=== Blog Starter ===

Contributors: SmarterThemes.com
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
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.4
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.3.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Blog Starter simply beautiful blog WordPress theme.

== Description ==

Blog Starter is one of the best free WordPress themes for blogging. blog starter has simple looks and smooth presentation mostly suited for personal blog and magazine type blog and it’s fully WooCommerce Supported. All customizer options available in WordPress are used. blog starter a free WordPress theme is fully controlled and accessed from customizer view. It looks as per demo can be totally created from customizer option. The custom widget has been avoided so that even the novice user can use it to built his site using this theme. blog starter all extra paid features have been provided as free features so that all basics and advance work can be utilized. blog starter a free WordPress theme is the total package for well content website making business. blog starter one of the best WordPress themes as mentioned by many sources.

== 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 blog starter, 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 - May 16, 2020 =
* Initial release

= 1.0.3 - September 13, 2020 =
* solve all the issues following this ticket #88350

= 1.0.5 - September 13, 2020 =
* Fix Responsive Layout Issues
* Fix some css bugs
* Added Hover Effect on title and Category
* Remove Newsletter Form file.
* fix post author link issus.
* Removed unnecessary theme options from customizer
* Removed Page Banner functions.
* Removed Related Post Functions
* Added single post sidebar alignment options.

= 1.0.6 - September 13, 2020 =
* Added Theme Featured Section Enable//Disable Options
* Added Footer Copyright Link
* Changed Theme author URI

= 1.0.7 - October 08, 2020 =
* Pro Version Available
* Added Theme Details Page and Admin Notice

= 1.0.8 - October 08, 2020 =
* Fix Text Domain Name

= 1.0.9 - October 08, 2020 =
* Changed Screenshot
* Checked Compatibility with latest version of all recommended plugins and WordPress 5.5.3

= 1.1.0 - December 14, 2020 =
* Fix recent post no image issues
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 5.6 version

= 1.1.1 - January 01, 2021 =
* Added Free vs Pro Text In Customizer

= 1.1.2 - January 22, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity with all recommended plugin
* Update Screenshot
* Added 5 Google Fonts

= 1.1.3 - January 22, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 5.6.1
* Added 7 Google Fonts

= 1.1.4 - March 07, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 5.6.2
* Added 2 Google Fonts

= 1.1.5 - April 05, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 5.7
* Removed All Pro Notes From Customizer
* Created Hooks for Sidebar Wrapper

= 1.1.6 - April 20, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 5.7.1
* Solved Fonts Enqueue problem

= 1.1.7 - May 27, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity with WordPress 5.7.2
* Solved Fonts Enqueue problem Remove Fonts Var_dump from header

= 1.1.8 - Jun 08, 2021 =
* Improved Lot of CSS.
* Solved All The Theme Options Issue.

= 1.1.9 - Jun 12, 2021 =
* Solved Grid Overlaping Issue

= 1.2.0 - Jun 12, 2021 =
* Added everything acording to themechek recommendation.
* Included Text Block With Image Pattern
* Added New Style To the Media Query & Block Qoute.

= 1.2.1 - Jun 12, 2021 =
* Removed Default Social Icons

= 1.2.2 - February 02, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with 5.8
* Add Remove theme support remove_theme_support( 'block-templates' );
* Removed Some Unused Files.

= 1.2.3 - May 19, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with 5.9
* Solved Masonry Broken Layout

= 1.2.4 - September 05, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with 6.0.2
* Fixed hard-coded links
* Removed found iframe by Themecheck
* Fixed Search Button width

= 1.2.5 - September 09, 2022 =
* Fixed Getting started page

= 1.2.6 - September 10, 2022 =
* Removed TGMPA

= 1.2.7 - October 17, 2022 =
* Fixed button on Getting started page

= 1.2.8 - November 01, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with 6.0.3

= 1.2.9 - November 08, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with 6.1

= 1.2.10 - November 15, 2022 =
* Fixed recent posts padding

= 1.2.11 - November 22, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with Wordpress 6.1.1

= 1.3.0 - March 23, 2023 =
* Fixed UI issues

= 1.3.1 - April 24, 2023 =
* Update admin notices after install

= 1.3.2 - April 25, 2023 =
* Removed Upgrade to Pro and get started notices

= 1.3.3 - June 01, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.4 - June 16, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.5 - July 7, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.6 - July 26, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.7 - August 8, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.8 - August 21, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.9 - September 06, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.10 - September 19, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.11 - October 13, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.12 - November 11, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.13 - December 08, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.14 - January 08, 2024 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.15 - February 05, 2024 =
* Monthly Updates

= 1.3.16 - April 09, 2024 =
* Monthly Updates

== Copyright ==

Blog Starter WordPress Theme, Copyright 2021 SmarterThemes.com
Blog Starter 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.

blog starter 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.css
  Copyright 2011-2018 The Bootstrap Authors
  https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE

* The Font Awesome font is licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1:
  http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
  Font Awesome CSS, LESS, and Sass files are licensed under the MIT License:
  https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html

* TGM Plugin Activation is licensed under the GPL-2.0+
  http://tgmpluginactivation.com/
  Authors: Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer
  Copyright (c) 2011, Thomas Griffin

== License/copyright for images ==

* logo.png self created.
* widget-shap.png self created.
* All Admin Screenshots Which is Inside of Assets/Admin/Img Folder are self created.
* Screenshot images are all licensed under CC0 Universal
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/489879
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1418539
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1186580
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/868153