=== DarkNews ===
Contributors: AF themes
Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: 7.0
Stable tag: 3.5.4
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: news, blog, entertainment, one-column, two-columns, grid-layout, block-styles, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-header, flexible-header, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-menu, featured-images, full-width-template, post-formats, sticky-post, rtl-language-support, footer-widgets, translation-ready, theme-options, threaded-comments

A starter theme called DarkNews.

== Copyright ==

This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL.
Use it to make something cool, have fun, and share what you've learned with others.

DarkNews is based on Underscores https://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2017 Automattic, Inc.
Underscores is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.

DarkNews WordPress Theme, Copyright 2026 AF themes
DarkNews is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.

== Description ==
DarkNews is an advanced dark WordPress theme that's appropriate for a news, blog and magazine website. The theme includes a range of free starting pages that can be imported with a single click to create a great news portal. With 9+ custom widgets and widget areas, the theme is fully widgetized, allowing users to control site content. It also has a light and dark color mode, so you can view articles and blog posts in a trendy way. It also contains a number of helpful customizer options for building a visually appealing news site. You can configure it as you like to see how it looks before making any improvements using the live customizer. It's compatible with Gutenberg blocks and RTL, as well as the WooCommerce plugin, which enables you to blend an online shop with our newspaper theme. The theme is ideal for a news, journal, magazine, publishing, or review site, as well as blogging. It's well-designed to bring the website to the top of search engines, and people will get outstanding support from the team if they have any problems when using it.

== Installation ==

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

After installed the theme, please read the documentation carefully before start using it.

Necessary plugins will be recommended to install via admin backend. You’d better to checkout the documentation for extra plugins that we used.

Recommended: if you want to customize the theme, you can use child theme and add your custom functions to child theme directory/functions.php.

For more information about child theme, read here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

If you have any questions related to the theme, please feel free to contact our support.
https://afthemes.com/supports/

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

DarkNews includes support for Infinite Scroll in Jetpack.

== Change log ==

= 3.3.10 - Mar 03 2026 =
* Update - Customizer optimization
* Update - German language file
* Update - Arabic language file
* Update - French language file
* Update - Italian language file
* Update - Japanese language file
* Update - Polish language file
* Update - Portugese language file
* Update - Spanish language file
* Update - Dutch language file
* Update - Russian language file
* Update - Ukranian language file
* Update - Swedish language file 

= 3.3.2 - Jun 24 2025 =
* Update - Default admin panel
* Update - Recommneded plugins

= 3.3.0 - May 22 2025 =
* Update - Security improvement
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Fixed - Some styling glitch

= 3.2.2 - Mar 17 2025 =
* Update - Accessibilty improvement
* Update - Page builder support
* Update - Speed optimization
* Update - Scripts improvements

= 3.2.1 - Dec 27 2024 =
* Update - Accessibilty improvement
* Update - Page builder support
* Update - Speed optimization
* Update - Scripts improvements

= 3.2.0 - Dec 13 2024 =
* New - Accessibilty improvement
* New - Page builder support
* New - Blank Canvas template
* New - Full Width template
* Update - WooCommerce compatibility improvement
* Update - Elementor compatibility improvement
* Update - Brizy compatibility improvement
* Update - Beaver Builder compatibility improvement
* Update - Visual Composer compatibility improvement
* Update - SiteOrigin compatibility improvement
* Update - Speed optimization
* Update - Scripts improvements

= 3.1.0 - Nov 19 2024 =
* New - WP 6.7 Compatibility
* Update - Dashboard improvements
* Update - Scripts improvements
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Fixed - Some styling glitch

= 3.0.0 - Oct 25 2024 =
* New - Import Starter Site Dashboard
* New - Import Gutenberg Patterns Dashboard
* New - Import Elementor Kits Dashboard
* New - Customize Menu
* New - AF themes Dashboard Menu
* Update - Scripts improvements
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Fixed - Some styling glitch

= 2.4.0 - Sep 17 2024 =
* Update - Minutes read time disabled by default
* Option - Customize > Theme Options > Minutes Read Count
* Update - Theme Banners improvements
* Update - Theme Menus improvements
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Fixed - Some styling glitch

= 2.3.2 - Aug 14 2024
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Update - Gaps improvement
* Update - General design improvement

= 2.3.1 - Aug 01 2024 =
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Update - Gaps improvement
* Update - General design improvement

= 2.3.0 - Jul 26 2024 =
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Update - Gaps improvement
* Update - General design improvement

