I’ve been working with WP for a couple years now, and ThemeDreamer is your best choice for theme development when using Dreamweaver.
As for options, here’s a trick I use when developing themes in WP.
Suggestion:
1.) goto your blog in a browser, and view the source
2.) select all the source code and copy it
3.) create a new .html file in the home directory of your blog theme
{note: I usually name the file “originalfilenamehere”SOURCE.html or something like that so it’s easy to remember which php file the source came from. }
4.) open this new .html file in dreamweaver, and locate the link to the stylesheet in the source code.
{it’s in the header and should look something like this <link href=”https://www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/style.css” media=”screen” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”/> }
5.) now edit the link so that it points to the style sheet in the same directory as the .html created in step 3.
{ so <link href=”https://www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/style.css” media=”screen” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”/> becomes <link href=”style.css” media=”screen” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”/>}
6.)now save the .html file and switch to the wysiwyg view in DW. You should see your theme displayed properly.
I came up with this method so that I could work on my theme stylesheets off-line, and without running a server locally. As long as your online, all the other content in the sourcehtml file should display correctly.
To get used to how the theme is contructed and displayed by the server. Open the index.php file of your theme and place a comment before and after the <code><?php get_example(); ?></code> calls, so that when your viewing the code in the source, you get an idea of what came from where.
Hope this helps you out.
