A lightweight but powerful WordPress theme built on WP Framework. It has very printer-friendly layout and other features like microformats, a traditional template structure, clean semantic code and atomic template system. RedLine includes custom menus, changeable header and background.
The theme has 7 widgetized areas (3 in sidebars and 4 in footer) and supports diferent post formats. 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
L
- 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
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_VI) by Potato
Swedish (sv_SE) by Fredrik Arvidsson
Belarusian (be_BY) by Alexander Ovsov
Romanian (ro_RO)
Czech (cs_CZ) by Tomas Vesely
Filipino (fil_PH) by Morten Elm
Changes in version 2.5.0 (December 2012)
- Added Filipino language
- Added correct header for IE
- Fixed custom-header support
- Fixed custom-background support
- New version of Modernizr
- Changed the height of header image
- New image used as default header
- Added picture in top-widget area
- Updated translation files
- Other minor CSS and code improvements
We chose the Redline theme because it’s accessible and can work on mobile devices… but also because it’s supposed to be customizable–We have our own graphic for the header, but can’t seem to be able to change the background colour. I choose a colour, click save, and it says the site has been updated–but when we check it out, it’s still the same grey background. Am I missing something?
Thanks!
It’s an oversight of mine, I’ve made background customizable but forgot to clear the background image from css. And thank you for mention it. It will be fixed in next release but you can do it in your installation as well.
Go to Admin panel > Appearance > Editor, open style.css and find line 63
/* Document Body */ body, input, textarea { font: 0.81em/1.62 Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: #333; background: url(library/media/images/brushedmetal.png) #C2C2C2; }there delete the image path
url(library/media/images/brushedmetal.png)Save the file and you will be able to use customized background.
The latest version of redline 2.0, has an issue witht he header text. On the main page, the text control is fine, but on secondary story pages, the header text is displayed, over writing much of the headline and graphic we use for our site.
Please advise
For now, we have had to change the text of the site title to a space (blank)
OK, thanks!
I’ll await your update as well, before trying to customize the background (remember your previous reply to my comment).
Thanks again for your hard work!
In version 2.0 you don’t have to edit style.css. The background is fully customizable though WP Admin panel.
OH sorry–I see that the previous comment here is by someone else, who commented after my comment…
In case it helps, we found that particular problem about the header happens only with IE 8, so when people update to IE 9, it works fine.
Actually we were using Firefox on Mac OS X 10.7.3 and it has that problem so it is more likely a global issue rather than a browser specific issue.
Clear the browser’s cache after updating, if this not helps check the plugins you use in your WP installation.
Did that, same issue. It is only on the story pages, not on the main page. Is it perhaps because our website name is nearly 50 characters long?
Also the plugins we are using are as follows:
Akismet
Inactive User Deleter
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I deactivated all plugins, cleared cache. Same problem. For now I am just deleting the Site tite.
Just FYI (for the developer), I’m using Mac as well on Firefox (10.0.2), same version of Mac, and no problem here with the header. I did update Redline just recently too.
My problem is fixed (customizing background)–thanks so much!
Ha ha!
/* Blast you red baron! Initialise WP Framework */
Greetings,
Well many good things have been happening with Redline theme since ver. 1.6 ! Congratulations on great theme, and your continued updating and bug fixes!!!
Can you please tell me where to find the location to change the colors of the following:
-link color
-color of bars on left side of widget titles
-top menu text color
-lower menu text color
-menu background color
-menu hover color
Thank you!!!
Hi,
All these things are defined in style.css you can access it from Admin panel > Appearance > Editor
.widget-title {border-left:4px solid #92000A;}.nav a {color:#F5F5F2;}#catg .nav a {color: #111;}.nav li {background: #333;}.nav a:hover {background: #7E3F63;}