=== Politics ===

Contributors: rescuethemes
Tags: theme-options, red, blue, white, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, custom-colors, custom-menu, featured-images, full-width-template,  sticky-post, threaded-comments, translation-ready

Requires at least: 4.1
Tested up to: 6.6.2
Stable tag: 1.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

The Politics WordPress theme is designed for politicians, political causes, campaigns, and government agencies to represent themselves online with a number of useful features.

== Description ==

The Politics WordPress theme is designed for politicians, political causes, and government agencies to clearly represent themselves online with a number of useful features. Those features include multiple home page sections that can be easily moved and edited.

You can customize the theme with the native WordPress Customize feature allowing changes to appear instantly while editing. Full support for contact form, post sharing, and gallery displays with the Jetpack plugin.

== 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.

== Home Page ==

1. To use the home page template, create a new page called "Home" and assign it the "Front Page" template under the Page Attributes settings.
2. Navigate to "Settings > Reading" and assign Front page as "Home" and Posts page as "Blog".

== Home Hero Section ==

1. After assigning the home page template as described above, set the top hero image from "Appearance > Customize > Home"
2. Add overlaying content by placing a widget in the "Home Hero" widget area from "Appearance > Widgets".
3. To add an email sign-up form, activate the [Mailbag](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailbag/) plugin and paste its shortcode into a text widget.

== Blog Page ==

1. Create a new page and publish it.
2. Navigate to "Settings > Reading" and assign Posts page as the blog page you just created.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Is there additional documentation for the theme? =

You can find further documentation files at [docs.rescuethemes.com](http://docs.rescuethemes.com/collection/232-politics).

== Changelog ==

= 1.6 2024-10-22
* Tested for WordPress 6.6.2

= 1.2, 2020-10-13
* Tested and support for WordPress 5.5

= 1.1, 2020-07-07
* Tested and support for WordPress 5.4.1

= 1.0.10 - 2018-7-16 =
* Tested and Support for WordPress 4.9.7

= 1.0.9 - 2018-5-7 =
* Tested with support for 4.9.5

= 1.0.8 - 2017-10-17 =
* Tested to 4.8.2

= 1.0.7 - April 5, 2017 =
* Update readme

= 1.0.6 - March 20, 2017 =
* Updated Font Awesome to 4.7


= 1.0.4 - Mar 29, 2016 =
* Added Mailchimp for WP plugin support
* Removed support for Mailbag plugin
* Adjusted styling for donation form

= 1.0.3 - Dec 11, 2015 =
* Consolidating upsell links

= 1.0.2 - Nov 30, 2015 =
* Removed accesiblity-ready tag
* Added additional instructions to readme.txt
* Fixed home hero overlay color

= 1.0.1 - Nov 16, 2015 =
* Added unminified versions of Font Awesome & Slick Nav stylesheets for reference
* Updating escaping in header.php and extras.php
* Removed 'left-sidebar' tag
* Updated default gallery display
* Updated comments style
* Fixed footer copyright setting
* Added support for Give Donation plugin
* Added link to home page post dates

= 1.0 - Sep 10, 2015 =
* Initial release

== Credits ==

* Underscores http://underscores.me, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc.,
[GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* Foundation Responsive Library http://foundation.zurb.com, (C) 2014, ZURB,
[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Modernizer http://modernizr.com, (C) Faruk Ates, Paul Irish, Alex Sexton,
[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* Customizer Library https://github.com/devinsays/customizer-library, (C) Devin Price,
[GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* TGM Plugin Activation http://tgmpluginactivation.com/, (C) Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer,
[GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)

* Font Awesome, http://fontawesome.io, (C) Dave Gandy,
[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[SIL OFL 1.1](http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)

* Backstretch http://srobbin.com/jquery-plugins/backstretch/, (C) Scott Robbin,
[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* SlickNav http://slicknav.com/, (C) Josh Cope,
[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
