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A complete guide to integrating wordpress and vBulletin

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 are no [...]

Theme Development

Modified version of get_the_category to limit the number of categories displayed.

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

Wordpress

A common misconception about updating themes in wordpress

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.

Free Themes

[Security Risk] Add this fix asap

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.

Hacks

Ultimate method to add post thumbanils to your wordpress theme

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 the gallery [...]

Why are SwiftThemes server friendly..

SwiftTheme's use minumum number of images and minimum number of external files, thus reducing the number of HTTP reqests and thus reducing the load on server. This makes your site load faster.
Need help customizing SWIFT, Check out our support forum.

Support Forum

Testimonials

Thank you very much for having created a wonderful theme! We use Swift on www.narconon.ca/blog with a few modifications. We like it very much! A few weeks after we applied this theme, our visits increased drastically (+more 400 visits/week)!
-Eric