A lightweight but powerful WordPress theme built on WP Framework. RedLine includes custom menus, changeable header and background; and other features like microformats, a traditional template structure, clean semantic code and atomic template system. The theme supports seven widgetized areas – 3 in sidebars and 4 in footer. And moreover its code is compatible with HTML5, CSS3 and Accessibility (Section 508) standards.
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
- Now this theme supports custom header image.
edit 17 may 2010 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 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
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Lorem 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
Available languages so far
- English (en_US) – default
- Bulgarian (bg_BG) by Yulian Yordanov
- French (fr_FR) by Max
- German (de_DE) by René Galuba and Christian Stührmann
- Spanish [Spain] (es_ES) by Antonio Moulet
- Russian (ru_RU) by Namanov Shukhrat
- Turkish (tr_TR) by Ersan Özdil
- Italian (it_IT) by Carlo Galici
- Vietnamese (vi) by Potato
- Swedish (sv_SE) by Fredrik Arvidsson
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.
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?
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.
:kiss:
I have another issue on the header, the navigation and categories does not work properly in IE. It doesn’t align horizontally.
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)
xD 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.
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
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?
I can’t say anything here. :straight:
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?
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
Thanks for your suggestions and help. The „IE6 problem“ is solved now. New version of RedLine will be released soon.