Headway Theme for Wordpress: Customize Your Website Visually

Headway Theme Review:

Easily Customize Your Wordpress Site using a Visual Editor!. Written by Nick Reese on 7/8/2010.

Just when you thought the competition between Premium Wordpress Themes couldn’t get any more fierce there is a new game changer in the Arena. Enter Headway Themes.

Headway Themes launched in late July 2009 and has since exploded onto the premium themes market. Their mission to make Wordpress customizable has definitely given them additional market appeal over existing powerhouses like DIYTheme’s Thesis and Woo Themes.

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Complete Customization Control

While this video is good, it doesn’t quite do Headway justice as to how much customization can be done.

For each part of your site, you literally have control over every part of your website and built right into Headway is the ability to drag and drop custom content anywhere on the page.

For example lets say you want to add a sideshow gallery or a twitter feed to your sidebar, simply drag and drop the content where you want it.

How about a featured post area or text/html anywhere you want on your page, just drag and drop. It is amazingly simple.

While this fine granular control is great, sometimes it can come off a bit complex and does have a learning curve of its own. However once you get the hang of it you can really have complete control of your site.

Who should use Headway:

  • Are you looking to upgrade your Wordpress theme to some thing more flexable and robust than you can find with a Free Wordpress theme? If so then Headway might be for you.
  • Do you struggle with making changes to PHP code or customizing your Wordpress blog via CSS? If so then Headway might be for you.
  • Do you want complete control over every element of your theme, without knowing any code? If so then Headway might be for you.

Get Headway:

While Headway v1.5 is still in beta it should be released sometime this week. If you are in the market for a Premium Wordpress Theme. I would definitely suggest you check out Headway and its capabilities. They are pretty impressive.

If you want to test drive Headway before it comes out of beta pick up a developers lisence and check out the forums for the download link.

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Written by Nick Reese

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Nick Reese is a full time internet marketer living in Austin Texas. When Nick isn't managing web properties he enjoys biking, shooting video, and drinking tea. You should follow Nick on twitter here and check out his side project Becoming Bold.

Nick has written 48 posts for Art of Blog!

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Corey Freeman @ Headway Hacks November 11, 2009

I’ve been working extensively with Headway and it is definitely a ridiculously flexible theme. There are a ton of changes you can make with simple hooks that add even more functionality, and the layout is really intuitive. I definitely recommend it.

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Lori L November 27, 2009

I’m still learning all the cool things that Headway can do, but I love it. I’m a photographer and like to change the colors of my site each month to go my current promotion. Headway gives me that quick flexibility.

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Danny Brown December 30, 2009

I switched from Thesis to Headway back in July, when version 1.0 came out. I’m not a coder, so Headway made perfect sense, and since July I’ve continued to be blown away with each new update. The new Visual Editor layout in 1.5.6 is simply amazing, and any other theme now is going to have to come up with some serious smarts to catch up.

Cheers! :)

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Kent February 25, 2010

Nick, how would you compare Headway to Builder from iThemes. It seems to be similar with what it offers in a number of ways, but maybe not as easy to use.

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Nick Reese February 25, 2010

Kent, I have not compared them. I know Headway is a good product. iBuilder looks cool as well. I’ve tested Headway and it gives you full control, so I can definitely vouch for it. :)

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Joe Wright March 22, 2010

Im having a lot of trouble customizing nav items in headway: Can you tell me why the following css doesnt work?:

.custom .menu li a { -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1.5em; -moz-border-radius-topright: 1.5em; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 1.5em;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 1.5em;}

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Robert March 25, 2010

Can anyone please comment on the difference between Headway and Builder Theme from ithemes? I don’t see a difference besides price as they do the same thing. Please explain?

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Eddie Gear July 5, 2010

I switched to Headway as of this month. I’m do code and design WP blogs however, I needed the time to focus on other aspects of my blog, so Headway made perfect sense. I’m glad that there are moving from Thesis to Headway.

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