List of bugs fixed

• Footer link bug
• Social media icons and related posts not showing up.
• AD’s not showing up.
• Excerpts not showing up.

Apart from these minor bug fixes, I made some minor modifications to navigation bars and the search box.

New navigation search box in SWIFT

SWIFT version 5.42 is here with some new options in AD management and some bug fixes reported on the forum.

Here is what’s new in this version of SWIFT

Get live help, SWIFT is the one and only theme with this feature.

• Added live chat option to the option to the options page, so that you can get immediate help in using the theme. SWIFT is the only WordPress theme to offer such a feature.
• Added an extra advertising position, “Between post content”. When this position is activated, ads will be shown on posts longer than 1200 characters, after 600 characters.
• Ad slot after posts title and after the post end will now be active on the pages also.
• Fixed the options not saving on WordPress MU sites bug.
• Different sizes for the site name on home page and inner pages bug.
• Background images bug.
• Made the layouts section on design options page more intuitive.

And finally the big news is SWIFT user guide is now officially complete, it is 3100 words long with 40+ screenshots. I covered everything possible to minute detail, and tried my best to be as clear as possible. I hope you find it useful.

{ SWIFT user guide } { Download  SWIFT v5.27 }

Note: Blog vs Magazine layout setting on the home page and archive pages will be lost with the update, you should goto the design options page and set them again.

Here is a list of bugs that are cleared

• popular posts  listed on error pages were redirecting to another error page, that’s fixed now. (Reported here)
• Slider was always showing only recent posts, that’s fixed.
• Home page not showing any posts, this isn’t a bug, posts shown in the slider are skipped from the WordPress loop to avoid duplicate content on the home page for better search engine rankings. But now, I’m sick of answering the same question again and again. So I added an option to choose if you want skip posts shown in the slider from WordPress loop. This is disabled by default, you should enable it for better rankings in search engines. Note: This new setting can be found at swift options->homepage options.
• Errors in admin-core.php, reported here

Important!! Feedburner ID, wont be carried forward to the new version. You should add it again. Also content shown in slider wont be skipped from wordpress loop, you should update that setting.

Installation/ Update instructions

First follow the instructions given here , and after you install/update the theme goto SWIFT options and SWIFT design options pages and click save changes.

I’m going home today . It’s a 2 day journey from Guwahati to Palakollu,  I will not be having internet for the next two days and mostly no computer to , unless I’m lucky to have a plug point in my compartment.

If I’m lucky, v4.0 will be out on monday, else release of v4.0 will be delayed by 2 days or may be a week.

Here are the developments so far

• magazine layout.
• Auto thumbnail creation.
• Option to choose between wide header and the current one.
• Different page layouts with 14 widgetised sections.
• Cleaned the code to make customization easy.
• Improved the code that pulls out first image from the post when thumbnail is not present. The new code will reduce considerable load on the server.
• Fixed the following array warning generated by slider.

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/anothers/public_html/wp-content/themes/swift/index.php on line 16

Layouts included in SWIFT v4.0

Apart from the above seven layouts you have option to choose between magazine layout and blog, wide sidebar and the current one.

So, you have 7*2*2=28 different layouts

You can download the underdevelopment version here , you can see it in action here

http://demos.swiftthemes.com/blog/

See you all on monday.

-Satish Gandham

PS: Swiftlers is a word coined by Mitch, a swift user.

Fancy post styling with gravatar support in SWIFT v2.0.4

Hello folks,
SWIFT v2.0.4 is out for public use. Here are the new features and bug fixes in v2.0.4

• Options page is more user friendly now.
• Added gravtar next to post title and gave it a whole new styling. You will love it.
• Seperate comments and trackback.
• Added an option to add adsense ad under the navigation area. I have been using adsense for more than three years, trust me when I say that this postion has higest CTR and could double your adsense revenue when used with proper colour combinations.
• Fixed the email subscription link.
• Fixed some bugs in comments template.

Download Swift v2.1.3

***ChangeLog***
02.09.09 – Version 2.1.3
* No serious updates except for few minor changes to meet wordpress theme drectory requirments.
01.09.09 – Version 2.1.1
* Reorganized the options page.
* Fixed the tracking code bug
31.08.09 – Version 2.1.0
* Fixed the rss feed bug.
30.08.09 – Version 2.0.9
* Jquery file required for options page was deleted by mistake in v.2.08
* Reorganized the options page.
30.08.09 – Version 2.0.8
* Added rounded corener support to safari.
* Fixed all the CSS and HTML errors.
29.08.09 – Version 2.0.7
* Fixed the bug in navigation area
* Added some default widgets.
* Some SEO tweaks
28.08.09 – Version 2.0.6
* Made the height of navigation area above and below logo fluid now you can have as many pages and categories as you want.
27.08.09 – Version 2.0.5
* Fixed the 125*125 banner ads bug
Please drop in your valuable suggestions and feedback.. Checkout our support forum if you have any problems or need help customizing SWIFT.

