After the last update by mobilepress, things became a little different and old mobilepress themes such as the one I shared some months ago with you no longer worked with the mobilepress plugin. Once again, I kept on getting request from other bloggers running the mobilepress plugin for the theme I used on my blog.
For some time, I never took it into consideration sharing my mobilepress theme, but when I went through most blogs using newly designed mobilepress themes by some other bloggers, I discovered a little bug in them which I decided to fix and get this lovely theme for your use.
Bug Fixed: Threaded Commenting
Commenting System: The default commenting system in Mobilepress doesn’t have a reply function (threaded comment). If you make a reply to any comment, it displays the reply as a comment and this does not display directly below the comment, but would be displayed after all other comments that came earlier.
I hated this feature because it disorganized the order in which comments are to be read and makes no sense, here on this theme, we were able to add the threaded commenting system to our RedPress Mobilepress Theme 2.0.
Other Additional Features
1. Author Bio Section: An Author bio system is readily available in this mobilepress theme. I used some WordPress PHP tags to call up the author queries from the Mysql database. The Redpress mobilepress theme would display the bio of whosoever is an author of any post.
2. Numbered Pagination: Unlike the former version of my Redpress Mobilepress Theme where I asked you to install a plugin in order to have the numbered pagination to work, here I implemented the PHP call in the function file and you do not have to worry installing a plugin for your numbered navigation. The numbered navigation is simply ready once you install this theme.
3. Comment Form: The default comment form of the mobilepress theme usually loads on another page, but I took out time to bring the comment form and comments to the post page. This would easy you from loading another page to make comments to a post or reading previously made comments.
4. Custom Logo: As usual, the mobilepress default theme has no logo, but I made provisions for that on this mobilepress theme.
5. Design: The Redpress mobilepress theme beats the default theme in terms of design and can find it’s way to match blogs of any kind.
6. Category List: I added the category list in form of a dropdown menu with no load button. All you need is simply click and select the category and get it to automatically load the page.
7. Share Buttons: Loading large share buttons for your mobile traffic has never been a nice idea in terms of bandwidth and convenience. I decided to make a 4-icon share buttons integrated at the top of the post. It would help you easily share your pages and post across Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Digg.
8. Feedburner Email Opt In: I added an Opt In form for feedburner in every single post, you can edit it to your feed burner address.
9. Related Post: A related post with was added by calling the 10 latest posts in same category excluding the post been viewed.
10. Ads Ready: Any mobile ad network can be added directly to the theme files.
Demo: My blog is a perfect demo of what you will get.
How To Install Oscar Redpress 2.0 Mobilepress Theme
- Download Redpress 2.0 zip file here, then upload and extract it to …/public_html/user/wp-content/mobilepress/themes in your cPanel File manager.
- Login to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Mobilepress > Themes then activate Redpress 2.0
Firstly Enable Thumbnails After Installation
- Go to WordPress dashboard > MobilePress > Settings
- Then tick the checkbox that reads Show Post Thumbnails and save.
How To Change The Logo
- In file manager, go to …/public_html/user/wp-content/mobilepress/themes/redpress/img , then replace the logo.png with your own customized logo. It must bear the same file name as logo.png .
How To Change Favicon In Redpress Mobilepress Theme
- In file manager, go to …/public_html/user/wp-content/mobilepress/themes/redpress/img , then replace the favicon.gif with your own customized favicon. It must bear the same file name as favicon.gif .
How To Change Header and Footer Links
- For header links go to …/public_html/user/wp-content/mobilepress/themes/redpress/ edit the header.php file and change the link1 and Facebook link there.
- For footer links go to …/public_html/user/wp-content/mobilepress/themes/redpress/ edit the footer.php file and change the link1 and Facebook link there.
How To Add Your Own Feedburner Account
- Go to …/public_html/user/wp-content/mobilepress/themes/redpress/ in file manager, edit the single.php file, find oscarmini (it appears twice), and change to your blog feedburner username.
I hope you love this version of Redpress 2.0 Mobilepress theme by Oscar Frank.
95 Comments
Nice update oscar…i will text run it on one of my old blogs and see how it looks
Nice Update Oscar ! This new theme looks awesome and unique .I think , this is the perfect theme for any WordPress blogger and would recommend it to any blogger using the WordPress platform.
-Pramod
good job bro….though was using it already before shared.
Nice Update @oscar.. More Greese to your elbow
bro how can we add random post on mobile view?
These is really nice bro oscar.. Though it’s only for wordpress users. Thanks for sharing these awesome mobile themes..
Cool one here bro… i always love to use your themes for my blogs i hope you could customize a web version theme as well
This is really interesting. WordPress users would probably love this one. Thank you for sharing this very informative update.
