A WordPress theme built on WP Framework. With features like microformats, a traditional template structure, clean semantic code and atomic templating system. The theme utilizes XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS level 3.
RedLine is released under GNU General Public License version 2.
Installation
Extract the archive and Upload the /RedLine/ folder into your ‘wp-content/themes’ directory.
- Login to your WordPress Admin and navigate to the Apperance Tab.
- Select RedLine theme and Activate it.
- That’s it!
Instructions
- This theme supports header image. If you don’t like plain white header, you may change the look easily. All you need to do is to upload appropriate picture into images folder (the_theme>library>media>images). Default requirements are – size:960x85px name:header.jpg.
Dropcap is also described in CSS but you have to apply class="dropcap" manually.
See the example with Lorem ipsum
<span class="dropcap">L</span>orem ipsum dolor
Translation ready
Since version 0.3, RedLine is ready for translation. For detailed explanations and „How to“, read the article RedLine theme has a multilingual interface
IE6 issue
RedLine is built according CSS 3 specifications and because of this Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t render the theme correctly. Making RedLine compatible with IE6 means to undergrade it so I’m not intend to do this. But there is a solution – check the Nathan Rice’s explanation and follow his advices (in brief: you can force Wordpress to serve default theme /Kubrick/ for IE6 users).
Edit 22 oct 2009
The Problem is Solved – I found a solution about this and I hope since version 0.2.6 the menus will appear correctly under IE6.
Thanks for your theme. Look nice. I’m currently using it now and did some little changes.
Twitter: yullian
And a little remark – try to shorten some of the titles in Categories, in order to stand in single row.
Thanks.
I was trying to put the most popular categories (10) but don’t know how to implement it. Any thoughts?
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By default the theme is set to show 10 categories (excluding ‘Uncategorized’) in alphabetical order. If you want to change the number or the order, we need to tweak a bit
wp_list_categoriestag.Open the header.php and find this tag in Categories Menu. It should look like this
< ?php wp_list_categories('number=10&exclude=1&title_li='); ?>So to order catg. by the count of posts we should add another argument to the tag above –
'orderby=count'And final result is ->
< ?php wp_list_categories('number=10&exclude=1&title_li=&orderby=count'); ?>Great help, thanks.
I have another issue on the header, the navigation and categories does not work properly in IE. It doesn’t align horizontally.
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You are right. It appears under IE6 only but I have to find solution about it. Thanks for mention this.
(actually these menus are very tricky because they work with javascript)
ewww
I know. IE doesn’t like javascripts and although most people nowadays uses the latest IE, it still bothers me whenever I read blog in my IE6 office browser. Just let me know if you have fixed it but for now I’m liking it on my Safari.
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I decided not to deal with IE6 – it’s equal to undergrade the theme. But nevertheless there is a solution, check the article, I posted additional explanation above.
That’s cool. Thanks.
I will let you know if this would work once I’m on my IE6 desk.
Upgrate Wordpress von 2.8 —-> 2.8.4 gemacht Theme läuft ohne Fehler.
hi
just to confirm, does it work with lightbox plugins? im using light box 2, and its currently not working.
thanks in advance
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It works
see the image above
Just bear in mind that all these gallery plugins work with images set as links
hi
will try other plugins and post the result later.
hi
i have installed the lightbox 2 plugin. when i add the image in the post, yes, the lightbox works. but when i insert as gallery, it doesnt.
see this page>> http://zone5.com.my/2009/1071
there is a settings, ‘ Link thumbnails to’, set to image file. but instead, the gallery links to the image page.
it worked with my other 2 themes. i dont have to change any settings. but not this redline
no answers?
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I can’t say anything here.
I’m neither familiar with structure of this plugin nor how it renders the images.
RedLine is built with consideration of requirements of Wordpress.org as they are described on their site – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist And it works as it is supposed to work.
