Rutgers University

Office of Instructional and Research Technology

Headway Themes

What is it?

  • A WordPress theming tool that allows you to work with or without HTML, CSS and PHP code to make your own theme
  • If you do not have any experience with writing code, then you can use their Headway Visual Editor to customize your WordPress blog

Features

  • You can easily design your blog any way you want it
  • You can rearrange anything within the blog
  • Headway lets you copy and paste your Google analytics code, generate a color scheme automatically based on the colors in your header image, and use advanced code to customize your blog

Terminology

  • Permalink: A permanent link to a specific post
  • Media Uploader: Where you upload any media – mp3s, images, videos, pdfs, etc.
  • Pages: A page of content that is not a particular blog post; an example would be an “About Me” page
  • Comments: Users can leave comments on your blog posts

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