=== Plinth ===
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 clean, neutral starter theme for any business site: fast, accessible, and ready with starter sites for agencies, consultants, startups, restaurants, gyms, nonprofits and portfolios.

== Description ==

Plinth is a calm, system-like block theme: white and zinc with one cobalt accent, Hanken Grotesk throughout, 8px corners, hairline borders, subtle shadows and an 8-point spacing scale. It looks finished out of the box and is easy to recolor.

What's built in, with no plugins required:

* Seven starter sites under Appearance → Import demo: Northpoint Studio (agency), Clara Mendel Advisory (consultant), Lumen Metrics (startup), Olive & Ember (restaurant), Forma Gym (fitness), Greenway Trust (nonprofit) and Ana Ruiz Design (portfolio). Each imports pages, items, business details and a menu, and removes cleanly.
* Services, case studies, team members, testimonials, FAQs, client logos and pricing plans, each with its own fields, plus business details (phone, address, opening hours with "open now", map, social links) used everywhere they appear.
* Designed templates for services, case studies and team (single, archive, search and category pages), with filters, prices, key facts, process steps, results in numbers, galleries and an inquiry form.
* Four headers (standard, centered, transparent over a cover image, with a top bar) and three footers (simple, columns, call to action and columns), all switchable in the Site Editor.
* About 35 patterns: six heroes, features, checklists, process steps, numbers, services, work, team, pricing, testimonials, logos, FAQ, contact with map, opening hours, galleries with a lightbox, posts, forms and five full pages.
* Contact, booking and newsletter forms that store messages under Messages and email you.
* Light and dark color schemes with a switch in the header, and four style variations: Dark, Emerald, Crimson and Serif Heads.
* Gentle entrance animations that respect reduced-motion settings, a reading progress bar, table of contents and share links on posts.
* Templates: blog home, single post, page, archive, search, 404, "Landing (no title)", "Wide (no sidebar)", "Landing with transparent header" and "Page with top bar header".

Secure Custom Fields is recommended to edit the business fields; without it, everything still displays.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How do I start from a starter site? =

Go to Appearance → Import demo, pick a starter site and click Import demo content. Tick "Use the demo home page as the front page" to make its home page your front page. Remove it again from the same screen.

= Where do form messages go? =

To Messages in wp-admin, and by email to the address set there (the site's admin email by default). Each form can also send to its own address: select the form block and fill in "Send to".

= How do I change the phone number, address and opening hours? =

Under Business → Business details. Headers, footers, contact sections, maps and the "Get in touch" buttons all read them from there.

= How do I switch the header or footer? =

In Appearance → Editor, open a template, select the header or footer and choose another one with "Replace". Or pick the "Landing with transparent header" or "Page with top bar header" template for a single page.

= How do I recolor the theme? =

Choose a style variation in Appearance → Editor → Styles, or change the Accent color in the palette. Buttons, links, icons and highlights follow it.

= Can visitors switch to dark mode? =

Yes. The theme follows the visitor's system setting, and the switch in the header lets them choose. The Dark style variation makes dark the default.

= Can I turn the animations off? =

Remove the motion classes in the block's Motion panel. Visitors who prefer reduced motion never see them.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.

== Copyright ==

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

== Resources ==

* Hanken Grotesk, (C) 2021 The Hanken Grotesk Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/marcologous/hanken-grotesk
* Images: Symelo placeholder library (https://dev.symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later: food-2 (food-2.webp), interiors-5 (interiors-5.webp), nature-10 (nature-10.webp); shared with the business foundation: workspace-8 (office.webp), workspace-4 (studio.webp), architecture-4 (tower.webp), architecture-6 (brick.webp), technology-3 (fiber.webp), abstract-1 (waves.webp).
* Portrait illustrations (portrait-1.webp to portrait-4.webp): (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
* Icons: Lucide (https://lucide.dev), ISC License, (C) Lucide Icons and Contributors; some derived from Feather, MIT License, (C) Cole Bemis.
* Symelo Theme Kit and the business foundation: (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