What is it that doesn’t work under IE6? Is it only the top horizontal pages & categories links?
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Yes, only the horizontal menus
Would it be possible to have a script which checks the browser & if its IE6 then the theme will not load the horizontal menus?
I guess it would be a good compromise because you won’t spend much time to make it compatible with IE6 and it will look better than what it currently looks on IE6
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Thanks for your suggestions and help. The „IE6 problem“ is solved now. New version of RedLine will be released soon.
Thank for your theme. Im using it at my blog and my friends like it.
However, i want to let u know the problem for login page (for admin) when using Mozilla Firefox. As for IE it is no problem.
Thanks for your help.
Zaki
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Thank you for your words
Errrm, I can’t find any problems with login page. Please, describe it in details.
Great theme!
The divided CSS confuses me, though, and makes it harder to tweak things. For instance, I want to change the main post body text from full-aligned to left-aligned, but I can’t find where that’s controlled in the CSS. Help!
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Thanks for your comment.
Yea you a right. It’s kinda confusing with these CSS-files, but RedLine is based on WP Framework and as such it follows the original structure. AFAIK, the author of WPF are working on new version and (I hope) this problem will be resolved in near future.
Meantime
The selector you’re looking for is in 2col-r.css which is in
.../themes/RedLine/library/media/layoutsTo be exact the name of the selector is .hfeed You need to change property
text-align:justifytotext-align:leftThat did the trick! Thank you.
Now does anyone know why my gravatars aren’t working?
Love the blog design! I do have a question how do you change the colour of the background to black. I looked in the php files and I cannot find the body and background colour code to change. I am not that familiar with php so can you show me how to change it?
Thanks and keep up the great work!
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About your question: You don’t need to edit any php file, these things are assigned in CSS. Open base.css which is in
../themes/RedLine/library/media/cssYou will find the .body selector at the first row.The background property is
background:#CCC url(../images/brushedmetal.png)so for your purpose you have to remove the value about background imageurl(../images/brushedmetal.png)I’ve looked everywhere but cannot find where I can change the trackback/pingbacks to lists that show the url.
When you click on the trackback in the numbered list, it does nothing, it does not display the url where the pingback is coming from.
As a courtesy to folks who use my articles and ping me when they have them posted I would like to display their url.
I’d appreciate any help on this topic for the RedLine Theme, which is beautifully created by the way.
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It’s really an omission
Thanks you mention it.
I can explain you how to fix this but as it affects the theme itself, I will put this in a new release of RedLine.
I hope it will be available at this week.
Love the theme, I blended a component of the slidding-doors theme with it. Love the organization of wp-framework. I code a bit, but am just learning CSS, and know nothing about framework, but … seems easy enough to tweak things to my liking. Also new to WordPress as well, love this entire system, plugins are great!
Thanks again for a great looking theme.
Also, love the capdrop class … great touch!
regards,
richard
Thanks for a lovely theme!
It caught my eye and I decided to give it a try. So far i’ve only made a tiny tweak to the Nav Bar at top to show only the pages I want listed. I’ll be experimenting with a header since your instructions here are pretty clear on that. But I’m not sure how to change the colour of Title font to the hover colour as I think that Blue is much nicer. But you could take a look at the overall thing and tell me what you think.
Thanks again:-)
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Thanks for your kind words.
You can change the title color by editing the base.css file. It is in
../themes/RedLine/library/media/cssOpen it and find the combined selectors#logo, #logo a– here is the property for colorcolor: #A90000;and just change the # to one you desire (for instance#006dba). Or if you want to use the hover color – it’s in the next line in the same file#logo a:hover { color: #2361A1;Great! I shall give it a try soon.
Thanks again:-)
How do you get the drop-shadow effect behind the titles?
Twitter: yullian
It’s a CSS effect, made with
text-shadowproperty.You can read detailed explanation in http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/text-shadow
And see some neat examples here http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/make-cool-and-clever-text-effects-with-css-text-shadow/
Time to go have some more coding fun.
