# Golden Essentials

Contributors: ThemeEverest  
Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: WordPress 6.3
Stable tag: 1.4
Version: 1.4
License: GPLv2 or later  
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html  
Tags: blog, news, right-sidebar, post-formats, custom-background, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments, sticky-post, translation-ready, two-columns, custom-header, footer-widgets, theme-options, entertainment

Introducing Gold Essentials, a free, responsive, and elegant minimalist WordPress theme designed specifically for bloggers and writers. Boasting a classic gold color as its primary hue, this theme is perfect for various niches, such as food, fashion, travel, clothing, lifestyle, news, newspapers, and magazine-style blogs. The theme's clean and personal design, combined with its compatibility with popular page builders like Elementor, Visual Composer, and Beaver Builder, make it a versatile and customizable option for bloggers in any niche. Built for SEO and featuring schema markup, Gold Essentials is search engine optimized and Adsense-friendly, allowing for seamless integration of affiliate links and widgets in the sidebar. This lightweight and mobile-friendly theme is beginner-friendly, easy to use, and translation ready. It is fully compatible with WooCommerce, Gutenberg, and supports photography and image-based content. Enhance your writing and corporate presence with Gold Essentials, the multi-purpose WordPress theme you've been looking for!

## Description

Introducing Gold Essentials, a free, responsive, and elegant minimalist WordPress theme designed specifically for bloggers and writers. Boasting a classic gold color as its primary hue, this theme is perfect for various niches, such as food, fashion, travel, clothing, lifestyle, news, newspapers, and magazine-style blogs. The theme's clean and personal design, combined with its compatibility with popular page builders like Elementor, Visual Composer, and Beaver Builder, make it a versatile and customizable option for bloggers in any niche. Built for SEO and featuring schema markup, Gold Essentials is search engine optimized and Adsense-friendly, allowing for seamless integration of affiliate links and widgets in the sidebar. This lightweight and mobile-friendly theme is beginner-friendly, easy to use, and translation ready. It is fully compatible with WooCommerce, Gutenberg, and supports photography and image-based content. Enhance your writing and corporate presence with Gold Essentials, the multi-purpose WordPress theme you've been looking for!


## Copyright

Golden Essentials WordPress Theme, Copyright 2023 ThemeEverest
Golden Essentials is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
All files coded by me is under GPLv2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Golden Essentials bundles the following third-party resources:

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.

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IMG FROM SCREENSHOT
CC0 License
✓ Free for personal and commercial use
✓ No attribution required
https://stocksnap.io/photo/YP7B573GOA
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* Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/
	Licensed Under MIT( https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Flex slider 
	* We Use Flex slider by Jeffrey Pearce
	* GNU General Public License v2.0
	* https://github.com/woocommerce/FlexSlider/blob/master/LICENSE.md

* Based on Underscores (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
 	* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
	* License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
	* Copyright: Automattic http://underscores.me/

* Based on Veayo https://wordpress.org/themes/veayo/ 
	* (C) 2012-2018 Topbestviral, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 
	* 2012-2018 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* html5shiv - http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
	*License Under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Font Awesome - http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
	* Font License
	* Applies to all desktop and webfont files in the following directory: /fonts/.
	* License: SIL OFL 1.1
	* URL: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
	* Code License
	* Applies to all CSS and LESS files in the following directories: /css/ and /less/.
	* License: MIT License
	* URL: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
	* Documentation License
	* Applies to all Font Awesome project files that are not a part of the Font or Code licenses.
	* License: CC BY 3.0
	* URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

* Open Sans 
	* License: Apache License, version 2.0
	* License URI: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

 * Fira Sans - http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Sans
	* License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1
	* License URI: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

* Font-Awesome
	* License: GPL Friendly
	* License URI: https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/license/

 * Scripts in folder js 
	* All scripts that are not third party is coded by me and they are under license GPLv2 or later: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
		 * customizer.js
		 * navigation.js
		 * skip-link-focus-fix.js
		 * jQuery FlexSlider v2.2.2

* html5shiv - http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ License Under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Screenshot is created by us, so is the description, both are GPL v2 or later

* Icons are GPLv2 as well, made by me in Adobe Illustrator

* Copyright and License for Upsell button by Justin Tadlock - 2016-2018 © Justin Tadlock.
	* Link: https://github.com/justintadlock/trt-customizer-pro
	* License: GPL Friendly
	* License URI: https://github.com/justintadlock/trt-customizer-pro/blob/master/license.md
