wordpress with topstyle

  • i have posted something similar at topstyle forum, and i m wondering if anyone inhere can also help me out with wordpress and topstyle. i would like to edit my css with topstyle but i was unable to view any of the php in topstyle. anyone here using top style to edit their css, can you give me a hand on how to setup the config so that i can see the server side scripts in topstyle too? otherwise, what other software do yo use to edit your css? what i am currently doing is to edit one css tag then upload it to the server and refresh on the IE and check if it works. at times it gets very frustrated. do i have to install somekind of web server? if so, anyone here can give me some links on how to set one up? if anyone can give me some advices, it would be great.

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  • There are a “big” and a “small” solution:
    1. The “big” solution: download XAMPP
    XAMPP is freeware and installs at your PC-Windows-drive in minuts a complete Apache/MySQL/PHP-enviroment (very easy to install). So you can install a full WordPress system at your harddisk, can modify in Topstyle the CSS and refresh in IE the https://locoalhost/wordpress/index.php. This is what I do.
    You can download XAMPP via https://www.apachefriends.org/
    2. The “small” solution: take an offline spider
    Go to your blog URL and than grab the first page with an offline software. There are a lot freeware and shareware programs, but most of them have problems with php pages. I use “Metaproducts Offline Explorer” – it’s Shareware, but it works. Maybe there is any freeware working software (look at https://www.webattack.com).
    This offline programs are grabbing a static html page of your index page, together with the local path to the right CSS. So you have after this per example a page like https://download/index.html, which you can put into your browser and can refresh (after modifikations of CSS) this statik page.

    Thread Starter lemoned

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    i was so close to give up and go back to the traditional method. and thats great news. you have open up a whole new world for me. thank you, i will try them out and let you know how it goes. thank you once again
    aragorn: there’s always hope!

    Is it possible to configure Topstyle to preview the page within the program itself, so I don’t have to flip back and forth between it and my browser? I see it is easy with WP 1.2, as the index.php file is in the root. What about with WP 1.5, where the root index.php calls the theme index.php file?

    I use WP 1.4 and tried to load the theme index.php file, but the Topstyle preview produces this error:

    “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in C:apachefriendsxampphtdocswp-contentthemesdefault_ts3tmp.php on line 1”

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