=== Faced ===

Contributors: candidthemes
Tags: grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, translation-ready, footer-widgets, custom-colors, custom-header, editor-style, rtl-language-support, theme-options, threaded-comments, blog, news
Requires at least: 5.5
Requires PHP: 7.0
Tested up to: 6.9
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

== Description ==

Faced is a free and minimal WordPress blog theme. It is a Gutenberg ready WordPress theme and compatible with all blocks and patterns of WordPress. This theme is developed based on customizer settings. You can see the live changes that you have made in customizer. Faced also comes with added custom widgets for author, featured posts and social icons. It has top level menu, social icons, slider, promotional banner, sidebar option, Mailchimp subscription, and many more other features. In addition, it has copyright text, go to the top, footer widgets, blog page options, related posts, sticky sidebar, etc. This theme is lightweight and easy to use theme for travel blog, food blog, technology blog and fashion blog. You can also use this theme for news and magazine sites too. Furthermore, it comes with demo data to make the site like the demo, detailed documentation including video and text, free support via chat and forum. It is developed by the experts WordPress developers so that you will never look for alternatives after using this theme. Try this awesome and carefully crafted theme today. 
== 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.

== License ===

License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Faced WordPress Theme, Copyright 2021 Candid Themes
Faced is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

== Credits ==

* Based on Underscores https://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2017 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* normalize.css https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* Font-Awesome https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome FontAwesome 4.7.0 Copyright 2012 Dave Gandy Font License: SIL OFL 1.1 Code License: MIT License http://fontawesome.com/license/
* theia-sticky-sidebar https://github.com/WeCodePixels/theia-sticky-sidebar [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* BreadcrumbTrail - http://themehybrid.com/plugins/breadcrumb-trail http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html Copyright (c) 2008 - 2015, Justin Tadlock
* Slick Slider - MIT License, https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/blob/master/LICENSE
* Alpha Color https://github.com/WPTT/control-color-alpha MIT License, https://github.com/WPTT/control-color-alpha/blob/master/LICENSE


== Images License ==
Image for theme screenshot image, Copyright Pxhere

Image for theme screenshot image, Copyright Pxhere
License: Creative Commons CC0 license.
License URI: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/776973

Image for theme screenshot image, Copyright Pxhere
License: Creative Commons CC0 license.
License URI: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1645608


Image for theme screenshot image, Copyright Pxhere
License: Creative Commons CC0 license.
License URI: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/602101


Image for theme screenshot image, Copyright Pxhere
License: Creative Commons CC0 license.
License URI: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1604280

Image for theme screenshot image, Copyright Pxhere
License: Creative Commons CC0 license.
License URI: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1626599


Images under assets folder are self created and license under CCO. 

== Changelog ==
= 1.0.1 - March 10 2026 =
* Tested up to WordPress 6.9
* Updated requires PHP version increased to 7.0
* Updated copyright date.
* Updated license URI.
* Fixed CSS selectors for social media icon(Twitter X) display.
* Improved comment section link styling.

= 1.0.0 - November 28 2020 =
* Initial Submission
