=== Mercantile ===

Mercantile is the most feature rich, powerful, advanced, easy to use and maintain multipurpose WordPress theme with highly customizable theme options. Mercantile theme is crafted to provide all the important features that you need in promoting and running your business, corporate or any kinds of sites in the web world. The main features of Mercantile is Integration with Page Builder by SiteOrigin , WooCommerce Compatible, Advanced Custom Widgets, WordPress Live Customizer and One page or Multi-page layout. It is entirely innovative, infinitely creative and feature rich ultimate WordPress theme. Mercantile provide you quick and efficient way to create any kinds of websites which may include corporate, business, agency, portfolio, showcase, medical, education, travel, restaurant, personal, blogging, and more. Some highlighted features are, beautiful Featured slider section, Service Section, Parallax featured section, Alternative feature section, Testimonial section, Contact section, Portfolio section as well as Beautiful blog section. You can easily set Right sidebar, Left sidebar or Full width on the inner pages. Site color can be change with a single click. Custom CSS options, related post and breadcrumb options will help to customize your site even more.  Theme documentation and quick and helpful supports help you to master this theme within no time. Finally, Mercantile theme comes with the limitless customization options, powerful features, quality code, elegant design, and incredible support. Try this versatile theme. Support Forum: http://www.acmethemes.com/supports/ Demos: http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/home-1/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/home-2/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/home-3/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/shop/

Contributors: acmethemes

Tags: one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, custom-background, custom-colors, custom-header, custom-menu, custom-logo, featured-images, footer-widgets, full-width-template, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, translation-ready, blog, e-commerce, portfolio

Requires at least: 4.5
Tested up to: 4.9.1
Stable tag: 2.1.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

== Description ==

Mercantile is the most feature rich, powerful, advanced, easy to use and maintain multipurpose WordPress theme with highly customizable theme options. Mercantile theme is crafted to provide all the important features that you need in promoting and running your business, corporate or any kinds of sites in the web world. The main features of Mercantile is Integration with Page Builder by SiteOrigin , WooCommerce Compatible, Advanced Custom Widgets, WordPress Live Customizer and One page or Multi-page layout. It is entirely innovative, infinitely creative and feature rich ultimate WordPress theme. Mercantile provide you quick and efficient way to create any kinds of websites which may include corporate, business, agency, portfolio, showcase, medical, education, travel, restaurant, personal, blogging, and more. Some highlighted features are, beautiful Featured slider section, Service Section, Parallax featured section, Alternative feature section, Testimonial section, Contact section, Portfolio section as well as Beautiful blog section. You can easily set Right sidebar, Left sidebar or Full width on the inner pages. Site color can be change with a single click. Custom CSS options, related post and breadcrumb options will help to customize your site even more.  Theme documentation and quick and helpful supports help you to master this theme within no time. Finally, Mercantile theme comes with the limitless customization options, powerful features, quality code, elegant design, and incredible support. Try this versatile theme. Support Forum: http://www.acmethemes.com/supports/ Demos: http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/home-1/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/home-2/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/home-3/ , http://www.demo.acmethemes.com/mercantile/shop/

== Translation ==

Mercantile theme is translation ready.

== License ==

Mercantile is based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2014 Automattic, Inc.
Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or later.
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Mercantile WordPress Theme, Copyright 2014 AcmeThemes
Mercantile is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later
The exceptions to license are as follows:

* Based on Underscores http://underscores.me/, (C) 2012-2015 Automattic, Inc., [GPLv2 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
* Google Fonts - Apache License, version 2.0
* normalize.css http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/, (C) 2012-2015 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
* Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc.
* Font-Awesome https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) by @davegandy
* html5shiv https://github.com/afarkas/html5shiv [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) by @afarkas @jdalton @jon_neal @rem
* jQuery Parallax http://www.ianlunn.co.uk/plugins/jquery-parallax/ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Author: Ian Lunn
* OwlCarousel http://www.owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) - Copyright (c) 2013 Bartosz Wojciechowski
* respond.min https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright Scott Jehl
* WOW https://github.com/matthieua/WOW [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Eden
* Breadcrumb Trail https://github.com/justintadlock/breadcrumb-trail, Copyright and License : Breadcrumb Trail is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later, 2008 – 2015 © Justin Tadlock.
* TGM-Plugin-Activation Copyright 2011 Thomas Griffin (thomas licensed under the GNU GPL

Image used in screenshot and startup-slider.jpg
https://pixabay.com/en/office-freelancer-computer-business-620823/ - License CC0 Public Domain

== 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.

== Usage ==

=== Front Page/Home page Customization ===
1. In the admin area, go to Pages > Add New
3. Again In the admin area, go to Settings > Reading
4. In Front page displays choose 'A static page (select below)' and select page for homepage/frontpage
4. The sidebar "Home Main Content Area" will display in homepage

=== Customization site ===
1. In the admin area, go to Appearance > Customize
2. You wll find different options in customizer