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 						***** FLATTER THEME DOCUMENTATION *****
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Description: Flatter is a multipurpose Free WordPress Theme. It consists of Featured Slider, Featured Posts, Services Posts, Testimonial Posts, Latest Posts, your Works Posts, Newsletter Subscription Widget, Social Icons and four widgetized Footer blocks in Homepage layout. You can choose multiple sidebar option on blog, single post, single page, search page, page not found page as Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Both Sidebar as per requirements. These all options can be optimized from the Theme Options of Customize. RTL Enable/Disable option is also available in Theme Options. Fullwidth Page, Fullwidth Blog with Masonry layout and Woocommerce Ready within the theme. What are you waiting for? Lets start downloading this amazing and beautiful Free Multipurpose WordPress Theme right away. Read the theme documentation for detail usage of theme attached within this theme as readme.txt file or visit Demo https://oceanwebthemes.com/preview?theme=flatter

Tags: translation-ready, custom-background, green,light,theme-options, custom-menu, post-formats, threaded-comments,one-column,two-columns,three-columns,left-sidebar,right-sidebar,responsive-layout,custom-header,featured-images,full-width-template,rtl-language-support,sticky-post

Requires at least: 4.5
Tested up to: 5.0.1
Stable tag: 2.1.6.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html



Flatter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
The exceptions to license are as follows:
Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
Javascript Library : http://owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/
AnimateCSS : https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
WOW JS : http://mynameismatthieu.com/WOW/
Smart Menu : http://www.smartmenus.org/
Font Awesome :Font-Awesome https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)- by @davegandy
Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/  licensed MIT, docs CC BY 3.0.
Photo Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/road-mountains-clouds-street-4593/

Image licences Used in screenshot
1.https://unsplash.com/photos/RSOxw9X-suY CC0 License
2.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canola_crop_near_Kojonup.jpg  CC0 License
3.https://unsplash.com/photos/DgtRKZOOE0w CC0 License
4.https://www.pexels.com/photo/pond-dock-woods-forest-31370/ CC0 License
5.https://unsplash.com/photos/kMU_2u2Ap2g CC0 License
6.https://www.pexels.com/photo/road-mountains-clouds-street-4593/ CC0 License




== 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.


== RECOMMENDED PLUGINS ==
	
Flatter Theme support styling of  the following plugins from the WordPress Repository.

1. Woocommerce Plugin [ if you want to display your site with products to sell online ]
2. Newsletter Plugin
3. Contact form 7 Plugin


== FLATTER THEME HOMEPAGE ==
By default, WordPress site will takes you to Blog as your Homepage but in order to get the Flatter Theme Homepage, you have to go to Pages > Add New page. Here you can add title as Home and select the template as Frontpage. Then Save the page, assign that page to frontpage via settings and all done...!!!


== FLATTER THEME OPTION PANEL ==
	
Go to Appearance > Customize.
Click on Flatter Theme Option where you will get the following sections for the homepage to set.

*** Flatter Theme Option ***

1. Theme Logo:
You can replace the default theme logo with your own logo by uploading. Uploaded image size must be 200px width and 52px height for the logo.

2. Slider Categories:
You can choose your Homepage Slider Category by selecting in the select box and Welcome Home button link can be changed as per your requirement.

3. Features Categories:
You can choose your Homepage Features Category by selecting in the select box.

4. Services Categories:
You can choose your Homepage Services Category by selecting in the select box.

5. Testimonials Categories:
You can choose your Homepage Testimonials Category by selecting in the select box.

6. Latest Post Categories:
You can choose your Homepage Latest Post Category by selecting in the select box.

7. Our Works Categories:
You can choose your Homepage Our Works Category by selecting in the select box.

9. Footer Settings:
You can choose your Footer Settings here for Copyright text and Footer Social Icons. By default, social icons are turned off and if you want to turned on, you have to click on that Show social icons box. Then add your social icons links url to below boxes as required.
10. FrontPage setting:
Create a page called home or frontpage and select the , Select the FrontPage Template from Page Attributes . Go to Settings->readings and Select recently created frontpage for the frontpage desplay




*** Flatter Sidebar Layout ***

After successfully optimizing your site requirements from Flatter Theme Option, now you can choose your site sidebar layout option for Blog, Single page, Post page, Search page and Page not found page accordingly.

Available Sidebars:
Category Sidebar Layout 		: Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Both Sidebar (displays left, content and right sidebars)
Single Post Sidebar Layout 		: Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Both Sidebar (displays left, content and right sidebars)
Single Page Sidebar Layout 		: Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Both Sidebar (displays left, content and right sidebars)
Search Page Sidebar Layout 		: Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Both Sidebar (displays left, content and right sidebars)
Page Not Found Sidebar Layout 	: Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Both Sidebar (displays left, content and right sidebars)

Note: We have also Full width layout for Blog page and Single page in Page Sections via template.
