Avocet 1.5.1 - Lifestyle & Fashion blog theme

Full Feature List

8 Thoughtfully Created Blog Layouts

• Modern
• Mixed (Standard Large Post + List + Grid)
• 2 Grid Posts + List
• Standard Large Post
• Grid (1st Post Standard)
• Grid
• List (1st Post Standard)
• List

3 Sliders to Highlight Your Favorite Posts

• Beautiful 1-Column Slider with Ken Burns effect
• Unique 2-Column Slider
• Full-width 3-Column Slider
• Change Slider layout by changing the number of columns from 1 through 3
• Select posts using latest posts, categories or post ID options
• One-click disable

Featured Post

• Highlights a single post
• Select the post using most commented, latest posts, categories or post ID options
• Option to add a custom title
• Disable anytime

Carousel for Most Commented Posts

• Display posts with most comments
• Can also be used to display latest posts, categories or post ID
• Option to add a custom title
• One-click disable

Strategically Located Call-to-Action Area

• Thoughtfully designed CTA area with complete customization controls
• Available in two color schemes and two layouts
• Change title, description, button label and link within WordPress’ Customizer
• Disable anytime

One-Click Search and Filter

• One-click access to Search Function and Filters
• Drop-down animation
• Filter by Category, Tag, Month or Year
• Option to keep only the Search function
• Separate Options to disable each filter

Page Templates

• About Page powered by a gorgeous shortcode – You will fall in love with it. Check it out!
• Contact Page powered by Contact Form 7 and yet another perfect shortcode for a Call-to-Action. See for your yourself.
• 404
• Search Result – Nothing Found
• Search Results / Archive Page
• Full-width page + Latest Posts (content followed by Latest Posts)
• Full-width page
• Default Page with Sidebar

Did we mention Shortcodes?

• Two very beautifully designed shortcodes which actually serve a purpose.
• Integrated as a plugin. You will never lose your data in case you switch your theme.
• What else? More amazing shortcodes are in the making.

Developed with Industry Best Practices

• W3C Compliant HTML5 and CSS3
• Powered by SASS (CSS with Super Powers)
• WordPress 4.4 Ready
• Translation Ready
• Child Theme Included
• Perfect SEO-friendly HTML Structure
• A well-structured and error-free HTML that allows for a better search engine ranking.
• Built with Mobile-First Approach
• Passed Google Mobile Compatibility Test
• Ultra Responsive Design
• Retina Ready

One of the Most Organized WordPress Customizer

• Take control of your blog like never before
• Each option thoughtfully nested under relevant section
• Intuitive and easy to understand nomenclature
• Still can’t locate what you need? Use our online documentation

Effective and Timely Support

• 16/7 Availability as per Support Agreement
• Online documentation
• Tips and guidance within Customizer
• Customizer Sections with direct links to Online Documentation for easy reference

Custom Widgets and Social Integrations

• Custom Instagram Feed for Footer with two layouts and a direct link button
• Custom Tag Cloud in Footer
• Custom Styling for MailChimp widget
• Beautifully Designed ‘About’ Widget with profile image
• Other Custom Widgets: Recent Posts, Tag Cloud, Facebook, Instagram (multiple layouts), Social Media Links

Salient Features

• Beautifully Styled Default WordPress Widgets
• Support for Contact Form 7
• Custom CSS field
• Translation Ready – .pot file included
• Child Theme included

Credits

• Special thanks to Toan Nguyen (http://phpface.net) for helping with automatic theme update.
• Most images used in theme demos sourced from Pexels and Unsplash; some from Flickr under Creative Commons 2.0 license.
• The authors’ credits and licensing notes are included in the demo posts/pages.

Credits and Documentation

Avocet credits and attribution cover photographers and sources used in demos, and acknowledge licensing considerations. The theme emphasizes a strong documentation presence and ongoing support to assist users with customization and updates.

Changelog

Version v1.5.1 (Latest) – 17 August, 2020

• Fix: Plugin information in TGM Plugin Activation configuration.

Version 1.5.0 – 06 July, 2020

• Tweak: Kirki is no longer included in the theme. It is a required plugin instead.
• Tweak: Replace Instagram feed plugin.
• Tweak: Add defaults to Featured Blocks fields in Customizer.
• Tweak: Include widgets in the plugin instead the theme.
• New: Add wp_body_open() function as per WordPress guidelines.

Version 1.5.0 (Latest) - 06 July, 2020

• See above notes for Version 1.5.0.

Version 1.4.2 - Feb 6, 2018

• Update: Latest Version of Kirki

Version 1.4.1 - 20 July, 2017

• Fix: Mobile menu issue on window resize.

Version 1.4.0 - 26 June, 2017

• Tweak: Removed Automatic Update feature
• Tweak: Removed Referral Sales Promotion tab from Customizer
• Fix: CSS issues.
• Fix: Doc Comments.

