The Best WordPress Designer & Development Environment

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This topic has 4 voices, contains 5 replies, and was last updated by steveorevo 34 days ago.

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October 25, 2011 at 7:11 pm #29814
steveorevo	Greetings everyone. I’m better known as ‘Steveorevo’ on the WordPress.org boards and I wanted to get feedback on what you think makes the best localhost WordPress design and developer environment. I created an application called “DesktopServer” and I’ve been adding to it regularly (there is a free edition loaded with features). http://serverpress.com/products/desktopserver/ BUT I want to hear from YOU as to what you use everyday. What editor? (Dreamweaver, Notepad, Coda?). What resources? (codex.wordpress.org, books, authors). What versioning/backup/deployment utilities and routines do you follow? (BackupBuddy, WP-DB, phpmyadmin, the command line, etc.). What #1 item/process can you not live without? Fill me in here or shoot me a note. Always like to hear from fellow designers and developers and look forward to participating in the forums. Thanks!
October 26, 2011 at 2:08 am #29833
Chris Aprea	Editor: Notepad++ Resources: codex.wordpress.org, google Versioning / Backup: Mercurial 1 Item / Process I can’t live without: HTML 5 boilerplate, 960gs, bones (all for theme dev)
October 26, 2011 at 3:18 am #29834
steveorevo	Aprea, Wow. Awesome stuff. Thank you!
January 5, 2012 at 8:44 pm #34062
dgs	Editor: Coda Server stack: Zend Community Server for desktop as well as server Theme Framework: Genesis MySql tools: Navicat Pro Graphics Editor: Fireworks Diff tool: Kaleiedoscope
January 7, 2012 at 1:41 pm #34237
Brian Krogsgard	Machine: 13″ MB Pro w/ external monitor Editor: Coda (great for switching projects, but sometimes jealous of full on IDEs) File Transfer: Fillzilla for full downloads and big stuff Coda is slow at Locally: MAMP w/ ability to run multiple local installs in Sites folder under custom domains (Ryan wrote a tutorial on this at one point) MySql: Sequel Pro (awesome – free) Graphics: Photoshop 5.5 Storage / sharing: Minus.com, CloudApp Framework: Hybrid Core (awesome) Screencasts for clients (and other stuff): Screenflow (awesome) Windows Environment: CoRD (we have ie7/8/9 environments) Backups: Backupbuddy Resources: ThemeHybrid Forums (much more than just Hybrid stuff), WordPress Stack Exchange is awesome, also wp.org and Twitter friends, variety of books and tutorial authors are also great
April 12, 2012 at 9:19 pm #37147
steveorevo	Greetings again, I’ve added NetBeans to my list. I find the debugger absolutely essential. I used to use PhpEd on Windows, but have been looking for a cross platform solution and NetBeans is it. And its free. Check it my latest tutorial that features it: http://serverpress.com/news/using-netbeans-for-wordpress-debugging-development/ Also, if you’ve come across any other best environment ‘essentials’, let me/us know here. Thank you for all your suggestions!