Can I edit Wordpress site through Dreamweaver?

I've started a site on wordpress consultantdesignengineers.com and I was wondering is it possible to open wordpress template files in DW and do some customizing and be able to see the results in the design mode and if so, what exact files from WP need to be loaded in DW? cheers

WP Theme development requires really good coding skills in PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you're not a skilled coder and more specifically very familiar with how Child Themes work, I don't think DW's Design View will much help to you. It's all about working with code.
To work with PHP files locally, you need a local testing server.
WAMP for Windows
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
XAMPP for Windows
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
XAMPP for Mac
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
MAMP for Mac
http://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/index.html
Setting up a PHP environment in Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html
Nancy O.

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Downloading and editing an existing WordPress site in Dreamweaver CS5.

Hello! New to the forums, here.
I'll try to be brief. I've got a WordPress site in-place at metalmeter.com that is hosted through HostGator. Basically, what I'm looking to do is get the site from the remote server and edit it in Dreamweaver CS5, previewing all changes on a local testing server before putting the updated contents back on the remote server.
Now, let me be clear: I've tried plenty of the tutorials. I've watched hours of videos. I still can't get it configured properly. I've got the FTP connection to the remote server running smoothly. I've got XAMPP installed. I'm having difficulties (and I apologize for being vague), and I just don't know where the problem is located. In my htdocs folder for XAMPP, I've got two subfolders 'metalmeter' for the remote server's downloaded contents, and 'wordpress' for the wordpress installation that every page seems to be pointing me toward. What confuses me is that when I try and open the uppermost index.php file on the remote server, the dynamically discovered content is not being displayed in the live view with my local testing server. I want to be viewing my existing WordPress site in its entirety exactly as I see it online while I'm editing it, and then pushing back updated files to the /public_html/ root directory of the remote server so that I can edit the site from my local client. I'm extremely new to Dreamweaver, so any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
If you know how to do exactly what I'm trying to do and have been successfully viewing and editing your existing WordPress site in Dreamweaver for upload, please take some time to explain the set-up. I'd be forever in your debt!

Nancy O. wrote:
I've been following this discussion for a while now and I don't understand why you hope to edit articles from DW. That's what the WP Admin panel is specifically designed for. Besides, you won't find your articles in any of the site files because they don't exist there.
I agree I don't see any reason to want to edit a Wordpress site in Dreamweaver. If you are using Wordpress then you may as well put Dreamweaver in the bin. Although people do actually want to edit and manipulate the design in Dreamweaver (including myself) and from what I've read its possible but I've never found a source which explains fully how to achieve this and those that I have it seems too much effort to even bother about.
I guess the Dreamweaver environment feels more like home and is more user friendly.
To put it another way, a typical WordPress installation contains around 800 files in some 80 folders. Those files don't contain any content, just a whole lot of PHP code. In fact, the only page most people ever see on your site is the index.php page which is dynamically created over & over by the server with content from the MySql and various include files.
For sure and that's why people who use Dreamweaver and feel the need to manipulate a Wordpress site in Dreamweaver because Wordpress is 'in vogue' get lost. Wordpress just containes a lot of pages with nothing to see apart from some php, many of who will not understand one jot.
Unless you're a coding guru, you should definitely NOT touch any of the core WP files as this could cripple your site. If you want to customize your Theme, look at the CSS and include files in your Themes folder. See Anatomy of a WordPress Theme:http://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/
lol your not wrong there!
For a quick tip on Theming, open your remote site in Firefox equipped with the 'Web Developer Toolbar'. Edit CSS on screen. Save changes to your local site and upload it to the remote server. No testing server required.
Wordpress is Wordpress and Dreamweaver is Dreameaver. As far as I can make out the two don't mix.
Ideally you would just choose a Wordpress theme which most relates to the nice site you have designed in Fireworks of which you won't find any however goodthe themes are. Then manipulate the themes css that's if you can understand it. Even for a seasoned css expert its heavy going because everyone produces css differently to achieve the same results.
Leave Wordpress well anlone unles you're going to use it out of the box so to speak or as a web-developer don't mind a bit of reverse engineering.

How do I edit a WordPress site in Dreamweaver?

