Headway 1.6 Is Available And This Thing Rocks!!!

It’s finally here!  Headway 1.6 is out, documentation, videos and all. If you have a previous version of Headway 1.6, go grab this. You will see below why you need to do this.

You can access the documentation by clicking here. And there is a ton of new documentation and tutorial videos. Michael Martine did an outstanding job putting all of the videos together for us. You will also be very pleased with all of the new documentation that has been put together too.

Headway 1.6 (Final Version) brings many new features to the table including a skins and leafs API, importing and exporting of “styles”, body background images, and much more.

New Features

  • All Headway features in the WordPress admin have been moved from the Appearance module to Headway’s own module.
  • Administration panels have been redesigned.
  • Skins and Leafs API.  If you’re a developer, please refer the documentation on how to use the new APIs.
  • You can now add a background image to your site with a simple image uploader.
  • Ability to import and export design settings via Styles in the Templates panel in the visual editor.
  • Default leaf sets.  You can now set a default leaf set that will be applied to every new page you make.
  • Ability to reset leafs on page.
  • Faster and easier saving in the visual editor.
  • Many speed improvements.  CSS is auto-cached and the amount of queries have been reduced tenfold.
  • Ability to load JavaScript libraries in the Headway Configuration panel.
  • SEO: Automatic page and post slug cleanup.
  • Live CSS Editor. Edit your CSS and see the changes right before your eyes.

Developer Notes

  • All leafs have the CSS class of headway-leaf instead of box.
  • Added headway_below_leaf action.

Besides the new features, there have been many, many bug fixes some of our users have been experiencing.

Download Now

You can download Headway 1.6.1 in the members’ panel.  For skins, leafs, and styles, go to the Headway support forums.  If you do not own Headway, click here to purchase Headway.

About The Author
Grant Griffiths is founder of Blog For Profit and co-founder of Headway, the first Drag and Drop WordPress Theme Framework. You can follow Grant on twitter at @grantgriffiths
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