http://didierburton.net/blog on flex, flash, user experience, and oop Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/didierburton_wordpress/~3/361698155/ http://didierburton.net/blog/2008/08/10/environment-for-wordpress-theme-development/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:36:52 +0000 didier http://didierburton.net/blog/?p=249 <a href="http://didierburton.net/blog/2008/08/10/environment-for-wordpress-theme-development/"><img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" title="wordpress theme development environment" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wordpress-theme-devel2.png" alt="WordPress Theme Development Environment" width="129" height="129" /></a>I recently spent some time developing a <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> theme for this blog. On the one hand, I needed a local environment for development and testing, in order to avoid frequent remote server updates. On the other hand, as understanding and wading through all the WordPress <code>php</code> template files can be overwhelming&#8212;especially the first time&#8212;, navigating and accessing the framework code was an issue, as well.<br /> Luckily, there are tools out there that, once together, make the development less tedious and much more productive. <p>Here are the pieces I pulled together as my <em>"WordPress theme development"</em> environment:</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/index.html"><img title="Adobe Illustrator CS3" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Adobe-Illustrator-CS3.jpg" alt="Adobe Illustrator CS3" width="50" height="50" /></a> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html"><img title="Adobe Photoshop CS3" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Adobe-Photoshop-CS3.jpg" alt="Adobe Photoshop CS3" width="50" height="50" /></a> <a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html"><img title="XAMPP" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/xampp.jpg" alt="XAMPP" width="50" height="50" /></a> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/"><img title="eclipse" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/eclipse" alt="eclipse" width="50" height="50" /></a> <a href="http://www.zend.com/en/community/pdt"><img title="PDT by zend.com" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Zend.com.jpg" alt="PDT by zend.com" width="50" height="50" /></a> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development"><img title="WordPress Codex Documentation" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Wordpress.org.jpg" alt="WordPress Codex Documentation" width="50" height="50" /></a> <a href="http://iconfactory.com/software/xscope"><img title="xScope" src="http://didierburton.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/xScope.jpg" alt="xScope" width="50" height="50" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://didierburton.net/blog/2008/08/10/environment-for-wordpress-theme-development/">&#183;&#183;&#183; click here for more &#183;&#183;&#183;</a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/didierburton_wordpress?a=qmCJAK"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/didierburton_wordpress?i=qmCJAK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/didierburton_wordpress?a=EOS3Dk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/didierburton_wordpress?i=EOS3Dk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/didierburton_wordpress?a=t4RyZk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/didierburton_wordpress?i=t4RyZk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/didierburton_wordpress/~4/361698155" height="1" width="1"/> http://didierburton.net/blog/2008/08/10/environment-for-wordpress-theme-development/feed/ http://didierburton.net/blog/2008/08/10/environment-for-wordpress-theme-development/