=== Light Speed ===

Contributors: TopTechTriks
Requires at least: 5.5
Tested up to: 6.6
Requires PHP: 7.2
Version: 1.0.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Light Speed — an ultra-fast, lightweight, SEO-friendly WordPress blog/magazine theme.

== Description ==

Light Speed is a free, high-performance WordPress theme built to pass Google
PageSpeed Insights with green scores. It ships with:

* Zero render-blocking CSS (the stylesheet is inlined into the <head>).
* No jQuery dependency — one tiny deferred vanilla-JS file (~1 KB).
* Native lazy-loading on all images.
* WordPress bloat removed (emojis, embeds, block-library CSS, oEmbed, generator tags, jQuery Migrate).
* Built-in ad zones (header, in-feed, sidebar, above/below post) with a master on/off switch.
* Sticky header, trending ticker, featured grid, popular posts, share buttons, related posts.
* Bengali + English friendly (Noto Sans Bengali / Hind Siliguri in the font stack).

== Installation ==

1. In WordPress admin go to: Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
2. Choose light-speed.zip and click "Install Now".
3. Click "Activate".
4. Go to Appearance → Customize to set your options (see below).
5. Go to Appearance → Menus and assign menus to "Primary Menu",
   "Top Bar Menu" and "Footer Menu" locations.

No FTP, SSH or command line is needed — everything is done from the WordPress
dashboard.

== Theme Options (Appearance → Customize) ==

Header & Menu:
  * Show top menu bar — turn the thin top bar on/off.
  * Show main navigation menu — turn the primary menu on/off.
  * Show breaking-news ticker — turn the home ticker on/off.

Advertisements:
  * Show ads — MASTER switch. Turn it off to hide every ad instantly.
  * Header ad / In-feed ad / Sidebar ad / Post-top ad / Post-bottom ad —
    paste your AdSense or ad-network code into each box.

Colors:
  * Primary / accent color — change the theme's red to any color.

Footer:
  * Footer "About" text.

Social Links:
  * Facebook / X / YouTube URLs (used in the top bar and sidebar).

== Sidebar ==

By design the sidebar does NOT include Labels or Categories lists. By default it
shows Popular Posts, a Follow block and (if set) a sidebar ad. To customise it,
add widgets in Appearance → Widgets → "Main Sidebar".

== Credit ==

Light Speed is free to use. In return, the footer credit
"Free Wordpress Themes by TopTechTriks" (linking to https://toptechtriks.com)
must remain in place. The theme checks for this credit and will stop displaying
the site if it is removed. See CREDIT-NOTICE.txt for details.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial release.