Version 1.3.9 – 06 June, 2016

• New: Option to change the language of Facebook widget
• Fix: Caption of Content Boxes in Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11
• Fix: Minor internationalization issues

Version 1.3.8 – 13 May, 2016

• Fix: Drop Cap was not working in Mozilla Firefox

Version 1.3.7 – 1 May, 2016

• Fix: Category description was visible in Search Overlay if a user adds a specific invalid HTML markup

Version 1.3.6 – 26 April, 2016

• Fix: Adsense code was not working properly in Advert fields
• Fix: Footer HTML markup

Version 1.3.5 – 28 March, 2016

• Tweak: Allowed HTML in Call to Action's Title and Description field
• Fix: Title of Call to Action's Description field was incorrect

Version 1.3.4 – 11 March, 2016

• Fix: Content Boxes in Featured Block published wrong links

Version 1.3.3 – 08 March, 2016

• Fix: Increased spacing between the header and three-column slider
• Fix: Internationalization and localization corrections

Version 1.3.2 – 25 Feb, 2016

• Tweak: Increased menu levels of the Primary Menu from 3 to 5

Version 1.3.1 – 22 Feb, 2016

• Tweak: Allowed HTML tags in copyright statement in the footer

Version 1.3 Major Release – 21 Feb, 2016

• New: Content Boxes in Feature Block
• New: Ad space below Featured Block and above Footer
• New: Added support for Ad Injection plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-injection)
• New: Added support for Disqus Comment System plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system)
• Fix: Theme update was not working with child themes
• Fix: Corrected font color of HTML tags (pre, code, kbd, tt, var and samp).
• Fix: Corrected styles of Pinterest button in 'Share This Story' if Pinterest plugin is installed.
• Tweak: Increased width of Style B Post Titles.

Version 1.2.2 – 12 Feb, 2016

• Fix: Some Google fonts were not working due to faulty CSS.
• Fix: Corrected a typo in an if statement in the functions.php.
• Fix: Removed an unnecessary PHP comment in template-tags.php.
• Tweak: Updated to Kirki v2.0.8.

Version 1.2.1 – 06 Feb, 2016

• New: Disable Sidebar for post page
• Fix: Styles of featured image in (Avocet) About Author widget when 'Make profile picture rounded' is not checked.
• Fix: Styles of username in Style B of Footer Instagram.
• Fix: Post ID field in the Customizer wasn't showing up when Post ID was selected as the source of the Featured Post.
• Fix: Toggle for Slider Pagination in the Customizer was not working.
• Tweak: Added ID to each style tag generated by Custom Codes in the Customizer.
• Tweak: Whitespace changes to make the code more readable.

Version 1.2 Major Release – 03 Feb, 2016

• New: White post title style
• New: Added font options
• New: Added color options
• New: Integrated Kirki toolkit in Customizer
• Fix: Spacing above content in Modern layout (left and right images)

Version 1.1.3 – 29 Jan, 2016

• Fix: Name of the function is_singular() was incorrect.

Version 1.1.2 – 28 Jan, 2016

• Fix: Alignment of carousel title.
• Tweak: Removed featured area placeholders.

Version 1.1.1 – 20 Jan, 2016

• Fix: Primary menu showed only 'More' when no menu was assigned
• Fix: Header had no space at the bottom when it had background color in small screens
• Fix: Alignment of content and button in Call to Action shortcode
• Fix: CSS of two styles of Call to Action shortcode was not applying
• Fix: Enabled slider pagination in small and medium screens.
• Fix: Special characters were being encoded in Custom CSS fields

Version 1.1 – Major Release 19 Jan, 2016

• New: Automatic theme updates within WordPress updates.
• New: Two Header styles: Style A and Style B
• New: Header Background Colors Option for Style A
• New: Two Sliders: 2-column (site-width) and 3-column (fullwidth)
• New: Widget Area: Alternate Sidebar
• New: Page template with Alternate Sidebar
• New: Option to limit categories, tags, months and years in Search/Filter overlay
• New: Option to disable slider pagination
• New: Sidebar on small screens
• Tweak: Added descriptions in WordPress Customizer
• Tweak: Replaced Owl Carousel with Slick Carousel
• Tweak: Changed names of options like Layout 1, Layout 2...Layout 4 to Style A, Style B...Style D
• Tweak: Broke down featured-block.php into additional template parts
• Tweak: Made wp_kses() more readable
• Fix: The last thumbnail of Style A of Footer Instagram Feed had a gap of 1 pixel
• Fix: Media queries for custom classes specific to Contact Form 7 were incorrect
• Fix: Media queries in customizer-style.php were incorrect
• Fix: Comment Ending in style.css was incorrect

Version 1.0 – 15 Jan, 2016

• Initial Release