=== Rock Star ===

Rock Star is an incredibly sleek and responsive music WordPress theme, built for artists and bands aiming to promote their music and events. Created using HTML5 and CSS3, this aesthetically engaging theme is very easy to use. Simple modules and features are available so you can build a complete and custom website right away. Knowing the importance of the vast potential of social media, Rock Star allows you to update your followers regarding any activity, track release or event using the integrated social media support option. Its homepage is dominated by your logo, tagline, and a full-screen background image. With features like layouts, news ticker, featured content, featured slider, tours, breadcrumb, videos, social icons and instagram images gives you plenty of customizing power. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/rock-star/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/rock-star/


== Support ==

Support: https://catchthemes.com/support/
Support Forum: https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/rock-star-free/


== Translation ==

Rock Star theme is translation ready.


== License ==
Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 3, see file license.txt
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Rock Star WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016 Catchthemes.com
Rock Star is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3

Rock Star is based on Catch Base Pro theme https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-base-pro/


Images used are released under the CC0 license
1. Screenshot Image
    https://unsplash.com/photos/FgKuQ-ImdSE
2. Slider Images
    - slider-01-1920x1080.jpg: screenshot image
    - slider-02-1920x1080.jpg: https://pixabay.com/en/guitar-classical-guitar-756326/
3. Featured Content Images
    - blog-01-420x280.jpg: https://pixabay.com/en/guitar-classical-guitar-756326/
    - blog-02-420x280.jpg: https://pixabay.com/en/shoes-depend-leash-sky-beautiful-93756/
    - blog-03-420x280.jpg: https://unsplash.com/photos/C1tnzdAmPE8
4. Default Header Image
    - header-1920x600.jpg: https://unsplash.com/photos/GrIty4BNJEE
5. Background Images
    - Dark and light: background-light-1920x1080.jpg and background-dark-1920x1080.jpg
        - https://pixabay.com/en/music-locally-hamburg-harbor-locally-1286816/
6. Audio Widget image
    - audio-image-180x180.jpg: https://pixabay.com/en/guitar-music-sound-show-band-907654/
7. All other images are self shot image by (CatchThemes.com)

Font Icons
    Genericons by Automattic, Inc.
    Genericons is Licensed under the GPL, version 2 or later
    http://genericons.com/

JS Files
    HTML5-Shiv is Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses
    https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/

    jQuery Cycle 2 is Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses
    http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/

    fitvids is Licensed under the  WTFPL license
    http://fitvidsjs.com/


== Getting Started ==

= Installation =

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

= Custom Menus =

Rock Star theme supports one custom menu that is primary menu.
To create a custom menu, go to Appearance -> Menus in your dashboard.
For more about custom menu, check out https://catchthemes.com/blog/custom-menus-wordpress-themes/

= Featured Image =

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post/page is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider, Featured Post Slider and Featured Category Slider. For more about featured image, check out https://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-wordpress-postpage/

If you are migrating your old site to this new them then you need to regenerate thumbnails. You can do that easily with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/. This plugin allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes, which occurs by switching from one theme to another.

= Featured Slider =

In Rock Star theme, there is option to select slider type from Featured Page Slider, Featured Post Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image slider.

To add featured image slider,
1. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Image Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides, upload images, add in links, title, content as per your need
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

To add featured page slider,
1. Create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.
2. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Page Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides and select your pages in "Featured Page #"
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

To add featured post slider,
1. Create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.
2. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Post Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides and add in Post ID in "Featured Post #"
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

To add featured category slider,
1. Create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.
2. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Featured Slider Options" from your WordPress Dashboard
3. Under Featured Slider Type, you need to select "Featured Category Slider"
4. Then you can change the number of slides and select categories in "Select Categories"
4. Finally, click on "Save & Publish"

Note: You can also change Enable Slider, slider effects, delay and length under Featured Slider Settings.

= Social Icons =

Rock Star has social icons for various social networking sites.
1. Go to "Appearance -> Customize -> Social Links" form your WordPress Dashboard
2. Add in your social profile links and click on "Save & Publish"

Note: By default social links will be added in Header Right Section. You can also add that in your sidebar from "Appearance -> Widgets"

Available icons:
* Codepen
* Digg
* Dribbble
* Dropbox
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Foursquare
* GitHub
* Google+
* Instagram
* LinkedIn
* Email
* Pinterest
* Pocket
* PollDaddy
* Reddit
* RSS Feed
* Spotify
* StumbleUpon
* Tumblr
* Twitch
* Twitter
* Vimeo
* WordPress
* YouTube

Skype Link:
Skype link can have several formats which are documented below:
Username:
    skype:profile_name?action

    Examples of such actions are
    * call        to call
    * chat        to chat
    * voicemail   to leave a voice mail
    * sendfile    to send a file
    * add         to add to contacts
    * userinfo    to view profile

    E.g: skype:echo123?call
    This will initiate test call use skype usenarme echo123

Number:
    callto://+***********

    E.g: callto://+14044627491
    This will initiate Skype to call phone number 14044627491


= Theme Instructions =

For detail instructions, check out theme instructions page at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/rock-star/


== Change Log ==

Please refer to changelog.txt file or change log page at https://catchthemes.com/changelogs/rock-star-theme/