Themedreamer a Dreamweaver Wordpress Extension
Written by Tara: Freelance Designer on Monday, 21 of July , 2008 at 4:02 pm
A little while a go I read about an extension which could be useful if you know how to use dreamweaver and want to use it to adapt wordpress templates. The extension is called Themedreamer and allows you to open wordpress templates from within Dreamweaver by temporarily replacing the dynamic content with text. You don’t even need to set up a local server according to the feature list.
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.
You can watch a few videos to see how the extension works.
There is a free trial you can download which gives you 15 days trial use. I downloaded it to try out, then got busy and didn’t get chance to try it properly, so I think I will purchase it soon (only $29.95) and give it a proper try out. If anyone else has tried it I would love to hear how you get on.
Category: Fonts and Useful Resources, General Graphic Design, Web Design
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Comment by Eric
Made Monday, 21 of July , 2008 at 4:45 pm
Really cool! I never knew about this!
Comment by Tracey Grady
Made Monday, 21 of July , 2008 at 10:46 pm
I also didn’t know about this but will check it out because it could be quite useful for me. Thanks for the tip, Tara.
Comment by matt mcarthur
Made Tuesday, 22 of July , 2008 at 8:25 am
Thanks for the pointer - this is a really interesting plugin. Will have to give it a whirl when setting up my work’s blog!
Comment by Mali
Made Tuesday, 22 of July , 2008 at 12:02 pm
Yes Tara! you do it again, this looks like a little beauty thanks for revealing this little but powerful app.
Take care
Mali
Comment by Bas
Made Tuesday, 22 of July , 2008 at 8:08 pm
Wow! Awesome to hear about this. Stumbled it! Thanks for the info.
Comment by Tara: Freelance Designer
Made Tuesday, 22 of July , 2008 at 9:01 pm
Hi Everyone, thanks for your comments, please let me know how you get on.
Bas - thanks for the stumble
Comment by Drew
Made Wednesday, 23 of July , 2008 at 5:54 pm
Hmmm…this is very interesting.
I have to admit that making changes to my templates, uploading them live, seeing that it’s not exactly what I want, and then repeating the process numerous times before I am satisfied is a bit of a pain.
This product is definitely worth looking into.
Comment by Steve - Eightyone Design
Made Thursday, 24 of July , 2008 at 2:37 pm
This looks really good. I have to agree with Drew, uploading and then testing is very time consuming so it would be good to work on a local copy.
I shall have a look when I get chance.
Steve
Comment by Kevin SEO
Made Monday, 28 of July , 2008 at 10:30 am
that looks brillant, i’ve recently started looking into learning wordpress and this could be a big help. thanks for the link =)
Comment by Ryan
Made Sunday, 3 of August , 2008 at 5:08 am
I’ve been using ThemeDreamer for a couple of months now and it’s a very useful extension. Drew hit the nail on the head with the time wasted testing your theme changes. ThemeDreamer really works well for WYSIWYG editing of WordPress themes. I have a theme called SoulVision that I created with ThemeDreamer available for preview here.
All my themes from this point on will be created using ThemeDreamer for the simple fact that it’s a major time saver and there’s nothing else like it available.
Comment by Warenwirtschaft
Made Monday, 4 of August , 2008 at 11:05 am
This extension for Dreamweaver makes it much easier to build sites, and you can save much time. so I’m looking forward to buy this extension soon. I really think that this could help me.
Comment by Web Design Newbie
Made Monday, 1 of September , 2008 at 1:48 pm
That’s a great plugin. especially for an advance blogger. And I use Dreamweaver for my development, so it will make it easier to develop my blogs using my editor.
Thank you,
Comment by Tool Designer
Made Friday, 5 of September , 2008 at 3:14 pm
This looks like a really good idea. I have only just started using wordpress but this makes sense, so I would be able to design my own layouts instead of having to use set templates.
Comment by Bincom
Made Wednesday, 10 of September , 2008 at 3:27 pm
Thank You. You are so kind. This tip is extremely useful for me
Comment by Tucson Blog Design
Made Saturday, 13 of September , 2008 at 8:04 pm
Wow, we here are not big users of dreamweaver, but this may cause us to change. Thanks!
-Respectfully,
Kellen Chase
http://graphicFusionDesign.com
Comment by Danh ba web 2.0
Made Sunday, 14 of September , 2008 at 2:47 pm
Oh it’s very interesting !
Thanks you very much
Comment by Sizzle Creative
Made Monday, 29 of September , 2008 at 4:49 pm
very very interesting…thanks.
Comment by boey
Made Thursday, 2 of October , 2008 at 4:21 pm
Thanks for the information. Just know get Dreamweaver Wordpress Extension, after read this article. I’m web designer, this will help a lot. Thanks.
Comment by Roger Hamilton
Made Saturday, 4 of October , 2008 at 3:48 pm
Thanks for giving the information. Its very useful to me. Do you have more information or details about ThemeDreamer?
Comment by Steveorevo
Made Wednesday, 26 of November , 2008 at 9:43 am
Just wanted to let everyone know that a new release of version 0.4.1 has been released with CS4 support. Be sure to the install instructions and Mac OS X users may need to make the toolbar visible (View->Toolbars->ThemeDreamer) as it appears to not be turned on after install for some users.
Enjoy!
Comment by Emblems
Made Friday, 2 of January , 2009 at 5:12 pm
Thank you so much for the article. This is gonna save me a ton of time.
Comment by New Method
Made Thursday, 22 of January , 2009 at 10:07 am
What a great plugin for Dreamweaver! I have been wanting to migrate to Wordpress from CMS made simple for several months but because of the hassle of creating a template for Wordpress I just never got around to it. Although this plugin seems to work quite slow, I’m sure it is doing a lot behind the scenes and I’m pretty certain it is going to assist me in my first venture into using Wordpress - as a content management system may I add! Anyway, thankyou Tara - I never knew such a useful DW plugin existed.