=== minimalblog ===
Contributors: SmarterThemes.com
Tags: blog, news, e-commerce, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, three-Columns, four-Columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, footer-widgets, flexible-header, theme-options, translation-ready, featured-images, block-styles, wide-blocks, sticky-post, featured-image-header, front-page-post-form, full-width-template, post-formats, threaded-comments
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.8
Requires PHP: 7.1
Stable tag: 2.2.24
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Minimalblog simply beautiful blog WordPress theme.

== Description ==

minimalblog is simple and easy to use blog theme. It is designed and developed primarily to create professional blogging websites. It is fully responsive and works flawlessly on all type of devices like mobiles, tablets, laptops, and computers. minimalblog is search engine friendly. It integrates perfectly with popular SEO plugins like Yoast SEO to create an SEO ready blog. minimalblog is fast, secure and lightweight.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How to Install Theme =

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button and Search for minimalblog, OR
2. If you have theme zip file, 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.
== Changelog ==
= 1.0.0 - May 10, 2019 =
* Initial release
= 1.0.5 - Jul 12, 2019 =
* fixed some bugs
= 1.1.1 - Aug 25, 2019 =
* fixed some bugs
= 2.0.4 - Dec 07, 2019 =
* A big update of minimalblog. has been fixed typography issues.
* Code organization Start
* Added Popup Video Player
* Added Banner Customize section
* Added Banner text hide options
* Some responsive issues fixed.
* Added contact page template.
= 2.0.5 - Dec 07, 2019 =
* Container class issues fixed
= 2.0.6 - Dec 07, 2019 =
* Category style fixed
= 2.0.7 - Dec 09, 2019 =
* trun false default banner
* Changed screenshot
= 2.0.8 - Dec 14, 2019 =
* Rename instagram widget to footer top widget
* change design of footer newsletter section as footer top widget
* Delete instagram file from template-parts
* create new file in root folder sidebar-footertop.php
* Removed instagram and newsletter section from customizer and instagram settings
* Fixed shop page title issues
= 2.0.9 - Dec 20, 2019 =
* single page grid layout issues
* body box layout issue
* Added sticky sidebar options
* Unlock some premium features for free
* fix banner customization issue
= 2.1.1 - 01 Jan, 2020 =
* Removed banner from blog page.
* Fixed Design Issues
= 2.1.3 - 08 Jan, 2020 =
* Fixed banner php error
= 2.1.4 - 08 Jan, 2020 =
* WooCommerce Template Update
* Fix Minor CSS Issue
= 2.1.5 - 05 March, 2020 =
* Fix Layout issue,
* Css and Resopnsive problem.
* Improve theme customizer
= 2.1.10 - 09 April, 2020 =
* Solved Header title issues.
= 2.1.11 - 09 April, 2020 =
* Remove Default Header Background Image.
* Remove Related Post from Single Page.
* Added footer background color.
* Solved footer gallery spacing problem
= 2.1.13 - 09 April, 2020 =
* WordPress Compatibility check
* Dropdown Menu CSS fix
= 2.1.14 - 06 Jun, 2020 =
* Single Page Title Tag change h2 to h1
= 2.1.16 - 29 Jun, 2020 =
* Remove Social Link function from single.php
= 2.1.17 - 01 July, 2020 =
* Remove Social Link function from template-function.php
= 2.1.18 - 18 July, 2020 =
* Check Compatibility with All Recomended plugins
= 2.1.18 - 11 Augest, 2020 =
* Check Compatibility with All Recomended plugins
= 2.1.19 - September 09, 2020 =
* Check Compatibility with WordPress 5.5.1 and All Recomended plugins
* Bring some desgin changes in css.
= 2.1.21 - September 09, 2020 =
* Added Theme Getting Starter Page
* Bring some desgin changes in css.
= 2.1.22 - November 14, 2020 =
* Created Functions for pagination
* Checked compatibilty with latest 5.5.3 version.
= 2.1.23 - December 08, 2020 =
* Removed FrontPage Template
* Removed Frontgrid Template
* Fix submenu Icon
* Themeoptions organized
= 2.1.24 - December 14, 2020 =
* Solved the critical Error
= 2.1.25 - January 09, 2021 =
* Created Action hook for Default Pages Column
= 2.1.26 - January 09, 2021 =
* Added Few new google fonts.
* Checked Compatiblity With WordPress 5.6.2 and all recommended plugins
= 2.1.26 - January 09, 2021 =
* Added Few new google fonts.
* Checked Compatiblity With WordPress 5.6.2 and all recommended plugins
= 2.1.27 - April 10, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity With WordPress 5.7 and all recommended plugins
* Fixed Missing tag issue
= 2.1.28 - April 25, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity With WordPress 5.7.1 and all recommended plugins
* Changed Screenshot
* Solved Single Page Navigation Design

= 2.1.29 - May 29, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity With WordPress 5.7.2 and all recommended plugins
* Fix a big fatal error
= 2.1.30 - Jun 24, 2021 =
* Checked Compatiblity With All it's recommended plugins
* Change Footer Link
= 2.1.31 - February 10, 2022 =
* Checked Compatiblity With All it's recommended plugins
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 5.9
* Improved Getting Started Page.
* Improved Code Quality.

