Title: offline theme customizing HELP
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# offline theme customizing HELP

 *  [billybag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybag/)
 * (@billybag)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offline-theme-customizing-help/)
 * I am looking for the main file that puts the whole puzzle together so that i 
   an customize my blog’s theme without having to use the ‘theme editor” or my browser.
   I would like to do it offline with my nifty little html editor that i love. i
   am formilure with editing it and such. i used to have greymatter but it crashed
   my server. i tried obvious INDEX files… but none of them worked. I hope i made
   this clear enough?
 * i basically just need the main index file that everything goes to so that after
   i edit, for instense, STYLE.CSS[style sheet], i can simply preview my blog by
   clicking on the main index[ish]file.

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 *  [thornomad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thornomad/)
 * (@thornomad)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offline-theme-customizing-help/#post-356157)
 * I’m not sure about your question: perhaps you are looking for the directory path
   to you theme?
 * That is: [http://www.site.com/wordpressinstall/wp-content/themes/themeyouwanttoedit/style.css](http://www.site.com/wordpressinstall/wp-content/themes/themeyouwanttoedit/style.css)
 * You can download that and view it; however, if you are talking about previewing
   changes made locally on your computer before you upload them to the “live” server,
   I am pretty sure you will need to have a local installation of WordPress on your
   system to test out theme changes (which is what I have on my Mac).
 * That’s a bigger issue, however, than just downloading something and opening it.
 * D
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offline-theme-customizing-help/#post-356160)
 * Unfortunately you have to edit each separate file separately, there is no “stitched
   together” version until someone requests your page.
 * Although, that does mean that you can just copy and paste the code when you view
   your site online, then transfer the edits to the separate PHP files.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offline-theme-customizing-help/#post-356161)
 * In order to do what you’d like to do, you’ll need to install a local server package
   such as XAMPP. Your editor cannot help with parsing php….
 * You can download XAMPP (or the mac version) from [http://apachefriends.org/](http://apachefriends.org/)
 * You can find a great tutorial on installing XAMPP at [http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/](http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/)
 *  Thread Starter [billybag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybag/)
 * (@billybag)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offline-theme-customizing-help/#post-356164)
 * Yeah. The second one is what i was looking for :-/
 * How would i go about having a local installation of wordpress? i have linux too.
   hopefully that isnt an issue
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offline-theme-customizing-help/#post-356171)
 * Nope, though you can of course run a server under linux.

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