=== PressBook Blog ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, education, news, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, block-styles, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-images, flexible-header, footer-widgets, full-width-template, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, wide-blocks
Donate link: https://scriptstown.com/
Requires at least: 5.3
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 1.3.3
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

PressBook Blog is a multi-purpose, professional WordPress theme for blogs, news, and educational websites.

== Description ==

PressBook Blog is a multi-purpose, professional WordPress theme for blogs, news, and educational websites. The theme offers a classic look and feels with a well-designed, fully responsive, clean, and modern typography. The elements of the theme include blog grid layouts with many customizer options, a related posts grid, a top advertisement banner with support for ad scripts like Adsense, a fully accessible multi-level dropdown menu, a top bar menu, social links menu, a left and right sidebar with custom block-widgets areas, footer widgets, page templates, page settings, and single and double sidebars with a sticky-floating feature. Also, it comes with a header and footer block to place Gutenberg blocks and patterns into the header and footer conditionally. It offers a pixel-perfect design with an elegant, SEO-friendly, and highly engaging user interface. This theme is an excellent choice for story writers, journalists, bloggers, content creators, educators, tutors, artists, authors, and educational academic institutes like schools, and academies to publish tutorials, documentaries, stories, journals, documentation, and study materials. You can even create a library hub website for offering online resources. Also, this theme can be used for digital marketing, affiliate marketing agencies, consulting, personal lifestyle blogging, editorial, and magazine websites. With this theme, you can create a news portal for publishing stories, newsfeeds, articles, reviews, etc. The theme supports RTL languages, Jetpack Infinite Scroll, and WooCommerce. With multiple page templates and settings, it offers support for various page builder plugins like Elementor, etc. It has a minimal dependency with super-fast loading time and high performance that offers a simple, creative, and flexible layout to automatically adjust in the best possible way.

== Installation ==

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

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this theme support any plugins? =

PressBook Blog includes support for WooCommerce and for Infinite Scroll in Jetpack.

= Where to find the theme options? =

All of the options can be found in the Customizer in 'Appearance > Customize'.

= How to configure the theme widgets? =

The theme widgets can be found in 'Appearance > Widgets'. You can drag and drop widgets to the widget area. PressBook Blog comes with 6 widgets area locations which include a left sidebar, right sidebar widgets area and 4 locations for footer widgets.

= How to add the menus or social links? =

The menus can be found in 'Appearance > Menus'. First, create the menu and then assign it to a menu location. PressBook Blog comes with three menu locations which include the primary menu, top bar menu, and social links menu. For social links, create a menu item with a custom link, enter the URL of the social page, and assign this menu to the 'Social Links Menu' location.

= How to configure the header posts grid or related posts grid? =

You can configure the header posts grid or related posts grid from the Customizer > 'Posts Grid' section.

== Copyright ==

PressBook Blog 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.

== Changelog ==

= 1.3.3 =
* Tested up to 6.9.

= 1.3.2 =
* Tested up to 6.8.
* Tested compatibility with PHP 8.4.

= 1.3.1 =
* Tested up to 6.7.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.0 =
* Tested up to 6.5.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.9 =
* Tested up to 6.4.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.8 =
* Code improvements.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.7 =
* Improvement: Changed hook for editor styles.

= 1.2.6 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.5 =
* Tested up to 6.2.
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.2.4 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.3 =
* Tested up to 6.1.

= 1.2.2 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.
* Tested up to 6.0.1.

= 1.2.1 =
* Locally host Google fonts.

= 1.2.0 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.1.1 =
* Tested up to 6.0.

= 1.1.0 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.5 =
* New: "Dark Mode Toggle" added to plugin recommendation list.

= 1.0.4 =
* Bug fix: Unable to save categories for posts grid.

= 1.0.3 =
* Tested up to 5.9.

= 1.0.2 =
* Improvement: Related posts heading styles.

= 1.0.1 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

PressBook Blog bundles the following third-party resources:

* Image 1 for theme screenshot, Carl Heyerdahl
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/LPNMGYHXCT

* Image 2 for theme screenshot, Oliur Rahman
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/W35FN4QNGR

* Image 3 for theme screenshot, Jeff Sheldon
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/NCMEKZE1QP

* Image 4 for theme screenshot, Picography
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/BQLTRCKNYX

* Image 5 for theme screenshot, Marcin Czaja
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/9UPH197S3L

* Social Icons
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
* License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
* Source: WordPress Social Link Block (See wp-includes\blocks\social-link.php)

* SVG UI Icons
* License: SIL Open Font License (OFL)
* Source: https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/font-awesome

* Select Multiple Customizer Control (c) Cristian-Ungureanu
* License: MIT License, https://github.com/Codeinwp/customizer-controls/blob/master/LICENSE
* Source: https://github.com/Codeinwp/customizer-controls/tree/master/customizer-select-multiple

* TGM Plugin Activation - v2.6.1, http://tgmpluginactivation.com/, By Thomas Griffin, Gary Jones, Juliette Reinders Folmer, License: GPL-2.0+
