Headway Themes 1.5 is live and ready for download

Contributed by Clay Griffiths, developer of Headway Themes.

Well, it has been a long time, but Headway 1.5 is finally ready for the public! Thank you, beta testers .

You can log into the members’ area and download version 1.5 where you previously downloaded 1.0.1.

Additions:

Improvements:

Change the system in which data is stored. More future-proof and stable.
Multi-level drop down navigation.
Visual design editor. A new way to style virtually every element.
Drag and drop variables for post meta.
Copy leafs between pages and system pages.
CSS and JavaScript is now combined and compressed much more than before. They are also cached to reduce the server load.
Content Leaf:
- Added next/previous links on single page.
- Added options to choose what data to sort by and what order.
Image Rotator:
- Can add unlimited images now.
- Auto-resizes images to leaf dimensions.
Sidebar Leaf:
- Got rid of duplicate checkbox. You simply type in the ID.
- Name sidebars with a text box in the options instead of the leaf title.
Easy hooks panel uses a select box to minimize scrolling.

Bug Fixes:

Author link fixed.
Comment template fixed. Requiring login to comment should work.
HTML entity escape on automatic tweeting.
Headway is now MUCH less picky about it’s path. It can run within sub-directories like it should have.
And much more…

Code Changes:

All navigation selectors have changed back to WordPress’ defaults. Instead of current-page-item, it is now current_page_item.
custom.css and custom_functions.php are now loaded by default.