=== Mercantile ===

Mercantile is a feature rich and powerful multipurpose business theme with highly customizable theme options. The best and attractive WordPress theme is made to provide all the important features that you need in promoting and running your business or corporate house in the internet. Mercantile provide you quick and efficient way to create any kinds of websites which may includes corporate, business, agency, portfolio, showcase, medical, education, travel, restaurant, personal, blogging, and more. It is also a one page ready theme and also supports for WooCommerce integration. Mercantile is clean, modern, SEO friendly, cross browser compatible and responsive theme with elegant design based on customizer. All the features for making sites are here which includes beautiful Featured slider section, Service Section, Parallax featured section, Alternative feature section, Testimonial section, Contact section as well as Beautiful blog section. You can easily set Right sidebar, Left sidebar or Full width on the inner pages. Site color can be change with a single click. Custom CSS options, related post and breadcrumb options will help to customize your site even more. Theme documentation and quick and helpful supports help you to master this theme. Try this versatile theme. Support Forum: http://www.acmethemes.com/supports/ Demo: http://www.acmethemes.com/demo/?theme=mercantile

Contributors: acmethemes

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

Requires at least: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.7
Stable tag: 1.0.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html


== Description ==

Description: Mercantile is a feature rich and powerful multipurpose business theme with highly customizable theme options. The best and attractive WordPress theme is made to provide all the important features that you need in promoting and running your business or corporate house in the internet. Mercantile provide you quick and efficient way to create any kinds of websites which may includes corporate, business, agency, portfolio, showcase, medical, education, travel, restaurant, personal, blogging, and more. It is also a one page ready theme and also supports for WooCommerce integration. Mercantile is clean, modern, SEO friendly, cross browser compatible and responsive theme with elegant design based on customizer. All the features for making sites are here which includes beautiful Featured slider section, Service Section, Parallax featured section, Alternative feature section, Testimonial section, Contact section as well as Beautiful blog section. You can easily set Right sidebar, Left sidebar or Full width on the inner pages. Site color can be change with a single click. Custom CSS options, related post and breadcrumb options will help to customize your site even more. Theme documentation and quick and helpful supports help you to master this theme. Try this versatile theme. Support Forum: http://www.acmethemes.com/supports/ Demo: http://www.acmethemes.com/demo/?theme=mercantile

== Translation ==

Mercantile theme is translation ready.

== License ==

Mercantile is based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2014 Automattic, Inc.
Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Mercantile WordPress Theme, Copyright 2014 AcmeThemes
Mercantile is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later
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)
* Google Fonts - Apache License, version 2.0
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc.
* Font-Awesome https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) by @davegandy
* html5shiv https://github.com/afarkas/html5shiv [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) by @afarkas @jdalton @jon_neal @rem
* jQuery Parallax http://www.ianlunn.co.uk/plugins/jquery-parallax/ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Author: Ian Lunn
* OwlCarousel http://www.owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) - Copyright (c) 2013 Bartosz Wojciechowski
* respond.min https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright Scott Jehl
* WOW https://github.com/matthieua/WOW [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Eden
* Breadcrumb Trail https://github.com/justintadlock/breadcrumb-trail, Copyright and License : Breadcrumb Trail is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later, 2008 – 2015 © Justin Tadlock.
Image used in screenshot and startup-slider.jpg
https://pixabay.com/en/office-freelancer-computer-business-620823/ - License CC0 Public Domain


== 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.

== Usage ==

=== Front Page/Home page Customization ===
1. In the admin area, go to Pages > Add New
3. Again In the admin area, go to Settings > Reading
4. In Front page displays choose 'A static page (select below)' and select page for homepage/frontpage
4. The sidebar "Home Main Content Area" will display in homepage

=== Customization site ===
1. In the admin area, go to Appearance > Customize
2. You wll find different options in customizer