=== Graduate ===

Contributors: Theme Palace
Tags: translation-ready, custom-background, theme-options, custom-menu, threaded-comments, right-sidebar, two-columns, custom-header, grid-layout, custom-logo, featured-image-header, featured-images, footer-widgets, blog, portfolio, education
Requires at least: 4.7
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.6.4
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

== Description ==

Graduate is an educational theme developed by Theme Palace. It is a multipurpose WordPress Educational Theme suitable for school, college, university, digital agency as well as business purposes. It's eye appealing design and highly dynamic features uplifts your organization's reputation. It comes with multiple colors and layouts to support your organization's branding. It comes with a wide variety of options so you can modify Layout, Styling, Featured Slider, Menus, Breadcrumb, Widgets and much more, directly from theme customizer. Graduate can be adapted to any kind of industry – not only educational but also in any kind of academy. This theme is TP Education and WooCommerce Plugin compatible, translation ready and major browsers supportive.

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button.
2. Click Upload and Choose File, then select the theme's .zip file. Click Install Now.
3. Click Activate to use your new theme right away.

== Copyright ==

Graduate WordPress Theme, Copyright @ Theme Palace
Link: https://themepalace.com/downloads/graduate

Graduate Theme bundles the following third-party resources:

HTML5-Shiv is Licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses
    https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/

Font Awesome 4.2.0 by @davegandy
	License: http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License)
	Source: http://fontawesome.io

sidr - v2.2.1 - 2016-02-17
    Source: http://www.berriart.com/sidr/
    License: Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Alberto Varela; Licensed MIT
    License Url :https://github.com/artberri/sidr/blob/master/LICENSE

Slick Version - 1.6.0
	Source: http://github.com/kenwheeler/slick
	License: The MIT License (MIT) copyright (c) 2013-2016
	license Url : https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/blob/master/LICENSE

Animate Css - 1.6.0
	Source: https://github.com/daneden/animate.css/
	License: The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Eden
	license Url : https://github.com/daneden/animate.css/blob/master/LICENSE

Wow.js - 1.1.2
	Source: https://github.com/matthieua/WOW
	License: The MIT License (MIT)
	license Url : http://matthieuaussaguel.mit-license.org/

Breadcrumb Trail - 1.0.0
	Source:  https://github.com/justintadlock/breadcrumb-trail
	License: GNU General Public License, version 2
	license Url : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

== Images Used ==

= Screenshot =
1. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1575609
2. https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1567111

= Header Image =
1. https://www.pexels.com/photo/architecture-building-campus-clark-hall-207684/

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

* Supported Social Links for Social Link Widget.
	- Facebook
	- Twitter
	- Linkedin
	- Google Plus
	- Youtube
	- Dribbble
	- Pinterest
	- Bitbucket
	- Github
	- Codepen
	- Flickr
	- Foursquare
	- Instagram
	- Tumblr
	- Reddit
	- Vimeo
	- Digg
	- Twitch
	- Stumbleupon
	- Delicious
	- Soundcloud
	- Wordpress
	- Jsfiddle
	- Tripadvisor
	- Foursquare
	- Angel
	- Slack


= Does this theme support any plugins? =
* TP Education
	This is highly recommended plugin for Graduate Theme. This plugin is used for adding custom post type ( Events, Courses, Classes, Excursions, Team, Testimonial ) and it's required meta fields. This plugin is highly compatible to Graduate Theme. There are various sections and pages that requires TP Education Plugin.
	This theme consists TP Education plugin files that has been used to overwrite the default templates to make compatible with this theme.

* Jetpack
	Graduate theme includes support for social sharing feature of Jetpack plugin.

* WP Google Maps
	WP Google Maps plugin is recommended to use google map inside theme.

* Contact Form 7
	Contact Form 7 is recommended to use for contact forms for contact page.

* WooCommerce
	Graduate theme highly supports WooCommerce plugin. This theme consists WooCommerce plugin file that has been used to make design compatible with this theme.


