Setting up WordPress with Dreamweaver CS5 via a local connection

  • tobeeornot

    (@tobeeornot)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I am building my first wordpress themed site and am trying (unsuccessfully) to establish a local connection via testing server using Dreamweaver CS5 and WAMP. I am using a Lynda.com title, WordPress 3.0: Creating and Editing Custom Themes, where the author uses a Blank theme and builds upon that to create a custom site using WP as a CMS. My problem is that the author doesn’t set up a local network using Dreamweaver and it is a little confusing what steps I need to take in order to make that local connection align with DW.

    So far I have dropped the relevant WordPress files into the WAMP www folder, and tried to point the files to the Blank theme when creating new dreamweaver site and establishing the local connection but that seems to miss the other WP files. Alternatively, I have tried selecting the www folder as the new Dreamweaver site but to no avail.

    Be great if someone could guide me through the process.

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  • peredur

    (@peredur)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Can’t you just edit the files on your file system, directly? All I ever do is just edit the files I’m working on in situ (if it’s a local installation), using a decent HTML/CSS/PHP editor. Checking that stuff works is done using proper browsers and proper URLs (http://localhost/…) as opposed to DreamWeaver’s idea of what a browser might, if you’re lucky, render.

    Most Web developers I know would do the same, but maybe I just got in with an atavistic crowd.

    HTH

    PAE

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