ThemeDreamer Adobe Dreamweaver Extension For WordPress Themes
If you have ever tried creating a WordPress theme in Dreamweaver, you know it’s not very easy and the process is rather repetitive. Even with a localhost WordPress installation with WAMP or similar, you are continually editing, saving, previewing, re-editing, etc. ThemeDreamer removes a lot of the hassles out of creating WordPress themes by integrating with Dreamweaver’s design view. ThemeDreamer takes the assortment of WordPress PHP files such as index.php, header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php, etc. and combines them to allow WYSIWYG editing in design view.
ThemeDreamer is an extension for Adobe Dreamweaver that can accelerate WordPress theme and application development by providing WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) feedback within Dreamweaver’s Design View editor in real time. Simply put, you do not need to mess with a server or even have to upload your files to see the vast majority of CSS and WordPress Template layout changes. Alterations are immediately reflected within Dreamweaver’s Design View. ThemeDreamer also puts the power of WordPress’s Template API at your finger tips by providing instant and thorough code hints.
ThemeDreamer started as an in-house tool for website design at Virtuosoft, owner of ThemeDreamer.com. As a Dreamweaver extension, it proved to be very useful in building WordPress themes for various clients. Virtuosoft decided to unleash this functionality to the greater WordPress community as a commercial product to better assist developers and designers globally. Also, because we love WordPress and Dreamweaver!
ThemeDreamer Features
ThemeDreamer unlocks Dreamweaver’s potential and turns Adobe’s Dreamweaver into a faster design environment for WordPress themes and applications. Here are some of the top benefits and features:
- Real Time Design View
- Enables instantaneous WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) feedback on common CSS and WordPress Template Tags.
- Automatically combines theme file dependencies, eliminating the need to combine and splice header.php, index.php, footer.php, search.php, sidebar.php, etc.
- Supports both function-style and query-string-style Template Tag parameters.
- Content Simulation Panel
- Simulate a variety of different types of post content and style them within Design View.
- Simulate sidebars, widgets, threaded comments, and post attachments .
- Share and redistribute post simulations with your themes and work groups.
- Code View Hints
- Provides WordPress Template Tags, Include Tags, and Conditional Tags at your finger tips.
- Enhanced Code Hints have additional support for the WordPress Plugin API (both Actions and Filters).
- Hints reveal syntax, parameter defaults, and common enumerated optional values.
- Updated for the latest WordPress APIs (version 2.8.4).
- Graphic Designer and Application Developer Benefits
- Offline theme development - There is no need for a server connection or a need to install WordPress locally to view most common style edits.
- Accelerate theme development time by reducing hassels with server round trips (’download-edit-upload-view’).
- Works with most third party WordPress themes allowing for instant customization of existing themes.
ThemeDreamer Adobe Dreamweaver Extension For WordPress