= 2.2.8 - Mar 22 2024 =
* New - Option to display homepage content to Frontpage
* Option - Customize> Frontpage Options> Frontpage Layout Settings > Frontpage Content Display
* Update - Icon improvement
* Update - Block Style improvement
* Update - Gaps improvement
* Update - General design improvement

= 2.2.7 - Feb 15 2024 =
* Update - Block support for Appearnce Tools
* Update - Block support for Padding
* Update - Block support for Link Color
* Update - Block support for Custom Units
* Update - Block support for Custom Line Height
* Update - Block support for Border
* Fixed - Some styling glitch

= 2.2.6 - Dec 18 2023
* Update - Imroved general block styling
* Update - Imroved general styling

= 2.2.5 - Nov 24 2023
* Update - WP 6.4 Compatibility

= 2.2.3 - May 22 2023 =
* Update - Header block style optimization
* Update - Gallery block style optimization
* Update - Imroved general block styling
* Update - Imroved general styling

= 2.2.2 - May 10 2023 =
* Update - Imroved block styling
* Update - Imroved general styling

= 2.2.1 - Apr 13 2023 =
* Update - WP 6.2 Compatibility
* Fixed - Imroved gravatar issue
* Update - Imroved block styling
* Update - Imroved general styling

= 2.2.0 - Mar 14 2023 =
* Update - WP 6.1.1 Compatibility
* Update - Imroved block styling

= 2.1.2 - Nov 11 2022 =
* Update - WP 6.1 Compatibility
* Update - Imroved some styling

= 2.1.1 - Sept 07 2022 =
* Update - Imroved some styling

= 2.1.0 - Aug 05 2022 =
* Update - Multi-author support
* Update - Imroved some styling

= 2.0.0 - July 14 2022 =
* Update - New improved dashboard with essential links
* Update - Imroved some styling

= 1.1.7 - Jun 03 2022 =
* Update - Main navigation gaps improvements
* Update - Accesibilty improvements

= 1.1.6 - March 20 2022 =
* Update - Elementor gaps improvements
* Update - Accesibilty improvements

= 1.1.5 - Feb 05 2022 =
* Update - WordPress 5.9 compatibility

= 1.1.4 - Dec 14 2021 =
* Fixes: Header advertisemnt class renamed for ad blocker
* Fixes: Some design glitches

= 1.1.3 - Nov 23 2021 =
* Update: Block support for widgets area

= 1.1.2 - Nov 22 2021 =
* Fixes: optimized jQuery

= 1.1.1 - Nov 19 2021 =
* Fixes: optimized styling

= 1.1.0 - Nov 18 2021 =
* New - Elementor Compatibility
* New - Elespare Compatibility
* New - New WP Compatibility
* Fixes: optimized styling

= 1.0.4 - May 10 2021 =
* Update: new social icons added for social menu
* Fixes: embedded video styling issue on responsive devices
* Fixes: optimized styling

= 1.0.3 - April 20 2021 =
* Update: popular tab default posts by comments
* Update: grid archive image quality
* Fixes: optimized styling

= 1.0.2 - April 19 2021 =
* Update based on theme review team

= 1.0.1 - Mar 26 2021 =
* Update based on theme review action

= 1.0.0 - Mar 25 2021 =
* Initial release


== Credits ==

Underscores:
Author: 2012-2015 Automattic
Source: http://underscores.me
License: GPL v2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

normalize:
Author: 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
Source: http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css
License: [MIT/GPL2 Licensed](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

html5shiv:
Author: 2014 Alexander Farkas (aFarkas)
Source: https://github.com/afarkas/html5shiv
License: [MIT/GPL2 Licensed](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Bootstrap:
Author: Twitter
URL: http://getbootstrap.com
License: Licensed under the MIT license

Font Awesome:
Author: Dave Gandy
URL: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL
License: Licensed under SIL Open Font License (OFL) and MIT License

slick carousel:
Author: Ken Wheeler
URL: https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick
License: Licensed under the MIT license

jquery-match-height:
Author: liabru
URL: http://brm.io/jquery-match-height/
License: MIT

jQuery.marquee:
Author: Aamir Afridi
URL:  http://aamirafridi.com/jquery/jquery-marquee-plugin
License: MIT

Breadcrumb Trail:
Author: Justin Tadlock
URL:  https://github.com/justintadlock/breadcrumb-trail/blob/master/breadcrumb-trail.php
License: GPLv2 or later

TGM-Plugin-Activation:
Author: Thomas Griffin (thomasgriffinmedia.com)
URL:  https://github.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation
License: GNU General Public License, version 2


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