Hello Swiftler’s, It’s been a long time since I made major changes to SWIFT, it’s time to add some cool and fancy features to SWIFT making the best use of new features added to WordPress3.0. Here are what I planned for the update. Please post your suggestions and ideas. Fix the image resize problem. Separate [...]

Yesterday when I was trying to publish a post it was redirecting me to 404 error page. The problem was with only one particular page and it was some way related to the post content. I was able to save the post when I removed some part of the post. I tried a lot of [...]

The much awaited WordPress 3.0 was out yesterday. I have been using RC’s ( Release candidates ) for the development of SWIFT since version 5.25, SWIFT is compatible with WordPress 3.0. There are no known issues, if you find any please post them on the forum. There were some bugs in v5.28 of SWIFT like [...]

I’m very happy to announce the new import / export options feature in SWIFT a feature unique to SWIFT in it’s class. Apart from the ease in carrying your customizations from development server to live server, this new feature opens new doors for SWIFT. Now you can easily share your customizations and color schemes with fellow Swifter’s, release them [...]

Problem Currently, if you want to move your WordPress install to a new host and keep the same domain, you only need to move all the files (WordPress Core, Themes, and Plugins), and then export/import the database. It’s pretty straight forward, but still more complex than many users are capable of. However, if you want [...]

As your blog grows, you might want to build a community around it. If vBulletin is your choice, this guide is for you. Importing WordPress users to vBulletin 4.0 forum If there are lot of users already registered on your blog, It’s a good idea to start the forum with those users already registered on the forum. Unfortunately there [...]

Unfortunately WordPress functions get_the_category(), the_category() do not take any arguments and display all the categories the post is filed in. I wrote a small custom function during the development of swift to echo a specific number of categories a post is filed in. I hope this will help the fellow theme developers

Usually updating a software means replacing the old files with the new ones, but there is a better way to do it when it comes to wordpress themes. The main advantage of following the procedure described in this post is you can quickly switch back to the old version of the theme if you find any problems with the new version or if it clashes with any plugins you are using.

There is an XSS vulnerability in SWIFT, you should fix it asap.
Even if you are not a swift user you should check your theme for the following vulnerability and fix it.

In this tutorial, I will show you the best method to add post thumbnail feature to your wordpress theme. This is what we are going to do. We will check if there is any image set in custom fields, if yes we display that image. Else we check if there is any image stored in [...]