I found a pretty good article on how to install WordPress to a localhost and run a site made locally on a test server through Dreamweaver (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_wordpress_pt1.html), but it leaves a lot unanswered. Like...
1. Okay, now I've built a WordPress site locally, how do I upload it to my webserver?
(When I upload it to my ftp, it's broken. I suspect that this is because the scripting is set to work on my localhost MySQL & phpMyAdmin and not my webserver's)
2. If I already have a WordPress site up on my webserver, can I download it to my localhost server so I can edit in Dreamweaver and my local machine, and then upload it later to my webserver?
Thank you everyone! Your help is highly appreciated!

i am only new at dreamweaver...however, i have spent quite some time with Wordpress and Joomla website building.
Plese note... In an effort to explain my thoughts (which if left in their original state...only make sense to me really) i use the term "articles" below very loosely as Wordpress is not just a blogg platform anymore.
The two platforms serve different purposes. Wordpress is a publishing platform...Dreamweaver is a design program. Dreamweaver on its own, would be a very slow and cumbersome way of publishing articles on a Wordpress site. Dreamweaver on its own, is oriented towards creating the entire Wordpress CMS itself...not the "dynamic content" that goes on the Wordpress Site (dynamic meaning published information that is regularly being added/edited/deleted) .
What you really should be asking is, "how can i edit/develop Wordpress themes in Dreamweaver?" Now that, Dreamweaver can do.
Just slightly off topic, have you thought about building your websites using Adobe Muse instead. Its much faster and a lot simpler to use than dreamweaver and a great drag and drop design interface! Almost no coding required. You wold not be using Wordpress of course, and the content isnt dynamic, but Muse is soooo easy to build sites with!
Could i make a suggestion that i myself have undertaken...Purchase a monthly Adobe Creative Cloud plan(to get access to a heap of Adobe CC programs) + $39US/month Lynda.com tutorial package.
Even if you just use the lynda training for a single month only (you only pay by the month as you go)...you will learn an enormous amount about the Dreamweaver, Muse, Wordpress...and a huge number of other programs.
Best money i have spent in Info Tech in a long time
kind regards
Adam

Can you edit muse cc in dreamweaver

Hi
Can you edit Muse CC in Dreamweaver ?

This question is really best on the Dreamweaver or Muse forums but here is the answer I found:
"Muse is not intended to be a code generation hand-off tool for downstream editing. We recommend you do all of your site editing in Muse, rather than exporting the site from Muse and editing the code elsewhere. By staying within Muse, you can continue to use the full functionality of Muse to update your site. As soon as you move to altering the output of Muse, there's no going back (unless you're willing to re-make your changes each time you export from Muse). The HTML code output from Muse is not optimized for manual editing."
Form this forum post: Re: Muse to Dreamweaver?
So while it may be possible it is not recommended.
Hope that helps.

I can't edit my site or even create a new one!

I created a website on this computer and it was published - somewhat successfully. The photo albums didn't upload. But, when I open iWeb, I can't edit the site. It doesn't even give me the option to create a new site. My software is up to date

Sorry so late responding. In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For opening your domain file in Lion to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
Just launch the applicaiton, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.

Editing FP site with Dreamweaver (was "Question please")

This may be a stupid question, but I am not that familiar with web design. I have a web page that I created using Front Page. Can I maintain that site using Dreamweaver?
Thanks
Don

Hans always has good suggestions!
Also look here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/429114 -- FAQ
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/?view=gettingstarted -- Getting Started w/DW
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/frontpage_to_dw8.html -- Migrating from FP to DW
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/140/tn_14031.html -- converting an FP site to DW
At the beginning of this year, I moved from FP to DW. There is a definite learning curve and you must bite the bullet and learn some CSS in addition to HTML. There is great information on the Adobe website and lots of folks here who are very generous with their time to offer help. And, yes, when posting try to describe your problem in a few words in the subject line. You will get help much faster when you do that.
John

Can't get wordpress site displaying in Dreamweaver CC (xampp is setup)

