Featured post sliders
You have an option to choose between two different slider styles in SWIFT, “Lite” and “Large Image“.
- Select the slider of your choice.
- Select the featured posts category.
- Select the number of featured posts to be shown in slider.
- There is a check box saying “Skip posts shown in the slider from WordPress loop”. check this if you don’t want the posts shown in the slider to be displayed again below it. It is advised to check this option to avoid duplicate content issues on search engines.
DISABLE thumbnails in slider
Check this option if you do not want to show thumbnails in LITE slider. Without thumbnails it looks like this.
DISABLE thumbnails on home page
When you are using blog layout with excerpts enabled on home page, you have an option to disable thumbnails.
Display excerpts on home page
Check this box if you would like to display excerpts rather than full posts on the home page. Excerpts are summaries or descriptions of a post. This option doesn’t affect the more WordPress function, and it has no effect while you select magazine layout for home page.
Display excerpts on archive pages
This is same as the above option, except this applies to category,tag, archives and search results pages.
Number of full length posts
When you are using blog layout with excerpts enabled or the magazine layout and want to show some posts in full length, use this option.
Enable popular posts on home page
When your are using blog layout on home page, you have an option to show your popular posts as shown in the screenshot below. Popularity of the post is calculated based on the number of comments it gets. If you don’t have comments on any of your posts, it will not show any posts.
Popular posts are picked based on the number comments a post has. If none of your posts have any comments, then no popular posts will be shown.
About me..
When using full page magazine layout, there will be a blank space next to slider. You can add content to that blank space here. Can be used to add a short bio of your self or a 300*250px advert.
FAQ’s
1. Slider works only with Recent Posts?
2. Cant change featured posts category ?
goto includes/featured-slider-1.php, or includes/featured-slider-2.php depending on the slider you are using and change these lines to
[php]
if($opt[‘swift_featured_category’]&&$opt[‘swift_featured_category’]!=’Show recent posts’)
$query=’category_name="’.$opt[‘swift_featured_category’].’"&showposts=’.$opt[‘swift_featured_posts_number’];
else
$query=’&showposts=’.$opt[‘swift_featured_posts_number’];
[/php]
to
[php]
//5 is the id of the category you want to show in featured slider, and seven is the number of featured posts.
$query=’cat=5&showposts=7′;
//You can show posts from multiple categories in the slider by replacing 5 with 5,8,9
[/php]
trying to show a drop box of catergories. When selected, the page shows but the title has “Archives for ….title name ….” and below at the end “posted on .. . by .. admin”
Can we disable this from showing up ?
BTB, just bought the developer license ($125) today .
Hello,
Where’s the option to choose the number of posts I want to show in home page. I use a “blog layout” with no slider
It’s in settings->reading
i need to show pictures when available for old posts inside excerpts in magazine layout. how do i do that.. thanks in advance! ^_^
Hi Satish – I’m using the Swift Premium v6.2.x, but not finding the option to choose between two different slider styles (e.g., “Lite” and “Large Image“). I really want to use the Lite slider version since this is more suited for what I want to do. Can you let me know where to find it? On a related topic, the slider breaks when I change “Homepage Settings -> Number of Featured Posts” from anything other than the default value in the drop down. Thanks …
Hello,
I love your theme so far as I’m working in a sandbox to develop my site’s new look. I was wondering if there is any shortcode to put the slider on a page using the WP GUI? I want a static page as my home page, and then my actual blog page is elsewhere. I’d like the slider to show on BOTH pages, not only the Blog page. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I am using large image slider at homepage that contains recent posts !
Problem is, The slider tends to show full images at beginning 562*280 and after sometime it comes back to normal size of images which i have set in my post images !
It tooks few more secs for page to load and also the whole page just flows out, any solution for that ?
My website is
http://www.vfashiontrends.com
Thanks.
If you are using large image slider, then your featured image should be at least 940px wide.
Did you answer this FAQ : 1. Slider works only with Recent Posts?
Hello,
Thank you for a wonderful theme.
I have enabled the slider on my blog. Please take a look at it. The slider either comes out empty, or if I choose to display, say, three posts, only one will show. How can I change this or fix it? I have the version 5.72
Thank You
I selected ‘excerpts’ option on home page. Why is it it still shows entire posts? And the images in the slider wont occupy the whole space. What’s the best thing to do?
I’ve recently changed over to your free theme and testing it before upgrading to the premium theme. I have a quick question, is it possible to show more than three posts on the home page? At the moment I have 2 RSS widgets running in the side bar which will show 3 post feeds each with content. At the moment the page looks weird as the posts don’t run to the bottom. I know I have the option of full content but would prefer not to use it as it has additional images on the post. The website in question is this one http://pickoffers.com. Any help in regards to adding 3 more posts to the home page for extra length would be appreciated.
Thanks
Norm
One of my clients bought your theme and she really likes it; however, she sent me your instructions from your forum on how to slow down the slider speed and I don’t know where to “regenerate” the .js file. Is that an option or setting in the Swift options?
goto the options page, and save the changes and your js file will be regenerated.
Yes, that does work. Weird that I had done the *exact* thing you prescribe on another computer and it seemed NOT to work, even though I was clearing my cached (using CCleaner) after each change…but then I tried on another computer and it worked right away (as one would expect).
Thanks!!!
Your theme and support ROCK!
Okay, for Swift premium, what is file needs updating for the slider speed?
i want to increase the width of content and decrease the width of right sidebar so that i can put 728*90 leather board advertisement just below the title.Is there any way to do this????
hi there, first of all, thanks for the wonderful work done.
I have a query. How to make the slider picture having to be the full width of the homepage? Hope to have some advice soon thanks!
Its great theme but i have some problem. When Im using Popular post for home page it shows popular posts but without pictures (thumbnails). Im not using magazine layout only blog stile so it shuld work.
If any suggestion pls write.
Anyone willing to give advice about my question?
Or how can it show only Post title when using Popular Posts option, without snippet and without thumbnail?
Like many users here, I am trying to set up the thumbnails, only the default comes up. All of the thumbnails for my other posts were also replaced by the default one.
Install “Auto post thumbnails” plugin and goto settings->auto post thumbnail and generate post thumbnails.
hi Satish
My website is http://www.rakethemoolah.com . I have issues with regards to the ‘featured posts’ and I still get default.jpg in the featured post instead of the image I have uploaded in my first post. Pls help. I went the comments’ trail but still not able to take care of the issue.
Regards,
Raghu
I think you’re theme is preventing me from setting up a pretty permalink structure. Is that possible? Thank you! the theme is amazing by the way
Thats not possible. Are you hosting on yahoo?
i don’t know what i’m hosting on. all i know is i have apache server, the configurations have been set up according to the requirements specified in the codex. I found a comment somewhere that said their archive plugin was messing up the permalink structure. i have no such plugin but since i’m out of ideas i just wanted to be sure the theme isn’t the cause.
Thanks for the flash-answer by the way! I’ll keep digging elsewhere.
Contact your hosting support, they will have it solved in a minute.
Hello! Great Theme! However, is it possible to turn the slider into picture navigation for throughout my website, for example, if we have five pages, each with a picture at the top of the pages, can we make these images the slider images, with links to the appropriate pages? Also, is there a way to remove the slider in sub pages? Thanks! Once again, fantastic theme!!
Another way of achieving this is given at globinch.com . Read How to Create WordPress Thumbnail Based Post Archives
http://www.globinch.com/2010/11/01/how-to-create-wordpress-thumbnail-based-post-archives/
Just upgraded to the 5.73. Of course I can not get the pictures to show up in the slider, just the default.jpg.
This is starting to turn into to much to configure!
read the instructions here
http://swiftthemes.com/2010/11/wordpress-themes/free-themes/swift/update-version-5-70-of-swift-says-goodbye-timthumb/
Thanks Satish. WordPress is starting to get to me! 🙂
I can think of very few things you have forgotten, and think this is a great theme. I have one issue and one question.
My issue, when setting the colors for the “Tabber” (which I assume governs the appearance of the Tab Widget), I keep getting “white” text for the tabs. I’ve set everything in the tabber section, and all the other components are the expected color, and I have nothing set to white. I see settings for “Tabs Navigation Text Color”; “Tabs Navigation Hoover Text Color”; “Tabs Text Color.” I have all of these set to a very dark color #330000. Yet the text in the tabs themselves remains white, no matter the state. Any suggestions.
My other question is the same as Darryl’s. Even if it involved editing PHP, is there a way to change timing on the slider rotation? (I’d like to suggest that as a configuration feature in a future release.)
upgrade to latest version.
http://swiftthemes.com/download/
Thanks for the quick resonse, unfortunately I’d just started testing with Swift, which is a great theme, so I had version 5.73. In the event there were some tweaks, I did download the file again, and re-installed. I still have the same behavior with the tab text colors. http://deepsand.mastersfamily.org
Also, is there a way to change the speed of the slider. I’ve searched your site, and I’ve looked through all the options (I don’t think I’ve missed anything) I even looked in the PHP file I thought might control it, but I’m no programmer, so nothing was obvious to me.
Hello … I am in full configuration of the theme and I follow the instructions but I can not make it:
1 – shows the images when using Lite
2 – in the Featured post slider style appear in the incomplete images, the image is cut down
What I do in the two cases?
Thanks in advance
Laura Silva
if the images are not in the 2:1 aspect ratio, they will be cropped.
And where is defined this aspect ratio? I mention that already make the adjustment you mention in section Ideal media settings for SWIFT
Thanks in advance
Laura Silva
Hi Satish, great theme, thank you. I’ve got the same question: is here any way to modify the aspect ratio within the large image slider to _avoid_ cropping? The slider is the prominent feature, and automatic cropping is not necessarily “optimal” or nice.
Timing!
Yes!
And I couldn’t find this in the user guide–does the “number of full-length posts” option work with Stickies? I’d like to have a specific post under my slider (still can’t get thumbnails to work in small slider, but have successfully upgraded so that’s a little better) then the magazine layout under that. I can get it to look right, but can’t get the right post to show up.
This is a great theme, by the way. Thank you so much. Sorry we’re all so demanding.
Heather
Is there anyway to change the timing of the feature post slider rotation?
same question