You will need to know how to create custom post types to understand this tutorial. This tutorial does not cover creating your own Custom Post Types. You’ll notice that when creating/editing Posts and Pages in WordPress, there are some Headway specific metaboxes: Title Control Shared Layout Featured Image Position SEO (if using Headway’s SEO options)… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Jamie
Screencast Thursday: Working with Shared Layouts
As indicated in the video, the first few minutes are me going over the when/why to use Shared Layouts. If you want to read that (below) instead, skip to 4:00 in the video. Summary of when/why to use shared layouts: Use Shared layouts when layout inheritance isn’t enough. Example: You want some posts to have… Continue Reading
Creating a functional header
This comes from a request in the forum on a walkthrough of how to have a header with logo, contact details and social media links. First thing to understand is that you can have multiple wrappers, which are containers for your blocks. This allows you to style groups of blocks differently. Let’s start in the… Continue Reading
How to use FancyBox Lightbox with Headway
Skills you will need: uploading files to your server, creating a Headway child theme, creating a WordPress gallery. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use FancyBox with Headway. You certainly can use a plugin to take of this functionality for you but this tutorial is plugin free. Please note the licensing for… Continue Reading
Screencast Thursday: Using Custom Fonts
As promised in the video, here’s the code I used in the Live CSS Editor Continue Reading
Screencast Thursday: How to reset Headway and layouts
Sorry this is a day late but this week we tackle resetting Headway layouts and resetting Headway completely. There won’t be a screencast next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Also, we may end up doing these every other Thursday. Continue Reading
How to use Gravity Forms with Headway
We’re big fans of Gravity Forms here at Headway so we thought we’d go over how to use Gravity Forms with Headway. Using WordPress Simply create your form as you normally would in the Gravity Form setup, then use the “Add Form” TinyMCE button to select your form. For my screenshots, I’ve created a page… Continue Reading
Screencast Thursday: Customizing/Editing for a Specific Layout
This week we will tackle making changes to a specific layout, an issue that comes up in the forums regularly. Continue Reading
Screencast Thursday: Working with Wrappers
Introducing the Working with Wrappers Screencast where you will learn how to add wrappers, change wrappers to fluid, and add wrapper aliases. Sorry for the delay on this week’s Screencast but I hope you enjoy! Continue Reading
