=== Polite News ===

Contributors: templatesell
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.0.1
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: news, blog, custom-background, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, grid-layout, right-sidebar, left-sidebar, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready, block-styles, block-patterns, wide-blocks, footer-widgets, theme-options, custom-colors, editor-style, sticky-post, rtl-language-support

Polite News is a fast, clean and fully responsive news and magazine WordPress theme with a modern card based layout and a built in dark mode.

== Description ==

Polite News is a fast, clean and fully responsive news and magazine WordPress theme with a modern card based layout. It ships with a built in dark mode, a breaking news ticker, a featured post section, editor pick cards, rounded card grids, multiple blog layouts, header and footer options, sidebar options and a one click primary colour option. Besides that, it comes with custom widgets for popular posts, tags and categories, contact details, a call to action, a banner, author information, recent posts and social icons, plus breadcrumbs, social sharing, related posts, a sticky sidebar and ajax load more. Perfect for newspaper, magazine, editorial, blog and personal news websites. Upgrade to Polite News Pro for the featured carousel, extra layouts, typography options, demo import and premium support.

Polite News loads every font and icon from inside the theme folder. It makes no requests to Google Fonts or to any other external service, so it works offline and keeps visitor data on your own server.

== 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? =

Polite News includes support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll, Content Options and Responsive Videos, plus breadcrumb integration for Yoast SEO and Rank Math. It also suggests a few free plugins from WordPress.org under Appearance > About Polite News. All of them are optional and the theme works fully without them.

= How do I import the demo content? =

Install and activate the One Click Demo Import and Template Sell Demo Importer plugins (both free on WordPress.org), then go to Appearance > Import Demo Data. Quick links for both plugins live under Appearance > About Polite News.

= How do I show the breaking news ticker? =

Go to Appearance > Customize > Polite News Theme Options > Breaking News Settings and choose the category and number of headlines.

= Does the theme load Google Fonts? =

No. Inter, Poppins and Font Awesome are bundled with the theme and served from your own site.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.1 =
* Fixed: Theme URI updated to a working page.
* Fixed: All text strings in the patterns folder are now translation ready.

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial release

== Copyright ==

Polite News WordPress Theme, Copyright 2026 Template Sell
Polite News is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.

This theme bundles the following third party resources:

Underscores
Copyright (c) 2012-2020 Automattic, Inc.
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Source: https://underscores.me/

normalize.css
Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
License: MIT
Source: https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

Font Awesome 4.7.0
Copyright Dave Gandy
Icon font files license: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
Stylesheet license: MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
Source: https://fontawesome.com/v4.7/
Bundled license: assets/fonts/font-awesome-LICENSE.txt

Inter
Copyright 2020 The Inter Project Authors
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
Source: https://github.com/rsms/inter
Bundled license: assets/fonts/inter-LICENSE.txt

Poppins
Copyright 2014-2019 Indian Type Foundry (info@indiantypefoundry.com)
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
Source: https://github.com/itfoundry/Poppins
Bundled license: assets/fonts/poppins-LICENSE.txt

== Images ==

The customizer layout preview icons in assets/images/ are created by Template Sell
and are licensed under GNU General Public License v2 or later.

The Polite News logo and the header banner sample shown in the screenshot are
created by Template Sell and are licensed under GNU General Public License v2 or
later.

The photographs in the screenshot (screenshot.jpg) are from the WordPress Photo
Directory and are released under CC0:

* Hero slide, photo by Yam B Chhetri
  https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/4086a84222/
  License: CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* First editor pick card, photo by Yam B Chhetri
  https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/8286a84229/
  License: CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* Second editor pick card, photo by Damián Ponte Mosqueira
  https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/5826a84370/
  License: CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* Third editor pick card, photo by Brandon Zhang
  https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/3646a84449/
  License: CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
