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Home»Web Design Tips»Redpress 2.0 MobilePress Theme – Customize Your Mobile WordPress Blog
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Redpress 2.0 MobilePress Theme – Customize Your Mobile WordPress Blog

Oscar FrankBy Oscar Frank4 Mins Read
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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.

Article Map

  • Bug Fixed: Threaded Commenting
  • Other Additional Features
  • Demo: My blog is a perfect demo of what you will get.
  • How To Install Oscar Redpress 2.0 Mobilepress Theme
  • How To Change The  Logo
  • How To Change Favicon In Redpress Mobilepress Theme
  • How To Change Header and Footer Links
  • How To Add Your Own Feedburner Account

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.

redpress 2.0

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.

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95 Comments

  1. Kelvin on July 24, 2013 7:09 am

    Nice update oscar…i will text run it on one of my old blogs and see how it looks

    Reply
  2. Pramod on July 24, 2013 4:49 pm

    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

    Reply
  3. Ebuks on July 26, 2013 8:22 pm

    good job bro….though was using it already before shared.

    Reply
  4. Antoni on July 26, 2013 11:23 pm

    Nice Update @oscar.. More Greese to your elbow

    Reply
  5. Victor on July 27, 2013 11:43 am

    bro how can we add random post on mobile view?

    Reply
  6. Victor Noah on July 28, 2013 9:33 am

    These is really nice bro oscar.. Though it’s only for wordpress users. Thanks for sharing these awesome mobile themes..

    Reply
  7. Tobi on July 29, 2013 2:17 am

    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

    Reply
  8. Cassie on July 30, 2013 6:57 am

    This is really interesting. WordPress users would probably love this one. Thank you for sharing this very informative update.

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on July 31, 2013 4:10 am

      Sure they will, it’s a great design anyway 😉

      Reply
  9. Thorlu on August 20, 2013 9:40 am

    wow!! Oscar u re the bomb….seriously av been looking for this plugin…to mobilize my blog..tanks

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on August 20, 2013 10:32 am

      You are quite welcome Thorlu. I’m glad I could be of help.

      Reply
  10. micheal on September 28, 2013 9:42 am

    hey, this great thanks

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on September 28, 2013 10:56 am

      You are welcome Mike. 🙂

      Reply
  11. wisdom on October 23, 2013 11:04 pm

    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?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on October 24, 2013 4:26 am

      Hi Wisdom,
      Have you activated thumbnails from your mobilepress settings in WordPress Dashboard. That’s probably where you are missing it.

      Reply
      • Duwell on October 24, 2013 7:37 am

        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.

        Reply
  12. beejah on October 24, 2013 11:08 am

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on October 24, 2013 4:33 pm

      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&amp;width=300&amp;connections=0&amp;stream=false&amp;header=false&amp;height=65" height="240" width="320"></iframe>

      I hope it helps.

      Reply
      • beejah on October 26, 2013 10:43 pm

        thanks oscar buh were do I insert ds into

        Reply
        • beejah on October 26, 2013 11:00 pm

          plus I am sowie, please whe is the code, i dont knw how to get the code, forgive ma ignorance

          Reply
          • Oscar Frank on October 27, 2013 10:45 am

            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.

  13. beejah on October 28, 2013 9:51 am

    thanks Oscar, will get back to you

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on October 29, 2013 4:52 am

      You are welcome pal.

      Reply
  14. beejah on November 2, 2013 9:58 pm

    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

    Reply
  15. joshua on November 22, 2013 4:44 pm

    Nice one,It hasn’t been easy figuring out how to customise this mobile theme

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on November 22, 2013 6:25 pm

      Hi Josh,
      It’s quite easy if you understand basic HTML and CSS. PHP plays a role however, but not much in the design.

      Reply
  16. Isaiah Joseph on December 30, 2013 3:39 am

    Wonderful share and coding here Mr oscar Franky! thanks for the design, i sincerely love and appreciate it.

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on December 31, 2013 1:54 am

      You are welcome Pal. I’m glad you love it.

      Reply
  17. Tauseef Alam on December 30, 2013 7:51 pm

    Hi Oscar

    The new theme is clean and looks even more beautiful. It’s really a wonderful mobile theme.

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on December 31, 2013 1:51 am

      Thanks Alam for the compliment. I really do appreciate.

      Reply
  18. Ulana on February 4, 2014 6:36 am

    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?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on February 4, 2014 9:22 am

      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.

      Reply
      • Gbolagade on April 25, 2014 6:07 pm

        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

        Reply
        • Oscar Frank on April 26, 2014 2:29 am

          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.

          Reply
          • gbolagade on April 26, 2014 10:04 am

            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

  19. gbolagade on April 26, 2014 2:17 pm

    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

    Reply
    • gbolagade on April 26, 2014 2:26 pm

      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

      Reply
      • Oscar Frank on May 17, 2014 3:09 am

        Do you make use of any caching plugin. If you do, try clearing your cache.

        Reply
  20. abdul on May 20, 2014 3:28 pm

    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?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on May 21, 2014 5:38 am

      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.

      Reply
      • abdul on May 21, 2014 11:19 am

        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..

        Reply
        • Oscar Frank on May 21, 2014 11:37 am

          Editing the single.php file and finding your way around it would be great.:) Thanks for letting us know it did work for you.

