=== PressBook Media ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, education, portfolio, 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: 7.0
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 1.3.6
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

PressBook Media is a professional, fast, clean, and modern theme for business, agency, and educational websites.

== Description ==

PressBook Media is a professional, fast, clean, and modern theme for business, agency, and educational websites. The theme is unique, well-designed, fully responsive, and mobile-friendly with an elegant layout and excellent typography. This multi-purpose theme with an interactive look is very well-suited for digital marketing and affiliate marketing agencies, consultancy, firms, news, blogging, magazine, and institutional website. The components of the theme include sticky-floating single and double sidebars, top advertisement banner, info section with contact details, accessible multi-level dropdown menu, social links, topbar with gradient color, footer, and side widgets, multiple block patterns including hero section, buttons, and columns, block areas to place any custom Gutenberg blocks in the header and footer, and many options for easy customization. Even with many elements, the theme loads very quickly with high speed and fast loading time. The configuration of themes is never that easy as this theme offers with its flexible options that makes it very simple to configure. The theme is great for bloggers, writers, and marketers. The widget blocks can be used to place Google Adsense scripts to show ads on the sidebars. It is optimized for SEO and offers high accessibility as well as a great performance with minimal dependency. This theme can also be used to create websites for schools, colleges, institutes, academy, or university portal that offers courses, guides, eBooks, tutorials, manuals, and documentation. Additionally, this can be used to publish stories, newsfeeds, reviews, images, movies, videos, etc. The info section allows placing CTA buttons for users to book appointments, request a quote, etc. It supports WooCommerce, Jetpack's infinite scrolling, and page builder plugins like Elementor, Divi, etc. This theme is also translation-ready with RTL language support. It has many options to customize the theme easily that includes blog options, accent colors, header and background image, related posts options, page-level settings, etc. There are many page templates available to create fluid-width pages to showcase the portfolios, features, services, gallery, and testimonials.

== 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 Media 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 Media 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 Media 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 top info section? =

You can configure the top info section from the Customizer > 'Top Info Section' section.

== Copyright ==

PressBook Media 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 ==

= 1.3.6 =
* Tested compatibility with PHP 8.5.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.5 =
* Tested up to 7.0.

= 1.3.4 =
* Tested up to 6.9.

= 1.3.3 =
* Fix: Pattern translations load early.
* Tested up to 6.7.

= 1.3.2 =
* Improvement: Patterns updated.

= 1.3.1 =
* Tested up to 6.4.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.0 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.2.9 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.2.8 =
* Improvement: Changed hook for editor styles.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.2.7 =
* Tested up to 6.2.
* Improvement: Patterns updated.

= 1.2.6 =
* Tested up to 6.1.

= 1.2.5 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.4 =
* Locally host Google fonts.

= 1.2.3 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.2.2 =
* Tested up to 6.0.

= 1.2.1 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.2.0 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.1.1 =
* New: "Dark Mode Toggle" added to plugin recommendation list.

= 1.1.0 =
* Improvement: Added labels for <nav> elements.

= 1.0.8 =
* Tested up to 5.9.

= 1.0.7 =
* Improvement: Block patterns.

= 1.0.6 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.0.5 =
* Screenshot updated.

= 1.0.4 =
* Improvement: Block patterns styles.

= 1.0.3 =
* New: Added primary navbar hover background color option.

= 1.0.2 =
* Screenshot updated.

= 1.0.1 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

PressBook Media bundles the following third-party resources:

* Image 1 for theme screenshot, Copyright PxHere
* License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
* License URI: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1398029

* Image 2 for theme screenshot, Copyright PxHere
* License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
* License URI: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1329768

* Image 3 for theme screenshot, Copyright PxHere
* License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
* License URI: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1587

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

* Social icons in theme screenshot
* 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)

* UI icons in theme screenshot
* License: SIL Open Font License (OFL)
* Source: Font Awesome 4.7, https://fontawesome.com/v4/icons/

* Logo in theme screenshot, (c) ScriptsTown
* License: GNU General Public License v2, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

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