Portfolio themes focus on your work – often with big, beautiful graphics in the case of Photography, Web or Graphic Design portfolios. Today we’ll use the free WP Types plugin alongside a premium community Headway Extend Block, Article Builder, to make a beautiful portfolio layout. Get Started To complete this tutorial, you will need to… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Caitlin Oliver
Use Custom Social Media Icons in the Social Block
The new Social Media Block in Headway 3.6 offers you an easy way to drop a predefined set of social media icons into your layout. Just choose the icon set, then choose the network, add link, rinse, repeat, and you’re done! Headway offers two options out of the box, a Peel Icon Set and Soft… Continue Reading
Five Quick Tips for Your New Headway Site
Building a new Headway site is exciting, but as you get started don’t forget these quick tips to make your experience as smooth as possible! Free Resources Abound! Don’t be afraid to look around for free vector images, stock photos and even textures and buttons to give your site a professional look. Try Vecteezy! for free… Continue Reading
Easy Embedding with the Embed Block
The Embed Block is a core block in Headway – that means if you have Headway, you have this block. But are you using it? The Embed block is incredibly flexible – just place a block in the desired size on the page, drop in the URL of the embeddable media and Save. Yup, it’s that easy!… Continue Reading
3 Less Common Use Cases for Multiple Content Blocks in a Layout
Have you ever wondered why you need so many options on the Content Block? Most often when you’re using a single content block in your layout, you’re using it in Default Mode. But there’s a whole world of options for you under Custom Query, and today we’ll go over a few helpful use case scenarios… Continue Reading
Hiding the Featured Post Thumbnail
If you’re putting together a relatively “simple” website – insomuch as you are customizing one or two layouts using Headway’s Visual Editor – you may run into the following scenario: 1. You may or may not have a static homepage. It’s customized if you do, yay! 2. You have a blog index, which may or may… Continue Reading
Creating a "Sticky" Navigation Bar with Headway
PROBLEM: Your navigation is one of the most important parts of your website. It’s how your visitors get from the homepage to other parts of your site! But once they scroll down to read your content, they can’t see the navigation anymore – and darn it, you want them to see it all the time!… Continue Reading
Customize Your Footer Block using the Custom Copyright or Add a Text Block
I often build WordPress sites for clients using the Headway framework, and one common task across all sites is adding my credit to the footer. Luckily, this is incredibly simple to do! You can take two different approaches: Use the Custom Copyright Input Field Open up the block options for the footer block, and you’ll see… Continue Reading
Create a Social Icons Navigation with Integrated Search Bar
With a little bit of custom CSS and icons downloaded off the web, you can create a fabulous menu bar anywhere on your site using the Headway Navigation Block – which means you can align it however you want, include a search bar, and use a WordPress menu with it! Two Styles & Approaches We can either… Continue Reading
Tips and Code Snippets to Use in Custom Code Blocks
The most flexible block in your Headway arsenal is the custom code block. Whatever you can’t accomplish with the other core blocks (Navigation, Slider, Embed, Content, Breadcrumbs, Widget Area, Footer, Text an Header) you can accomplish with the custom code block. The part that trips up a lot of our newbies is the fact that this… Continue Reading
