offline theme customizing HELP

  • billybag

    (@billybag)


    19 years ago

    I am looking for the main file that puts the whole puzzle together so that i an customize my blog’s theme without having to use the ‘theme editor” or my browser. I would like to do it offline with my nifty little html editor that i love. i am formilure with editing it and such. i used to have greymatter but it crashed my server. i tried obvious INDEX files… but none of them worked. I hope i made this clear enough?

    i basically just need the main index file that everything goes to so that after i edit, for instense, STYLE.CSS[style sheet], i can simply preview my blog by clicking on the main index[ish]file.

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  • thornomad

    (@thornomad)

    I’m not sure about your question: perhaps you are looking for the directory path to you theme?

    That is: https://www.site.com/wordpressinstall/wp-content/themes/themeyouwanttoedit/style.css

    You can download that and view it; however, if you are talking about previewing changes made locally on your computer before you upload them to the “live” server, I am pretty sure you will need to have a local installation of WordPress on your system to test out theme changes (which is what I have on my Mac).

    That’s a bigger issue, however, than just downloading something and opening it.

    D

    maerk

    (@maerk)

    Unfortunately you have to edit each separate file separately, there is no “stitched together” version until someone requests your page.

    Although, that does mean that you can just copy and paste the code when you view your site online, then transfer the edits to the separate PHP files.

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    In order to do what you’d like to do, you’ll need to install a local server package such as XAMPP. Your editor cannot help with parsing php….

    You can download XAMPP (or the mac version) from https://apachefriends.org/

    You can find a great tutorial on installing XAMPP at https://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/

    Thread Starter billybag

    (@billybag)

    Yeah. The second one is what i was looking for :-/

    How would i go about having a local installation of wordpress? i have linux too. hopefully that isnt an issue

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    Nope, though you can of course run a server under linux.

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