=== Ovation Blog ===
Contributors: pewilliams
Tags: blog, portfolio, photography, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, four-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, grid-layout, custom-colors, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-logo, editor-style, sticky-post, featured-images, flexible-header, featured-image-header, footer-widgets, full-width-template, threaded-comments, theme-options, wide-blocks, block-styles, post-formats, translation-ready, rtl-language-support
Requires at least: 5.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
Tested up to: 6.9
Stable tag: 9.4.3
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Ovation Blog is a free Blog WordPress theme suitable for startups and medium sized companies, marketing, promoting your Blog online, corporate Blog, Blog websites, Blog agencies, creative agencies, digital agencies, corporate houses and other creative websites such as construction, technology travel, restaurant, hotel, real estate, photography, spa, gym, magazine, art, design, health, portfolio, product showcase, organizations, e-commerce and other types of websites.

== Description ==

Ovation Blog is a free theme designed specifically for writers and travel enthusiasts seeking to share their adventures online. With its immersive full-screen layout, stunning gallery options, and integrated maps feature, it effortlessly captures the essence of your journeys. Whether you’re a globetrotter, digital nomad, agrotourism explorer, natural lifestyle blogger, weekend explorer, travel blogger, food blog creator, modern blog publisher, adventure blog writer, personal blog author, or into lifestyle blogging, storytelling, herbal blog content, music blog, art and artwork sharing, flower blog, masonry style blog, or social sharing and viral content creation, this theme offers the perfect platform to showcase wanderlust-inspired content and inspire others to embark on their own adventures. Even without any coding skills, you can easily set up and customize your site with this elegant, minimal, luxurious, sophisticated, clean, retina-ready and fully responsive design that works smoothly across all devices. It is a multipurpose and user-friendly theme with strong customization and personalization options, optimized code structure for faster loading, footer widgets, custom background, and SEO-friendly architecture to help better visibility on search engines. Based on bootstrap framework, it ensures stability and smooth performance while also supporting social media integration and call-to-action sections for better engagement.

== Changelog ==

= 9.4.3 =
* Improved Theme Performance.

= 9.4.2 =
* Optimized Frontend Performance.

= 9.4.1 =
* Updated Theme Functions.

= 9.4 =
* Updated Theme.

= 9.3 =
* Added Admin Bar Function.
* Updated Description.

= 9.2 =
	-- Changed getstarted.

= 9.1 =
	-- Updated Version.

= 9.0 =
	-- Updated Version.

= 8.9 =
    -- Resolves css error.

= 8.8 =
    -- Resolves css bugs.

= 8.7 =
    -- Resolves minor css bugs.	

= 8.6 =
	-- Updated functions.

= 8.5 =
	-- Resolved css error.

= 8.4 =
	-- Resolved bugs.

= 8.3 =
	-- Fixed minor issues.

= 8.2 =
	-- Added show/hide footer widgets setting.
	-- Added slide overlay color change setting.
	-- slider content color change setting.

= 8.1 =
	-- Updated demo import.
	-- Fixed get start bugs.
	-- Upated customzer pro section.

= 8.0 =
	-- Added site title and site tagline font size option.
	-- Added menu font size option.
	-- Added mobile menu icon change option.

= 7.6 =
	-- Added popular post order setting.
	-- Added blog posts pagination setting.
	-- Added single post pagination setting.
	-- Added woocommerce pagiation css.
	-- Updated blog post pagiation css.
	-- Updated pot file.
	-- Updated submenu issue.

= 7.5 =
	-- Added global color reset button.
	-- Added theme bundle button.

= 7.4 =
	-- Added date formatting setting.
	-- Resolved setup.php homepage issue.
	-- Updated global color setting.
	-- Updated index.php title css.
	-- Updated get start page.
	-- Added Demo-Import featured image code.

= 7.3 =
	-- Added no of slider setting.
	-- resolved bugs in setup.php file.
	-- Resolved customizer bugs.
	-- Updated woocommerce templates.

= 7.2 =
	-- Added slider opacity setting.
	-- Updated notice.

= 7.1 =
	-- Added TGM file.

= 7.0 =
	-- Added demo setup.
	-- Added global color setting.
	-- Added pot file.
	-- Updated theme description.
	-- Updated customizer css.
	-- Updated toggle switch css.

= 0.6.9 =
	-- Updated container theme width css.
	-- Added Demo and Buy Now buttons in admin notice.
	-- Updated admin page css.
	-- Updated Popular Post css.
	-- Updated Top Categories css.