Sure they will, it’s a great design anyway 😉
wow!! Oscar u re the bomb….seriously av been looking for this plugin…to mobilize my blog..tanks
You are quite welcome Thorlu. I’m glad I could be of help.
hey, this great thanks
You are welcome Mike. 🙂
thanks oscar this has saved me a lot of headache….. but the only problem is that after doing what u said on the thumbnail, it still mud nt show. watelse can i do?
Hi Wisdom,
Have you activated thumbnails from your mobilepress settings in WordPress Dashboard. That’s probably where you are missing it.
I have done that but stil nt working. View the site http://www.iceberrygist.com. I have other things i need your help on, like facebook like button. Bt pls help me solve the other ish.
please oscar, if I want to insert a facebook like button for my FAnpage beneath the each post, how do I do that.I dont mean a fb share button o.A fanpage like button.Thanks
Hi Beejah,
Here is the iframecode you need to insert to display your facebook fanpage like button. Remember to replace oscarmini with your facebook page username.
<iframe style="width: 300px; height: 64px; border: 1px solid #ccc;" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=157159341054693&width=300&connections=0&stream=false&header=false&height=65" height="240" width="320"></iframe>
I hope it helps.
thanks oscar buh were do I insert ds into
plus I am sowie, please whe is the code, i dont knw how to get the code, forgive ma ignorance
Hi Beejah,
I hope you now see the code above. BTW, you’ll need to edit the footer.php file in the theme to add it if you wish it to display in the footer. if you want it displayed under your post, you’ll have to add it to the single.php file.
I hope this helps.
thanks Oscar, will get back to you
You are welcome pal.
Hey Osar,
Can you please direct me on how to place a a twitter follow button in a mobile theme, just like that on your site mobile version
Nice one,It hasn’t been easy figuring out how to customise this mobile theme
Hi Josh,
It’s quite easy if you understand basic HTML and CSS. PHP plays a role however, but not much in the design.
Wonderful share and coding here Mr oscar Franky! thanks for the design, i sincerely love and appreciate it.
You are welcome Pal. I’m glad you love it.
Hi Oscar
The new theme is clean and looks even more beautiful. It’s really a wonderful mobile theme.
Thanks Alam for the compliment. I really do appreciate.
Error!
I have Instaled:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mopr_get_option() in /home/mobilewapg/public_html/wap/wp-content/themes/redpress/index.php on line 21
can you help me?
Sorry, you don’t have to install it as a normal theme. From what I see, you installed it as a normal WP theme. It has to go through the mobilepress plugin theme path.
plz breakdown how to use this theme for a newly installed wordpress blog. i want to create a blog and i wish to use this theme. and how will d pc view be for a new blog if i use this? am a newbie to wordpress
Hi Gbolagade,
This theme would only reflect on on your mobile view and not your pc version.You’ll have to install a different them for your full site.
Thank you sir, plz explain how to install the theme for a new wordpress blog. i would have love to post the link of the blog i installed yesterday after reading this but i dont know if it against your rules. plz explain how i will install it. tanx
i’v finally installed it but it keep on showing the default theme on operamini and redpress on other browsers. i renamed d default file and the site is now showing blank page. plz help me sir
i mean i’v renamed the default folder to check the effect on opera bt the site is showing blank page and displaying well on ucweb
Do you make use of any caching plugin. If you do, try clearing your cache.
Oscar, I just stumbled upon this.. But now am trying to upload the zip and its saying ‘no valid plugin found’ what do I do?
Hi Abdul,
Redpress is not a plugin. You have to upload to your mobilepress’s theme folder via cPanel’s File-Manager or via FTP for it to work.
Oh Thnks Mr Oscar.. I have successfully uploaded it.. I know I need to activate mobilepress and then activate your precious theme.. But… Again, am not a pro.. How would I add things like Fav,Sharebuttons and the rest..?? Thnx in anticipation..
Editing the single.php file and finding your way around it would be great.:) Thanks for letting us know it did work for you.
Ermmmm… I have activated the mobilepress.. But now I cannot find redpress where its supposed to be so that I can activate it too.. Its just the regular mobilepress that’s there.. I need help!
I hope you uploaded the stuff into the themes folder,then extract the zip archive there. 🙂
I uploaded directly using the theme page. Which one is extract? I used my BB to even upload it sef.. Pls what other thing have i missed? And what’s the step by step sequence? Thnx Mr Oscar!
hmmmm…Mr Oscar, you should see how bad ii expect your reply.. is Wp-file manager part of what am going to use? i dont know how to use it. what should i do?
How do i insert ads onder my post title in the redpress?