Hello. I've been messing around with wordpress and I wanted to get it working in dreamweaver, haven't had much luck. I was present for the techlive conference for working with WP sites in dreamweaver and listened somewhat more casually knowing it will be uploaded to the archives later for me to go back and look at. Unfortunately, it was uploaded to youtube in 480p and is pretty much useless for anyone trying to follow along since the text is completely unreadable.
From what I can tell I have the site and server setup correctly.
I have xampp installed in the default location (C:\xampp).
I downloaded the latest wordpress and extracted the folder to C:\xampp\htdocs
The apache and mysql server in xampp are running
Created a new site in dreamweaver with the local site C:\xampp\htdocs\WPsite\
I set the connection to local/network
Under servers I have the server folder as C:\xampp\htdocs\
Web url as http://localhost
When I try to open the index.php file a dialogue box pops up asking me if I want to update the file on the testing server, I click yes and another dialogue box pops up asking if dependant files should be included in the transfer, I click yes.
After clicking live view I get these errors:
Warning: require_once(C:\xampp\htdocs/wp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-load.php on line 48
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'C:\xampp\htdocs/wp-includes/load.php' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-load.php on line 48
The forward and backslashes are odd. I have not touched absolutely anything in the wordpress folder or in xampp beyond what I listed. What am I doing wrong?
Any help or direction would be appreciated. I used wamp before and I could get the site working and displaying fine in the browser but I don't know how to do it with xampp. I switched over to xampp from wamp since I thought maybe I'd have more luck getting it to work in dreamweaver that way. I had some other errors in dreamweaver when I set it up using wamp.

I've gone through several of those threads and that is not the issue. The index.php file in the root directory is untouched. I have the index.php from the root folder of the WPsite and a clean wordpress download and both are identical.
I don't know if dreamweaver is doing something weird and creating files and folders locally but something weird is going on. I have a wp-content folder inside of htdocs (outside of WPsite folder) and I never created it there. It also seems to have placed or created several php files in the htdocs as well (index.php, wp-blog-header.php, wp-load.php).
I deleted them and opened the index.php file from the root folder, not themes, and it created the blog and index file again. Trying to open up the index.php from the twentytwelve theme folder seems to create the wp-content folder outside of the WPsite folder.
It doesn't seem to be copying all of the necessary files I'm assuming. The wp-content folder outside of the WPsite (htdocs/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve) only had 1 php file, index.php (guessing the one I tried to open) and nothing else inside of it.
The only thing pointing directly to htdocs is the server folder inside of the Server tab when managing a site. Should that be changed to C:\xampp\htdocs\WPsite as well or am I doing something else wrong?

Why can't edit my epub using Dreamweaver cc?

I exported a fixed-layout ePub created in inDesign cc. I want to edit the file with Dreamweaver cc. When I opened it in Dreamweaver the files were read only.
How can unlock this. I do not want to rename the files because it will screw up the iBook when I uploaded to Apple. I looked through the code and it isn't a
template. Please help.
Thanks,
Janis

Not sure what your process is, so forgive me if I reference steps you've already taken.
Unlike Sigil (see the latest releases here) or Calibre, far as I know, Dreamweaver is not a direct editor of the .epub format. You have to unzip it, make your edits, then zip it back up. Unzipping an EPUB is just a matter of renaming it. So for example, if your file name is "Book1.epub", then make a copy of it and rename it to "Book1.zip", and unzip it. I usually just make a Dreamweaver site out of the unzipped folder, make my edits, re-zip it, then change the extension back to .epub.
If you've already done all of that, maybe right clicking on a file or folder and selecting "Turn off Read Only" will help:

Can't edit .html file in dreamweaver?

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I have always been able to edit it every other time I have opened the file (since I built the site over two years ago).
Now each time I try to edit it in Design mode, no matter where I click in the file the whole page gets a dark grey overlay and I can't get a curser.
I am still able to edit the code directly but I do not want to be restricted.
The last thing I did the last time I opened the file was paste Google Analytics code in just before the </head> tag. I did this to all the files on the site but this is the only one that isn't working. I have tried taking out this code but it makes no difference.
I am using a 6 month old Macbook pro.
Can anyone help me?

In your stylesheet you have -
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I have to edit a friend's Front Page site using Dreamweaver
without messing up her ability to publish also.
I'm running Dreamweaver 8.0. I already installed an extension
for dreamweaver mx called "Import Front Page Site Wizard for
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this for DW8? When I "import" the site using IFPSWFD it says
restart DW to complete the process, and when I restart it says the
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i won't touch front page sites where the client/user/owner
intends to keep
on using frontpage. Not even with a borrowed ten foot pole.
if they will keep there fingers out of it, yes; it can be
worked on. If they
want to keep using fp, no because in cleaning it up i'll
break it as far as
they and fp are concerned. Or worry about breaking it which
is worse and not
worth the aggravation.
> You could be right - it's been many years since I worked
with FrontPage and
> the FP extensions and it's definitely a risk. I guess it
just depends on what
> changes are made to what pages, etc.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Can't create new sites in Dreamweaver CS3. Help!