== Changelog ==

= 1.6.4 - June 03 2026 =
* Fixed PHP warnings
* Fixed early text domain loading issue
* Tested up to WordPress Version 7.0

= 1.6.3 - February 19 2025 =
* WP 6.7 compatibility

= 1.6.2 - May 09 2024 =
* Fixed design issue of author meta on single post
* Fixed widget background issue
* Tested upto WordPress v6.5

= 1.6.1 - Aug 16 2022 =
* Updated Keyboard Navigation
* Load fonts locally
* Tested upto WordPress v6.0
* Fixed link underline issue

= 1.6.0 - June 15 2021 =
* updated focus effect and fixed minor bugs

= 1.5.9 - September 3 2020 =
* updated screenshot and images link

= 1.5.8 - September 1 2020 =
* replaced site_url() with home_url
* added add_editor_style()

= 1.5.7 - September 1 2020 =
* Fixed argument issue 

= 1.5.6 - August 24 2020 =
* Updated blocks and patterns design

= 1.5.5 - Jun 26 2020 =
* Updated minor issues

= 1.5.4 - Jan 30 2020 =
* Updated ordered list comment design

= 1.5.3 - Jan 13 2020 =
* Updated date function in latest news section

= 1.5.2 - Jan 2 2019 =
* Updated minor css

= 1.5.1 - Dec 27 2019 =
* Updated accessibility css

= 1.5.0 - Dec 12 2019 =
* Updated widget css

= 1.4.9 - Nov 27 2019 =
* Updated minor css

= 1.4.8 - Nov 14 2019 =
* Updated minor css

= 1.4.7 - Oct 21 2019 =
* Updated minor css

= 1.4.6 - July 29 2019 =
* Added skip link

= 1.4.5 - June 6 2019 =
* Updated responsive design

= 1.4.4 - Jan 15 2019 =
* Updated Breadcrumb licence url

= 1.4.3 - Dec 14 2018 =
* Gutenburg compatible

= 1.4.2 - June 05, 2018
* Added Privacy Policy

= 1.4.1 - May 21 2018 =
* Updated comment form checkbox design

= 1.4.0 - April 18 2018 =
* navigation updated

= 1.3 - October 13 2017 =
* Resolved Course Single Minor Issue
* Resolved Team Single Minor Issue

= 1.2 - September 06 2017 =
* Added News and Event Section
* Updated Header Design

= 1.1 - September 2 2017 =
* Update theme screenshot

= 1.0 - August 31 2017 =
* Minor design updated
* Breadcrumb updated

= 0.9 - August 30 2017 =
* Updated Responsive Design in multiple single pages
* Updated Documentation ie: Tested up to, license
* Removed unused variables

= 0.8 - July 25 2017 =
* Update pot file.
* Add customizer info message for reset option.

= 0.7 - July 24 2017 =
* Update TP Education plugin supportive course single page
* Minor Update in Course Single Page
* Update style.css

= 0.6 - April 09 2017 =
* Minor Update in Course Single Page
* Minor Update in Team Single Page
* Updated WooCommerce Theme Support

= 0.5 - March 23 2017 =
* Resolved Custom Header Title Function Issue
* Updated Posted on Meta Function in Template Tags

= 0.4 - March 09 2017 =
* Removed WooCommerce Shop Title
* Updated Menu Design in Responsive 
* Updated Slider Design in Responsive
* Removed Unused Fonts

= 0.3 - Feb 10 2017 =
* Resolved Search Field Design Issue
* Resolved Shop Page Title Issue
* Resolved Client Section Loading Issue
* Updated Header Image Function
* Updated Date Escaping & Translation

= 0.2 - Jan 25 2017 =
* Dropdown Design Issue Fixed
* Slider Updated
* Logo & Header Section Design Updated

= 0.1 - Dec 2 2016 =
* Initial release

== Credits ==

* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2016 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
