Here are few reasons

• Validation is a sign of professionalism.
• Many engines cannot properly catalog or index a site that has serious HTML errors. This can greatly reduce the amount of traffic your web site receives from search engines. With SWIFT you don’t have that problem.

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If you check the support forum and the comments on this blog, One question that’s asked again and again, One thing that most of the Swiftler’s have trouble with is thumbnails, which in turn is due to file permissions.
version5.1.0 solves the above problem by moving the cache folder and the custom-style.css to uploads/swift_custom folder with [...]

Hello Swiftlers,
Belated wishes for the new year.
Most of the work of version 5.0 is done except for

Banner ad integration.
Page templates.
RSS links and search box in navigation area.
Subscribe widget.

This version is called beta only because the above mentioned features are yet to be added.  Core of the theme is very stable, you can safely use this [...]

Hello Swiftler’s
I wish you, your family members and your planet mates a very very happy and peaceful Christmas. Be good and do good.
News about version 5.0
Santa just called on my mobile and informed me that his sledge is stuck in the snow also his reindeer’s are moving slower than their usual speed as he is [...]

SWIFT needs your ideas and suggestions

If you want some feature to be added in SWIFT or have a suggestion about design or usability please post it here.

If you have seen a blog with unique design,layout or features post it here, may be we can have it in SWIFT to.

I really need some ideas/inspiration on how to display author info,tags,related posts and social media icons at the end of the post.

When I first created SWIFT it was just a simple theme to fit my needs with minimum features. I decided to put in a little more effort and release it under GPL licence for use by fellow WordPress users.It happened to be one of the best decision I ever made.It got good feedback and appreciation from the WordPress community right from the first release and the swift user base is growing monotonously.