Comments on: WordPress Theme Review: Headway

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:25:48 +0000

Hunter,
Actually I think Headway would be a perfect fit for you. I prefer Thesis but it doesn’t have the drag & drop functionality that Headway offers.

If you don’t mind a little bit of learning, Thesis is my recommendation.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:18:30 +0000

I am looking at using Headway to rehabilitate my webpage. I am completely ignorant on html etc. To date i have only used iweb to make and maintain my web info. Would a guy with limited (iweb like understanding) be able to handle Headway? There are certain design capabilities that I want to incorporate in my site, that iweb doesn’t yet handle, and Headway seems to offer them. But if I’m in over my head I don’t want to waste the $80 bucks.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:02:36 +0000

Both themes would be able to do what you’re wanting. Thesis has a built in “no-sidebar” template (just select it from the pull down menu) that’s perfect for landing/sales pages. Headway let’s you determine the content displayed on a page by page basis so you can create it however you’d like.

By: Syafrizal

Syafrizal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:30:55 +0000

Hi Ben, can Thesis and Headway help me create a mini site? Long single page with sales letter and no sidebars, widgets, and columns.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:34:56 +0000

Kent,
I’ve not used Builder but I’d rate Thesis above Headway. My man Jason who wrote this review really liked Headway & I believe still uses it but after giving it a spin for a while I just found Thesis to be a lot more flexible. Headway’s definitely easy to move content blocks etc & arrange the content that they provide you leafs for, but if you want to go off script, it’s not nearly as easy as Thesis.

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:52:45 +0000

How would you rank/rate/compare Headway, Thesis, and Builder from iThemes?

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:41:10 +0000

kjs,
No, that doesn’t matter. PHP 5 is a newer version of PHP & Headway is listing PHP 4 as a minimum requirement so you’re ahead of the game. Good luck with Headway & let me know how you like it!

By: kjs

kjs — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:37:34 +0000

I’m thinking about trying Headway, but it’s requirements state PHP 4, what if I have PHP 5 installed? Does it matter?

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:38:54 +0000

Chase, that would really depend on your design and how the company codes it. There’s just no easy way to answer that question.

By: Chase Brumfield

Chase Brumfield — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:21:00 +0000

I’ve currently got a custom wordpress blog being designed due to what used to be my very low knowledge of WordPress. However, I’ve learned a lot since that project started and was wondering how difficult it will be to basically take the custom theme the company provides me with and put it into a system like HeadWay so I’ll be able to easily edit it. Would this be a real pain in the neck, or would it just entail copying and pasting a few key parts of code here and there?

Thanks in advance