About Theme

Theme Name: Sparkling
Theme URI: http://colorlib.com/wp/sparkling/
Version: 3.0
Tested up to: WP 5.8.1
Requires PHP: 5.4.0
Tested up to: PHP 8.0.10

Author: Aigars Silkalns
Author URI: http://colorlib.com/wp/
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Sparkling theme, Copyright 2014-2021 colorlib.com Sparkling WordPress theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL Sparkling is based on Underscores https://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2017 Automattic, Inc.

Credits

Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GPLv3 license

Sparkling theme uses:

FontAwesome (https://fontawesome.com) licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
Bootstrap (https://getbootstrap.com/) licensed under MIT license (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)
WP-Bootstrap-NavWalker licensed under the GPLv2 license (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
FlexSlider by WooThemes licensed under the GPLv2 license (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
Unless otherwise specified, all images are created by Colorlib

Description

Sparkling is a clean minimal and responsive WordPress theme well suited for travel, health, business, finance, portfolio, design, art, photography, personal, ecommerce and any other creative websites and blogs. Developed using Bootstrap 3 that makes it mobile and tablets friendly. Theme comes with full-screen slider, social icon integration, author bio, popular posts widget and improved category widget. Sparkling incorporates latest web standards such as HTML5 and CSS3 and is SEO friendly thanks to its clean structure and codebase. It has dozens of Theme Options based on WordPress Customizer to change theme layout, colors, fonts, slider settings and much more. Theme is also translation and multilingual ready, compatible with WPML and is available in Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Russian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Persian (Iranian language), Romanian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Czech, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Estonian, Spanish (Argentina) and Italian. Sparkling is a free WordPress theme with premium functionality and design. Theme is ecommerce ready thanks to its WooCommerce integration. Now theme is optimized to work with bbPress, Contact Form 7, Jetpack, WooCommerce and other popular free and premium plugins. Lately we introduced a sticky/fixed navigation that you can enable or disable via WordPress Customizer.

For questions, comments or bug reports, visit Colorlib support forum (http://colorlib.com/wp/forums).

Installation

You can install the theme through the WordPress installer under "Themes" > "Install themes" by searching for "Sparkling".

Alternatively you can download the file, unzip it and move the unzipped contents to the "wp-content/themes" folder of your WordPress installation. You will then be able to activate the theme.

Afterwards you can continue theme setup and customization via WordPress Dashboard - Appearance - Theme Options. For detailed theme documentation, please visit http://colorlib.com/wp/support/sparkling

Theme Features

Bootstrap 3 integration
Responsive design
Unlimited color variations
SEO friendly
WordPress Theme Customizer support
Image centric approach
Internationalized & localization
Drop-down Menu
Cross-browser compatibility
Threaded Comments
Gravatar ready
Featured slider
Font Awesome icons
WooCommerce support

Documentation

Theme documentation is available on http://colorlib.com/wp/support/sparkling

Changelog

3.0

Added PHP 8 support
Merge WpChill fork
Fixed some bugs

2.4.8

Compatibility with jQuery 3.0

2.4.6

Improved accesibility with keyboard navigation

2.4.5

Added 2 more recommended plugins

2.4.4

Removed subject tags, can't keep more than 3 as per w.org rules

2.4.3

Fixed a few more bugs with FA5 & missing icons

2.4.1

Fixed a bug with FontAwesome 5 & RSS feed icon

2.4.0

Added Colorlib Login Customizer as recommended plugin
Updated FontAwesome to v5.1.1
Updated FlexSlider to 2.7.0
Added Academicons ( https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/ )
Removed Modernizr.js from distribution
Full changelog can be seen here: https://github.com/puikinsh/Sparkling/milestone/1?closed=1

2.3.4

Updated font awesome
Fixed custom menu styling in the footer
Improved widgets' styling
Fixed Sparkling popular posts widget clear bug
Fixed custom color for the footer text
Added defaults for color controls in Customizer
Fixed custom typography bug
Improved custom colors
Fixed the menu on mobile devices
Added a 'read more' button when the read more tag is used
Added Epsilon Framework
Added Welcome Screen

2.3.3 - 09.06.2017

Improved Dutch translation by Thom de Jonge

2.3.2 - 11.10.2016

Removed redundant functions and replaced with ones from WP core.

2.3.1 - 08.07.2016

Hungarian translation thanks to Varga Szabolcs

2.3.0 - 30.06.2016

Added TGMPA & Kiwi Social Share Plugin
Updated theme tags
Fixed deprecated constructor notice for widgets
Updated language files thanks to Vaidas Elksnys
Other fixes and improvements.

2.2.3 - 18.03.2016

Fixed problem when top menu items set to open on new tab.
Fixed problems with font reset
Fixed problem with one extra post for recent post widget
Added missing border for posts when no featured image is used.
Added new social media icons.

2.2.2 - 18.01.2016

Updated Spanish translation
Fixed problems with excerpts
Fixed dribbble icon
Updated FontAwesome icons

2.2.1 - 11.12.2015

Fixed error with WooCommerce

2.2.0 - 09.12.2015

Added WooCommerce support
Removed legacy code
Improved layout manager
Added options for sticky/fixed navigation.

2.1.1 - 17.11.2015

Removed redundant function

2.1.0 - 27.10.2015

Added WP-PageNavi support
Fixed option for comment section on static pages
Fixed problem with French translation

2.0.1 - 27.10.2015

Added callback function for old Social Icons.
Removed wp_title callback
Updated Font Awesome icon library
Simplified social icons
Added support for "mailto". Email icon.

2.0 - 16.10.2015

Removed Options Frameowrk in favor to WordPress Theme Customizer. Be careful with this update as it might break things.
Added layout selecotr for individual posts/pages.
Other code cleanups and improvements.

