=== DIGISTARTER ===

Contributors: digistalter
Requires at least: 6.9
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GNU General Public License v3
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Tags: full-site-editing, block-patterns, block-styles, style-variations, custom-colors, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-images, one-column, threaded-comments, translation-ready, wide-blocks, rtl-language-support

A block theme starter kit with a large pattern library and three corner-radius styles, built to be extended through child themes.

== Description ==

DIGISTARTER is a starter theme for the WordPress Site Editor. It ships the technical groundwork of a block theme - design tokens in theme.json, a small set of block styles, and a card component shared by the blog, the archive and the search results - and leaves the design decisions to you.

On top of that it provides a preconfigured header and footer, a blog layout with a featured post and a reading suggestion picked at random, an archive and search grid, a single post layout with comments and related posts, and a 404 page.

Over forty ready-made section patterns cover openers, text, media, pricing, testimonials, statistics, FAQs and other dynamic content, so a page or a blog comes together from existing pieces.

Three corner styles - square, rounded and extra rounded - are available in light and dark, six style variations in total. Since a variation changes only colour and shape, layouts stay comparable side by side while you decide on a look.

Everything visual is expressed through theme.json tokens, so colours, radii and type belong in a child theme and need no changes to any template. The theme adds CSS only where a block support does not exist, and every such rule carries the reason in a comment. This makes DIGISTARTER a solid foundation to build a fully custom design, or additional patterns, on top of - without ever touching the parent theme.

Included templates: index, singular, home, archive, single, page, search and 404.

== Installation ==

1. In your site's dashboard go to Appearance > Themes and click Add New.
2. Click Upload Theme, choose the ZIP file and click Install Now.
3. Click Activate.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How do I change the look? =

The theme ships six style variations that you can switch under Appearance > Editor > Styles, without touching any code.

To add your own, place a JSON file in the /styles/ folder of a child theme - inside this theme it would be lost on the next update. Use theme.json as the blueprint for its structure: a variation only needs the settings it actually changes.

= How do I build my own design on top of DIGISTARTER? =

Create a child theme and point it at digistarter as the parent. Override colours, type or spacing through your own theme.json, add patterns in your own /patterns/ folder, or replace a single file from /inc/ by filtering digistarter_modules - none of it touches the parent theme, so updates stay safe.

= Why is there no page title on my pages? =

The page template deliberately renders the content only. Add a heading as the first block, or start the page with one of the opener patterns. Posts do show their title.

= The images in the patterns look like coloured squares. =

Those are placeholders. Select the image block and replace it with your own picture; the pattern keeps its proportions.

= How do I add legal links to the footer? =

Activation creates two empty menus for the footer, Footer-Menu 1 and Footer-Menu 2. Add your privacy policy, imprint or other required pages to Footer-Menu 2 under Appearance > Editor > Navigation - the footer already points to it. The theme makes no assumption about which pages exist.

= Can I remove the credit in the footer? =

Yes. Open the footer template part in the site editor and delete the block. Nothing else depends on it.

== Copyright ==

DIGISTARTER WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 DIGISTALTER GmbH
DIGISTARTER is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

This theme bundles the following third-party resources:

Saira Variable font
Copyright (c) Omnibus-Type
License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Saira
Full licence text: assets/fonts/LICENSE.txt

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial release: design tokens, block styles as theme.json partials, a documented module architecture, over forty section patterns, and three corner styles in light and dark.
