=== TechAbout ===

Contributors: techabout
Requires at least: 6.6
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 7.4
Version: 1.0.4
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Tags: blog, news, two-columns, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-logo, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-images, footer-widgets, threaded-comments, translation-ready, wide-blocks

== Description ==

TechAbout is a polished editorial and technology blog theme based on Material Design by Google. The theme includes a responsive home template, demo content coverage, featured images, dropdown menus, footer widgets, improved typography, Customizer controls, block editor styles, block patterns, and WordPress edge-case testing for posts, pages, comments, formatting, archives, and search.

The theme is cross-browser compatible and works on leading desktop and mobile browsers. TechAbout is easy to use and user friendly.

Theme has two widget sections first for sidebar widget section and second for Footer widget sections.

This theme is compatible with WordPress Version 6.6 and above and supports the Theme Customization API.

Supported browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and IE11 (Some css3 styles like shadows, rounder corners and 2D transform are not supported by IE8 and below).

TechAbout WordPress Theme, Copyright 2018 Jazib Zaman
TechAbout is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Installation ==

1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes and click the 'Add New' button.

2. Type in 'TechAbout' in the search form and press the 'Enter' key on your keyboard.

3. Click on the 'Activate' button to use your new theme right away.

4. Navigate to Appearance > Customize in your admin panel and customize to taste.

== Credits ==

a) Materialize
Resource URI: http://materializecss.com/
Copyright: Alvin Wang
License: MIT
License URI: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

b) Material Design icons
Copyright: Google
Resource URI: http://google.github.io/material-design-icons/
License: Attribution 4.0 International
License URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

c) Fonts
Resource URI: http://www.google.com/fonts
License: Apache License, version 2.0
License URI: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
And
https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/blob/master/fonts/LICENSE.txt
 
d) VelocityJS
(C) 2014 Julian Shapiro. 
https://github.com/julianshapiro/velocity/blob/master/velocity.min.js
MIT @license: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

e) Images Used In Screenshot and Theme
Demo images are used for theme testing and visual placeholders. Replace demo images with production-owned or licensed media before using the theme on a live publication.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.4 =
* Released: July 8, 2026
* Updated theme tags, description, Tested up to, Requires at least, and Requires PHP metadata.
* Fixed footer escaping so text output uses esc_html() and attributes use esc_attr().
* Added wp_body_open() directly after the opening body tag.
* Replaced the hard-coded header search form with get_search_form() output.
* Moved header search JavaScript into the enqueued theme script.
* Added block styles, block pattern registration, wide alignment support, responsive embed support, custom header support, and editor styling.
* Added editor-style.css for block editor parity.
* Tightened share and navigation URL escaping.
* Added theme-version cache busting to enqueued CSS and JavaScript assets.

= 1.0.3 =
* Released: July 8, 2026
* Updated theme screenshot for the polished TechAbout demo.
* Imported demo content for posts, pages, categories, comments, widgets, archives, nested menus, and formatting coverage.
* Added Customizer options for typography, colors, surfaces, card radius, sidebar heading size, and footer credit behavior.
* Added nofollow support to the TechAbout footer credit link.
* Improved homepage hero image, hero width, section spacing, color contrast, typography, and layout alignment.
* Standardized homepage section widths to align with the header container.
* Added visible image/media treatment to the premium Customizer feature section and fixed cluttered text spacing.
* Restyled search UI so it is visible, complete, and easier to use.
* Fixed blog card image and title overflow issues.
* Improved single post title and breadcrumb layout so the title starts below the header logo width.
* Removed the current post/page title from breadcrumbs and prepared fallback support for SEO plugin breadcrumbs.
* Moved author and date below the single post title and removed duplicate lower meta.
* Replaced unlabeled social share circles with readable share actions.
* Adjusted sidebar tag padding and removed tag shadows.
* Added separators between recent post titles and dates.
* Reduced unwanted top padding on single content sections.
* Added demo placeholder images to blog posts for visual testing.

= 1.0.2 =
* Released: May 9, 2018
* URI Additions

= 1.0.1 =
* Released: May 7, 2018
* Error/Bugs Removal

= 1.0.0 =
* Released: April 26, 2018
* Initial release