Oscar ! Am having this error any help?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function
mopr_get_option() in /home/
u945059408/public_html/wp-content/
themes/redpress/index.php on line 21
Hi Dammyt,
You’ll have to check your line 21 of the index.php file in the redpress theme. That must be a syntax error. Do let me know either way if it get fixed or not.
Hi Oscar!
I’ve named the header logo, logo.png but still showing the the Redpress logo I’ve deleted. Please any help?
You have to upload your logo.png file into the image folder of your redpress theme copy.
After 12 months of trying how to add this plugin to my Mobilepress plugin, I finally did it today and I think I should be expecting increase in earning, fast loading speed etc.
My goodness,
Never knew you had issuse adding it to your blog. Why didn’t you let me know? Anyway, I’m glad it did work out for you, and for sure, expect a better experience for your mobile users.
I like this your redress theme but i m still trying to figure out how it works.
i have installed wptouch but i need pagination at the end of the posts.
does this one.offer that
Hi Zuby,
It’s got all that you need. A nicely styled numbered pagination is made available here.
have extract saw a clone of redpress went to wordpess site but dont see d theme
Hi Phranq,
It won’t appear in your WP themes, check in your mobilepress themes, that’s where you will find it.
pls my own is nt showing image that is inside a post in the index…. I mean crawl image
I guess you meant thumbnails. You’ll have to enable them from the thumbnails
Please this theme is showing an Error… After successfuly installing it… Check this site notjustloaded.com
Please help me. Thanks
pls mine is nt show image in a post in tag, check http://www.eazynet.hostkon.net
Do you add thumbnails to the post you make?
how to do that please
I sincerely love to use this Redpress of yours but have tried out every tactics in extracting it but isn’t appearing in the Mobilepress themes. For a more detailed installation process, how do I use this tweak of yours?
Hi Bish,
You would have to upload it to the themes folder of your mobilepress plugin and extract there. Note: You can change the folder destination to a convenient one if you wish from your Mobilepress settings dashboard.
okay so i use thesis theme can i install this on my blog without it affecting the thesis theme?
and also where its the downlod link ???
Thanks
Sure you can.
Do I have to first install mobilepress on my blog before going to Cpanel to upload the plugin
Pls sir, i hav installed the theme in d right way, pls it is showing me
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function
has_post_thumbnail() in /home/
u106133191/public_html/wp-
content/plugins/mobilepress/
themes/redpress/index.php on line
21”
pls help me asap……thank u…..BTW, Nice theme, thumb up for u
Hi Victory,
Pls I would like to take a look at your URL so I can see for myself. Thanks.
The url is http://www.myhealth.topzyhost.com
Thanks
its nw working well….am editing it right nw
Alriqht……The Url is www. Myhealth. Topzyhost. com
if i activate thumbnails, it will dat error, bt if i deactivate it, it will be normal
pls how can i change the posts alignment to left and justify?
you might want to use CSS to align the section you wish. “float: left;” for left alignment.
Hi! Oscar
I just uploaded your theme now to my mobilepress, but how do I make the homepage to display only link without excerpt? Waiting to hear from you soon.
i just trying your method, but how i do make my homepage to display only link without exception ?
Disable thumbnails and excerpts
Hi, i ve issues regarding the FeedBurner i replaced with my feedburner name Ayoproxy but i still get error message : The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled please help me and i can’t get my comment box to work, how can i include EMAIL box please
Hi Ayoproxy,
There are 2 portions to change to your feedburner URI. Check if you did change the 2 of them and let me know what else you encounter.
bro my problems here is that I haven’t gone far about the blogging world, I have installed this theme, can u help me in the file manager
am confuse about the file manager
Help me Oscar i have activate your theme but my problem now is how to locate the logo page
What’s your URL so I can help locate the path?
help me in my blog pls, i want to change the logo.png help me help me
Replace the default logo with yours in the directory
Oscar anytime i click on the show thumbnail posts it writes this Fatal error: Call to undefined function has_post_thumbnail() in /home/username/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mobilepress/themes/default/index.php on line 12 pls help
Have you tried a re-install? I guess you must have tampered with the index.php file.
Fanks
Pls mr oscar, the problem am facing with redpress now is failure to display thumbnail for my post….i have installed auto post thumbnail, do the necessary settings, even i installed regenerate thumbnail plugin…all effort went futile…pls help
Did you enable thumbnails from the Mobilepress settings on the dashboard?
Thank You Sir, I am planing to use this thene in my site.
I have installed and activated the theme sir but I can’t see it on my WordPress dashboard so it’s not show in posts
please help
You have to install Mobilepress plugin before using this theme.