=== News Spark ===
Contributors: ThemeArile
Author: ThemeArile
Requires at least: WordPress 4.7
Tested up to: WordPress 7.0
Stable tag: 1.3
Version: 1.3
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: blog, news, photography, custom-background, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready, rtl-language-support, one-column, two-columns, full-width-template, sticky-post, right-sidebar, footer-widgets, grid-layout, wide-blocks, block-styles, block-patterns

== Description ==

News Spark is a modern and professional WordPress theme designed for blogs, magazines, newspapers, news portals, and online publishing websites. Featuring a clean, elegant, and visually engaging layout, it presents your content beautifully while ensuring an exceptional reading experience across desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. Built for speed, usability, and performance, News Spark is lightweight, SEO-friendly, Core Web Vitals optimized, and easy to customize. It is an excellent choice for news websites, digital magazines, editorial platforms, publishers, journalists, personal blogs, travel blogs, niche blogs, affiliate marketing websites, guest blogging platforms, review sites, and online guides. The theme offers flexible and versatile layouts with unlimited color options, Google Fonts, advanced typography controls, responsive design, and full RTL language support, allowing you to create a unique website that reflects your brand. To help you launch your website quickly, News Spark includes professionally designed starter demos that can be imported with a single click. It also integrates seamlessly with popular WordPress plugins, including Elementor, WooCommerce, Gutenberg, Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Jetpack, Google Analytics, and many more, giving you all the tools needed to build a powerful and feature-rich publishing website. Check the demo of News Spark Pro https://newsexo-pro-sixteen.themearile.com/.

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the 'Add New' button.
2. Type in News Spark in the search form and press the 'Enter' key on your keyboard.
3. Click on the 'Activate' button to use your new theme right away.

== Keyboard navigation ==

Keyboard navigation is working properly in the forward direction by using the tab key. For the reverse direction, Shift+Tab key is working on all the parent menus and if the dropdown menus are open then it is working on it. The focus is moving back to the parent menu having submenus from the next menu in a reverse direction. The menu that have #, once it is open then dropdown menus are open by using the space key.

== Copyright ==

News Spark WordPress Theme, Copyright (C) 2023-2024, ThemeArile
News Spark WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Credits ==

* Underscores - (C) 2012-2017 Automattic, Inc. - http://underscores.me/
License: GPLv2 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) 

* Font Awesome Free 6.4.2 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com
License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License)
Copyright 2023 Fonticons, Inc.

* Open Sans Font by Steve Matteson - https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
License: Apache License, version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)

* Animate.css - Copyright (c) 2018 Daniel Eden - http://daneden.me/animate
License: MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* WOW - by Matthieu Aussaguel - mynameismatthieu.com
License: GNU GPL license v3

* Owl Carousel, (C) 2013 - 2017, David Deutsch
Source: https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/
License: [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* WPTT Webfont Loader, 2020 Ari Stathopoulos, WordPress Themes Team
License: Distributed under the terms of the MIT License
Source: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader

* SmartMenus - Copyright (c) Vasil Dinkov, Vadikom Web Ltd. - http://www.smartmenus.org/
License: MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Image for Screenshot Image, Credit CC0 Public Domain
  License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
  License URL: https://pxhere.com/en/license
  Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1723694

== Images ==

* Image used in screenshot & mockup, License CC0 Public Domain

https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1723818
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1704938
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1689548
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1723726

== Changelog ==

@Version 1.3
* We have updated the tags in style and readme file.

@Version 1.2
* We have fixed the breadcrumbs widget space in the footer widget area.

@Version 1.1
* We have fixed the breadcrumbs widget space in the sidebar widget area.

@Version 1.0
* Initial release.