer sidebar widgets from one to three columns.
Improved support for selective refresh.
Added a shadow to buttons on hover and focus.
Added a black border around input fields on hover and focus.

-2.7 2019-07-19-
Fixed a 404 with the customize-controls.js script.
Fixed a cricital problem with the display of the comment form.

Moved theme customizer options to its own panel.

Added an option to enable a responsive, vertical menu with a menu button for smaller screens.
Added an option to enable to header image on smaller screens.

Removed breadcrumbs from all archive pages.
CSS improvements: Added normalize, reduced the number of colors used, reduced the number of font sizes used.
Added support for responsive embeds and wp block styles.
Improved color contrast and link underlines for accessibility.
Improved the headings order for accessibility.
Removed the search form that was present below the title of the search results page.
Improvements to post meta icons sizes and positions.

-2.6 2019-05-09-
Maintainance update.
Code style changes to better match WordPress coding standards.
Added support for wp_body_open.
Made pingback_url conditional.

Important information for child theme authors:
All js files has been moved to the new js folder.

-2.5-
Added support for the WordPress custom logo. 
	The logo option is now under the Site Identity section.
	The logo always links to the front page. The custom logo link option has been removed.
Added an option to display the header image on all pages.
Changed customizer link options to the "url" type.
Added support for selective refresh.
Updated function kvarken_sanitize_checkbox().
Improved accessibility
	Updated screen reader text and skip links.
	Keyboard navigation for drop down sub menus.
Updated file headers.
Improved escaping, code spacing and improved a large number of if statements.
Updated archive.php to use the_archive_title().
Removed the password text from comments.php.
Removed function kvarken_enqueue_comment_reply() and moved the comment reply to kvarken_fonts_styles().
Updated the width of image captions so that they do not overflow.
Increased padding and margin of the meta information box.
Increased padding of the menu items.
Added a link to the support forum in the customizer.
Updated text strings and language files.
Updated the readme file.
Updated style tags in style.css.


-2.4-
Fixxed css errors when the sidebar is on the left side.

-2.3-
Added id's to sidebars
Removed post formats
added support for title-tag
Escaped options and added default values
Sanitized the customizer settings
Fixed widget title color
Removed the shadow from the header image
Removed the shadow from the header logo
Increased page width, increased white space for some areas
Updated how attachments and featured iamges are displayed
Updated language files
Updated excerpt coede

-2.2-
Added an option to remove the curly brackets in the design.
Changed author URI

-2.0-
Updated the theme customizer:

Added a logo upload option.
Added an option to display site title and description in the footer.
Added options for clickable header image and logo.
Advanced color options (unlimited colors).
Added options for the design details.
Added Sidebar position options.

Added a page template with no sidebar and one without sidebar, footer widget area and comments.

-1.09-
Improved title
Improved editor style
Minor changes to the language files.
Per request:
Added a footer widget area (Only displays if there are active widgets. To add a copyright text or similar, I recommend the text widget).
Added an option to hide the extended author information that is displayed below posts.
Added an option to hide the breadcrumb navigation.
Added an option to place the header image above the top menu.
Added an option to remove (hide) the shadows. 
Added an author page. (To remove this and use archive.php instead, delete the file author.php)

Folders included in this theme:
images/headers/ -contains header images.
languages/ -contains language files.
inc/ -contains the customizer file.
templates/ -contains template files.
css/ -contains the shadow and genericon style sheets.
font/ -contains genericon files.



== Credits ==

* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* Based on Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016 WordPress.org, [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* Customizer pro button, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. Copyright Justin Tadlock 2016. https://github.com/justintadlock/trt-customizer-pro
* Checkbox sanitization Copyright (c) 2015, WordPress Theme Review Team, [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
  https://github.com/WPTRT/code-examples/blob/master/customizer/sanitization-callbacks.php
* Normalize, MIT License, https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/blob/master/LICENSE.md https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
* Keyboard Accessible Dropdown Menus Copyright 2013 Amy Hendrix (email : amy@amyhendrix.net), Graham Armfield (email : graham.armfield@coolfields.co.uk)
  License: MIT Plugin URI: http://github.com/sabreuse/accessible-menus

All included photos were taken by the theme author Carolina Nymark and are public domain.

Fonts
Open Sans Condensed is released under Apache License, version 2.0.
Oswald is released under SIL Open Font License, version 1.1.

Icons
Genericons are licensed under GPLv2. http://genericons.com/

If you have any questions or suggestions for this theme please contact me on the theme support page, http://wordpress.org/support/theme/kvarken.