=== Fernway ===
Contributors: symelo
Requires at least: 7.0
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

A botanical WooCommerce theme for plant shops, nurseries and garden tool makers: greenhouse light, glasshouse panes, arched frames and care notes.

== Description ==

Fernway is a block theme for shops that sell living things. Pale sage and deep green, Petrona headlines with Latin names in italics, Urbanist for everything you read and tap, leaf-shaped cards and photos under glasshouse arches.

What is built in, with no plugins beyond WooCommerce:

* A designed store home: the greenhouse hero behind glasshouse panes, selling points, a plant finder that starts from the light in your window, new arrivals, care levels (one to three leaves), a seasonal care calendar that marks the current season, the plant doctor request form, care notes from the journal and a monthly care letter.
* A plant page with a 4:5 photo grid (the first photo under an arch), Latin name, care highlights, a care card of light, water and pet-safe details, "Pot and soil" and "Care guide" panels, how live plants travel and plants that grow well together.
* The shop with filters (family, collection badges such as Easy care or Pet safe, availability), three columns of plant cards with a second photo on hover, plant search, cart, checkout and a mini cart drawer.
* Product extras from the Symelo shop foundation: badges, highlights, specifications, care, product video, size guides, announcement bar, selling points and trust badges (with the free Secure Custom Fields plugin).
* 30+ patterns: five heroes (greenhouse, glasshouse video, plant of the month in an arch, care levels, latest care guide), plant finder, seasonal calendar, plant doctor, contact and newsletter forms, galleries with a lightbox, video sections, letters from customers, numbers, growers marquee, questions and full pages (home, about, contact, plant care, the glasshouse).
* Forms that store messages in WordPress (Messages screen), galleries with masonry, carousel and lightbox, featured video, gentle animations, light and dark color schemes with a toggle.
* Four style variations: Night garden (dark first), Terracotta, Monstera and Herbarium (Urbanist headlines, square frames with paper-label captions).

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Where do form messages go? =

Every form (contact, plant doctor, care letter) stores its messages under Messages in the dashboard. Email notifications are off in the patterns; turn them on per form (the form block's settings) or for all forms under Messages, Settings, where you can also change the recipient.

= How do I add the care details to a plant? =

Install the free Secure Custom Fields plugin when the theme asks. Each product then has a Product extras box: the Latin name goes in Subtitle, the care lines in Highlights, Light, Water, Pet safe and Height in Specifications, the pot and soil in Materials and the care guide in Care.

= How do the care levels and the plant finder link to products? =

The care level tiles link to the product badges Easy care, Medium care and Expert care (slugs easy-care, medium-care, expert-care); the plant finder links to the product categories bright-direct-light, bright-indirect-light, medium-light and low-light. Create those badges or categories and the links follow them; until then they open the shop.

= Which season does the calendar mark? =

The current season of the northern hemisphere. Shops south of the equator can change it with the fernway_season filter.

= How do I add a product or post video? =

Paste a YouTube, Vimeo or video file link in the Featured video panel of the editor's sidebar. Products show it under the summary; posts show it in place of the featured image.

= Can I turn the animations off? =

Visitors who ask their system for reduced motion see no animations, and the background video does not play. To remove an animation, select the block and clear its Motion setting.

= How does dark mode work? =

The moon button in the header switches between the light and dark palettes and remembers the choice; the first visit follows the visitor's system setting. Night garden starts dark.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.

== Copyright ==

Fernway WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Fernway is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

== Resources ==

* Symelo Theme Kit and the Symelo shop foundation, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
* Petrona, (C) 2019 The Petrona Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/RingoSeeber/Petrona (assets/fonts/petrona/OFL.txt).
* Urbanist, (C) 2021 The Urbanist Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/coreyhu/Urbanist (assets/fonts/urbanist/OFL.txt).
* Images assets/images/greenhouse.webp (interiors-5), bamboo-grove.webp (nature-9), mist-forest.webp (nature-12), meadow.webp (nature-10), olive-hallway.webp (interiors-12), autumn-path.webp (nature-4) and the video assets/video/fernway-loop.mp4 (made from interiors-5, nature-9 and nature-12): Symelo placeholder library (https://dev.symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later.
* Demo images in inc/foundation/demo/images: Symelo placeholder library (https://dev.symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later.
* Icons drawn in CSS (sun, drop, leaf, fern frond, sprig): made for the theme by Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
* Example videos in the "Garden films" pattern: Spring (Blender Studio) and Big Buck Bunny (Blender Foundation), CC BY; linked, not bundled.