Highly optimized postion for adsense ads

User friendly clean option page in theme SWIFT

This theme is mainly aimed at blogs running on low server resources and for those who like clean and simple designs. It’s always good have themes like SWIFT at your disposal so that you can easily switch to it if you are expecting a spike in traffic from social media sites.

Here are some of the best features of SWIFT which makes it stand out from crowd.

1. Loads very fast, minimum number of http requests. Your server will love it
2. Zero images used.
3. Clean typography.
4. SEO friendly, For example,this theme uses h1 tag for post titles, instead of the blog title.
5. Cross browser compatible (Works well on ie6 too , except for the curves )
6. Swift is smart enough to pull out the first image from your post and use it as thumbnail on home page (It even pulls out images that are not part of wordpress gallery).
7. Featured post slider.(Included in v3.0)
8. Tabbed interface.(Included in v3.0)
9. I have bundled lot of features in to the options page to make your SWIFT THEME unique
10. Popular posts are highlighted on the home page to give them more exposure, this will turn the first time visitors to your blog into regular readers.
11. Sidebar and footer with four widgetised sections (8 in total) .
12. Adsense integrated into killer locations .
13. RSS subscribe box in the best possible position to increase your subscribers.
14. Eight different color schemes to choose from(Will Be added very soon, working on them).
15. Ads integrated into theme options page.
16. Option to add thumbnails to home page
17. Easy colour picker to customize your copy of SWIFT (That makes it infinite colours to choose from )

I would like to have your valuable suggestions before I release the next version.Please drop in your suggestions here.

Upcoming Features

1. Better featured post section with slider.(Included in v3.0)
2. Integration with pagenavigation and related posts plugin. (Included in v3.0)
3. Adding some images using CSS sprites.
4. Fancy RSS subscribe box.(Added in v2.0.0)
5. Drop down navigation.
6. rounded corners in all browsers
7. Threaded comments and better comments template. (Included in v3.0)

***** SWIFT Change log *****

04.10.09 – Version 3.1.1
*Removed the unnecessary brace that crept into style.php in 3.0.5.
*Fixed the feed detection bug.
*Added option to pick the popular post title and background colour for author comment.
*Added option to add images through custom fields, check the following url for info on using custom fields
http://swiftthemes.com/2009/09/wordpress-themes/a-complete-guide-to-installing-and-customizing-swift/
*Added default favicon.
*Increased the font size of sidebar title.
*Changed content slider sliding style.
*Fixed the featured posts bug
*Updated the styles
*Comment luv wasnt detecting the rss feed, fixed this problem.
02.10.09 – Version 3.0.5
Forgot to save the changelog in v3.0.4
02.10.09 – Version 3.0.4
*Removed the padding and margin for smileys.
*Added margins to headings.
*Added padding to tags widget.
*Changed blockquote styling.

30.09.09 – Version 3.0.2

*Fixed the sidebar problem in ie6

30.09.09 – Version 3.0.0

*Added featured post slider and tabbed interface.

*Stylish options page.

*More colour options.

*New comment styling.

*Option to disable rounded corners in sidebar.

*Changed the font style of blog title and post title.

*All the paddings and margins are corrected.

*Default HTML elements are styled to match the theme.

02.09.09 – Version 2.1.3

* No serious updates except for few minor changes to meet wordpress theme directory requirements.

31.08.09 – Version 2.1.0

* Fixed the rss feed bug.

30.08.09 – Version 2.0.9

* Jquery file required for options page was deleted by mistake in v.2.08

* Reorganized the options page.

30.08.09 – Version 2.0.8

* Added rounded corner support to safari.

* Fixed all the CSS and HTML errors

29.08.09 – Version 2.0.7

* Fixed the bug in navigation area

* Added some default widgets.

* Some SEO tweaks

28.08.09 – Version 2.0.6

* Made the height of navigation area above and below logo fluid now you can have as many pages and categories as you want.

27.08.09 – Version 2.0.5

* Fixed the 125*125 banner ads bug

27.08.09 – Version 2.0.4

* Options page is more user friendly now.

* Added gravtar next to post title and gave it a whole new styling. You will love it.

* Separate comments and trackback.

* Added an option to add Adsense ad under the navigation area. I have been using Adsense for more than three years, trust me when I say that this position has highest CTR and could double your Adsense revenue when used with proper colour combinations.

* Fixed the email subscription link.

* Fixed some bugs in comments template.

26.08.09 – Version 2.0.3

Changed the post title style

Fixed some bugs with rss

made the search box little wider to accomodate the default text

23.08.09 – Version 2.0.2

Added threaded comments

23.08.09 – Version 2.0.1

*Fixed the links to feeds in footer

23.08.09 – Version 2.0.0

*Changed the layout from 16 grid system to 12 grid system (Swift uses 960.gs css framework)

*Added RSS subscribe box and changed the search box position

20.08.09 – Version 1.0.6

*Fixed some php tags

*Added colour picker to options page and made it more user friendly

19.08.09 – Version 1.0.5

* Added the option to disable popular posts on homepage, disabled by default.

* If no post is specified for the featured section, most recent post is taken as default.

*Fixed the issues with Internet explorer, that crept into version 1.0.4

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