=== Education Zone ===
Original Author: Rara Theme (http://raratheme.com)
Extended by mcoirad (https://github.com/mcoirad)

== Description ==

This is a modified version of Rara Themes' excellent education-zone theme. It fixes some bugs, and makes the design more centered on something that an educational institution would use (and less of a blog).
It was originally designed for the 100,000 Strong in the Americas website. You can see a demo at: http://dmitchell.x10host.com/

== Added Features ==


* Can add non-numeric elements to animated stat counters
* Added image overrides to posts featured on homepage
* New 'Media' homepage section
* More beautiful Category pages
* New 'posts by category' widget
* Homepage Blog Section can be filtered by category, date/time removed
* Option to disable metadata (author/ date) on posts
* Fixed javascript rounding error for animated stat counters
* Comments and post navigation disabled
* Embedly Support
* Many style changes
* and much, much more!

**Short-term ToDo:**

* Social Media feed integration


**Long-term ToDo:**

* Make comments and post navigation toggleable
* Reorder homepage sections from customizer
* Change section background images from customizer

== Original Description ==

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

Requires at least: 4.5.3
Tested up to: 4.7.1
Stable tag: 1.1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html



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 http://raratheme.com/preview/education-zone/, documentation at http://raratheme.com/documentation/education-zone/, and get support at http://raratheme.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://raratheme.com/documentation/education-zone/



== Copyrights and License ==



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



* Font Awesome https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/, (C) Dave Gandy, http://fontawesome.io/license/





# Images

All images are under Creative Commons Public Domain deed CC0.



https://unsplash.com/photos/E9uJ65vwGmE

https://pixabay.com/en/campus-820878/

https://pixabay.com/en/desk-stationery-pens-rulers-600482/



# JS



jquery.flexslider.js, http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/ - Copyright (c) 2015 WooThemes, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html



jquery.sidr.js, https://github.com/artberri/sidr, (C) 2013 Alberto Varela, MIT License, https://github.com/artberri/sidr/blob/master/LICENSE



lightslider.js, https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightslider, (C) Sachin, MIT, http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT 



jquery.counterup.js, Copyright 2013, Benjamin Intal,  https://github.com/bfintal/Counter-Up/blob/master/LICENSE



waypoint.js, Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Caleb Troughton, MIT License, https://github.com/imakewebthings/waypoints/blob/master/licenses.txt

    



* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)





* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)





All other resources and theme elements are licensed under the GPLv2 or later





Education Zone WordPress Theme, Copyright Rara Theme 2015, Raratheme.com

Education Zone WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 or later





*  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.

   

   

== Changelog ==

    1.1.0

    * Changed Screenshot.

    * Made 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