WordPress with Dreamweaver, how to find a newly added page

Page content is stored in the database (with the exception of uploaded media). A physical file isn’t created for each page. When a request for the page is made, the content is retrieved from the database and displayed using a page template provided by the active theme.

Oh I see. Thanks.

Well in that case is it still possible to edit the page in Dreamweaver (or at all without using wordpress page editor)?

What is the point of using Dreamweaver?

The point is that I can customize the page to my liking and get full control over it without either buying the ‘pro’ version of a theme or using the wordpress editing tools which are just too simple and not flexible enough.

What you could do jbeckett729, is to create your pages in dreamviewer, and link thme into your otherwise WordPress driven website as an HTML file, in menu add them as “others”.
This will give you the ability to incorporate dreamweaver authored pages, but will also give you an ongoing maintenance nightmare, myself I would only consider doing this for a very few special pages. In all other cases I customise my page layouts using CSS.

Loudly seconded! If you need to customise more than 1 or 2 special pages, then you need to learn how to use CSS (probably via a custom CSS plugin) and/or a href=”https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes”>create a child theme and get stuck into to some template file creation.

Thanks RossMitchell it is only one unique page which will not be duplicated/be used as a template however its more than just customizing layouts I need. I’m looking to add responsive image galleries and search tools and the like, these such things will all be original therefore and I don’t think pure CSS editing would be sufficient.

I like the idea though of creating an HTML page and adding it to the site because I already have a lot of HTML source code to use. Could you elaborate on how I would go about adding the page to the site however once it is created?

Thanks

Could you elaborate on how I would go about adding the page to the site however once it is created?

From your WordPress dashboard, on the left hand side go to “Appearance > Menus”, once on the menu management page, select the menu you want to target then in the column not quite so far on the left, choose “Custom Links”, here you enter the full URL of your HTML page and add it to the menu, you then click and drag it into the place you want.

Not having experience with dreamweaver maybe I don’t understand where its magic secret sauce comes from.
So if your responsive image galleries are using javascript, then they will also work in WordPress, otherwise the responsiveness is coming from CSS, or is it coming from somewhere else.

@jbeckett729 – Everyone here is correct, you really don’t want a lot of custom pages if you can avoid it. However, I do understand needing/wanting control over certain post_types or custom pages.

best thing to do is to check out WordPress Page Templates

I think that’s probably the solution you are looking for.

Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions, I got my pages working thanks Ross.

I’ve decided its maybe safer just to stay within the tools and plugins of WordPress, I’ve finally got the tools I was looking for I think but I’ll keep dreamweaver there as an option for fine tuning and tweaking perhaps, using it to edit css and templates.

I’ll see if I can get away without using many custom pages if possible as you all advised.

Thanks again.