=== Verity ===
Contributors: catchthemes
Tags: one-column, flexible-header, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-logo, featured-image-header, featured-images, footer-widgets, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, blog, photography, portfolio
Requires at least: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Verity - A Free blog and portfolio WordPress theme for bloggers and creative professionals that comes with simple, clean and minimal design.

== Description ==

Verity - Portfolio and Blog WordPress Theme is a minimalistic modern theme for bloggers and creative professionals, who are looking for a simple-yet-stylish online presence. We have sacrificed over-the-top design elements so that your website looks sleek and straightforward, allowing visitors to concentrate on the content you are offering and the value they can get from it. It comes with necessary tools and features, like Featured Content and displaying multiple portfolios, to empower webmasters of any skill level to create quality websites in a short amount of time, without having to write a line of code at any point. It is built using the latest HTML and CSS codes which ensure top-notch web security. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/verity/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/verity

For more information about Verity please go to https://catchthemes.com/themes/verity/

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the 'Add New' button.
2. Type in Verity in the search form and press the 'Enter' key on your keyboard.
3. Click on the 'Activate' button to use your new theme right away.
4. Go to https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/verity/ for a guide on how to customize this theme.
5. Navigate to Appearance -> Customize in your admin panel and customize to taste.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

Theme supports all plugins from catchplugins.com and WooCommerce Plugin.

= Where can I find theme documentation? =

You can check our Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/themes/verity in the Theme Instructions Tab.

= Where can I find theme demo? =

You can check our Theme Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/verity/

== Portfolio (requires Jetpack: jetpack.me) ==

Verity helps you showcase your company's work as portfolio projects. Each project is displayed with its featured image and additional information is displayed on hover.

Once you've added some portfolio projects to your website, they will be visible at http://yourgroovysite.wordpress.com/portfolio.

You can also apply Verity's Portfolio Template to a page, which allows visitors to sort your creative works by Project Type. The Portfolio Template will display up to 120 projects.


== Testimonials (requires Jetpack: jetpack.me) ==

Add testimonials to your Lodestar website to share what others have been saying about your work. You can view the testimonial archive by adding /testimonial to your URL.

You can also apply Verity's Testimonial Template to display your testimonials on any page of the site.


== Custom Menus ==

Verity includes one Custom Menu in the header, which can be configured via My Sites → Menus. If no menu is assigned, this area will display a list of your pages by default.


== Social Links Menu (requires Jetpack: jetpack.com) ==

With Verity, you have the option to display links to your social media profiles in the header and footer. To display them, set up a Social Links Menu.


== Widget Areas ==

Verity offers five widget areas:

* The optional Sidebar, which appears on the right/left on all posts and pages, excluding the front page.
* Four optional Footer widget areas.

If the Sidebar area is not active, the theme automatically adjusts to have a single column.


== Site Logo ==

Brand identity is very important that’s why Verity supports the Site Logo feature. To add your own image, go to Customize → Site Identity. The logo will appear in the header, above the site title.


== Custom Background ==

Custom color, pattern, or a beautiful image – the choice is yours. To change the background, visit Customize → Colors & Backgrounds from your dashboard.

== Classic Menu ==
If you are using Classic Menu, make sure you just add few menus so that the menu does not become two lines. This can create design issues.

= More FAQ =

For more FAQs, visit https://catchthemes.com/frequently-asked-questions/

== Changelog ==

= 2.3.3 (Released: December 16, 2025) =
* Bug Fixed: Deprecated Function WP_Dependencies-add_data() warning after WordPress update 6.9
* Updated: WordPress 6.9 ready

= 2.3.2 (Released: May 21, 2025) =
* Compressed: Screenshot and header image
* Updated: WordPress 6.8 ready

= 2.3.1 (Released: February 27, 2023) =
* Bug Fixed: Removed unnecessary comment code in custom-header.php

= 2.3 (Released: August 26, 2022) =
* Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)

= 2.2 (Released: February 16, 2022) =
* Bug Fixed: Removed extra ; from block editor style
* Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready

= 2.1.2 - January 20 2021 =
* Bug Fixed: Sub-menu in classic menu style overflow issue

= 2.1.1 (Released: September 28, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Single post not displaying on Homepage/Frontpage (Reported by: eeyartee)

= 2.1 (Released: August 22, 2020) =
* Updated: Screenshot
* Updated: Readme
* Updated: data-vocabulary-org-schema deprecated now replaced by schema-org's JSON-LD

= 2.0.2 (Released: April 27, 2020) =
* Bug Fixed: Block Editor style
* Bug Fixed: Block style

