=== Fascinate ===

Contributors: themebeez
Requires at least: 5.0
Requires PHP: 5.6 or higher
Tested up to: 7.0.1
Stable tag: 1.1.6
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: custom-background, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, blog, custom-header, theme-options, footer-widgets, editor-style, block-styles, wide-blocks, sticky-post, post-formats


== Description ==

Fascinate is a slick, modern, minimal, and beautifully designed Gutenberg compatible WordPress blog theme. Fascinate Blog is an ideal and complete WordPress blog theme for creating personal or professional blogging website to showcase your experiences, stories or write on different niches like fashion, travel, lifestyle, gourmet, business and so on. Fascinate is 100% media responsive, which means that Fascinate Blog is compatible for all devices ranging from desktop, tablets to smartphones. Fascinate Blog supports four types of post formats ( video, audio, gallery & quote formats ) which can be very helpful to showcase your special moments insisted of a featured image. Fascinate Blog extends WordPress Live customizer functionality which will help you to build your blog website right from customizer itself. Fascinate Blog includes built-in features like custom author widget, social widget, lazyload for images etc. Fascinate Blog is also optimized for SEO & website load time. Fascinate Blog also supports third party popular plugins like Jetpack, Mail Chimp, Contact Form 7, Yoast, Universal Google AdSense & Ads manager etc.


== License ==

Fascinate WordPress Theme, Copyright (C) 2026, themebeez.
Fascinate is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL


== 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)

* TGM Plugin Activation http://tgmpluginactivation.com/, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [GPLv2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* WPTRT Customize Pro https://github.com/WPTRT/wptrt-customize-pro, 2019 WPTRT, [GPLv2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* Breadcrumbs Trail https://themehybrid.com/plugins/breadcrumb-trail, Copyright (c) 2008 - 2017, Justin Tadlock, [GPLv2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* Bootstrap https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE, Copyright (c) 2011-2018 Twitter, Inc,, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Slick http://github.com/kenwheeler/slick, Copyright (c) 2017 Ken Wheeler, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Sticky https://github.com/garand/sticky, Copyright 2014-2016 Anthony Garand, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Theia Sticky Sidebar https://github.com/WeCodePixels/theia-sticky-sidebar, Copyright (c) 2014 Liviu Cristian Mirea Ghiban, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Tippy https://github.com/atomiks/tippyjs, Copyright (c) 2017 atomiks, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Font Awesome http://fontawesome.io/license/, [SIL OFL 1.1, MIT, CC](http://scripts.sil.org/OFL, http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

* Ionicons http://fontawesome.io/license/, Copyright (c) 2015-present Ionic, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Themify Icons https://github.com/lykmapipo/themify-icons, Copyright (c) 2015-present Ionic, [SIL OFL 1.1, MIT](http://scripts.sil.org/OFL, http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)

* Animate https://github.com/daneden/animate.css, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Images Included, carousel_one.png, carousel_two.png, sidebar_left.png, sidebar_right.png, and sidebar_none.png, self created GPLv2


== Screenshots ==

Lady at the sea
License: CC0 Public Domain (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 - CC0)
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1556663

Lady in glasses and wearing t-shirt with roses
License: CC0 Public Domain (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 - CC0)
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1561333

Lady in prink high heels
License: CC0 Public Domain (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 - CC0)
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1509277

Logo image is self created
License: GPLv2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html


== 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.


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

Fascinate includes support for contact form 7, wp forms, jetpack


== Changelog ==

== 1.1.6 - 16 July, 2026 ==

- Fix: Fatal error in UDP agent.

== 1.1.5 - 15 February, 2026 ==

- Fix: Broken access authorization issue of udp agent.

== 1.1.4 - 25 June, 2025 ==

- Added: Search icon to the header.

== 1.1.3 - 18 April, 2025 ==

- Updated: Hidden author and related posts section for all post types except post.
- Tested: Up to WordPress 6.8.

== 1.1.2 - 26 December, 2024 ==

- Added: Udp agent to track user's non sensitive data.
- Added: Theme welcome notice.
- Tested: Up to PHP 8.3.11 and WordPress 6.7.

== 1.1.1 - 26 September, 2024 ==

- Updated: Copyright setting.
- Fixed:   Issue with widget option, `Display Comments No`, in `F: Posts Widget`.
- Tested: Up to PHP 8.3 and WordPress 6.6.

= 1.1.0 - 4 October, 2023 =

- Fixed: Not working customize options, `Display Featured Image` of Page Single section and `Enable Sidebar For Small Devices` of Site Sidebar section.

= 1.0.9 - 2 May, 2023 =

- Removed: Everest backup plugin recommendation.
- Removed: Options, `Enable Cursive Site Title`, `Enable Cursive Post Meta`, and `Enable Lazy Loading`.
- Removed: jQuery plugin, Lazysize.
- Fixed: Issue with customizer options, `Display Featured Image`.
- Fixed: PHP error - `PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function get_day_link(), 1 passed in /wp-content/themes/fascinate/third-party/breadcrumbs.php on line 802 and exactly 3 expected.`
- Fixed:  Missing `=` after an instance of `value` attribute in an `input` tag in `value"' . get_search_query() . '"`.
- Fixed: JS issue of preloader.
- Fixed: Minor CSS issues.
- Updated: YouTube icon in social links of header and social widget.
- Updated: WPCS maintained.
- Updated: Post comments meta linked to comment section of the post.
- Added: Typography options for body, headings, site title, and author meta.

= 1.0.8 - 29 May, 2022 =

- Update: Everest Backup plugin recommendation notice added.
- Fix: Minor PHP issue in author widget.

- Added: Theme support - remove_theme_support( 'widgets-block-editor' )
- Fix: Minor PHP issue

= 1.0.7 - 19 July, 2021 = 

- Added: Theme support - remove_theme_support( 'widgets-block-editor' )
- Fix: Minor PHP issue

= 1.0.6 - 14 May, 2020 =

- Fix: H1 tag issue in home page(static or default)
- CSS: Line height added to site title

= 1.0.5 - 05 May, 2020 =

- Fix: Padding issue with article tag on single layout two

= 1.0.4 - 31 March, 2020 =

- Fix: Heading tag h1 at single, page, archive, category, 404 & search pages
- Removed: Retins js & scss file
- Removed: Bootstrap js

= 1.0.3 - 24 October, 2019 =

- Fix: issue with image size in blog detail

= 1.0.2 - 5 August, 2019 =

- UGAAM plugin recommendation removed
- Issue with wp_body_open() fixed
- Issue of skip links fixed

= 1.0.1 - 30 July, 2019 =

- Issue on image upload field of author widget fixed
- UGAAM plugin recommended
- Screenshot has been changed

= 1.0.0 - 21, July 2019 =

- Initial release