Headway Theme Tutorials

Have you thought of moving the search bar to the top of the header so that your navigation bar has more spaces for your navigation items. If yes, add the following CSS code to your custom.css file. Log into your wordpress dashboard. Go to Appearance > Editor. On the right hand side, under “Styles”, click on custom.css. Insert the below CSS code into custom.css and click on the green button “Update Files” at the bottom to save. /*relocate search bar to the top of the header*/ body.custom form#header-search-bar input {             display:block;             height: 14px;             line-height: 14px;             position: absolute;             top: -280%;  ...

Headway is announcing they are going to release the new version Headway Themes 3.0 on 25 Nov 2011. The new version of Headway Themes is a radical improvement of previous version as it is said to be more user friendly, less code hacking, more robust drag and drop or rather draw and drop features are included. You can literally drag and draw out the website or blog you wanted using Headway Themes 3.0. This is great news for newbies and non programmers as it will cut down your learning curve and frustration. Child Theme It is a pity that the past and current version of Headway Themes has no child themes but with the new release version of 3.0, we are going to see child themes added to it. Personal license holder is going to get one free child theme while the developer license is going to have a choice of three. In addition, the child themes is said to be fully supported for HTML 5 so that means your website build with Headway child themes will be light, sleek and load faster. ...

Those of you who are used to coding HTML table in html editors might find it is such a pain to do it in Wordpress. Although there are plugins, for example the WP-Table-Reloaded available for creating table in Wordpress but it is not as friendly as it should be. In my previous post, “ How to Create Tables Easily for Your Wordpress Blog? ”, I mentioned that the WP-Table-Reloaded plugin offers a lot of table functionality that a normal HTML table including hover effect, alternate row color and manipulating the table with sort, hide, add and move functions. Nevertheless, when comes to building a table from scratch, it is still not the best option due to awkward cells in the table.

Do you have a gallery and you realized you might need to group related images together into single thumbnail? The main purpose is to allow your visitors to have greater ease of navigation and experience while browsing the gallery. For example, you have a list of product A-Z that you like to show them in different perspectives. When your visitors click on the thumbnail of product A; he or she can see the top, bottom, front and side view of product A.

Recently, a visitor asked how to have multiple databases while installing different wordpress in one of my posts titled “ Installing Second Copy of Wordpress in Sub-domain Directory ”? So in this post, I will try to describe the steps involved in creating another database for another wordpress installation.

If you are new to using Wordpress, you might confuse between adding an image and adding media or gallery to your wordpress page or post. There is a difference between these two features.

This is one of the most common problems found in Headway theme, i.e., many people faced the same problem while loading their Visual Editor (VE) - it would either took forever to load the visual editor (you see the loading icon circling continuously) or freeze with no reason. If you are having the same problem with your visual editor, you might want to check the following list first before downgrading to lower version of Headway.

I have finished developing a site in a test sub-directory and am ready to move to the actual sub-domain. I specially purchased BackupBuddy from iTheme to help me with the migration as I read a lot of positive comments about this plugin. It is said to be one of the foolproof ways to migrate one site to another site seamlessly.

If you are looking for an event plugin for your site or blog, you may like to try the “ Events Calendar ” developed by Shane & Peter.

At times, you may need to have another Wordpress site besides the main Wordpress site at your root directory, for example, another Wordpress site for your sub-domain. If you are contemplating whether you can install the Wordpress directly into your sub-domain directory to do your design and development works while keeping the current static website, the answer is unfortunately “No”.

Thinking of adding a three-column widgetized footer to your blog while using Headway theme, here is a method suggested by Paul Coughlin in his blog.

If you have already have a blog but then decided to add in some static pages to make it look like a normal website. Can you do that? Or, you are thinking to move your blog from root directory to a new directory called “blog” and the default home page is a static page with no blog posts. Can you do that?

What is the fastest and easier way to redirect your site permanently? Technically speaking, doing a 301 redirect of your site will help to maintain your search ranking in search engines without showing your visitors a 404 page error. Your visitors will redirect to a new URL even though they have clicked on the old URL found in the search engines.

Not many people can upgrade Headway automatically and smoothly from the wordpress dashboard. I was one of them, I either get the following messages or the installation took forever to install.  

If you have drop-down menu at your blog navigation bar, most likely you will want the parent menu to be non clickable. The parent menu serves only as a container to the children menus so it should not contain any link.

There may be time you need to add a gallery or portfolio to your blog to showcase some of your works. If you are using wordpress, you can add a gallery easily to your page or post by using its media features. The only disadvantage of this method is that when you click on the individual thumbnail of the images, it will open up a new window showing the image in it. Imagine if you have many images, it will open up many new windows and become cumbersome when you want to view all of them. There should be a better way to display it, for example, let the gallery run like a slideshow.