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Martini Celltrot
Martini Celltrot
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May 29, 2025
Question

Dreamweaver Updates?

  • May 29, 2025
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I've been a fan of DW since the Macromedia days, but development seems to have slowed, if not, stopped. Is this the case? Will there be any real, and proper, updates in the future?

 

I'm thinking about updating support for PHP 8, and Bootstrap 5, along with keeping up with progress of SASS, LESS, and removal of Compass and Bourbon, both of which are no longer supported/discontinued.

 

There are no real alternatives to DW that does everything DW does, in one place.

 

Please Adobe, don't leave us behind.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2025
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I'm thinking about updating support for PHP 8, and Bootstrap 5...

By @Martini Celltrot

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OTHER CODE EDITORS to use alongside Dreamweaver - 
-- Bootstrap Studio - https://bootstrapstudio.io/

-- Codespaces (free, browser-based) - https://github.com/features/codespaces
-- Notepad++ (free) - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
-- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/

-- PHP Storm (IDE for PHP developers) - https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
-- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
-- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
-- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
-- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/


Hope that helps.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
BenPleysier
Community Expert
BenPleysierCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2025
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There are no real alternatives to DW that does everything DW does, in one place.


By @Martini Celltrot

 

 

Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!
Jon Fritz
Community Expert
Jon FritzCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2025

In ~2020, Adobe announced that DW would be moved into a "Minimum Development Status" where only third party libraries, OS compatibility issues and potential security patches would be updated going forward.

No bug fixes or new features are planned for the program, it's being kept on life support for the current userbase.

There's also no planned replacement.

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