Title: HTML   CSS editor compatible with WordPress
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# HTML CSS editor compatible with WordPress

 *  [melange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melange/)
 * (@melange)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-css-editor-compatible-with-wordpress/)
 * I’ve been editing my theme templates and CSS manually, in Notepad++, using Firebug
   to inspect and tweak elements and Filezilla to upload the CSS files to my web
   server. But it seems like a very inefficient way to do it, since I have to do
   all that just to make one tweak, then refresh my browser to see how the page 
   looks like with the tweaks, rinse and repeat.
 * I have Dreamweaver and tried to set it up with WordPress as the CreativePro tutorial
   suggested. It works fine with the basic site in the tutorial but not with a full
   WordPress site with custom theme, multiple posts, etc. I did some looking around
   and the problem seems to be with custom permalinks, as Dreamweaver can’t seem
   to handle them.
 * Then I looked for WordPress plugins that might allow me to edit the CSS and preview
   the results in real time. The only plugins I found were either very outdated 
   or ranked very low with lots of problems.
 * So, how do you do serious editing to your WordPress themes? What editor do you
   use?

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-css-editor-compatible-with-wordpress/#post-5335815)
 * You [install WordPress locall](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Installation_Techniques)
   y, develop your site there on your machine and when it’s all done and tested 
   then you send it up to the server. You could use a CSS plugin instead and directly
   edit the files on the server through the plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [melange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melange/)
 * (@melange)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-css-editor-compatible-with-wordpress/#post-5335887)
 * So what tools do you use for this process?
 * I did install WordPress locally, and have my MAMP server set up for that. But
   when I try to use Dreamweaver with my local WordPress install, it does not work
   due to the permalinks. The tutorial that I followed to do this is [http://www.creativepro.com/article/build-wordpress-sites-dreamweaver-cs5-part-2](http://www.creativepro.com/article/build-wordpress-sites-dreamweaver-cs5-part-2)
   and the problem that I describe with custom permalinks is explained in [http://tutsme-webdesign.info/wordpress-theme-editing-with-dreamweaver/](http://tutsme-webdesign.info/wordpress-theme-editing-with-dreamweaver/).
 * I also did look for CSS plugins but the only ones I found that claim to let you
   preview the CSS in real-time are either very buggy or outdated. Such as [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-live-css-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-live-css-editor/)

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 * [editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editor/)
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 * Last reply from: [melange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melange/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-css-editor-compatible-with-wordpress/#post-5335887)
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