Viewing offline edits before uploading to blog

  • I am new to WordPress and am looking for a way to edit offline in Dreamweaver and view my edits before I upload them to WordPress. I found a program called ThemeDreamer that said it would do just that.

    Well, as I was installing it…it ask for some kind of Macromedia Extensions which I tried to download from the Adobe site, but evidently it is not compatible with my Macromedia MX 6.0. It says that I need, at least, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.

    I don’t want to edit online…I want to know what I have done before i upload…

    Any suggestions?????????????????

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  • Install WordPress locally?

    Thread Starter dog-karma

    (@dog-karma)

    I’ve read about installing xampp, but everywhere I read it talks about the security risks.
    I already have a hosting company and only want this for design reasons…to view before I upload.
    Does it turn on and off? Is it open to the internet all the time? Is it downloaded to my cpanel and if so…why the risk? I have to enter a username and password for my cpanel.
    Also, I copied WordPress to my computer so that I could start changing the theme…is that the same as installing it locally???
    Sorry, this is all very new to me…
    Thanks for any help ??

    Does it turn on and off?

    Use EasyPHP rather than Xamp but yes – you should be able to turn the server on, or off, at will.

    Is it open to the internet all the time?

    No. If you’re running a firewall on your local machine or are behind a router, nothing should be allowed in.

    Is it downloaded to my cpanel

    It has nothing to do with cPanel. It’s a piece of software on your own computer.

    is that the same as installing it locally?

    No. You won’t be able to run WP on your machine without something like XAMP.

    If you want to edit wordpress locally you need to use xamp, uniform server or something similar. They normally include a .htaccess file and limit it for local use only.

    Thread Starter dog-karma

    (@dog-karma)

    Thanks for all your help…

    I downloaded EasyPHP which certainly seemed easy, but Mysql has a green light…no problem, but Apache start and then stops abruptly and says “Unexpected end of Apache”…

    I have been searching for two days now and can’t find what is going on…my port 80 is open…

    I uninstalled and downloaded Xampp…same thing…

    I am running Windows xp…

    Is there configuring that has to happen because I don’t know how…I was thinking that it was going to be magic ??

    Any help would be great…

    Thread Starter dog-karma

    (@dog-karma)

    Sorry…I forgot to add that I downloaded EasyPHP 5.3.2…That appeared to be the one recommended on the easyphp.org site…

    The first time I installed…I did it like the directions say…in program files…

    Then I tried in C drive…neither way worked…

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