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.
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
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!
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!
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.
It’s really an omission xD
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:-)
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?
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 !!
Thank you
text-shadow now worked with all broswers?
Thanks for making RED LINE. I am using it for my blog at BulldogEdition.net.