=== Material Design for WordPress ===
Contributors: google, materialdesign, xwp
Requires at least: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.0
Stable tag: 0.7.0
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
License URI: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Tags: material-design, material-theming, google, blocks, gutenberg, theme-builder, accessibility, dark-mode

The official Material Design plugin for WordPress. Customize your site’s navigation, colors, typography, and shapes, use Material Components, and choose from over 1,000 Google Fonts and Material Design icons. From the team behind Google’s open-source design system.

== Description ==

The official Material Design plugin for WordPress. Customize your site’s navigation, colors, typography, and shapes, use Material Components, and choose from over 1,000 Google Fonts and Material Design icons. From the team behind Google’s open-source design system.

It’s easy to get up and running with Material Design for WordPress:

=== Install Material Theme & examples ===
The theme applies Material Design principles and Material Theming to your site, so you can customize its style. Example layouts include pages for home, about, projects, blog, and contact.

=== Customize your Theme ===
Set up and preview your global theme styles within the customizer. Choose colors, typography, shapes, and icons to express your unique style.

=== Build with Material Blocks ===
Add Material Components like buttons and cards, and create layouts for things like image-heavy pages or styled contact forms. Customize the look of your blocks by adjusting global theme styles, or setting the style of a single component in the block editor.

=== Apply your Theme ===
Implement your colors, shapes, and typography for built-in WordPress elements like your site’s header and footer.


== Installation ==

1. Upload the folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

Don’t see an answer to your question? Please search the support forum to see if it has already been discussed. Otherwise, please open a new support topic.


== Screenshots ==

1. Start from our existing styles and use Material Theming to create a custom look and feel. (Baseline)
2. Start from our existing styles and use Material Theming to create a custom look and feel. (Crane)
3. Start from our existing styles and use Material Theming to create a custom look and feel. (Fortnightly)
4. Start from our existing styles and use Material Theming to create a custom look and feel. (Blossom)
5. Choose from more than 1,000 typefaces in Google Fonts to set your headline and body styles.
6. Material Icons are included with this plugin. Choose from Filled, Sharp, Rounded, Outlined, or Two-Tone styles.
7. Add Material Components like buttons and cards, and create layouts for things like image-heavy pages or styled contact forms.
8. Choose colors, typography, shapes, and icons to express your unique style.


== Contributors ==

Material Design is a design system created by Google and backed by open-source code that helps teams build high-quality digital experiences.

- [Google](https://profiles.wordpress.org/google/)
- [Material Design](https://profiles.wordpress.org/materialdesign/)
- [XWP](https://profiles.wordpress.org/xwp/)


== Changelog ==

For the plugin’s changelog, please see [the Releases page on GitHub](https://github.com/material-components/material-design-for-wordpress/releases).
