=== Education Zone ===

Contributors: raratheme
Requires at least: 6.2
Requires PHP: 7.4
Tested up to: 6.6
Stable tag: 1.3.8
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: blog, two-columns, right-sidebar, footer-widgets, custom-background, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready, full-width-template, education, theme-options, custom-logo, e-commerce, one-column, post-formats

== Description ==

Education Zone is a free clean, beautiful and professional looking WordPress Theme specially designed for Education Institutions. This theme is best suited for college, school, university, LMS, Training Center, Academy, Primary School, High school and Kindergarten and other educational websites. The theme is very flexible and versatile can be used to build various types of business and corporate websites. The theme is highly customizable with various features and personalization options. Education Zone comes with several features to make a user-friendly, interactive and visually stunning website. Such features include custom menu, attractive banner, Stat counter, Courses section, testimonial section, Banner with Call to Action Button (CTA), and social media. The theme is SEO friendly with optimized codes, which make it easy for your site to rank on Google and other search engines. The theme is rigorously tested and optimized for speed and faster page load time and has a secure and clean code. The theme is also translation ready. Designed with visitor engagement in mind, Education Zone helps you to easily and intuitively create professional and appealing websites. If your school, college or university needs an online home that is dynamic and multi-functional, this theme is a good place to start. Check the demo at https://rarathemes.com/previews/?theme=education-zone, documentation at https://docs.rarathemes.com/docs/education-zone/, and get support at https://rarathemes.com/support-ticket/.


== Installation ==
        
1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button.
2. 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.

== Documentations ==

1. Setting up the Homepage
    1. To set up the homepage you must first create a new page. 
    2. Create a new Page
    3. Go to Pages > Add New.
    4. Enter the Page Title for the Page
    5. You do not require to enter anything in the content section for creating a home page. 
    6. Select the Homepage Template from the Page Attributes section 
    7. Click Publish.

Detailed Documentation can be found here https://docs.rarathemes.com/docs/education-zone/

== Copyrights and License ==

Education Zone WordPress Theme, Copyright Rara Theme 2015, rarathemes.com
Education Zone WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 or later

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.   


Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GPLv2 or later

External resources linked to the theme.
* Lato Font by through Google Font 
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato

* Roboto Font by through Google Font 
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

normalize.css, Copyright 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
License: MIT
Source: https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

Font Awesome icons, Copyright Dave Gandy
Icons License: CC BY 4.0 
Fonts License: SIL OFL 1.1 
Source: http://fontawesome.io/

Owl-carousel, Copyright 2013-2017 David Deutsch 
License : MIT
Source  : https://owlcarousel2.github.io/OwlCarousel2

Owl Carousel v2 Accessibility Layer, © Geoffrey Roberts 2016
License : MIT
Source  : https://github.com/rtrvrtg/owlcarousel2-a11ylayer/blob/master/LICENSE

TGMPA, Copyright (c) 2011, Thomas Griffin
License: GPL-2.0+
Source: http://tgmpluginactivation.com/

Counter-Up, Copyright 2013, Benjamin Intal
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Source: https://github.com/bfintal/Counter-Up/blob/master/LICENSE

waypoint, Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Caleb Troughton
License: MIT License
Source: https://github.com/imakewebthings/waypoints/blob/master/licenses.txt

# Images
All images are under Creative Commons Public Domain deed CC0.

    License 	: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    License URI	: https://pxhere.com/en/license
    Source 		: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1230649

    License 	: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    License URI	: https://pxhere.com/en/license
    Source 		: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/760396

    License 	: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    License URI	: https://pxhere.com/en/license
    Source 		: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1026332

    License 	: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
    License URI	: https://pxhere.com/en/license
    Source 		: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1383612

    All other images including icon image and images used in customizer settings are self created and are under the GPL.

Some codes are taken from https://blog.josemcastaneda.com/2016/08/08/copy-paste-hurting-theme/
Some codes are taken from Twenty Twenty theme - https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty/

== Changelog ==

    1.3.8 - August 08, 2024
    * Update: New dashboard has been implemented for better user experience.

    1.3.7 - May 22, 2024
    * Fix: Minor refinements have been done in the dashboard links.

