=== Author Portfolio ===
Contributors: rswpthemes
Tags: blog, news, e-commerce, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, three-Columns, four-Columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, footer-widgets, flexible-header, theme-options, translation-ready, featured-images, block-styles, wide-blocks, sticky-post, featured-image-header, front-page-post-form, full-width-template, post-formats, threaded-comments
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 8.0
Stable tag: 4.2.54
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

== Description ==
Author Portfolio is a beautiful and easy-to-use WordPress theme for authors, writers, novelists, and publishers who want to launch, promote or publish their books online. It is carefully designed to follow the trends of today’s modern web while providing full support for the new WordPress 5 block editor (Gutenberg ready). This theme features an elegant and attractive layout to help you generate high leads and get more sales of your book. With the Author Portfolio theme, you can create a fully responsive, and visually appealing landing page to sell and promote your book without writing a single line of code. It is a speed-optimized theme that helps your website load within a blink of an eye and provides a great user experience to your visitors. The theme is developed with SEO-optimized codes and is schema.org markup ready to help your website rank higher in Google and other search engines. Furthermore, this theme is fully compatible with the popular WooCommerce plugin to allow you to sell your book via your website.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How to Install Theme =
1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button and Search for Author Portfolio, OR
2. If you have theme zip file, 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.

== Changelog ==
= 1.0.0 - April 19, 2022 =
* Initial release

= 1.0.1 - April 23, 2022 =
* Added Getting Started Page
* Solved Book Pages Blank Issue
* Added How To Add Book Video

= 1.0.2 - April 24, 2022 =
* Solved Block Editor Font Issue
* Merge Add Editor Style CSS With Block Style.

= 1.0.3 - April 26, 2022 =
* Maked Theme Compatible with Latest RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE Plugin
* Modify Header Design

= 1.0.4 - April 29, 2022 =
* Solved Plugin Installtion Issue With One Click
* Added Book Price.

= 1.0.5 - May 07, 2022 =
* Removed Buy Now Return false JS code
* Added Book Price.

= 1.0.6 - May 13, 2022 =
* Fix Title Alignment in mobile device.
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP Books Showcase plugin.

= 1.0.7 - May 19, 2022 =
* Removed woocommerce_output_content_wrapper and Added Own CSS.
* Removed WooCommerce Products Page Title (Shop) and Apply Author Portfolio Pro Archive Header CSS.

= 1.0.8 - May 19, 2022 =
* Removed Thumbnail Gallery And add them to large gallery area.
* Improved WooCommerce Product Gallery Slider
* Solved Review Form Broken Layout

= 1.0.9 - May 23, 2022 =
* Solved WooCommerce Reviews List Layout Issue
* Solved Tab focus issue.
* Recommended Post Set 4

= 2.0.0 - May 30, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility With WordPress 6
* Change Screenshot Image

= 2.0.1 - Jun 04, 2022 =
* Solved Color Change Issue
* Change Screenshot Images

= 2.0.2 - Jun 09, 2022 =
* Solved Color Of WooCommerce Layout
* Improved WooCommerce Layouts Issue

= 2.0.3 - Jun 21, 2022 =
* Solved Margin Issue For Post

= 2.0.4 - July 30, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with latest version of WordPress and all recommended plugins

= 2.0.5 - Jun 21, 2022 =
* Removed Unnecessary Theme Options

= 2.0.6 - Aug 29, 2022 =
* Solved Fontawesome v4 and v6 complict issue.
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 6.0.1

= 2.0.7 - Oct 17, 2022 =
* Solved Title Wrap Issue
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 6.0.2

= 2.0.8 - Oct 22, 2022 =
* Solved color issue on none thumnail post.
* Added New style to post tags
* Added style to Post navigations

= 2.0.9 - Dec 11, 2022 =
* Perfectly Working with WordPress 6.1.1
* Checked Compatibility With All Recommended Plugins

= 3.0.0 - Dec 20, 2022 =
* Solved Minor Spelling Misake

= 3.0.1 - Dec 28, 2022 =
* Solved Book Ordering Issue
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE 2.0.6

= 3.0.2 - Jan 12, 2023 =
* Added Video Instruction For User
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE 2.0.9

= 3.0.3 - Jan 16, 2023 =
* Updated Screenshot
* Added Footer Column Features
* Improved Footer Layout One

