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DashDogear
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December 28, 2017
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Edit Wordpress in DW CS5

  • December 28, 2017
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I have tried multiple approaches including Brian Wood's method here on the Adobe site, using MAMP and not using it. All of them go along fine until I get to the "Discover" part and I always get the error that DW is unable to locate some resources and therefore I still cannot view the site

enough to edit. Any ideas what might be wrong?

High Sierra 10.13.2 on a Mac Mini (mid-2011)

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    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Braniac
    December 30, 2017

    well, I agree that WP is a bit out oversized, but any way on an application which can be very simple at start, it is always coming to have to handle this and that, and security... and AJAX ... and metadata to filter images, and options... and so all the classes present in WP can be very usefull to be used...

    I think that for much small application needed by folks around... WP is a very good framework to be learned... instead of running directly with sypmphony, zend, laravel and so on...

    just in case I give back this link (already presented in an other thread) ... it's dated... but still in uptodate Building Web Apps with WordPress - O'Reilly Media

    Nancy OShea
    Nancy OShea
    Braniac
    December 28, 2017

    What do you think you're going to see?

    WordPress is essentially 100's of PHP code fragments that get assembled on the fly by the server with content pulled in from the MySQL database.   There are no actual pages to edit in WP.   The only things you can edit safely in code view are select files in your Child Theme -- index.php, header.php, posts.php, pages.php footer.php.... and CSS. 

    Theme Development « WordPress Codex

    If dynamically related files cannot be found, look at your Permalink settings.

    https://shirishkadam.com/2013/04/25/how-to-add-your-wordpress-website-to-dreamweaver-cs6/

    Nancy

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    DashDogearAuthor
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    December 29, 2017

    Thanks Nancy, but I am not sure I fully understand you. I am not web design professional and maybe this is all above my head.

    I understand that they are multiple .php code fragments. That is why they are close to impossible to edit in Wordpress. The articles and You Tube videos about editing Wordpress themes in Dreamweaver show in the examples a WP theme in live/split view as one would see it in a browser with code and I cannot get that. I supposed it was because I wasn't getting all the dynamically related files as the error code states.

    I want to change the CSS so a header image has a cross fading effect (I have the code), move the logo and alter some of the layout. I am probably way above my head on this, but is using DW to edit WP themes a pointless venture?

    P.S. The Shirish Kadam article you reference was one I tried and still got the error.

    Nancy OShea
    Nancy OShea
    Braniac
    December 30, 2017

    I am decent with CSS coding and have worked with .php. But, as I said I am not a web design professional. This is a web site for an artist friend and not intended for business. Just a resource to get his art out on view. He would rather not pay for a theme and I have looked at the jQuery slider and it doesn't really offer what he wants. I have code (CSS and HTML) that does exactly what he wants. But, so far I have only found one free WP theme that gives me access to the .php fragments I need. Unfortunately the layout is not what he wants. He can be frustratingly particular at times.

    The main reason I started looking at Word Press was because he wants an easy image upload option for his art that he can work with on his own and I would rather not try to create that from scratch. That is definitely above my skill set.

    Maybe Wordpress just isn't a good fit or I may just try and teach him how to use Worpress enough to upload his art right in WP. I already mentioned that and he was resistant (wants it easier). However, it may just be his only option.

    Thanks for the replies.


    Seriously, WordPress sounds like overkill.  If all you need is a simple way for your artist friend to upload images, you can do that with the HTML5 Image Upload API.  This is not difficult to program. 

    https://www.webcodegeeks.com/html5/html5-file-upload-example/

    The only caveat is your friend must use a good browser (not IE or Edge).

    https://caniuse.com/#feat=fileapi

    Nancy

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