= 0.6.8 =
	-- Added default footer widgets.
	-- Footer widgets css.
	-- Added nonce to admin.js.
	-- Added default image in homepage sections.

= 0.6.7 =
	-- Updated sidebar css.
	-- Resolved sidebar scroll issue.
	-- Updated single post navigation css.
	-- Updated similar post.
	-- Updated blog page navigation css.
	-- Updated blog post css.
	-- Updated sticky post css.
	-- Added sticky post meta.
	-- Added setting to change sticky icon.

= 0.6.6 =
	-- Changed theme links.

= 0.6.5 =
	-- Updated Archieve-product.php file to version 8.6.0.
	-- Updated bootstrap to version 5.3.3
	-- Updated responsive css.
	-- Added slider height.

= 0.6.4 =
	-- Updated footer columns setting.
	-- Updated fontawesome to version 6.5.1
	-- Update fontawesome icon change setting.
	-- Updated twitter icon.
	-- Updated read more icon css.
	-- Updated post files.

= 0.6.3 =
	-- Added animation.
	-- Did variable prefixing.

= 0.6.2 =
	-- Updated preloader js.
	-- changed default preloader.
	-- Added preloader style.

= 0.6.1 =
	-- Added custom cusor.
	-- Added setting to hide header-image in theme.

= 0.6 =
	-- resolved css bugs.
	-- Updated woocommerce responsive css.
	-- Updated footer block-widget css.
	-- Updated comments css.
	-- Added similar post block.

= 0.5.9 =
	-- Updated footer text setting.
	-- Updated slider to exclude sticky posts by default.
	-- Updated theme width setting.
	-- Added mobile media setings.
	-- Updated gallery-post file.
	-- Updated woocommerce css.

= 0.5.8 =
	-- Updated notice function.
	-- Added theme breadcrumb seperator change setting.
	-- Added woocommerce breadcrumb seperator change setting.
	-- Added setting to change related products heading.
	-- Added woocommerce sidebar layouts.
	-- Updated woocommerce reviews and description css.
	-- Added instructions button in theme documentaion. 

= 0.5.7 =
	-- Added sortable control.
	-- Added setting for post order.
	-- Added read more button text change setting.
	-- Added read more button icon change setting.
	-- Updated read more button css.
	-- Added extra content code in custom-home-page.php file.
	-- Added custom sidebar.

= 0.5.6 =
	-- Added tags list on single post page.
	-- Added tag meta for post.
	-- Added post meta icon change setting.
	-- Updated post meta css.
	-- Added setting for archieve post layout excerpt.
	-- Added toggle for single post pages breadcrumb.
	-- Added toggle for woocommerce breadcrumb.
	-- Updated 404 page css.
	-- Added buttonset radio control.
	-- Updated customizer sections.

= 0.5.5 =
	-- updated site tagline condition.
	-- Updated sticky header condition.
	-- Updated preloader condition.
	-- Added default custom-header image.
	-- Updated navigation css.

= 0.5.4 =
	-- Added breadcrumb.
	-- Added breadcrumb on/off setting.
	-- Added grid left sidebar layout.
	-- Added single post left sidebar layout.
	-- Added on/off setting for search bar.
	-- Updated post meta on/off setting for single post section.
	-- Added post meta on/off setting for custom-home-page.
	-- Updated sidebar css.

= 0.5.3 =
    -- Added featured-image-header tag.
	-- Added left sidebar layout for post.
	-- Updated flexible header tag.
	-- Added archieve products no of columns settings.
	-- Added archieve products No of products per page setting.
	-- Added related products show/hide option.
	-- Added related products no of columns settings.
	-- Added related products No of products per page setting.
	-- Added customizer heading.
	-- Updated custom-logo tag.
	-- Updated slider custom-control.
	-- Added on off setting for category section.

= 0.5.2 =
	-- Updated social icon code.
	-- Added slider background color condition.
	-- Updated button border radius setting.
	-- Updated escaping functions.
	-- Updated custom-control.php file.
	-- Updated sidebar css.
	-- Fixed alignwide and alignfull classes.
	-- Fixed Markup images css.
	-- Added css to response section.
	-- Updated Navigation css.
	-- Resolved menu fallback issue.
	-- Updated tag cloud css.
	-- updated block buttons css.
	-- Updated Gallery block css.

= 0.5.1 =
	-- Added post 3 columns, 4 columns tag.

= 0.5 =
	-- Added post format tag.
	-- Added theme width options.

= 0.4.9 =
	-- Added theme button color settings.
	-- Added theme button radius settings.
	-- Updated logo width custom control.