= 3.0.4 - Jan 17, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE 3.0.3

= 3.0.6 - Jan 22, 2023 =
* Removed Repeater Fields
* Added Normal Fields

= 3.0.7 - Jan 26, 2023 =
* Minor Bug Fix

= 3.0.8 - Jan 26, 2023 =
* Added Slider AutoPlay Feature

= 3.0.9 - Jan 30, 2023 =
* Updated Screenshot

= 4.0.0 - Feb 11, 2023 =
* Remove Footer Credit Links If any website has bad words
* Updated Theme Demo and Screenshot
* Added Footer Settings

= 4.0.1 - Feb 12, 2023 =
* Solved Footer Setting Conditions
* Added Video For Fre Theme Setup

= 4.0.2 - April 18, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOK SHOWCASE 5.0.5
* Checked Missing Translation String

= 4.0.3 - May 10, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With All Recommended Plugins

= 4.0.4 - May 27, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With Rs WP Book Showcase WordPress plugin
* Added style to default select field

= 4.0.5 - Jun 10, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With Rs WP Book Showcase WordPress plugin
* Solve Fatal Error

= 4.0.6 - Jun 15, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With Rs WP Book Showcase WordPress plugin
* Solve Recommended Post Wrong Results

= 4.0.8 - Aug 17, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With Rs WP Book Showcase WordPress plugin
* Improved WooCommerce Styles

= 4.0.9 - Sep 04, 2023 =
* Checked Compatibility With Rs WP Book Showcase WordPress plugin
* Added UTM URL

= 4.1.0 - Sep 13, 2023 =
* Now, User can easily upgrade to Author Portfolio Pro without losing any customization

= 4.1.1 - Sep 13, 2023 =
* Added Typography Option For Post Title

= 4.1.2 - Nov 13, 2023 =
* Added Page Header Settings
* Checked Compatiblity with 6.4 AND Recommend Plugins

= 4.1.3 - Nov 22, 2023 =
* Optimize Code to Improve Website Speed

= 4.1.4 - Dec 17, 2023 =
* Solved Slider Issues

= 4.1.5 - Dec 21, 2023 =
* Removed unnecessary PHP codes

= 4.1.6 - Jan 15, 2024 =
* Added Post Title Colors Options

= 4.1.7 - Jan 15, 2024 =
* Removed Unused CSS
* Improved Color Options

= 4.1.8 - March 25, 2024 =
* Removed Unused experimental Code

= 4.1.9 - March 27, 2024 =
* Added Page and Post Meta To Control Sidebar & Page Header

= 4.1.10 - March 28, 2024 =
* Improved Page Content Layout

= 4.2.0 - April 24, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility with Latest WordPress 6.5.2

= 4.2.1 - May 07, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility with Latest Kirki 5.1.0

= 4.2.2 - Jun 08, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility with Latest RS WP Book Showcase 6.5.15
* Added Menu Hover Color Options

= 4.2.3 - July 05, 2024 =
* Added Header Border Color Option

= 4.2.4 - Aug 05, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility with Latest WordPress

= 4.2.5 - Aug 11, 2024 =
* Social Links Will be open in new tab

= 4.2.6 - Aug 31, 2024 =
* Improved Sidebar Layout with Elementor Stretched

= 4.2.7 - Sep 19, 2024 =
* Improved Pagination and Navigation Block Design

= 4.2.8 - Sep 19, 2024 =
* Added RSWPBS Installer

= 4.2.9 - OCT 9, 2024 =
* Removed RSWPBS Installer

= 4.2.10 - OCT 22, 2024 =
* Improved Taxonomy Block

= 4.2.11 - Nov 03, 2024 =
* Improved category list block, archive list block, and Latest comments block design

= 4.2.12 - Dec 06, 2024 =
* Improved Meta Box, added Meta Hide Featured Image from single post meta box.

= 4.2.13 - Jan 14, 2025 =
* Change static year to 2025
* Added footer background changing option

= 4.2.14 - Feb 15, 2025 =
* Checked Compatibility with Latest RS WP Book Showcase

= 4.2.15 - March 09, 2025 =
* Added Built in Demo import system

= 4.2.16 - March 09, 2025 =
* Change Blank Page Template To Full width While importing demo

= 4.2.17 - March 12, 2025 =
* Added Home 2 and Home 3 Template

= 4.2.18 - March 13, 2025 =
* Updated Elementor Templates

= 4.2.19 - March 14, 2025 =
* Improved Demo Setup Process

= 4.2.20 - March 17, 2025 =
* Solved sidebar issue

= 4.2.21 - April 22, 2025 =
* Solved Translation warning that comes from wp 6.7 version

