=== PressBook News ===
Contributors: scriptstown
Tags: blog, entertainment, news, 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: 1.3.8
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

PressBook News is an excellent theme for news, blog, entertainment, magazine, and educational websites.

== Description ==

PressBook News is an excellent theme for news portals, blogs, entertainment, magazine, and educational websites. It offers a fully responsive, mobile-friendly, creative layout built with modern design techniques and provides clean, easy-to-read typography. The elements of the theme include single and double sticky sidebar widget area, header and footer blocks to place reusable Gutenberg blocks, multiple page templates and page-level settings, multi-level dropdown menu with search, social links, topbar banner advertisement, background, and header image. This theme can be a great choice for SEO, digital marketing, affiliate blogging, marketers, bloggers, freelancers, content writers, creators, and news agency websites with an interactive look and feel. The design of the blog feed is perfectly suitable for posting story and status updates, movies reviews, animes reviews, opinions, events feed, headlines, newsflash, publishing broadcastradio messages, television news, or any type of stories or newsfeed. It offers dynamic posts carousel sliders with customization options such as posts count, source, and slider autoplay in the header, footer, and related posts sections. Each carousel has a set of specific options to configure in an easy manner. The blog posts in the carousel can be shown randomly or in any order based on multiple categories and tags. This theme can also be used for schools, university, educational institutes, or academics websites to publish any course or study materials, notices, documentation, or guide for the students. The theme uses minimal dependencies so it loads the website very fast with high speed and offers a seamless user experience for its visitors.

== 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 News 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 News 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 News 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 disable autoplay for the posts carousel? =

You can enable or disable the autoplay of header, footer, or related posts carousel from the Customizer > 'Posts Carousel' section.

== Copyright ==

PressBook News 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 ==

= 1.3.8 =
* Tested up to 6.9.

= 1.3.7 =
* Fix: Focus must not be hidden from assistive technology users.
* Tested up to 6.8.2.

= 1.3.6 =
* Tested up to 6.8.
* Compatibility with PHP 8.4.

= 1.3.5 =
* Tested up to 6.7.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.4 =
* Tested up to 6.5.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.3 =
* Tested up to 6.4.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.2 =
* Code improvements.
* Readme updated.

= 1.3.1 =
* Improvement: Changed hook for editor styles.

= 1.3.0 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.9 =
* Tested up to 6.2.
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.2.8 =
* Improvement: Added label to primary menu toggle button.

= 1.2.7 =
* Tested up to 6.1.

= 1.2.6 =
* Readme updated.

= 1.2.5 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.2.4 =
* Locally host Google fonts.

= 1.2.3 =
* Changed "Requires PHP" tag to 7.0.

= 1.2.2 =
* Tested up to 6.0.

= 1.2.1 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

= 1.2.0 =
* Updated plugins recommendation list.

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

= 1.1.0 =
* Tested up to 5.9.

= 1.0.9 =
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.0.8 =
* New: Option to hide the top border of primary navbar.

= 1.0.7 =
* Improvement: Code cleanup.

= 1.0.6 =
* Improvement: Widgets editor style.

= 1.0.5 =
* Improvement: Removed editor styles from block widgets screen.

= 1.0.4 =
* Added active menu item background color option.

= 1.0.3 =
* Tested up to 5.8.

= 1.0.2 =
* Improvement: Styling of widget block title.
* Improvement: Minor CSS fixes.

= 1.0.1 =
* New release.

== Credits ==

PressBook News 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/1087225

* 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/1398029

* 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/559565

* Image 4 for theme screenshot, Kristin Hardwick
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/XJMBMTYYN2

* Image 5 for theme screenshot, Kristin Hardwick
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/CLKICRAJMW

* Image 6 for theme screenshot, starc starc
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/NWXA46JA4V

* Image 7 for theme screenshot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator
* License: Creative Commons CC0 license
* License URI: https://stocksnap.io/license
* Source: https://stocksnap.io/photo/CZSB4NOMYB

* 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

* Glide.js
* License: MIT License, https://github.com/glidejs/glide/blob/master/LICENSE
* Source: https://github.com/glidejs/glide

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