=== Now Live ===
Contributors: Muse
Tags: blog, news, two-columns, right-sidebar, custom-logo, custom-menu, featured-images, threaded-comments, translation-ready, custom-background, custom-colors
Requires at least: 5.8
Tested up to: 6.8
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

An original, energetic magazine-style WordPress theme built from scratch by Muse for Shay Lehv. Dark charcoal header with a pulsing LIVE badge, a scrolling latest-posts ticker bar, a bold featured-stories grid, card listings, right sidebar, and dark footer. No license key, no upsells, no external requests.

== Description ==

Now Live feels like a live broadcast: a dark charcoal masthead with a pulsing red LIVE badge, a latest-posts ticker that scrolls beneath the header (pausing on hover), and a magazine-style featured grid on the front page — one lead story plus four secondary cards.

Features:

* Custom menus: Primary, Footer, and Social Links menus
* Custom logo support
* Featured images with magazine-grid image sizes
* Front-page featured grid: latest sticky post as lead, then the four most recent posts
* Scrolling latest-posts ticker bar (toggleable, pauses on hover)
* Sticky posts get a pulsing "LIVE Featured" badge
* Post formats (aside, image, video, quote, link, gallery) shown as a label in the entry meta
* Related posts ("More Live Stories"): same categories first, recent posts fallback
* Breadcrumbs on posts, pages, and archives
* Share buttons (X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Email share-intent links — no external scripts)
* Numbered pagination and previous/next post navigation
* Two content widget areas (Right Sidebar + Front Page Widget Band) plus Footer Widgets
* Responsive mobile menu with animated dropdowns
* Back-to-top button with smooth scrolling
* Customizer options: accent color, ticker on/off, featured grid on/off, breadcrumbs on/off, related posts on/off, back-to-top on/off, animations on/off, footer text
* Lively animations (scroll reveals, hover zooms, smooth dropdowns, ticker) that honor prefers-reduced-motion and a Customizer kill switch
* Translation-ready, PHP 7.4 compatible

All code is original, written from scratch for this theme.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial release.
* Dark charcoal header with pulsing LIVE badge and animated latest-posts ticker.
* Front-page magazine featured grid (lead story + four cards).
* Card listings, right sidebar, front-page widget band, dark footer with widgets.
* Customizer: accent color, ticker, grid, breadcrumbs, related posts, back-to-top, animations, footer text.
* Sticky-post "LIVE Featured" badges, post formats, related posts, breadcrumbs, share links, numbered pagination, back-to-top.
* Animations honor prefers-reduced-motion plus a Customizer kill switch.

== License ==

This theme is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
