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Headway 2.0 takes using WordPress to a new level

As you should know by now, we pushed out Headway 2.0 the other day.  The initial response has been amazing to say the least.  From the emails to the great comments on our forums.  And the conversations we have been having on twitter, the interest has been great as have all of the testimonials we are getting already.

We also completely redesigned, rebranded and built from scratch the Headway site.  Plus we had a new video done which highlights some of the features of Headway 2.0

Headway 2.0 came about in part because we listened to our community and wanted to bring about the innovations they were looking for.  We also refuse to stop innovating with Headway and making it the best premium WordPress theme/framework available.

Here is a list of some of the key features you will find in Headway 2.0

?Quick Start Wizard

Starting from a fresh install, the quick start wizard will show immediately after loading the visual editor. Otherwise, you can run the wizard through the Tools menu in the visual editor. The wizard will guide you step-by-step through choosing your layout, uploading your header image, building your site’s color scheme (it’ll even detect colors from your header image!), and selecting fonts. At the end, you’ll click a button to build your site and it’ll all be done in a snap!

Column System For Leafs

Those who have a more column-based layout will find the new columns system to be incredibly beneficial. Instead of jogging all of your leafs around, you can put them into columns and move and resize the entire columns with ease. Don’t fret, the previous layout system is still present. You can specify whether or not you want columns for the particular page in the visual editor.

Styles Manager

Before Headway 2.0, Headway came with 1 layout and you had to work from there. Headway 2.0 comes with 4 pre-loaded styles in the new Styles Manager, which allows you to save and load styles. You can also import and export styles just like before, but in a much more organized way!

Leaf Templates

Instead of linking pages and being locked into the layout of the page you are linking to, you can now save your leafs (and columns) into Leaf Templates. Leaf Templates can be loaded onto any page. Once a template is loaded, you can modify it just like any regular page.

Automatic Upgrades

Even though we think all of the other features in 2.0 are incredibly cool, we REALLY think this one is cool . No longer do you have to go to the Headway site, download the latest version, upload it, and activate it. Oh, and if you ever did any custom.css or used the custom folder in Headway, you won’t have to worry about transferring that to the new installation either. The automatic upgrader does it all with only a few clicks!

HUGE Speed Improvements and Optimizations

In 2.0, we rethunk (hey, we’re from Kansas!) how many things were coded in Headway. We’ve made major improvements to the visual editor to drastically reduce the amount of conflicts from third-party plugins and also make loading the visual editor MUCH faster. Also, we completely rewrote the content leaf to be more efficient and more stable than before.

WordPress Multi-site Support

Headway 2.0 now fully supports the WordPress multi-site feature. This was something many of our users asked for and we felt Headway 2.0 was a logical time to bring it in.

Final Thoughts

We will be talking more very soon on what Headway 2.0 means to those looking to use a blog or website to market and promote their business.  In the meantime, swing by the Headway site and take a tour.

And as a teaser, we have another new service coming in a week or so for the Headway community which will make getting online even that much easier.  Be watching here and on the Headway site for details.

And to make the FTC happy and if you didn’t already know. I am one of the co-founders of Headway Themes.  That means I make money every time someone buys a license.

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Published by: Grant Griffiths

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Full post as published by Blawg for Profit on October 31, 2010 (boomark / email).