I also meant to mention that your redline theme has many many excellent qualities. From a non-tech perspective, it is very easy to use.
Excellent Job !!
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Thank you
text-shadow now worked with all broswers?
Thanks for making RED LINE. I am using it for my blog at BulldogEdition.net.
Is there a latest version of this theme? If there is, how do I update to the latest version?
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At the moment the latest version is 0.2.7.1. To see if your blog theme has updates you need to open Admin panel: Appearance > Themes. Wordpress checks automatically for uptates and if there are, you will see a message.
Updating is easy by clicking on the link in the message. But bear in mind that the update will erase your custom settings, if you did some. So make a backup of the current version first.
And some general info
By the end of this month there will be new version of Wordpress (2.9). I’m testing the RedLine with 2.9 and soon there will be new version of the theme too.
Does anyone know why gravatars are not showing up in Redline for me? I know that (a) they show up when I use other templates, and (b) they show up for other Redline users, so I’m at a loss.
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That’s strange
There’s no reason Gravatars not to show up. Moreover it’s among the obligatory functions which a theme have to possess, in order to be hosted in Wordpress depository. And I may assure you that guys there are very strict with the checking.
Can you tell which plugins you use in your blog? I suppose it’s a conflict between some plugins.
I just wanted to say „thank you“ for the free theme. I’m using it for my new blog. I’ve had a hard time finding a „just right“ red/white/black, etc. theme, and I’m too short on time to build one myself. This one has a good look and feel to it. I’m still adding to the site and changing/moving stuff around so it isn’t quite in production or in any SEs, yet, but I’ll put it out soon. Thanks again.
Hi, wonderful theme.
I’m wondering if is it possible to have a version of the .po file. I’d like to translate in Italian and French.
I’ve installed qtranslate who works very well, but some words aren’t translated.
Many thanks
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Actually I’m working on this. Thanks for your interest.
From the next version RedLine will be translation-compatible. I’m planning new version to be released after holidays, in January 2010. I will post additional info when it’s ready, with detailed instructions – how to translate the theme.
Good theme…
If I may know, Plugins Reply Comments what you use…
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Thanks
„Reply“ is not a plugin, it’s a function in the theme. In order to work you need to enable threaded comments in Wordpress settings – Admin panel > Settings > Discussion > put a tick on „Enable threaded (nested) comments“
hey i get problem not showing avatars on comments, just links and error image file, i dont know why, or how to edit the theme to fix this, help? juosta.com
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Hi,
Thanks for choosing my theme.
As far as your problem, is there any plugins you use? I was at your site (juosta.com) and I saw that the theme „makes“ place for avatars but can’t fetch the images from Gravatar. So I suppose it’s a conflict between some pluggins or there are some restrictions from your hosting provider (these images are hosted in http://www.gravatar.com/ not on your site nor in the theme itself) .
I’ve been having this same problem; as suggested, I cycled through all my plugins, and nothing helped. So I’d be very interested in any solution you find.
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I’m preparing new release of RedLine and I’ve made some improvements in comments, so I hope your problem will be resolved.
How do I give a different color when admin commented…?
If you are not responding to comments as pink…
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It’s still experimental feature, but it will be available in the next version of RedLine. I’m planning the new release at these or next week.
How do I give a different color when admin commented?
Your word redline version 0.3 can be like that, apparently not yet.
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0.3 version has it
But if you don’t want to update your theme, simply add this class selector in CSS file
.comment-list .administrator { background: #FFF0EE none repeat scroll 0 0; }And that’s all
Hi, happy new year and best wishes!!!
Thanks for new version. Do you think we can get the .PO file somewhere?
Many thanks again
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Thank you. Happy New 2010 to you too
Oh, sorry for my laziness, I had to write a post about translation.
The .PO file is in lang folder, there is README file so it may help you too.
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