I am trying to create a new site in Dreamweaver CS3 but keep
getting the following error:
"The action cannot be completed because the other program is
busy.
Choose 'Switch to' to activate the program and correct the
problem"
I have tried every documented solution on the adobe website
and other discussion forums and still cannot get past the problem.
I have restarted the IIS server on my local PC as documented
on the following adobe technote:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16485&sliceId=2
Other things I have done:
1. I have followed all the advice in the links at the bottom
of the above page.
2. I have created a new user, logged into that and tried
creating a site with a "virgin" environment
and I still have the problem.
3. I have gone into the registry and renamed the site
configuration info in case something was corrupted.
This removed all my site configurations. No help!
4. I have turned of my firewall and restarted the IIS
server.
5. I have searched the web for anything even remotely
similar to this error and tried every tip out there.
I called Adobe and they referred me back to the technote
above, which I had already tried.
One last bit of info. I can't create new sites, but I can
edit web pages in my existing sites. However, I cannot change the
configuration of the website in the Manage Sites area (i.e. I can't
push the Edit button).
Has anyone had this problem? Any help would be appreciated. I
have hit a brick wall on this one and am trying to meet a deadline
on a new website I need to create.
If I can't find a solution quick, I will be an
ex-Dreamweaver user. That saddens me because I really like
Dreamweaver, but I have to perform on my job.

And are you running Skype?
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>>I have rebooted many times. Actually, I am the only
user that ever logs
>>in.
>> This is happening on my laptop. I just created
another user to see if it
>> was a
>> corruption issue with sites tied to my regular
login.
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Edit iweb site in Dreamweaver

Has anyone tried to recreate an iweb site using Dreamweaver on a pc? Why would you do this? Just for the experience of learning Dreamweaver. The first hurdle is trying to find all the images which are scattered instead of located in one images subfolder.

> but I cannot figure out how to open
> the main page and start editing it.
Read the instructions on the drupal site or elsewhere on how
to modify or
customize the "template" system they use.
You cannot edit the actual pages of a drupal CMS in
dreamweaver- it is all
php and included files and database calls. The "pages" you
see in the site
don't exist anywhere, they are assembled on the fly by the
drupal scripting.
Alan
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I created a website a about a year ago and I need to update it. I created it on my girlfriends account and went to open iWEB on her computer and my site is no longer there. My site loads fine and the web address is still working. However I cannot find the files in iWEB to edit the site. Please help!
I went to the index file and found most of the stuff there. How to I open all my previous work back in iWEB so I can edit the site???

petesteck wrote:
I created a website a about a year ago and I need to update it. I created it on my girlfriends account and went to open iWEB on her computer and my site is no longer there. My site loads fine and the web address is still working. However I cannot find the files in iWEB to edit the site. Please help!
I went to the index file and found most of the stuff there. How to I open all my previous work back in iWEB so I can edit the site???
iWeb stores its files in a "domain" file. The file is located in your user Library -> Application Support -> iWeb Folder.
Unless it has been moved or deleted, it should still be there. Double click it and see if it launches with your data.
If it's been moved somewhere, you'd need to find it.
However, if the domain file you were using has been deleted and not backed up somewhere, you would need to start from scratch.
Good luck!
(I see Old Toad posted his response while I was still writing mine!
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Can't import BC site into Dreamweaver

I recently downloaded a trial of Dreamweaver and the adobe business catalyst plugin. When I try to import my bc site I am asked to login with this error message:
"An account with the same email already exists in Business Catalyst. To associate the Business Catalyst account with your Adobe ID, please log in to the Business Catalyst web administration console."
After logging in to the BC admin console I still cannot import my site. Is there some trick to merging the accounts?

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Can't edit php files in dreamweaver, access to site root denied

Can anyone help me please?
I've recently purchased a Macbook Pro after my PCs failed on me and also had to get a Creative Suite Web Premium. I have always used Dreamweaver to edit my php files. In Windows XP, I had to run the programme to run as an Administrator to edit php files. Now I have not a clue how to do it on Mac! Each time I tried to save a php file, a dialog box appear stating: Access to Macintosh
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Regards
Sinead

You shouldn't have to do that on the Mac or Windows. Only thing I could find that would suggest loading files from there is a tutorial by David. And although I would normally agree with him, keeping the files in a system library folder for a testing environment is really unnecessary. I'd recommend moving them into your /Users/{username}/Sites folder. There is already a modification to the apache server to recognize that as http://localhost/~{username}. Or install something like MAMP that is in the Applications folder.

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