= 0.4.8 =
	-- Updated Toggle Settings.
	-- Edited JS in  custom.js.
	-- Changes in customizer.
	-- Added Settings in Post Layout.

= 0.4.7 =
	-- Customizer headings Added.
	-- Toggle Css Updated.
	-- Menu text transform setting added.

= 0.4.6 =
	-- Updated fontawesome icon selection setting.
	-- Toggle for opening link in a new tab added.

= 0.4.5 =
	-- Added selective refresh.
	-- Updated site title conditions.

= 0.4.4 =
	-- Added require atleast.
	-- Updated PHP version.
	-- Updated site description settings.

= 0.4.3 =
	-- Added shop-page settings.
	-- Added web-font files.
	-- Remove slider enable settings.

= 0.4.2 =
	-- Updated get-started.
	-- Updated rtl-support.
	-- Added flexible-header.

= 0.4.1 =
	-- Changed the function.
	-- Added CSS.
	-- Added classes in custom header.

= 0.4 =
	-- Added footer widget settings.
	-- Added rtl-support.

= 0.3.9 =
	-- Updated get started functions.
	-- Defined URLs.

= 0.3.8 =
	-- Done the changes in the function.
	-- Updated to WP 6.0.
	-- Added underline in widget text.

= 0.3.7 =
	-- Added Button CSS.
	-- Updated Footer Link.
	-- Updated Preloader Setting.

= 0.3.6 =
	-- Added Scroll Top Alignment.
	-- Added Sanitization Function.
	-- Updated PHP Version.

= 0.3.5 =
	-- Added Scroll Top.

= 0.3.4 =
	-- Added Typography.
	-- Resize Logo.

= 0.3.3 =
	-- Added Documentation.
	-- Added conditions in the section.
	-- Resolved slider issue.

= 0.3.2 =
	-- Resolved minor changes.

= 0.3.1 =
	-- Changed tags.
	-- Deleted unwanted files.

= 0.3 =
	-- Added theme support.
	-- Added align center.
	-- Added tags.
	-- Removed themes check RECOMMENDED.
	-- Added logo size option.

= 0.2.9 =
	-- Fixed minor fixes.

= 0.2.8 =
	-- Added Documentation.

= 0.2.7 =
	-- Added logo title and tagline show/hide option.

= 0.2.6 =
	-- Added sticky post tag also added the sticky post CSS.
	-- Added block editor style and block style files.
	-- Resolved escaping issues.
	-- Removed unused function.

= 0.2.5 =
	-- Added toggle buttons.
	-- Added sticky menu settings.
	-- Added site loader settings.

= 0.2.4 =
	-- Added one-column, left-sidebar, grid-layout, full-width-template tags.
	-- Added new settings.

= 0.2.3 =
	-- Added new tag.
	-- Added underline on links.
	-- Theme tested upto WP 5.6.

= 0.2.2 =
	-- Added PRO Panel.
	-- Fixed CSS.

= 0.2.1 =
	-- Fixed escaping issue.
	-- Fixed translation issue.

= 0.2 =
	-- Removed unwanted license decleration in readme.txt.
	-- Changed some CSS code in style.css file.

= 0.1 =
	-- Initial Released.

== Resources ==
Ovation Blog WordPress Theme, Copyright 2022 pewilliams
Ovation Blog is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

Ovation Blog bundles the following third-party resources:

* CSS bootstrap.css
	Licenses: licensed under MIT License Copyright 2011-2024
	Source: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/LICENSE

* JS bootstrap.js
	Licenses: licensed under MIT License Copyright 2011-2024
	Source: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/main/LICENSE

* Font Awesome icons, Copyright Dave Gandy
	License: Icons: CC BY 6.5, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License.
	Source: http://fontawesome.io/

* WOW JS, Copyright 2016
	License: GPLv3 https://github.com/matthieua/WOW/blob/master/README.md
	Source: https://github.com/matthieua/WOW

* Animate CSS, Copyright 2021
	License: 2.1 https://github.com/animate-css/animate.css/blob/main/LICENSE
	Source: https://github.com/animate-css/animate.css

* Webfonts Loader
	License: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader/blob/master/LICENSE
	Source: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader

* TGM
	GaryJones Copyright (C) 1989, 1991
	https://github.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
	License: GNU General Public License v2.0

* Pxhere Images,
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/license

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/750013

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/948941

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/934320

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1330291

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/510074

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/764654

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/873795

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1058103

	Screenshot image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1332432

	Header image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/655354

* Stocksnap Images,
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://stocksnap.io/license

	Header image
	License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
	Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/red-apple-SINXBGG2ZV