== Good News Lite ==
Theme URI: https://fasterthemes.com/wordpress-themes/good-news-lite/
Author: FasterThemes
Author URI: https://electathemes.com/
Requires PHP: 7.4
Requires at least: 5.4
Tested up to: 7.0
Stable tag: 1.2
Tags: two-columns, right-sidebar,left-sidebar,full-width-template, flexible-header, custom-colors, custom-menu, custom-logo, featured-images, footer-widgets, featured-image-header, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, blog
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Text Domain: good-news-lite

== Theme Description ==

Good News Lite is a WordPress theme for news, affiliate blog and magazine websites. Good News Lite theme is a mobile responsive WordPress theme hence the website will look amazing in all the mobile devices, tables, MacBooks, PCs etc. Good News Lite theme is an easily customizable theme which uses WordPress customizer options for logo, colors etc. Good News Lite theme uses SiteOrigin page builder (a very powerful yet free plugin available at WordPress.org), to easily create variety of pages like contact us, privacy policy etc suiting your needs using drag and drop page builer elements. Good News Lite is a very newbie friendly WordPress theme as website like the demo can be launched easily with the help of step by step documentation and tutorial which is available for free at: https://docs.fasterthemes.com/good-news-lite-wordpress-theme/

== Copyright ==
Good News Lite WordPress Theme, Copyright 2026 fasterthemes.com
Good News Lite is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Installation ==

1. Primary:
 = Login to your wp-admin account and go to Appearance -> Themes.
 = Select "Install" tab and click on the "Upload" link.
 = Select "good-news-lite.zip" and click on "Install Now" button.
 = In case of errors, use an alternate method.
 
2. Alternate:
 = Unzip the template file (good-news-lite.zip) that you have downloaded.
 = Upload the entire folder (good-news-lite) to your server via FTP and place it in the /wp-content/themes/ folder.
 = Do not change the directory name.
 = The template files should be there now: /wp-content/themes/good-news-lite/index.php (example).
 
3. Log into your WP admin panel and click on "Appearance". Go to "Themes" tab.

4. Now click on 'good-news-lite' to activate the theme.

5. Complete all of the required inputs in the Appearance => Custimize option and click "Save & Publish" to make the changes LIVE.
 

=========== Change-log ===========
= 1.0.0 (10th April 2018) 
* Theme submitted to WordPress.org for review.

= 1.0.1 (12th April 2018) 
* Misc Changes.

= 1.0.2 (13th April 2018) 
* Misc Changes.

= 1.0.3 (27th April 2018) 
* Customize file update sanitization.
* Misc changes.

= 1.0.4 (28th April 2018) 
* Pro link added.

= 1.0.5 (5th July 2018) 
* Misc Changes.

= 1.1 (20th May 2020) 
* Misc Changes.

= 1.1.1 (20th May 2020) 
* Misc Changes.

= 1.1.2 (20th May 2020) 
* Misc Changes.

= 1.1.3 (10th March 2022) 
* Wp_open_body function added in header file.* 
* Misc Changes.

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License and Copyrights for Resources used in this theme
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Fontawesome
===========
License URI:  http://fontawesome.io/license/
Resource Name: fontawesome
License Name: Open Font License (OFL) Version 4.6.1	
	
Fonts
===========
PT Sans - http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans:400,400i,700,700i
Oswald - http:////fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:500,300,600,700
They are under SIL Open Font.
	
Bootstrap files
===========
Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com v3.3.7 
Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)


Owl carousel files
===========
Owl carousel - v2.2.1 David Deutsch
Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/blob/develop/LICENSE)

 
TGM Plugin Activation files
=======================
TGM Plugin Activation
Version 2.6.1
Licensed under GNU GPL - https://github.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation

== Resources ==

https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-holding-card-while-operating-silver-laptop-919436/ © bruce mars ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-people-outside-sport-2207/ ©  Pix@bay ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brunette-woman-blonde-long-hair-in-white-off-shoulder-sleeve-at-daytime-90754/ © Pix@bay  ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/portrait-of-young-woman-with-umbrella-247199/ ©  Pix@bay ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-women-wearing-eye-mask-787968/ © bruce mars  ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-using-hair-brush-39250/ © Pix@bay  ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-waving-her-hair-874576/ © Rakicevic Nenad  ,CC0
https://www.pexels.com/photo/bride-decoration-fashion-flowers-265705/ ©  Pix@bay ,CC0
== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.2 - 17 August 2026 =
* Maintenance release: fonts bundled locally and updated theme URIs.

== Changelog ==

= 1.2 - 17 August 2026 =
* Theme URI and Author URI updated to fasterthemes.com.
* Google Fonts (Oswald, PT Sans) now bundled locally instead of loaded from a remote host.
* Removed the unused Pro upsell admin page, which also removed a banner image loaded from a third-party CDN.
* Removed a redundant extract() from all five bundled widgets.
* Hardened escaping in the widgets and template output.
* Tested up to WordPress 7.0.
