Crashes Dreamweaver

I’ve heard of Dreamweaver choking on all sorts of things. For example, it can’t even handle external resources and crashes.

The plugin runs properly on thousands of servers without issue, and in all sorts of text editors.

I would suggest using a quality editor like SublimeText instead ??

I have the same problem. Not only crashes my Dreamweaver but I can’t even open the site profile again until I rebuild my preferences. Not cool.

@sevenspark: You say this has worked with ‘thousands of servers’ successfully. On the other hand, I’ve used Dreamweaver for dozens of WP installations with many hundreds of WordPress plugins and have never had one fry my FTP client of choice until I installed this one.

Telling people to stop using a very versatile Adobe product to accommodate your plugin would seem to be a non-starter strategy. You’d do well to look into the source of the problem.

I expected this thread to be years old.

Stop using Dreamweaver. Now. It’s not versatile, it’s not reliable, and will actually make it harder for you to become a better developer.

There are plenty of us hand-coders using Dreamweaver as a FTP & site management tool. And arrogant remarks about our lack of development prowess aren’t helpful or relevant.

I won’t get into a pi**ing match over this. And I never insulted your “development prowess.” I’m sure you’re a capable developer. What I am trying to tell you is you’d become a BETTER developer if you stop using DW. Trust me. I used DW for years and stubbornly refused to listen to others. I made the switch and never looked back. It’s night and day.

Go to developers’s conferences, like DrupalCon, and see what others (the professionals) use. Or watch videos on Lynda.com – besides the DW-specific tutorials, do you see anyone using it?

Again, we’re all adults. Do what you want. But you’re using MS Paint while the rest of the world is using Photoshop.

So…. what program do you use that is so superior to Dreamweaver? I am pretty sure everyone is here to improve their skills and if you are onto something it would be nice if you would share and not just tell us we are all doing it wrong.

Try ANY of them. I like Coda 2, the plugin author above suggested Sublime, there is TextMate, Vim, Eclipse, etc.

You need to evaluate which parts of DW you used the most and were important to your workflow. Things like built-in FTP or code-hinting, etc. Each editor has its strengths. I tried most and have stuck with Coda 2.

Good suggestions from velcrobots. As mentioned, I personally like Sublime.

tfagency, WordPress plugins are written to work with WordPress, on Apache servers running PHP – this plugin runs perfectly in that environment. They aren’t written to run in Dreamweaver, nor should they make special exceptions for platforms they aren’t designed for.

A WordPress plugin is just a collection of text files. I honestly can’t imagine how Dreamweaver could crash based on that. It must be trying to execute something (which is not something a normal text editor does) and fails. Perhaps the wrong version of PHP is configured for your Dreamweaver installation. Perhaps it is loading remote resources which are unavailable. Perhaps it can’t handle unix-based newline characters. I have no idea. But I’d recommend contacting Adobe and reporting that their product crashes. Even if a plugin were written incorrectly (which this is not), there’s no reason Dreamweaver should be crashing – I mean, it’s an editor, right? If code had to be 100% correct in order not to crash the editor, you’d never be able to test any changes.

I’m not telling anyone not to use Dreamweaver “to accommodate my product”. I’m suggesting you might do well to use alternative, superior editors because Dreamweaver can’t seem to handle something that every other editor out there has no issue with whatsoever.

Have a good one, everybody ??