= 2.0.1 (Released: January 11, 2020) =
* Added: Support for wp_body_open action
* Bug Fixed: Multi Category Sanitization issue
* Bug Fixed: Search Archive issue with WooCommerce product
* Bug Fixed: Social Navigation issue in classic menu desktop version
* Bug Fixed: Double search issue in modern menu desktop version

= 2.0 (Released: January 28, 2019) =
* Added: Theme support for block styles
* Added: Theme support for editor styles
* Added: Theme support for full and wide align images
* Added: Theme support for responsive embeds
* Added: Theme support for custom editor font sizes
* Added: Theme support for custom color scheme
* Added: Editor Style
* Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
* Bug Fixed: Added function_exists check for get_the_privacy_policy_link function usage
* Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
* Bug Fixed: CT: Instagram widget image size issue
* Updated: CT: Instagram Widget updated due to changes in instagram.com
* Updated: Upgrade to pro button css update
* Updated: Readme file as per the new requirement
* Updated: Added no-sidebar class by default

= 1.4 (Released: March 06, 2018) =
* Enhanced Security: Replaced wp_filter_post_kses with wp_kses_post
* Updated: Code Optimization

= 1.3.3 (Released: January 13, 2018) =
* Bug Fixed: CT: Instagram Widget thumbnail and small image sizes issue

= 1.3.2 (Released: December 08, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Portfolio layout issue in chrome browser
* Bug Fixed: Search box issue in iOS devices

= 1.3.1 (Released: November 27, 2017) =
* Updated: JS compression update

= 1.3 (Released: October 03, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Option to enable recent posts on Static Frontpage

= 1.2 (Released: September 20, 2017) =
* Added: Option to disable recent posts in static frontpage
* Bug Fixed: Frontpage layout

= 1.1.3 (Released: September 07, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Removed post meta from search
* Updated: Screenshot

= 1.1.2 (Released: August 30, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Social menu padding issue
* Bug Fixed: Layout issue in Fluid Layout with sidebar
* Updated: Screenshot

= 1.1.1 (Released: July 25, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Fitvid script not initialized

= 1.1 (Released: July 11, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb custom post archive link (Reported by: leikela)
* Bug Fixed: Latest post not showing on blog page (Reported by: leikela)
* Bug Fixed: Social Menu not showing with Default menu type
* Bug Fixed: Footer widget columns css
* Bug Fixed: Padding issue in mobile devices for "No Sidebar:Full Width" template
* Changed: Excerpt Length Default value to 30
* Code Optimizations
* Removed changelog.txt, moved changelog to readme file

= 1.0 (Released: June 08, 2017) =
* Bug Fixed: Header Media Height issue when there is no text (Reported by: Dan)
* Compatible with WordPress 4.8

= 0.2.2 =
* Added: License information for html5 shiv and other selfshot images
* Bug Fixed: Content width
* Bug Fixed: Escaping issues in site-footer.php
* Replaced: Default header image and screenshot
* Removed: Unused images

= 0.2.1 =
* Update screenshot

= 0.2 =
* Added Theme Options
    * Excerpt Options: Read More Text and Excerpt Length
    * Homepage/Frontpage options
    * Pagination Options
* Added Widgets
    * CT: Recent Posts
    * CT: Instagram
    * CT: Social Icons
* Bug Fixed: Posts page style
* Optimized JS delivery by adding min versions

= 0.1 =
* Initial release

== Copyright ==

Verity WordPress Theme, Copyright 2012-2025 Catchthemes.com
Verity is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Resources ==

* Design Concept by Tung Do, [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2015-2016 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* jquery-match-height http://brm.io/jquery-match-height/ (C) 2014 [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* fitvids is Licensed under the  WTFPL license, Copyright 2013, Chris Coyier - http://css-tricks.com + Dave Rupert - http://daverupert.com: http://fitvidsjs.com/
* HTML5-Shiv is Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses, Copyright (c) 2014 Alexander Farkas (aFarkas) - https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
* Font Awesome icons, Copyright Dave Gandy, License: SIL Open Font License, version 1.1 (http://fontawesome.io/)
* Default header image https://stocksnap.io/photo/code-coding-IX9Z71L6PD
* Featured Images in Screenshot
	- https://stocksnap.io/photo/people-girl-GW76AWE5JB
	- https://stocksnap.io/photo/woman-girl-04B5FEFA8B
	- https://stocksnap.io/photo/people-woman-MSCMYKN409
* PHP files
	WPTT_WebFont_Loader
	License https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
	Source: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader

* All other images are self shot image by (CatchThemes.com) and released under same license as theme