1.9.4 - 29.07.2015

Added Estonian translation thanks to Kristjan Variksoo

1.9.3 - 14.07.2015

Improved menu color customization options
Prepared theme for WordPress 4.3 update.

1.9.2 - 15.06.2015

Fixed minor bug with attachment pages.
Fixed minor bug with navigation submenu color on mobile devices.
Other menu styling improvements
Added Simplified Chinese thanks to KagurazakaKotori

1.9.1 - 05.06.2015

Fixed two minor bugs in custom theme widgets

1.9.0 - 21.05.2015

Introduced option to change full content vs excerpt for blog page.
New option to disable comments on static pages via Customizer
Removed redundant search form override
Added Spotify icon
Updated FontAwesome library to 4.3
Added Indonesian translation

1.8.5 - 21.05.2015

Properly escaped all translation strings
Updated translation files

1.8.3 - 04.05.2015

Added Czech translation
Added Ukrainian translation thanks to Vladyslav
Added Traditional Chinese thanks to ShuChun

1.8.2 - 23.04.2015

Fixed overlapping CSS selectors when using tag called "navigation".
Improved coding for author box below post content
Author box is now visible only if there is a author bio/description to show.

1.8.1 - 16.04.2015

Removed accidentally added string from header.php

1.8.0 - 04.04.2015

Updated Options Framework
Improved theme translation support
Added support for WPML multilingual plugin
Other code tweaks and cleanups
Added Lithuanian translation

1.7.12 - 23.03.2015

Updated Bootstrap framework to 3.3.4
Fixed comment layout on mobile when multiple levels of comments are present

1.7.11 - 20.03.2015

Added Japanese translation

1.7.10 - 16.03.2015

Added Bulgarian translation thanks to @pbosakov

1.7.9 - 02.03.2015

Added Turkish translation thanks to Ender İskender

1.7.8 - 11.02.2015

Improved favicon functionality. Now loaded in WordPress dashboard and frontend.

1.7.7 - 23.01.2015

Fixed minor problems with newly introduced title-tag

1.7.6 - 23.01.2015

Theme now uses "title-tag" that was introduced with WordPress 4.1
Updated Bootstrap to 3.3.2

1.7.5 - 14.01.2015

Removed front-page.php template. Instead you can use full-width or regular page template on frontpage
Small code cleanup
Updated Bootstrap classes for full-width template
Updated Russian translation

1.7.1 - 15.11.2014

Updated Bootstrap to v3.3.1

1.7.0 - 30.10.2014

Updated Bootstrap to 3.3.0
Updated Font Awesome icons to 4.2.0

1.6.3 - 29.10.2014

Improved Child Theme support
Addded GitHub Icon

1.6.2 - 23.08.2014

Added Romanian translation thanks to Bogdan Patru

1.6.1 - 31.07.2014

Added Skype URI support for icons
Added Persian language thanks to Robert Nicjoo
Added Portuguese (Portugal) translation thanks to Vasco Cruz

1.6.0 - 16.07.2014

Added Portuguese translation thanks to Lucas Mandelli
Updated Bootstrap to 3.2
Added more flexibility to slider functions via functions.min.js file.
Fixed problems with IE 10 & 11
Updated modernizer
Added bbPress support
Improved theme responsiveness

1.5.1 - 26.06.2014

Updated German translations
Added another German translation with more polite form thanks to Steffen Lober

1.5.0 - 26.05.2014

Improved Child Theme support
Recreated Social Icons
Added SoundCloud and Vimeo icons
Recreated default WordPress gallery support
Improved code consistency in extra.php file
Several other code improvement for main theme functions
Recreated logic behind color in Theme Options. Now these settings provides with more flexibility.
Added German translations thanks to Bernd Schray

1.4.2 - 24.05.2014

Fixed problem with mobile navigation
Improved customization options for Navigation bar
Defined default social icon color.

1.4.1 - 19.05.2014

Added Russian translation thanks to Evgeny Able
Improved Child Theme support
Updated Dutch translation

1.4.0 - 18.05.2014

Fixed next/previos button placement on mobile devices.
Improved full-width page layout.
Added Polish translation thanks to jerry1333 (http://www.jerry1333.net/)
Added Dutch translation thanks to Niels Hoogenhout (http://nielshoogenhout.nl/)
Updated Options Framework to 1.8.0
Updated FontAwesome to 4.1

1.3.0 - 12.05.2014

Added foursquare icon in Sparkling social widget and footer.
Added Italian translation thanks to Achille D'Aniello
Added French translation thanks to Antoine Lorence
Updated translations files
Updated 404 error page (404.php)
Improved WordPress default galleries
Added different content width for full-width pages.

1.2.1 - 06.05.2014

Fixed a tiny bug when comments are closed for single posts.

1.2.0 - 29.04.2014

Added Spanish translation thanks to Hugo (http://hartodebuscar.blogspot.com/)
Moved some functions from jQuery to PHP to avoid conflicts with plugins and other JavaScript based scripts.
Improved main theme JavaScript compatibility with other plugins and scripts.
Added Modernizr for better HTML5 and CSS3 support

1.1 - 25.04.2014

Removed all traces from Underscore template that weren't replaced already. Theme is still based on Underscore but removed some strings to avoid confusion.

1.0.4 - 17.04.2014

Changed Author URI.
Added right heading tag for default widgets

1.0.1 - 02.04.2014

Social network urls are now properly escaped using "esc_url"
Added licensing information for images in theme screenshot
Updated screenshot
Improved wp_register_style for Google fonts to be compatible with SSL
Removed do_shortcodes from extras.php which falls under plugin territory
Fixed missing .js error.

1.0 - 01.04.2014

Initial release

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