Background Images
Child Themes
Child themes is a new feature added to SWIFT themes in version 5.40, the idea is to make it easy for you to share your customizations and also to copy your customization from the development server to the live server. This option is clearly explained in this page .
Next you have the option to add background images to three important parts of the site and specify their position. The following screenshot gives a clear idea of what each term means. Yeah, I know thats an awful selection of background images 😛
If you want to have more control over the positioning of the background images, read this page about background image positioning and use the custom CSS option to add the CSS code.
Layout Options
With images added to the options page since version 5.42, this section is self explanatory so I’m not discussing it here. If you have any questions, post them in comments I will update this page then.
Fonts
Font family
The font family selected here will be the primary font used on the entire blog.
Primary font size
Size you select will be the primary font size used on the entire blog, All other font sizes will be multiples and multiples of it.
Next there are options to select the font size of Sidebar, Footer and Post content. Font size is proportional to the primary font size. This parameter determines by how much it must be multiplied. For example, if your primary font size is 10px and you select .8em here, the footer font size will be 80% of 10px = 8px.
Colours
Next you have this awesome colour picker to pick the colours of almost every section of the site. When you are picking colours be sure to check that you selected the correct colours for sliders,magazine boxes,comments template, subscribe box, author info at the end of the post on single pages,post meta, footer and copyright notice. These are easy to miss.
Rounded Corners
Rounded corners don’t look good when the header and body background images are different, so this option lets you disable rounded corners. If you dont like the rounded corners for sidebar widgets, you have an option to disable them to.
Custom CSS
This my favorite option in the entire design options section, possibilities of using this are endless. If you have good knowledge of CSS, you can do almost anything with this option.
When ever you want to modify the CSS files, paste the CSS code you want to modify here, instead of actually modifying the core files. By doing it this way you wont loose your customizations when you update your theme.
CSS code pasted here has the highest priority and overrides other CSS rules
Never edit template files unless its absolutely necessary, You should never edit the CSS files. Use custom CSS instead.
waooo. i love this theme. it has all the basic feature and customizations i need for my blog.
Satish-
This theme looks AWESOME. I currently use a WP theme called “sight” which is very good, but I like yours better. I plan on switching soon, when I have the time to set it up and customize it.
very nice themes… thanks dude
I’m trying to use the custom css option to create a new table class that does not have borders or a background color. I’m having trouble. Any suggestions? Thank you!
Hi,
Love swift themes but want to remove ‘no comments/edit post’ on each page as using as a static site rather than blog. Have tried everything I can think of – please help.
Thanks,
I just went into the theme file comments.php and changed:
Comments are closed
into:
Sry, idk why my code tags aren’t working. Basically, just look for the line that says “Comments are closed” (after the author’s note in the php saying to leave a note if there are no comments allowed, around line 54), and remove the paragraph and text. I would leave the ifs around it though.
You will also notice an edit post call towards the top of all of the page template files. You can just remove that.
Just downloaded and installed theme. It does not look like the thumbnail picture. What am I missing?
I would like a footer on the front page only of my website. How can this be done using “Swift” design theme?
After customization, how can i transfer the theme to my blog at wordpress.com? I can’t install it from the back end and it doesn’t appear in the search results either!
I can’t get my fonts to change. I’ve changed the font family, the individual font choices . . . all I want is for the Post titles to be Palantino but it won’t work.
Get the latest version from here
http://swiftthemes.com/download/
Hi you customize the theme and make it look alike shoutmeloud or callingallgeeks
can you use lavalamp on the jquery menu.
sry, I’m not a fan of those two sites design.
I will include lava lamp option in the premium version.
Thanks for the great theme. Really loving it.
I have been having one issue here, though. I have read about it on the forum, too.
I have the latest version. Apparently, setting a background image for the content doesn’t work. It puts the image in the header for me. Which is very sad because I had some great ideas for the content background. Is there a fix or something?
Thanks=)
Hi, I like so much the example of swift here: http://demos.swiftthemes.com/ I’ve tried to make it the same for my site, but I’ve 2 problems: 1. The wide sb top doesn’t work with hompage (full_magazine). 2. I don’t know how to make appear the categorie on post (for example Architecture or border, buying).
Many thanks