How can I connect Dreamweaver and WordPress?

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I am reading your new book Dreamweaver For Dummies and saw in your book that you discuss WordPress and CS5. I purchased CS5 to work with WordPress and have yet to successfully get it working with my various WordPress installations. I am not a real developer and would prefer to not create a local test environment but to work with Dreamweaver directly with the installation I have on a hosting account with GoDaddy.It is close to working, but I get an error message about the connection to the database. The FTP access works properly. I can sync the files. Does this have anything with logging into the SQL database? Can you point me to some troubleshooting tips for the initial connection to WordPress and Dreamweaver? Everything I find, read, or watch makes it look so simple and nonproblematic. . . Thanks

Nancy OShea · Accepted Answer

CS5 (version 11) is legacy software from 2010. The current version is DW CC 19. And the current stable release version of WordPress is 4.9.8. A lot has changed in 8-9 years.

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Once the WP site is deployed and running on the remote server, you must maintain it from the WP online dashboard or admin panel. For anything you cannot do directly from the WP admin panel, you would need a very good grasp of code and more specifically how WordPress works. WordPress is nothing like a static HTML site. It's a collection of about 1,500 files of code & mySQL data that get assembled on the fly by your server.

The only time I use DW with WP is when I want to customize a Theme or more accurately create a child theme. For this I don't even use a local testing server or MySQL connection. I backup the Theme files to my hard drive and work with the code. To test results I upload my new theme files to the remote server. If I need additional functionality, I use plugins. With this workflow, I've never had a reason to touch the core WP files.

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Ben M · Answer

The intended configuration will have you setting up a local test environment, and then pushing your changes to the live site. If you are not looking to develop on the backend of Wordpress though, Dreamweaver may not be for you. Dreamweaver cannot post pages, or work with the content of plugins. It can help you create plugins or custom themes from the ground up by giving you access to code hinting to make working with Wordpress easier. However, as often as Wordpress updates, my personal experience is that it is only relatively helpful that working with WP and DW still requires a lot of knowledge of the WP platform to code.

If you still want to develop and try to work only with the remote database, you can, however, most hosts typically restrict access to the SQL server to hosts like Localhost, so you will first need to make sure your IP is whitelisted to access the remote server.

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