= 2.1.32 - May 15, 2022 =
* Checked Compatiblity With All it's recommended plugins
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 5.9
* Make it compatible with php 5.6
* Improved Code Quality.

= 2.1.33 - September 10, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 6.0.2
* Fixed Getting Started page
* Fixed hard-coded links
* Removed iframe found by ThemeCheck
* Fixed reference to register_block_style and register_block_pattern

= 2.1.34 - September 12, 2022 =
* Removed TGMPA

= 2.1.35 - October 17, 2022 =
* Fixed button in Getting started page

= 2.1.36 - November 04, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 6.0.3

= 2.1.37 - November 08, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 6.1

= 2.1.38 - November 15, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with other plugins

= 2.1.39 - November 22, 2022 =
* Checked Compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1

= 2.2.0 - March 27, 2023 =
* Fixed UI issues

= 2.2.1 - April 24, 2023 =
* Update admin notices after install

= 2.2.2 - April 25, 2023 =
* Removed Upgrade to Pro and get started notices

= 2.2.3 - June 01, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.4 - June 16, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.5 - July 7, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.6 - July 26, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.7 - August 8, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.8 - August 21, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.9 - September 06, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.10 - September 19, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.11 - October 13, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.12 - November 11, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.13 - December 08, 2023 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.14 - January 08, 2024 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.15 - February 05, 2024 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.16 - April 09, 2024 =
* Monthly Updates

= 2.2.17 - July 02, 2024 =
* Added Admin Notice
* Added Plugin Installer and Demo
* Added Kirki and Solved the Featured and Category options error

= 2.2.18 - Aug 17, 2024 =
* compressed social links markup

= 2.2.19 - Sep 19, 2024 =
* Improved Pagination and Navigation link Block

= 2.2.20 - Sep 26, 2024 =
* Convert All Customizer Controls To Kirki
* Added RS WP BOOK SHOWCASE INSTALLER BANNER

= 2.2.21 - Sep 26, 2024 =
* Improved Category list block, Archive list block, And Latest comment block design.

= 2.2.22 - Feb 16, 2025 =
* checked Compatibility with WordPress 6.7 and RS WP Book Showcase 6.7

= 2.2.23 - April 24, 2025 =
* Converted Customizer Settings to Kirki.
* Improved Coding Structure of customizer.php
* Solved Translation warning of WordPress 6.7
* Maked it compatible with WordPress 6.8

Minimalblog WordPress Theme, Copyright 2025 SmarterThemes.com
Minimalblog is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Copyright ==

minimalblog WordPress Theme, Copyright 2025 SmarterThemes.com
minimalblog is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
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.

minimalblog bundles the following third-party resources:

* Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.
* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* Google Fonts - Apache License, version 2.0
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* CSS bootstrap.css
  Copyright 2011-2018 The Bootstrap Authors
  https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE
* JS bootstrap.js
  Copyright 2011-2018 The Bootstrap Authors (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/graphs/contributors)
  https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE
* The Font Awesome font is licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1:
  http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
  Font Awesome CSS, LESS, and Sass files are licensed under the MIT License:
  https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
* stellarnav css
  Copyright (c) 2016 Vinny Moreira (https://vinnymoreira.com/stellarnav-js-demo/)
  https://github.com/vinnymoreira/stellarnav/blob/master/LICENSE
* stellarnav js
  Copyright (c) 2016 Vinny Moreira (https://vinnymoreira.com/stellarnav-js-demo/)
  https://github.com/vinnymoreira/stellarnav/blob/master/LICENSE
* CSS owl.carousel.css by David Deutsch
  License: Owl carousel is licensed under the MIT License
  Source: https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/blob/master/LICENSE
* JS owl.carousel.js by David Deutsch
  License: Owl carousel is licensed under the MIT License
  Source: https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/blob/master/LICENSE


== License/copyright for images ==
* Screenshot images are all licensed under CC0 Universal
* logo.png self created.
* Screenshot images are all licensed under CC0 Universal
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/38683
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1452883
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1056201
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1453491
  https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1434695
