===Welcome to Stratum ===

Created by: PremiumWP
Requires at least: WordPress 4.7
Tested up to: WordPress 4.9.1
Version: 1.0.4
PHP required : PHP 5.3+
IE Browser Support: IE11+
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, flexible-header, custom-background, custom-menu, custom-logo, editor-style, featured-images, footer-widgets, microformats, post-formats, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready

== Description ==
Stratum is a modern and versatile WordPress theme for professional websites. Stratum is perfect for small businesses, agencies, project showcases, startups, portfolios, corporate, non-profit, ecommerce shops (WooCommerce), blogs or any other type of website. It has a minimal, lightweight and mobile first design that is flexible and easy to use. Stratum is written with clean code, the most current HTML5 conventions and Schema.org microdata. It is also built with search-engine optimization (SEO), security, pagespeed and simplicity in mind. With a flexible frontpage layout and numerous customization, layout and typography options Stratum can serve as a solid base to build incredible websites.

== 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.
4. Navigate to Appearance > Customize in your admin panel and customize to taste.

== Usage Instructions ==

1. Layouts can be assigned globally in the Customizer, and/or on a per post/page basis in the editor on the specific post or page. Note: you need to add widgets to primary and/or secondary sidebar in order to see all the available layout options in the customizer and individual page layout option.
3. The complete usage instructions and documentation for Stratum is here: https://www.premiumwp.com/themes/stratum/

== Copyright ==

Stratum WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016-2017 PremiumWP
Stratum 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 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.

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

Stratum WordPress Theme is based on Underscores, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc.
Licenses: [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
Source: http://underscores.me/

Stratum WordPress Theme incorporates code from Twenty Fifteen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2014-2017 WordPress.org & Automattic.com
Twenty Fifteen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Stratum WordPress Theme incorporates code from Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016-2017 WordPress.org & Automattic.com
Twenty Fifteen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Stratum WordPress Theme incorporates code from Stargazer WordPress Theme, Copyright (c) 2013 - 2017, Justin Tadlock http://themehybrid.com/themes/stargazer.
Stargazer WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

== Credits ==
Stratum WordPress Theme bundles the following third-party resources:

normalize.css, (C) 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
Licenses: [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
Source:  http://github.com/necolas/normalize.css

Font Awesome SVG icons, Copyright Dave Gandy
License: SIL Open Font License, version 1.1.
Source: http://fontawesome.io/

Images Used in Screenshot

https://unsplash.com/photos/JMKkm3leBKE
by Zachary Staines @antibodies (https://unsplash.com/@antibodies)
License: [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)


== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 - Oct 24 2017 =
* Initial release

= 1.0.1 - Dec 1 2017 =
* Bug fixes and improvements

= 1.0.2 - Dec 5 2017 =
* Bug fixes and improvements

= 1.0.3 - Dec 18 2017 =
* RTL Language Support
* Editor style improvements
* Bug fixes and improvements

= 1.0.4 - Jan 04 2018 =
* Backend code improvements
* Removal of unnecessary codes
* Minor bugfix in frontpage widgets alignment
* A new image size added, suitable for sidebar featured posts