Minileven for self-hosted blogs?

  • After some searching I’m getting the idea that WordPress doesn’t want to release the Minileven theme to those of us who are hosted elsewhere, which is very disappointing. For many of us, hosting with WordPress is not possible as the blog is just one small part of the site.

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  • Whether a given theme is released for general download is up to the theme developer – not www.remarpro.com.

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    The Minileven theme is the mobile theme for WordPress.com hosted sites and is not available anywhere else. I don’t know who developed it, but there is a hovering ‘footer’ in the theme that advertises hosting at WordPress, so I suspect this theme was developed by WordPress.

    It may have been been developed by Automattic but Automattic is not WordPress or www.remarpro.com.

    Openletter, you can get Minileven to work with the self-hosted WordPress. ??

    The theme files are here in the WordPress.com themes repository. Save each file to a directory called “Minileven.” Make you grab the JS directory and the file within it as well.

    Download the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin.

    Extract just wp-mobile.php from the plugin. The line near the beginning that reads:

    define(‘CF_MOBILE_THEME’, ‘carrington’);

    Change to:

    define(‘CF_MOBILE_THEME’, ‘minileven’);

    Upload the edited wp-mobile.php to your Plugins directory.

    Upload the Minileven directory you created to your Themes directory.

    Activate the plugin.

    Done. ??

    Or, you could just install an SVN client and download the entire theme all at once.

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    Thanks, allyngibson, that is very helpful. I did a variation on what you suggested and used the Device Theme Switcher instead of messing with the php files. This way users on older devices can still use the page by my selecting a more basic theme for them to use.

    if you want minileven to your self-hosted blogs, just install the plugins.
    JetPack
    JetPack allow you to activate basic setting from wordpress free.
    Like stats, shortlink, share, etc And of course, the mobile theme.

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    Thank you! That’s a great plugin and saves me the time of checking for updates or use an SVN client. I chose not to activate the plugin because it requires me to run WordPress Stats on my page, and I’m happy with Piwik. However, even deactivated I can just copy the Minileven theme to my themes folder and it works just fine, and I’ll still receive notifications of changes to deactivated plugins, IIRC.

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