=== PressBook Masonry Dark ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, education, news, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, block-patterns, 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: 1.2.6
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

PressBook Masonry Dark is an excellent dark WordPress theme for blogging, news, magazines, and educational websites.

== Description ==

PressBook Masonry Dark is an excellent dark WordPress theme for blogging, news, magazines, and educational websites. The features include a masonry grid layout with flexible columns and multiple options, patterns, page templates, RTL language, single and double sidebars, a centered header section, an accessible and multi-level dropdown menu with search form, top menu, social links menu, footer widgets, background image, color and typography options, and many great features. Use this multipurpose theme to quickly create eye-catching, modern, unique, and powerful websites for entertainment, photography, movies, gaming, creative content, animes, manga, comics, etc. With its minimalistic and magnificent design, this is perfectly suitable for photobloggers, professional artists, content creators, musicians, photographers, gamers, and vloggers for publishing and posting stories, product reviews, videos, images, personal blogs, and study materials like documentation, guides, and tutorials. It offers a simple, clean, and pixel-perfect layout with places for advertisement banners. Block areas allow you to place any customized blocks like sliders, gallery, portfolios, services, testimonials, or any shortcodes. With an awesome dark look with a beautiful colors scheme, this theme can also be the right choice for websites related to technology, science, gadgets, sports, automobiles, finance, real estate, travel, schools, academy, and institutions. It supports WooCommerce for creating eCommerce shopping sites and infinite scrolling or a load more button using the Jetpack plugin. This elegant dark theme for WordPress is also lightweight, minimal, stylish, and SEO-friendly, offering fast loading time and high performance that suits websites for affiliates and digital marketing agency, bloggers, freelancers, and story writers.

== 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 Masonry Dark 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 Masonry Dark 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 Masonry Dark 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 change the number of blog posts in the grid? =

You can change the number of blog posts from your WordPress admin 'Settings > Reading'. Here, you can change the 'Blog pages show at most' option from 10 to any other value like 12.

= How to add infinite scroll or load more button for the blog posts? =

You can install and activate 'Jetpack' plugin. Then, go to 'Jetpack' > 'Settings' > 'Writing' > 'Infinite Scroll' to add infinite scroll or load more button for the blog posts.

= How to set custom exceprt or summary for the post? =

You can set a custom excerpt or summary of a post on the right side of the post editor screen > 'Post' > 'Excerpt' field.

== Copyright ==

PressBook Masonry Dark 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 ==

= 1.2.6 =
* Tested up to 6.9.

= 1.2.5 =
* Tested up to 6.8.
* Tested compatibility with PHP 8.4.

= 1.2.4 =
* Fix: Pattern translations load early.
* Tested up to 6.7.

= 1.2.3 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.2.2 =
* Tested up to 6.6.

= 1.2.1 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.0 =
* Tested up to 6.5.
* Readme updated.

= 1.1.0 =
* Tested up to 6.4.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.9 =
* Code improvements.
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.8 =
* Improvement: Changed hook for editor styles.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.0.7 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.6 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.0.5 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.4 =
* Tested up to 6.2.
* Improvement: Patterns updated.

= 1.0.3 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.0.2 =
* Tested up to 6.1.

= 1.0.1 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

PressBook Masonry Dark bundles the following third-party resources:

* Image: mountain-sky.jpg, Copyright Jonas Alferez
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/ONPRW7FMP7

* Image: office-desk.jpg, Copyright Lukasz Kowalewski
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/HGHZU9412Q

* Image 1 for theme screenshot, Jeff Hollett
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/VN4YGTIZST

* Image 2 for theme screenshot, HD Wallpapers
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/S6YF6QRKIR

* Image 3 for theme screenshot, Rodion Kutsaev
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/RM5Y5VX7N6

* Image 4 for theme screenshot, Domenico Loia
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/IHIHTFK8YH

* Image 5 for theme screenshot, Jonas Svidras
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/OXWTHY7CJ2

* Image 6 for theme screenshot, HD Wallpapers
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/GD3QWR1UJX

* Image 7 for theme screenshot, Bob Richards
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/PFXSSFGYXF

* Image 8 for theme screenshot, Negative Space
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/FSPLFPQBCZ

* Image 9 for theme screenshot, Kristin Hardwick
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/XJMBMTYYN2

* Image 10 for theme screenshot, Serpstat
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/959IURDRGJ

* 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

* Macy.js
* License: MIT License, https://github.com/bigbite/macy.js/blob/master/LICENSE
* Source: https://github.com/bigbite/macy.js

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