=== Legal News Headlines ===
Contributors: accarrino, troycobb, jbromwell
Donate link: http://lawyers.com/
Tags: atom, blog, content, feed, headlines, law, law firm, law news, lawyer, lawyers, lawyers.com, legal, legal news, lexisnexis, lexis nexis, news, news feed, sidebar, widget, widgets, Auto Accidents, Bankruptcy, Business Law, celebrity, Child Custody, Child Support, Civil Rights, Consumer, Criminal Law, Discrimination, Divorce, Drunk Driving, Drugs, Elder Law, Employment, Estate Planning, Family Law, Foreclosure, Immigration, Insurance, Tenant Law, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Social Media, Taxation, Current Events, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Gun Laws, Immigration, Internet Law, Labor and Employment Law, Marijuana, Small Business Law
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.4
Stable tag: 1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Do you run a law blog? Want to give your readers fresh legal news? This WordPress plugin adds a sidebar widget that displays a mix of current legal news headlines intermixed with your own blog's RSS feed. 

== Description ==

This free WordPress plugin was designed for bloggers who want to add  legal news content to their website(s). You blog's own content will be combined with *fresh* legal news from LexisNexis' legal news website, [Lawyers.com] (http://Lawyers.com "Lawyers.com").

**Features:**

* Combine Your Content With Fresh Headlines: This WordPress plugin will display a mix of fresh legal news headlines that your predetermine intermixed with your blog's own content.

* No 3rd Party Branding: This plugin is "White Label". The design is determined by your WordPress theme and no other logos or branding will be displayed or marketed to the end user.

* Customized Legal News: You customize what types of legal news (bankruptcy, family law, etc.) is displayed to your readers in the easy to use admin screen.

* Adjustable Content Display: Ability to add a character limited summary option to display excerpts from stories directly on your blog.

* Continuous RSS Scrolling: Headlines will vertically scroll at a speed you determine, allowing a large amount of content to be displayed in a small box.

* Easy Installation: No coding knowledge required to configure this plugin. Just activate the plugin and drag and drop the widget to sidebar and check the front end.

* Scalable Performance: Based on the latest WordPress feed fetching technology for enhanced performance and scalability

* Multiple Flavors of RSS Supported: Supports all major types of RSS and Atom feeds including: RSS 0.91 (Netscape), RSS 0.91 (Userland), RSS 0.90, RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0 

* Easy Configuration: Easy to use configuration settings screen

* Multiple sources of legal news categories: bloggers can select specific types of headlines to be displayed in widget (Divorce, current events, Family Law, etc.) in admin interface

* Configurable name for headline box: Call this widget box whatever you want  (ie. Top Legal News, Name-Of-Your-Blog News, etc.)

**Coming soon** 
* (Got more ideas? Tell us!)

== Installation ==

To install this WordPress plugin, please follow these steps:

1. Download the zipped plugin file to your local machine.
2. Unzip the file called "legal-news-headlines.zip"
2. Upload the "legal-news-headlines" folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Configure the defaults on the options menu screen.
5. Drag the "Legal News Headlines" to your sidebar in the Appearance section


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= I installed the plugin but I don't see it on my site! =

After installing, you have to add it to a sidebar under Appearance > Widgets.



== Screenshots ==
TIPS FOR PUTTING TOGETHER SCREENSHOTS
Name screenshots as screenshot-1.png, screenshot-2.png, etc.
Include at least one screenshot of the UI, and one of what it does in the front end (if it does anything there).
Keep the size of the screenshot file small.

1. Full administration/customization all from the widget panel.
2. Easily customize the widget and use multiple times on your site to align perfectly to your content. You'll see here that there is no branding on the content outside of your site theme.
3. Seamlessly integrate with your existing WordPress theme.
4. Another example with preview content turned on.
5. An example without post preview content.
6. One final example for good measure!

== Changelog ==

= 1.0 =
* Initial release


== Other Notes ==

Copyright 2012 by Definition 6.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
