=== Tatva === Contributors: Puneet Sahalot Author URI: http://ideaboxcretaions.com Tags: black, gray, dark, light, one-column, two-columns, right-sidebar, fluid-layout, responsive-layout, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-image-header, featured-images, full-width-template, microformats, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready Requires at least: 3.6 Tested up to: 3.8 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Tatva is your basic building block for creating beautiful, responsive custom themes. It's not a convoluted or confusing framework that's hard to learn or even harder to modify. It's a simple and elegant starter theme built on HTML5 & CSS3. Its base is a responsive, 12 column grid. It incorporates custom Theme Options that are easy to modify, a set of common templates, support for WordPress Post Formats and the gorgeous, retina friendly Font Awesome icon font. == Description == Tatva is your basic building block for creating beautiful, responsive custom themes. It's not a convoluted or confusing framework that's hard to learn or even harder to modify. It's a simple and elegant starter theme built on HTML5 & CSS3. It's based on the Underscores (_s) and TwentyTwelve themes, so that means not only is it flexible, it's extremely easy to customise. There's no need to make a child theme (unless you really want to), just dig in to the code & use it to give yourself a kickstart in creating your next awesome theme. Its base is a responsive, 12 column grid. It uses Normalize to make sure that browsers render all elements more consistently and Mordernizr for detecting HTML5 and CSS3 browser capabilities along with some default stylings from HTML5 Boilerplate. It incorporates the [Options Framework](http://wptheming.com/options-framework-theme/) by Devin Price to make it super easy to add custom Theme Options as well as the gorgeous [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/) icon font by Dave Gandy. The main navigation uses the standard WordPress menu. Support for dropdown menus is inluded by default. If you'd like to envoke a button toggle for the main navigation menu on small screens, simply uncomment the two lines from the tatva_scripts_styles() function within functions.php to register and enqueue the necessary javascript file, and BAM! You're done! Templates Tatva includes a set of your most common theme templates, including templates for Full-Width pages, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar (default), Front-Page, Tag, Categories, Authors, Search, Posts Archive and 404. Post Formats All the standard WordPress Post Formats are supported. These include; Aside, Gallery, Link, Image, Quote, Status, Video, Audio, Chat and of course, your standard post. Widgets Widgets are a great way of adding extra content to your site and Tatva has a whole assortment of them. Main Sidebar: Appears in the sidebar on posts and pages except the optional Homepage template, which has its own widgets Blog Sidebar: Appears in the sidebar on the blog and archive pages only Single Post Sidebar: Appears in the sidebar on single posts only Page Sidebar: Appears in the sidebar on pages only The Front Page Banner Widget areas are dynamic! You can use up to two of these and they'll magically space themselves out evenly. For example, if you only add widgets into the First Front Page Banner Widget Area, then it will expand the full width of the page. However, if you add widgets to both Front Page Banner Widget areas, they'll magically space themselves out over two equal columns. First Front Page Banner Widget: Appears in the banner area on the Front Page Second Front Page Banner Widget: Appears in the banner area on the Front Page The Front Page Widget areas are dynamic! You can use up to four of these and they'll magically space themselves out evenly. For example, if you only add widgets into the First Front Page Widget Area, then it will expand the full width of the page. However, if you add widgets to all four Front Page Widget Areas, they'll magically space themselves out over four equal columns. First Homepage Widget Area: Appears when using the optional homepage template with a page set as Static Front Page Second Homepage Widget Area: Appears when using the optional homepage template with a page set as Static Front Page Third Homepage Widget Area: Appears when using the optional homepage template with a page set as Static Front Page Fourth Homepage Widget Area: Appears when using the optional homepage template with a page set as Static Front Page The Footer Widget areas are dynamic! You can use up to four of these and they'll magically space themselves out evenly. For example, if you only add widgets into the First Footer Widget Area, then it will expand the full width of the page. However, if you add widgets to all four Footer Widget Areas, they'll magically space themselves out over four equal columns. First Footer Widget Area: Appears in the footer sidebar Second Footer Widget Area: Appears in the footer sidebar Third Footer Widget Area: Appears in the footer sidebar Fourth Footer Widget Area: Appears in the footer sidebar Custom Header The Default logo can be easily changed using the Custom Header feature. You change this in the Appearance > Header menu option Custom Background The background pattern can be changed using the Custom Background feature. You change this in the Appearance > Background menu option Theme Options Additional Theme Options can be found in the Appearance > Theme Options menu option. These include options for: Specifying the URL's for various social media networks Specifying the banner background image & color Specifying the footer color Changing the footer credit text == Installation == There are three ways to install your theme. It can be installed by manually uploading the files to the themes folder using an FTP application, it can be installed by downloading from the WordPress Theme Directory within the Dashboard or it can be installed by uploading the theme zip file that you downloaded. Use the following instructions to install & activate Tatva using your preferred method. Manual installation: 1. Unzip the files from the Tatva zip file that you downloaded 2. Upload the Tatva folder to your /wp-content/themes/ directory 3. Click on the Appearance > Themes menu option in the WordPress Dashboard 4. Click the Activate link below the Tatva preview thumbnail Install from the WordPress Theme Directory: 1. Click on the Appearance > Themes menu option in the WordPress Dashboard 2. Click the Install Themes tab at the top of the page 3. Type 'Tatva' in the search field, without the quotes, and then click the Search button 4. Click the Install Now link below the Tatva preview thumbnail 5. Once the theme has been installed, click the Activate link Install by uploading the theme zip file: 1. Click on the Appearance > Themes menu option in the WordPress Dashboard 2. Click the Install Themes tab at the top of the page 3. Click on the Upload link just below the two tabs at the top of the page 4. Click the Browse button, browse to the folder that contains the theme zip file, select it and then click the Open button 5. Click the Install Now button 6. Once the theme has been installed, click the Activate link == Getting Started == Since Tatva is a starter theme to kick off your own awesome theme, the first thing you want to do is copy the tatva theme folder and change the name to something else. You'll then need to do a three-step find and replace on the name in all the templates. 1. Search for tatva inside single quotations to capture the text domain. 2. Search for tatva_ to capture all the function names. 3. Search for tatva with a space before it to replace all the occurrences of it in comments. (You'd replace this with the capitalized version of your theme name.) or, to put it another way... Search for:'tatva' Replace with:'yourawesomethemename' Search for:tatva_ Replace with:yourawesomethemename_ Search for: tatva Replace with: YourAwesomeThemeName Lastly, update the stylesheet header in style.css and either update or delete this readme.txt file. == License == Tatva is licensed under the [GNU General Public License version 2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html). 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. == Credits == Tatva utilises the following awesomeness: [Options Framework](http://wptheming.com/options-framework-theme), which is licensed under the GPLv2 License [Modernizr](http://modernizr.com), which is licensed under the MIT license [Normalize.css](https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css), which is licensed under the MIT license [jQuery Validation](http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation) which is dual licensed under the MIT license and GPL licenses [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome) icon font, which is licensed under SIL Open Font License and MIT License [Open Sans font](http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/PT+Sans), which is licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1 [Merriweather font](http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Merriweather), which is licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1 = 1.0 = - Initial version