= 4.2.22 - April 28, 2025 =
* Solved Social Links URL issue

= 4.2.23 - April 29, 2025 =
* Organized Comment functions

= 4.2.24 - April 30, 2025 =
* Added lazy loading for comment avatars to improve page load performance

= 4.2.25 - May 01, 2025 =
* Implemented transient caching for comment counts to reduce database queries

= 4.2.26 - May 02, 2025 =
* Added server-side sanitization and validation for comment form inputs to enhance security

= 4.2.27 - May 03, 2025 =
* Added nonce to comment form to prevent CSRF attacks

= 4.2.28 - May 04, 2025 =
* Added comment edit link for logged-in users within 5 minutes of posting

= 4.2.29 - May 05, 2025 =
* Added social icons to the header.
* Improved Header Responsive Design.

= 4.2.30 - May 06, 2025 =
* Added option to turn on/off social icon columns
* Balanced Header Columns when icon is show or hide

= 4.2.31 - May 07, 2025 =
* Added Header Social Icon Color Options

= 4.2.32 - May 08, 2025 =
* Fix Search Block Minor CSS issue

= 4.2.33 - May 09, 2025 =
* Register Left Sidebar
* Added Both (Left & Right Sidebar) option in customizer sidebar controls
* Improved Sidebar Responsive Design.

= 4.2.34 - May 10, 2025 =
* Added 1 Column Layout for blog, archive, and search page

= 4.2.35 - May 11, 2025 =
* Improved Book slider coding structure

= 4.2.36 - May 12, 2025 =
* Added Book Slider Medium Screen Items Display Option

= 4.2.37 - Jun 16, 2025 =
* Added Book Slider Small Screen Items Display Option
* Solved social links not saving issue

= 4.2.38 - July 10, 2025 =
* Fix Search Button Style

= 4.2.39 - July 24, 2025 =
* Improved Recent Post Widget Style

= 4.2.40 - Aug 12, 2025 =
* Checked Compatibility with latest Recommended Plugins and it's working fine.
* Checked Compatibility with RS WP Book Showcase and it's working fine.

= 4.2.41 - Sep 06, 2025 =
* Removed Page Title Section from front page.

= 4.2.42 - Sep 16, 2025 =
* Checked Compatibility with RS WP Book Showcase Latest Version

= 4.2.43 - Oct 16, 2025 =
* Removed Book Slider From Pagination pages.

= 4.2.44 - Nov 06, 2025 =
* Checked Compatibility with Latest WP and latest RS WP Book Showcase Plugin 6.7.54

= 4.2.45 - Dec 14, 2025 =
* Solved getting started page responsive issue.
* Fully compatible with Author Website Templates WordPress Plugin


= 4.2.46 - Dec 24, 2025 =
* Added Conditional Styles For Author Website Templates
* maked 404 Compatible with Author Website Templates

= 4.2.47 - Dec 30, 2025 =
* Improved Demo Import system

= 4.2.48 - Jan 20, 2026 =
* Checked Compatibility With Author Website Templates

= 4.2.49 - Jan 22, 2026 =
* Improved dashboard experience
* Checked Compatibility With Author Website Templates
* Added latest documentation Video

= 4.2.50 - April 15, 2026 =
* - Fixed: PHP 8.0+ compatibility issue (TypeError) regarding 'awt_global_settings' array offset in archive.php, index.php, and search.php.

= 4.2.51 - April 15, 2026 =
* Solved Small Layout Issue in Product Tab

= 4.2.52 - May 09, 2026 =
* used perfect esc functions for strings

= 4.2.53 - Jun 14, 2026 =
* Improved Security Functions

= 4.2.54 - Jul 23, 2026 =
* Security: Added nonce verification and capability checks for welcome notice dismissal.
* Refactoring: Modernized admin notice dismissal logic using standard transient handling.

== Copyright ==
Author Portfolio WordPress Theme, Copyright 2026 rswpthemes.com
Author Portfolio is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
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.

Author Portfolio bundles the following third-party resources:
* Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.
* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* CSS bootstrap-grid.css
  Copyright 2011-2020 The Bootstrap Authors
  Copyright 2011-2020 Twitter, Inc.
  Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)
* Font Awesome 4.7.0 by @davegandy - http://fontawesome.io - @fontawesome
  License - http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License)
* Slick 1.8.0 by Ken Wheeler - http://kenwheeler.github.io
  License - https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/blob/master/LICENSE

== License/copyright for images ==
* logo.png and book cover self created.
* Screenshot images are all licensed under CC0 Universal

Image for theme screenshot
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
License URL: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1130654