          Reply
      • abdul on May 21, 2014 11:47 am

        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!

        Reply
        • Oscar Frank on May 21, 2014 1:22 pm

          I hope you uploaded the stuff into the themes folder,then extract the zip archive there. 🙂

          Reply
  21. Abdul on May 21, 2014 1:35 pm

    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!

    Reply
  22. Abdul on May 22, 2014 1:34 pm

    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?

    Reply
  23. Samuel on June 2, 2014 8:59 am

    How do i insert ads onder my post title in the redpress?

    Reply
  24. Dammyt on June 21, 2014 8:08 am

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on July 3, 2014 9:33 pm

      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.

      Reply
  25. Just Pizo on June 22, 2014 7:40 am

    Hi Oscar!

    I’ve named the header logo, logo.png but still showing the the Redpress logo I’ve deleted. Please any help?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on June 23, 2014 12:02 am

      You have to upload your logo.png file into the image folder of your redpress theme copy.

      Reply
  26. Adesanmi Adedotun on June 23, 2014 8:44 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on June 24, 2014 5:31 am

      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.

      Reply
  27. Zuby on June 25, 2014 8:49 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on July 3, 2014 9:18 pm

      Hi Zuby,
      It’s got all that you need. A nicely styled numbered pagination is made available here.

      Reply
  28. phranq on July 24, 2014 3:06 pm

    have extract saw a clone of redpress went to wordpess site but dont see d theme

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on July 25, 2014 4:01 am

      Hi Phranq,
      It won’t appear in your WP themes, check in your mobilepress themes, that’s where you will find it.

      Reply
  29. toptech on July 26, 2014 1:18 am

    pls my own is nt showing image that is inside a post in the index…. I mean crawl image

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:42 am

      I guess you meant thumbnails. You’ll have to enable them from the thumbnails

      Reply
  30. Young on July 28, 2014 2:17 am

    Please this theme is showing an Error… After successfuly installing it… Check this site notjustloaded.com

    Please help me. Thanks

    Reply
  31. Oluwole Temmytope Toptech on July 31, 2014 9:58 pm

    pls mine is nt show image in a post in tag, check http://www.eazynet.hostkon.net

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on July 31, 2014 11:59 pm

      Do you add thumbnails to the post you make?

      Reply
      • Oluwole Temmytope Toptech on August 1, 2014 7:48 pm

        how to do that please

        Reply
  32. Bishop on August 9, 2014 11:55 pm

    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?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on August 12, 2014 4:35 pm

      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.

      Reply
  33. John on August 17, 2014 11:44 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:42 am

      Sure you can.

      Reply
  34. Christopher on August 27, 2014 4:11 pm

    Do I have to first install mobilepress on my blog before going to Cpanel to upload the plugin

    Reply
  35. Victory on October 15, 2014 12:51 am

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on October 15, 2014 1:44 am

      Hi Victory,
      Pls I would like to take a look at your URL so I can see for myself. Thanks.

      Reply
      • Victory on October 15, 2014 8:21 am

        The url is http://www.myhealth.topzyhost.com
        Thanks

        Reply
      • Victory on October 15, 2014 2:58 pm

        its nw working well….am editing it right nw

        Reply
  36. Victory on October 15, 2014 8:18 am

    Alriqht……The Url is www. Myhealth. Topzyhost. com

    Reply
  37. Victory on October 15, 2014 5:42 pm

    if i activate thumbnails, it will dat error, bt if i deactivate it, it will be normal

    Reply
  38. Mr Victory on October 17, 2014 6:14 pm

    pls how can i change the posts alignment to left and justify?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:45 am

      you might want to use CSS to align the section you wish. “float: left;” for left alignment.

      Reply
  39. Unwana Johnson on November 27, 2014 11:04 am

    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.

    Reply
  40. Alina on December 18, 2014 10:13 am

    i just trying your method, but how i do make my homepage to display only link without exception ?

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:44 am

      Disable thumbnails and excerpts

      Reply
  41. Ayoproxy on December 19, 2014 11:42 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 2, 2015 5:50 pm

      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.

      Reply
  42. Friday O on April 6, 2015 10:58 am

    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

    Reply
  43. Friday O on April 6, 2015 11:03 am

    am confuse about the file manager

    Reply
  44. Friday O on April 6, 2015 3:19 pm

    Help me Oscar i have activate your theme but my problem now is how to locate the logo page

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:41 am

      What’s your URL so I can help locate the path?

      Reply
  45. Friday O on April 6, 2015 3:34 pm

    help me in my blog pls, i want to change the logo.png help me help me

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:43 am

      Replace the default logo with yours in the directory

      Reply
  46. tola on May 10, 2015 10:45 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:46 am

      Have you tried a re-install? I guess you must have tampered with the index.php file.

      Reply
  47. tola on May 10, 2015 11:25 pm

    Fanks

    Reply
  48. Hopetech on June 18, 2015 12:07 am

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on January 20, 2016 4:40 am

      Did you enable thumbnails from the Mobilepress settings on the dashboard?

      Reply
  49. Villal on August 11, 2018 5:06 am

    Thank You Sir, I am planing to use this thene in my site.

    Reply
  50. mubila on November 20, 2018 5:34 am

    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

    Reply
    • Oscar Frank on November 20, 2018 6:07 am

      You have to install Mobilepress plugin before using this theme.

      Reply

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