    1.3.6 - Feb 8, 2024
    * Update: Admin Ajax issue fixed for non admin users.

    1.3.5 - Jan 31, 2024
    * Update: Nonce check for admin Notice.
    
    1.3.4 - August 14, 2023
    * Update: Updated fontawesome to 6.1.1 and added tiktok icon.
    * Refinements for child theme.
    
    1.3.3
    * Fixed: Header design issue in inner pages is fixed.

    1.3.2
    * Fixed : Minor bug fixes.
    
    1.3.1
    * New Feature : Compatiblity Theme styling settings added for modern and classic design.
    * New feature : Added Static CTA banner.
    * Fixed : Minor Bug fixes.

    1.3.0
    * Update: Load google font locally.
	* Added: Feature to preload and flush the locally loaded google fonts.
	* Fixed: TGMPA plugin installation issue for php 8.
    * Removed: Schema function for single post.
    
    1.2.9
    * Fixed menu accessibility issue in mobile
    * Made function pluggable for childtheme.

    1.2.8
    * Removed widget block editor for WordPress 5.8 

    1.2.7
    * Fixed mobile menu load issue on window resize

    1.2.6
    * Fixed jQuery deprecated warnings 
    * Fixed menu accessibility
    * Added link underline in post/page

    1.2.5
    * Fixed calendar widget design issue for WordPress 5.4.2
    * Fixed menu accessibility
    * Fixed schema issue
    * Fixed counter issue
    * Added tested up to and require php in style header
    * Updated metabox
    * Updated breadcrumbs
    * Changed demo link

    1.2.4
    * Fixed menu accessibility design
    * Replaced fallback image by fallback svg
    * Changed owl carousel aria with allylayer
    * Update preg replace for telephone to add + sign
    * Added comment fields as required
    * Added static page content when all section of homepage is disabled

    1.2.3
    * Fixed js minification issue
    
    1.2.2
    * Navigation Accessibility in Edge fixed.
    
    1.2.1
    * Added accessibility requirement for Skip Links, Keyboard navigation, Controls and Form labeling.
    * Added Getting started page.
    * Changed Documentation links.

    1.2.0
    * Validated readme.txt file.
    * Changed raratheme.com to rarathemes.com.

    1.1.9
    * wp_body_open() function added.
    * Demo Zip file url removed.
    * WooCommerce functionality of lightbox,slider and zoom.
    * Section Navigation added.

    1.1.8
    * Some css tweaks.
    * Made footer link no-follow.
    * Some Links corrected.
    * Added is admin check in excerpt length filter.
    
    1.1.7
    * Updated responsive header menu.
    * Updated font-awesome to version 5.6.3.
    * Updated demo link.
    * Added Rara One Click Demo Import in TGMPA.

    1.1.6
    * Replaced lightslider, slick with owl-carousel for slider
    * Added minified files for all js and css
    * Added schema for SEO

    1.1.5
    * Privacy Policy link and WP Comment Cookies Consent features were added after 4.9.6 wp installation.
    
    1.1.4
    * Added an option for demo file zip in the free theme.
    * Demo Zip file name corrected.
    * HomePage Label were fixed.

    1.1.3
    * Added front-page.php file.
    * Added Footer settings option on customizer.
    * Implemented TGMPA plugin.

    1.1.2
    * Changed stat counter to render commas.

    1.1.1
    * Made Theme RTL compatible
    * Fixed minor design issues.
    * Fixed minor issue on blog section.
    * New: Added Video Tutorial Section on Customizer.

    1.1.0
    * Changed Screenshot.
    * Made theme woocommerce compatible.

    1.0.9
    * Changed Screenshot.
    * Fixed minor design issues.
    
    1.0.8
    * Removed Information Links section from customizer. 

    1.0.7
    * Fixed issues mentioned on theme trac.

    1.0.6
    * Fixed issues mentioned on theme trac.

    1.0.5
    * Fixed minor issue.

    1.0.4
    * Fixed minor issues mentioned on theme trac.

    1.0.3
    * Removed custom CSS section. 
    
    1.0.2
    * Fix some bugs.
    
    1.0.1
    * Removed Footer menu, and extra footer widgets.
    * Fix some bugs.    
    
    1.0.0
    * Initial Release