=== Expert Consultant ===
Contributors: Luzuk
Tags: one-column, two-columns, right-sidebar, left-sidebar, grid-layout, custom-colors, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-logo, editor-style, footer-widgets, featured-images, full-width-template, flexible-header, sticky-post, theme-options, translation-ready, threaded-comments, blog, portfolio, e-commerce
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.8
Requires PHP: 7.2
Stable tag: 2.0.8
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Expert Consultant gives any consulting firm, accounting business, consultancy, advising firm, creative and financial advisors, business speakers, solicitors, coaches, marketing consultants, and professionals related to relevant businesses a fine website. This free WordPress theme is accompanied by an elegant design having minimal style converging the entire attention towards the important information and content displayed on your website.

== Description ==

Expert Consultant gives any consulting firm, accounting business, consultancy, advising firm, creative and financial advisors, business speakers, solicitors, coaches, marketing consultants, freelancer, and professionals related to relevant businesses a fine website. This free WordPress theme is accompanied by an elegant design having minimal style converging the entire attention towards the important information and content displayed on your website. With a sophisticated design and a retina-ready display, your website is going to look marvelous on different devices. With some personalization options given, you will be able to use it as a multipurpose theme. Having a user-friendly interface is going to be useful for users who are not from a coding background. There is no need to write codes or any sort of programming knowledge or skills for creating a website. There is an SEO-friendly design and optimized codes giving you a perfect website that has a faster page load time and delivers stunning performance across all the devices as well as browsers. An interactive element is added by the Call to Action Button (CTA) and animations added further beautify your website. This wonderful Bootstrap-based theme is made translation-ready for supporting various languages such as German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, etc. and a lot of social media options are also included.

For Homepage Setup:
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1. Go to Dashboard >> Pages >> Add New, Create a new page and name it as "Home" then select the template "Custom Home Page" and publish it.

2. Go to Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading, Select the option of Static Page, now select the page you created to be the homepage.

For Header:
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1. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customizer >> Theme Settings >> Header, add sale text, shop now button text & phone number & publish it.

For Slider:
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1. Go to Dashboard >> Pages >> Add New, Create a new Page and name it, add the content, featured image (Image Size (1400px x 600px) and publish the page. Repeat this step for other sliders.

2. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customizer >> Theme Settings >> Slider Settings, Click the checkbox of Show/Hide Slider, select the pages of the slider that you have created and publish it.

For Service Section:
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1. Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Category, add new category for service section, name it and publish it.

2. Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Add New, Create a new Post and name it, add featured image, assign the service category and publish the post. Repeat the step for other service posts.

3. Go to Customizer >> Theme Settings >> Moments Section, add section title, add section Small Title, select the category that you have created, also you can change the number of service post and publish it.

For Footer Section:
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1. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets, here you can add widgets to the footer widgets areas, which can be seen in footer.

For Copyright Text:
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1. Go to Customizer >> Theme Settings >> Footer Text, add footer text here and it also have an option to show/hide back to top.

== Resources ==

Expert Consultant WordPress Theme, Copyright 2022 Luzuk
Expert Consultant is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

Expert Consultant bundles the following third-party resources:

* Bootstrap
  - Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton
  - copyright 2011-2018, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton
  - https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/download/v4.0.0/bootstrap-4.0.0-dist.zip 
  - License: MIT License (MIT)
  - https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE

* Font Awesome
  - Dave Gandy
  - Copyright July 12, 2018, Dave Gandy 
  - https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome.git
  - License: Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License
  - http://fontawesome.com/license

* Superfish
  - Joeldbirch
  - Copyright 2013, Justin Tadlock 
  - https://github.com/joeldbirch/superfish.git 
  - License: Free to use and abuse under the MIT license. v1.7.9 
  - https://github.com/joeldbirch/superfish/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE.txt

* PSR-4 autoloader
  - Justin Tadlock
  - License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL-2.0-or-later
  - Source: https://github.com/WPTRT/autoload

* CustomizeSectionButton
  - Justin Tadlock
  - Copyright 2019, Justin Tadlock.
  - License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL-2.0-or-later
  - https://github.com/WPTRT/customize-section-button

* Webfonts Loader
  - https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader
  - License: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader/blob/master/LICENSE

* Screenshot Images
   	PxHere Images
  	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) 
  	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/license

    Slider image
    License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/559565

    Service image, Copyright rawpixel.com
    License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1453707

    Service image, Copyright rawpixel.com
    License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1447921

    Service image, Copyright rawpixel.com
    License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1445427

== Changelog ==

= 0.1 =
  - Initial Version Released.

= 0.2 =
  - Added credit link in footer text. 
  - Added get started in theme.

= 0.3 =
  - Added Site Title font size option.
  - Added language folder in theme.

= 0.4 =
  - Added Site Tagline font size option.
  - Added pro link in theme settings panel.
  - Added inner pages banner image.
  - Updated pot file.

= 0.5 =
  - Added Copyright Top Bottom Padding option.
  - Added Slider excerpt length option.
  - Changed footer style.
  - Updated pot file.

= 0.6 =
  - Added webfonts file & its copyright.
  - Added condition for slider image.
  - Updated pot file.

= 0.7 =
  - Added more color options in customizer.
  - Fixed some errors.

= 0.8 =
  - Corrected footer text.
  - Added note for service section in customizer.
  - Fixed some errors.

= 0.9 =
  - Corrected service text.
  - Fixed some errors.

= 1.0 =
  - Fixed some errors.

= 1.1 =
  - Added color option for copyright in customizer.

= 1.2 =
  - Slider excerpt length error fixed.

= 1.3 =
  - Fixed some errors.

= 1.4 =
	- Added menu dropdown animations select option in customizer.
  - Added box width and full width option in customizer.

= 1.5 =
  - Added onload transactions effects select option in customizer.

= 1.6 =
  - Added site logo size option in customizer.

= 1.7 =
  - Added slider font size option in customizer.

= 1.8 =
  - Added service section font size option in customizer.

= 1.9 =
  - Added header color options in customizer.

= 2.0.0 =
  - Made some changes.

= 2.0.1 =
  - Fixed critical errors.

= 2.0.2 =
  - Made some changes.

= 2.0.3 =
  - Added slider image opacity change option in customizer.

= 2.0.6 =
  - Fixed some errors.

= 2.0.7 =
  - Made some changes.

= 2.0.8 =
  - Fixed some deprecated errors.