NEWSCENTURY TV — WORDPRESS THEME
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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A complete, self-contained WordPress theme (no page builder required to
work, but 100% Elementor / Elementor Pro compatible):

- Sticky header with logo, dropdown navigation, live search panel
- Top utility bar with a LIVE clock (updates every second via JS) + date,
  visible on both desktop and mobile
- Mini top menu for Advertise / Write Us / About / Contact (auto-created)
- A dedicated, sellable AD BANNER strip under the top bar, with separate
  desktop and mobile images + click-through link, all set from the
  Customizer — no code needed
- A moving "Trending" marquee ticker under the header (pauses on hover,
  speed/label/source all configurable)
- Homepage with hero feature block, category spotlight rows, sidebar with
  trending list + sidebar ad slot
- Single post template with share buttons, tags, author box, related posts
- Full Customizer-based "NewsCentury Theme Options" panel controlling
  colors, typography accents, ticker, ad banner, top bar, footer, social
  links, and the "Watch Live" button
- 4 footer widget columns + widgetized main sidebar
- Two Elementor-ready page templates: "Full Width (Elementor)" and
  "Canvas (Elementor Blank)"
- Fast by design: no jQuery dependency for front-end JS, minimal CSS,
  lazy-loaded images, cleaned-up <head>, inline SVG icons (no icon-font)

INSTALLATION
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1. Zip the "newscentury" folder (already done: newscentury-theme.zip).
2. In WordPress admin: Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
3. Upload newscentury-theme.zip and Activate.
   On activation the theme AUTOMATICALLY creates:
     - Home, About Us, Contact, Advertise With Us, Write Us pages
     - Sets Home as the static front page
     - Builds the "Top Bar Menu" (Advertise/Write Us/About/Contact) and
       assigns it to the top-bar menu location
     - Builds a starter "Primary Menu"
4. Go to Appearance > Menus and add your real navigation items (e.g. your
   News categories) to the "Primary Menu" location. Add/re-order the four
   top links in "Top Bar Mini Menu" if you want a different order.
5. Go to Appearance > Customize > NewsCentury Theme Options to:
   - Upload your logo (Site Identity)
   - Upload your ad banner images (desktop 970x90 / mobile 320x50) and
     paste the advertiser's link — this is your sellable space
   - Set ticker source (Trending / Breaking / Latest posts), speed, label
   - Set your brand colors (primary/secondary/accent)
   - Add your social links, footer text, and "Watch Live" stream URL
6. On each post, use the "NewsCentury Flags" box (right sidebar of the
   post editor) to mark a story "Breaking News" or "Trending" — this is
   what feeds the ticker and the sidebar's Trending list.
7. Install Elementor (free) or Elementor Pro from Plugins > Add New if you
   want to visually design the Home page, About page, or build custom
   headers/footers. This theme registers full Elementor Pro Theme Builder
   locations and adds two Elementor-friendly page templates (Page
   Attributes > Template dropdown, when editing a page).

RECOMMENDED PLUGINS (not bundled, install separately)
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- Elementor / Elementor Pro — visual page building
- Contact Form 7 or WPForms — for the "Write Us" / "Contact" pages
- Yoast SEO or Rank Math — SEO
- WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache — extra caching on top of the theme's
  already-lean output
- Smush or ShortPixel — image compression for even faster load times

NOTES
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- Colors, ticker, ad banner and every other listed setting are 100% theme
  options — no code editing needed to run the site day-to-day.
- The theme ships translation-ready (text domain: newscentury).
