=== Consultation Booking ===
Contributors: dotance
Requires at least: 6.5
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

A fast Elementor-ready theme for consultants and consultancy firms that take appointments online.

== Description ==

Consultation Booking is a lightweight theme for consultants, coaches, advisers, therapists and consultancy firms. It gives you a clean header with a "Book appointment" button, a booking bar for phones, two colour schemes and a blog, and leaves the page design to Elementor.

It is built to work with the free Bookance booking plugin (services, staff, time slots and email reminders) and the Elemance plugin for ready-made consultant pages. Both are optional: the theme works on its own.

Features:

* Booking button in the header, with your own text and link
* Booking bar at the bottom of the screen on phones
* Navy and gold, or teal and apricot colour schemes, plus custom primary and accent colours
* Full-width layout for pages built with Elementor
* Header and footer locations for Elementor Pro and header/footer builders
* Five ready-made pages (two home pages, Services, About, Book & Contact) in the free Elemance plugin's template library
* A colour scheme per page, set in the page editor sidebar
* Four footer widget columns and a footer menu
* Fonts hosted inside the theme, with no requests to Google
* Keyboard-friendly menus, skip link and reduced-motion support

== Installation ==

1. In your admin, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, choose the theme zip, then Install and Activate.
2. Go to Appearance > Get started and click Install and activate the plugins.
3. Click Import the demo.
4. Add your services and hours in Bookance, and your logo and colours in Appearance > Customize.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Do I need Elementor? =

No. The theme works with the block editor too. Elementor lets you build the demo-style pages.

= How do I show the booking button? =

With the free Bookance plugin active, the button appears on its own and opens the booking form in a popup. Without Bookance, go to Appearance > Customize > Header & booking button and enter the link to your booking page; the button and the mobile booking bar appear once a link is set.

= How do I get the demo site? =

Go to Appearance → Get started. Click the button to install and activate the free plugins, then click Import the demo. You get the two home pages, Services, About and Book & Contact, a menu, and the home page set as your front page. Existing pages are not changed.

You can also insert single pages: open a page in Elementor, click the Elemance button and choose a page from the Consultation Booking category.

= How does the booking popup work? =

With the free Bookance plugin active, the header button, the mobile booking bar and any Elementor button with the CSS class cb-book-link open the Bookance booking form in a popup. Without Bookance, the buttons follow the link you set in the Customizer.

= Does the theme load Google Fonts? =

No. The fonts are bundled with the theme and served from your own site.

== Changelog ==

= 1.1.0 =
* New Appearance → Get started page: install and activate the free plugins with one button, then import the demo site through Elemance.
* A form placed in a page keeps its own focus style.

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.

== Copyright ==

Consultation Booking WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Dotance.
Consultation Booking is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

== Resources ==

Bricolage Grotesque font
License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1, https://openfontlicense.org
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bricolage+Grotesque (files via Fontsource)

Figtree font
License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1, https://openfontlicense.org
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Figtree (files via Fontsource)

IBM Plex Mono font
License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1, https://openfontlicense.org
Source: https://github.com/IBM/plex (files via Fontsource)

Icons in the theme are hand-drawn SVG, (C) 2026 Dotance, GPLv2 or later.

Images used in screenshot.jpg, all CC0 (public domain):

* Woman Business, by Kristin Hardwick — https://stocksnap.io/photo/woman-business-WL2CO0KNZD
* Business Woman, by Direct Media — https://stocksnap.io/photo/business-woman-FPQIEQBMPA
* Business Man, by Direct Media — https://stocksnap.io/photo/business-man-IVZBYWKEFM
* Business Woman, by Direct Media — https://stocksnap.io/photo/business-woman-H9TNFM5SFG

The screenshot shows the demo page built with Elementor and the Elemance page templates.
