I don’t think a WP-specific development environment exists.
For theme development I’d have thought that any of those IDEs you mention would have been OK, although personally I avoid DreamWeaver like the plague. In fact I avoid anything with a ‘design’ mode and never use it when I have to code using something that has it. Firefox with Firebug is your best design/inspection toolset, IMO.
You can’t drag-and-drop for Web development, in my view.
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PAE
There is a plugin called WPide http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpide/ which I’d like to think one day could be the best IDE for WordPress
I’m one of the main guys developing it. Version 1 is on the WordPress repository but V2 is in development over on github and hopefully will be released in the next couple of weeks.
You can install V1 from the WP directory and it’s possible to pull in the dev version from github just by clicking a link once the main plugin is activated. That’s if you’re eager to take a look at the new version. It’s got tabbed editing, automated backups and it’s own file manager allowing you to edit any file in the wp-content folder.
The plugin still has a long way to go but it works.
WPsites – kudos for your plugin, it looks very good. 🙂
I must say I am sorry not to notice you’ve already developed something like that before creating Synchi – an IDE inside WordPress.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/synchi/
Thanks mdjekic,
WPide is improving all the time. I’m hoping to add many new features next week while at the WordCamp UK retreat, to turn it into more of a “full IDE”.
Synchi looks pretty good. I contemplated using the CodeMirror project for WPide but can’t quite remember why I didn’t.
Lots of developers specialise in WordPress these days so it would be nice to have an IDE that specialises in WordPress too! We are still a long way off having a decent alternative to some of the desktop programs that do WordPress pretty well but I’m sure it will come.
My Vote goes to Netbeans :p
