=== Polestar ===

Contributors: Puro

Tags: one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-menu, custom-logo, featured-images, footer-widgets, full-width-template, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, blog, e-commerce

Requires at least: 4.7
Tested up to: 4.8.3
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Lead the way with Polestar. It's fast loading, responsive, lightweight and flexible design is perfectly suited for building dynamic pages with SiteOrigin's Page Builder and selling with WooCommerce.

== Description ==

Lead the way with Polestar. It's fast loading, responsive, lightweight and flexible design is perfectly suited for building dynamic pages with SiteOrigin's Page Builder and selling with WooCommerce. Ecommerce features include a menu mini-cart and product quick-view. Polestar features a sticky header, beautiful header search, scroll to top and just the right amount of Customizer theme settings. Page level settings let you adjust the theme layout on a page by page basis, perfect for landing pages. If you run a blog, Polestar is ready with awesome features including a full-width posts slider integrated with Jetpack Featured Content, an author box and related posts section.

== Installation ==

1. Login to your WordPress installation and go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
2. Click Choose File and browse to the theme's ZIP file on your computer. Click Install Now.
3. Click Activate to get started with your new theme right away.

== Documentation ==

[Documentation](https://purothemes.com/documentation/polestar-wordpress-theme/) is available on purothemes.com.

== Support ==

[Support](https://purothemes.com/support/forum/polestar-theme/) is available on purothemes.com.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How do I setup the posts slider? =

The posts slider uses the [Jetpack Featured Content](https://jetpack.com/support/featured-content/).

1. If you don't yet have Jetpack installed, go to Plugins > Add New, search for Jetpack, install, activate and connect to your WordPress.com account as instructed. 
2. Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Content and insert a tag name. Any posts tagged with the tag name entered will be featured in your slider.
3. Go to Posts and add the featured tag to the posts you'd like to display in your slider. When editing a post, the Tags meta box is located in the right column.

The slider will then automatically display on your blog home page (Front page displays: Your latest posts) or assigned posts (blog) page.

= How do I add social network icons to the footer menu? =

1. The Polestar footer menu supports social network icon links as used by many other themes. Icons are rendered by the [Font Awesome library](http://fontawesome.io/icons/). 

2. To add a social network icon or icons to the footer menu, go to Appearance > Menus. If you haven't yet created a menu for the footer menu location, click the "create a new menu" link. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and locate the Theme Locations sub-heading under the Menu Settings heading, select the Footer option and click the blue "Save Menu" button. 

3. Next look at the left column and locate the "Custom Links" tab, open it and add your first network. For example if we were adding a Twitter icon for Puro Themes we'd add the following to the URL field: https://twitter.com/purothemes. The URL should be a link to your profile page on one of the supported networks below. The Link Text can be anything you'd like, it won't be displayed on the front end of your site.

4. The footer menu location supports both regular links and social network links. If a link matches one of the icons below, an icon will be displayed. If a link doesn't match one of the icons below, the regular link text/label will be displayed.

Available icons:

* Behance
* CodePen
* Delicious
* deviantART
* Digg
* Dribbble
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Foursquare
* GitHub
* Google Plus
* Instagram
* LinkedIn
* Pinterest
* reddit
* SoundCloud
* StackExchange
* Stack Overflow
* Tumblr
* Twitter
* Vimeo
* Vine
* Vk
* Weibo
* WordPress.com
* Xing
* Yelp
* YouTube

== Plugin Support ==

Polestar includes support for the following plugins:

* [Breadcrumb NavXT](https://wordpress.org/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/)
* [Jetpack Featured Content](https://jetpack.com/support/featured-content/)
* [Jetpack Infinite Scroll](https://jetpack.com/support/infinite-scroll/)
* [Jetpack Related Posts](https://jetpack.com/support/related-posts/)
* [Jetpack Responsive Videos](https://jetpack.com/support/responsive-videos/)
* [Max Mega Menu](https://wordpress.org/plugins/megamenu/)
* [Page Builder by SiteOrigin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/)
* [Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/)
* [Yoast Breadcrumbs](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)
* [WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

== License ==

Polestar WordPress Theme, Copyright 2017 Puro. Polestar is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

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 3 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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

Polestar WordPress Theme is derived from [Underscores WordPress Theme](http://underscores.me/), Copyright 2012 Automattic. Underscores WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

== Images ==

Screenshot image "Half Dome Village, Yosemite Valley, United States" sourced from https://unsplash.com by [Billy Chester](https://unsplash.com/@billychester) licensed under [CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

== Fonts and Icons ==

The `polestar-icons` font family was created using IcoMoon and contains icons from Font Awesome.

`/inc/template-tags.php` contains SVG icons created using IcoMoon and includes icons from Font Awesome and Material Design Icons by Google.

Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
Font released under the SIL OFL 1.1, CSS released under the MIT License
[Source](http://fontawesome.io)

Material Design Icons by Google
Released under the Apache License Version 2.0. license
[Source](https://github.com/google/material-design-icons)

== Bundled Resources ==

Customizer Library, Copyright Devin Price
Licensed under [GPL version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)
[Source](https://github.com/devinsays/customizer-library)

FitVids, Copyright 2013, [Chris Coyier](http://css-tricks.com) and [Dave Rupert](http://daverupert.com)
Released under the WTFPL license
[Source](https://github.com/davatron5000/FitVids.js/)

FlexSlider, Copyright 2012 WooThemes
Released under [GPL version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)
[Source](http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/)

Normalize.css, Copyright Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
Released under the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[Source](https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/)

Puro Extras, Copyright Puro 2017
Released under [GPL version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)
[Source](https://github.com/purothemes/extras)

TGM Plugin Activation, Copyright 2011 Thomas Griffin
Released under [GPL version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)
[Source](https://github.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation)