Custom Logo
Upload your logo through ftp or your hosting dashboard or WordPress uploader and past the url in this field.
Example: http://yousite.com/logo.png (If you uploaded your logo in the root of your site)
Do not use a logo wider than 940px and don’t confuse logo with header background.
Adding custom logo to SWIFT theme
Setting up the navigation in SWIFT
Use WordPress menus to setup the navigation
Custom search code
I use this option of SWIFT to add my AdSense search code (Can be used with any search provider), the result of using this option is shown below.
Result of adding custom search code.
If nothing is entered in this option, default WordPress search function will be used.
Typical settings for adsense search code should look like this, make sure you select the first search box style and text box length should be 19 characters.
Adsense settings for SWIFT custom search box
Then we have “Disable RSS links” and “Disable search box”, these are self explanatory, I’m not going to elaborate them here.
The section below is versions of SWIFTÂ lower than 5.50
Top navigation bar and Bottom navigation bar (This section is removed since, v5.50. Use WordPress menus)
You can choose what you want to display in the navigation here. Screenshot below should make it clear
SWIFT theme navigation (Click to enlarge)
Links to be appended to the navigation bar showing the list of pages/categories (This section is removed since, v5.50. Use WordPress menus)
Next you have the option to append links to both the navigation areas, can be used to link to your other sites or add some sponsored links. I use it to add the link to our forum. See the screenshot below.
Appending links to navigation
Selecting Pages and Categories to be displayed in navigation (You no longer need this in version 5.50)
Here you can select the pages and categories you want to be displayed in the navigation menu. Child pages and categories will be shown as drop downs, you should select what pages and categories you want to be shown in the navigation. If you don’t select the parent category, then all it’s child categories will be shown separately, same applies to pages.
You can use the plugins My Page Order and My Category Order to change the order of categories and pages, you don’t have to make any edits to the template, SWIFT has built in support for these two plugins.
To save your selection you should click “Click to save page selection”/ “Click to save category selection”
Note: You will loose any unsaved changes when you click any of the above said two buttons. I know that sucks, I promise you that it’s gonna be better in future. Till than bear with it.
Selecting pages and categories for navigation
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