=== Medford News ===
Contributors: ThemeArile
Author: ThemeArile
Requires at least: WordPress 4.7
Tested up to: WordPress 6.8
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.6
Version: 1.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: blog, news, photography, custom-background, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready, rtl-language-support, one-column, two-columns, full-width-template, sticky-post, right-sidebar, footer-widgets, grid-layout

== Description ==

Medford News is the sleek, modern WordPress theme designed to make your content shine. Perfect for any blog, magazine, or publisher website, its visually stunning layout ensures your articles are beautiful and effortless to read on any device. Beyond its unique design, Medford News is built for the future: it's effortlessly lightweight, SEO-ready, and optimized for top performance and Core Web Vitals. This theme is the ideal fit for a wide range of content creators: from newspapers and news portals to personal blogs, product reviews, niche guides, lifestyle, travel, food, business, guides, journalism, travel, beauty, multimedia, and fashion magazines. Medford News gives you the power to create a perfect website without touching a single line of code. Start with unlimited colors and access to unlimited Google Fonts and full typography control. The theme offers flexible and versatile layouts that are completely responsive and support RTL languages. It is highly SEO-friendly to maximize your search engine performance and make your content easy for visitors to find. Plus, Medford News seamlessly supports all major plugins, including Elementor, Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, Gutenberg, Contact Form 7, Jetpack, Google Analytics, and more. Check the demo of Medford News Pro https://newsexo-pro-eleven.themearile.com/.

== Installation ==

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

== Keyboard navigation ==

Keyboard navigation is working properly in the forward direction by using the tab key. For the reverse direction, Shift+Tab key is working on all the parent menus and if the dropdown menus are open then it is working on it. The focus is moving back to the parent menu having submenus from the next menu in a reverse direction. The menu that have #, once it is open then dropdown menus are open by using the space key.

== Copyright ==

Medford News WordPress Theme, Copyright (C) 2023-2024, ThemeArile
Medford News WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

== Credits ==

* Underscores - (C) 2012-2017 Automattic, Inc. - http://underscores.me/
License: GPLv2 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) 

* Font Awesome Free 6.4.2 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com
License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License)
Copyright 2023 Fonticons, Inc.

* Open Sans Font by Steve Matteson - https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
License: Apache License, version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)

* Animate.css - Copyright (c) 2018 Daniel Eden - http://daneden.me/animate
License: MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* WOW - by Matthieu Aussaguel - mynameismatthieu.com
License: GNU GPL license v3

* Owl Carousel, (C) 2013 - 2017, David Deutsch
Source: https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/
License: [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

* WPTT Webfont Loader, 2020 Ari Stathopoulos, WordPress Themes Team
License: Distributed under the terms of the MIT License
Source: https://github.com/WPTT/webfont-loader

* SmartMenus - Copyright (c) Vasil Dinkov, Vadikom Web Ltd. - http://www.smartmenus.org/
License: MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

== Images ==

* Image used in screenshot & mockup, License CC0 Public Domain

https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1690294
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1629858
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/879730
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1325957
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1534149
https://stocksnap.io/photo/video-game-UXVE8KR1TN
https://stocksnap.io/photo/lamp-candle-6ZVUC47BCJ

* Image used in header background image, License CC0 Public Domain

https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1158866

== Changelog ==

@Version 1.6
* We have added the text underline color in the hyperlink of the sidebar widget title.

@Version 1.5
* We have added the underline in the hyperlink of the footer sidebar widget title.

@Version 1.4
* We have added the underline in the hyperlink of the sidebar widget title.

@Version 1.3
* Fixed theme review all issues.

@Version 1.2
* Fixed theme review issue.

@Version 1.1
* Fixed theme review issue.

@Version 1.0
* Initial release.