=== Writers Portfolio ===
Contributors: rswpthemes
Tags: blog, news, e-commerce, grid-layout, one-column, two-columns, three-Columns, four-Columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, footer-widgets, flexible-header, theme-options, translation-ready, featured-images, block-styles, wide-blocks, sticky-post, featured-image-header, front-page-post-form, full-width-template, post-formats, threaded-comments
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 8.1
Stable tag: 1.3.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

== Description ==
Writers Portfolio is a beautiful and easy-to-use WordPress theme for writers, writers, novelists, and publishers who want to launch, promote or publish their books online. It is carefully designed to follow the trends of today’s modern web while providing full support for the new WordPress 5 block editor (Gutenberg ready). This theme features an elegant and attractive layout to help you generate high leads and get more sales of your book. With the Writers Portfolio theme, you can create a fully responsive, and visually appealing landing page to sell and promote your book without writing a single line of code. It is a speed-optimized theme that helps your website load within a blink of an eye and provides a great user experience to your visitors. The theme is developed with SEO-optimized codes and is schema.org markup ready to help your website rank higher in Google and other search engines. Furthermore, this theme is fully compatible with the popular WooCommerce plugin to allow you to sell your book via your website.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How to Install Theme =
1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button and Search for Writers Portfolio, OR
2. If you have theme zip file, 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.

== Changelog ==

= 1.3.0 - May 09, 2026 =
* Improved reading time function and improved widget sub category design

= 1.2.9 - April 16, 2026 =
* Security Fix: Patched a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the theme's custom meta box (inc/custom-meta-box.php) by implementing strict nonce verification.
* Security Fix: Added proper user capability checks (current_user_can) to the meta box save routine to prevent unauthorized users from modifying post/page layout metadata.
* Bug Fix: Implemented a DOING_AUTOSAVE check to ensure custom meta box data is not unintentionally overwritten or cleared during WordPress automated background saves.

= 1.2.8 - Jan 23, 2026 =
* Maked it compatible with Author Website Templates plugin.
* Checked Compatibility with latest WordPress 6.9
* Checked Compatibility with latest RS WP Book Showcase

= 1.2.7 - April 23, 2025 =
* Solved Translation warnings that comes from WordPress 6.7

= 1.2.6 - March 3, 2025 =
* Added Import books from Amazon notice

= 1.2.5 - Feb 15, 2025 =
* Solved Fontawesome Icon Issue

= 1.2.4 - Feb 1, 2025 =
* Solved Kirki warning.

= 1.2.3 - Dec 11, 2024 =
* Solved Page Sidebar Error
* Improve Post Layout Design

= 1.2.2 - Nov 4, 2024 =
* Improved Category List Block, Archive List Block, and Latest Comment Block

= 1.2.1 - Oct 19, 2024 =
* Removed RSWPBS INSTALLER

= 1.2.0 - Sep 19, 2024 =
* Improved pagination and navigation link design

= 1.1.9 - Aug 12, 2024 =
* Social links Open To New Tab

= 1.1.8 - Aug 5, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility With Latest WordPress

= 1.1.7 - July 13, 2024 =
* Solved Book Gallery Books Per Page Issue
* Added Getting Started Video

= 1.1.6 - Jun 11, 2024 =
* Added Menu Hover Color Option
* Checked Compatibility with RS WP BOOK SHOWCASE

= 1.1.5 - May 07, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility with Kirki 5.1.0

= 1.1.4 - April 25, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility With Latest WP

= 1.1.3 - March 25, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOK SHOWCASE 6.5.5

= 1.1.2 - Feb 15, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOK SHOWCASE 6.3.8
* Improved Home Page

= 1.1.1 - Jan 27, 2024 =
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOK SHOWCASE

= 1.1.0 - Dec 15, 2023 =
* Improved Code Quality and Checked Compatibility With Latest WordPress and Recommended Plugins
* Added Author Landing Page Template

= 1.0.9 - Nov 22, 2023 =
* Optimize code quality to improve Website Speed

= 1.0.8 - Nov 18, 2023 =
* Added New Header Layouts
* Updated Screenshot
* Checked Compatibility With WP 6.4 RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE Latest Version

= 1.0.7 - Sep 05, 2023 =
* Uploaded Welcome Info
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE Latest Version
* Added UTM URL

= 1.0.6 - Aug 22, 2023 =
* Uploaded Welcome Info
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE Latest Version
* Added Header Customization Options

= 1.0.5 - Jun 27, 2023 =
* Uploaded Welcome Info
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE Latest Version
* Checked Compatibility With WordPress Latest Version

= 1.0.4 - Jan 30, 2023 =
* Added Header Title and Description Options
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE 4.0.0

= 1.0.3 - Jan 17, 2023 =
* Removed Unnecessary Files
* Checked Compatibility With RS WP BOOKS SHOWCASE 3.0.3

= 1.0.1 - Jan 05, 2023 =
* Added Upgrade To Pro Link
* Removed Unnecessary Plugins

= 1.0.0 - Dec 15, 2022 =
* Initial releasev

== Copyright ==
Writers Portfolio WordPress Theme, Copyright 2025 rswpthemes.com
Writers Portfolio 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.

Writers Portfolio bundles the following third-party resources:
* Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.
* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* CSS bootstrap-grid.css
  Copyright 2011-2020 The Bootstrap Writers
  Copyright 2011-2020 Twitter, Inc.
  Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)
* Font Awesome 4.7.0 by @davegandy - http://fontawesome.io - @fontawesome
  License - http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1, CSS: MIT License)
* Slick 1.8.0 by Ken Wheeler - http://kenwheeler.github.io
  License - https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/blob/master/LICENSE

== License/copyright for images ==
* logo.png and book cover self created.
* Screenshot images are all licensed under CC0 Universal

Image for theme screenshot
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
License URL: https://pxhere.com/en/license
Source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1057578

Image for theme screenshot, Copyright Pexels
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-wearing-eyeglasses-262391/
