=== Oceanly Green ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, education, news, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, flexible-header, footer-widgets, full-width-template, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, wide-blocks
Donate link: https://scriptstown.com/
Requires at least: 5.3
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 1.0.5
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Oceanly Green is a clean, fresh, and thoughtfully designed WordPress theme for blogging, news sites, educational platforms, and eco-focused businesses.

== Description ==

Oceanly Green is a clean, fresh, and thoughtfully designed WordPress theme for blogging, news sites, educational platforms, and eco-focused businesses. Built with a nature-inspired color palette, dark green vibrant tones, balanced typography, and a strong content-first approach, it delivers a smooth and engaging reading experience where articles, updates, and short-form formats remain the central focus. Lightweight and optimized for performance, the theme is a great choice for editors, professional publishers, academic writers, freelancers, schools, institutes, environmental organizations, non-profits, wildlife activists, gardening community, or brands promoting sustainable and eco-friendly products. It also fits digital marketing, consultancy, company, corporate, agency, landing page, and content-driven sites seeking a polished and magnificent online presence. A key highlight is the powerful spotlight section, crafted to showcase featured content or posts in a visually appealing grid with extensive customization options for column width, height, and visibility of category labels, dates and, post titles. Overlay can stay visible or appear on hover, creating both minimal and magazine-style presentations. Create stunning post grids of event photography images, perfect for visual storytelling and creative projects. Whether you are featuring breaking news, editorial selections, travel destinations, fashion or technology trends, science research, food recipes, artist or wedding portfolios, personal lifestyle guides, movies, anime, manga, or gaming insights, the spotlight grid ensures important stories never go astray and receive the attention they deserve. Display branding as a centered logo, title, or tagline, or aligned left or right to suit your preferred layout. A semi-transparent multi-level dropdown menu allows clear, accessible navigation across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. More features include customizable header with a search bar and subtle parallax background effect, footer widget areas, RTL support, gallery layouts, compatibility with Elementor builder and Jetpack Infinite Scroll, and a sticky sidebar for ads, banners, blocks, or widgets. Oceanly Green provides a solid foundation for blogs, journals, newsportals, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of content-rich websites, making it an excellent green theme for bloggers and creators.

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button.
2. Click Upload Theme and Choose File, then select the theme's .zip file. Click Install Now.
3. Click Activate to use your new theme right away.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

Oceanly Green includes support for WooCommerce and for Infinite Scroll in Jetpack.

= Where to find the theme options? =

All of the options can be found in the Customizer in 'Appearance > Customize'.

= How to change the header image and header background color? =

You can change the header image from the Customizer in 'Appearance > Customize > Header Image'. Also, you can change the header background color from 'Appearance > Customize > Colors'.

= How to configure the spotlight posts?

You can configure the spotlight posts in 'Appearance > Customize > Spotlight Posts'.

= How to configure the theme widgets? =

The theme widgets can be found in 'Appearance > Widgets'. You can drag and drop widgets to the widget area. Oceanly Green comes with 4 widgets area locations which include a main sidebar widget area and three locations for footer widgets.

= How to add the menus or social links? =

The menus can be found in 'Appearance > Menus'. First, create the menu and then assign it to a menu location. Oceanly Green comes with three menu locations which include the primary menu, footer menu, and social links menu. For social links, create a menu item with a custom link, enter the URL of the social page, and assign this menu to the 'Social Links Menu' location.

== Copyright ==

Oceanly Green 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.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.5 =
* Welcome page updated.

= 1.0.4 =
* Readme updated.
* Improvement: Welcome notice.

= 1.0.3 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

Oceanly Green bundles the following third-party resources:

* Image 1 for theme screenshot, Claudel Rheault
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/Y65WP68WKD

* Image 2 for theme screenshot, Andres Iga
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/6B3VYEQOGI

* Image 3 for theme screenshot, Negative Space
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/ONV344KX9K

* Image 4 for theme screenshot, Tom Swinnen
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/LL3ACYSHJ7

* Image 5 for theme screenshot, Binyamin Mellish
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/L9VZ6SOGBB

* Image 6 for theme screenshot, Lili Popper
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/T1VA15FJXL

* Image 7 for theme screenshot, Lisa Fotios
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/86PGRUBGDN

* Image 8 for theme screenshot, Bernard Spragg
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/ERM78DQMOZ

* Image 9 for theme screenshot, Jonas Alferez
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/ONPRW7FMP7

* UI icons in theme screenshot: calendar, user, tags
* License: SIL Open Font License (OFL)
* Source: Font Awesome 4.7, https://fontawesome.com/v4/icons/

* UI icons in theme screenshot: comment, chevron
* License: MIT License
* Source: Octicons 4.4, https://github.com/primer/octicons/tree/v4.4.0

* Logo in theme screenshot, (c) ScriptsTown
* License: GNU General Public License v2, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

* Select Multiple Customizer Control (c) Cristian-Ungureanu
* License: MIT License, https://github.com/Codeinwp/customizer-controls/blob/master/LICENSE
* Source: https://github.com/Codeinwp/customizer-controls/tree/master/customizer-select-multiple

* TGM Plugin Activation - v2.6.1, http://tgmpluginactivation.com/, By Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer, License: GPL-2.0+
