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
- 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_VI) by Potato
Swedish (sv_SE) by Fredrik Arvidsson
Belarusian (be_BY) by Alexander Ovsov
Romanian (ro_RO) by Web Hosting Geeks
Czech (cs_CZ) by Tomas Vesely
Changes in version 2.1.0 (may 2012)
- Added Romanian translation
- Removed custom favicon from package
- Made the theme very printer-friendly
- Sanitized output of home_url
- Removed search box from header
- JavsScript files are not minified, for better human readability
- Some CSS changes
- Other minor improvements

Is there a latest version of this theme? If there is, how do I update to the latest version?
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.
That’s strange :unsure:
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
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…
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
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.
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…
:p
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? :unsure:
Your word redline version 0.3 can be like that, apparently not yet. :straight:
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 :whistling:
Hi, happy new year and best wishes!!!
Thanks for new version. Do you think we can get the .PO file somewhere?
Many thanks again
Thank you. Happy New 2010 to you too
Oh, sorry for my laziness, I had to write a post about translation. :sleep:
The .PO file is in lang folder, there is README file so it may help you too.
Terimakasih atas themesnya…
Themesnya sangat bagus dan simple serta ringan digunakan…