How To Upgrade Headway

Upgrading Headway consists of four steps:

• Installing the Headway Widget Upgrader Plugin
• Uploading Headway
• Copying Custom Files (Only if you have custom.css or use the custom folder)
• Activating Headway

Running The Widget Upgrader

If you’re upgrading from Headway 1.0 to 1.5 or newer, install and activate the Headway Widget Upgrader plugin. If you do not do this prior to upgrading, your widgets will be wiped out.

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Copying Custom Files

If you have used the custom.css file for CSS changes or used the custom folder for any reason, you are going to need to somehow transfer the custom.css and custom folder from your previous Headway folder to the new one.

We find the following steps to be the easiest:

• Navigate to your Headway 1.0[.1] folder via FTP and download the custom.css file and custom folder.
• Navigate to the newly uploaded Headway 1.5 folder on your website.
• Upload and overwrite the custom.css and custom file and folder.
• NOTE: If you used Headway’s header image feature and linked to an image in your custom images folder, delete the image in the Site Configuration window and re-upload.

Activating Headway

After uploading, click Activate under Headway and presto!