Install WordPress For Windows

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 am

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WordPress Theme Development Tools

Have you ever wondered what makes WordPress so powerful development? It's just WordPress themes, which help in creation of unique sites. Themes allow rapid changes in the visual design and the design of a WordPress site. WordPress developers can help you get the website or blog you've always dreamed of using these tools development issues. No wonder some of the largest Fortune 500 companies using WordPress to manage its official blog.

You can create custom themes using these development tools issue. If that sounds a bit harsh, you can outsource WordPress for its proposed offshore development centers, which makes their work professionally and profitable way. In this article, we will discuss an issue few development tools used in WordPress.

Development tools that you need

Local Server - The desktop / laptop is the best place to develop custom WordPress themes. You will need to turn your computer on a local server and create a virtual web server (Apache, MySQL and PHP) that can be done easily by installing WordPress on your computer. You do not need to install these servers separately and will be able to make use of XAMP (for Windows) and MAMP (Macintosh).

WordPress - This may seem obvious, you must download and install the latest version of WordPress on your workstation. This has to be installed on the local test server where you will test theme. The installation procedure XAMP and MAMP on local test server is a little different and it takes care of that.

Dummy Content-You fictitious content will create a theme. Go to WordPress admin panel and go to Tools> Import and select WordPress from the list of message options WXR file data. You can choose between the data of thematic development checklist test, the Dummy Content Sandbox or content of the sample WPCandy.

Text Editor - Mostdevelopers prefer to use special graphics software for creating WordPress themes.You can try Notepad or Notepad + + If you are developing on Windows, while Mac users can try Smultron.

Browser - You can use any browser to the development of WordPress, but Mozilla Firefox is highly recommended. The amendments, which make Firefox more, the preferred choice of developers WordPress the world. TheWeb Developer Toolbar, which gives a lot of options for the inspection and debugging code, and Firebug, which allows him to inspect each element in the issue of right to the code.

PHP - This is also commonly used in developing the theme of WordPress. The default WordPress theme contains a functions.php file that defines many of the characteristics of the subject. Good WordPress developers use this to modify and create their subjects custom.

Having these tools at hand that allow you to develop custom WordPress themes. For more information on WordPress Theme development and associated costs involved, visit http://www.evontech.com/wordpress-development.html Now!

About the Author

Vishal Arora is an iPhone and Flash expert working as a technical writer with Evon Technologies, an offshore development company dealing with mobile, software, and web application development. For more info, visit http://www.evontech.com

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