Swift Themes
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Here is a Free WP Theme in the popular Magazine style that really has a lot going for it.
First off the Swift WP Theme is designed to be fast loading. While many people do not consider this when looking for free WP Themes, it is important to your potential users. How long are you willing to wait for a site to load after you click on it while doing a Google Search? If you are like most people 15 seconds and you are on to the next site. So Speed counts alot!
Next Swift is Seo Optimized. Now I have not researched it enough to know how they have optimized it but I will take their word on it. Also note that there are a variety of free WP Plugins for SEO. Afew of my favorites are All in one SEO and Keywpord statistics. Check out those plugins when you get the chance.
SWIFT fetures a variety of sidebar options which I REALLY Like. getting your sidebars (the areas to either side of your blog or article entries) exactly the way you want them is critical to a blog in my opinion and I don't want to be forced to use a certain size add or to squeeze my list of recent blog entries into a narrow 1.5 inch side bar widget for example. Swift is also Adsense ready and advertisement ready.
Swift is a WP Theme that is rated at 4+ Stars and was recently updated on March 23. With 60,000++ downloads it is a solid, well working FREE WP Theme.
You can download Swift at this link from wordpress or just do it from within the Admin panel on your wordpress blog (under the Appearance tab on the left Nafigation Column, select Themes).
Swifts Extensive Features List includes:
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 (Iteven 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 timevisitors 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.Compared to most free WP Themes, Swift stands out, bundled with lot of options to build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme, SWIFT is the perfect choice for those who need a powerful and customizable theme. SWIFT has a active user community to help you with support queries
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)
Thank you very much for such awesome collection of templates, I’ve been finding for a while and these templates are what I trully want to put on my new blog.