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- Software Updates

A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.5.6) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes important updates to both our free DesktopServer Limited and DesktopServer Premium version.

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- Software Updates

A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.5.3) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes important updates to both our free DesktopServer Limited and DesktopServer Premium version.

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- Software Updates

Note: Existing users should follow the How to Install DesktopServer’s upgrade instructions to preserve existing websites. Note: Manual installation will ERASE existing sites and is not recommended.

A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.5.2) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes a new features and an important critical update for Windows users to both our free DesktopServer Limited and DesktopServer Premium version.

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- How To Tutorials

DesktopServer version 3.5.2 has a new direct deployment feature to get your WordPress websites from your desktop to your hosting provider in just a few clicks. No FTP or SSH client is necessary. In fact, you won’t even need such credentials to launch. What you will need is a hosting provider that supports WordPress’ File System Direct feature (fortunately, most shared and VPS hosts support this). This post will show you how to use the new feature to launch your site live or to setup a preview site on an existing domain for client previews. A quick summary of what we will cover follows:

1. Install WordPress on your destination server. 
2. Activate the DesktopServer for WordPress plugin.
3. Use DesktopServer’s “Direct deploy to an existing server” option.

- How To Tutorials

DesktopServer is about convenience as well as meeting the needs of developers and designers that use WordPress. For Professionals, that means leveraging the latest technology to ensure that you reach your target market accurately. At some point, you may wish to test your development website on the same types of devices your client uses or to just preview “responsive design” features. This post won’t go into details as to why this is important as there are already plenty of articles that explain why 2013 is the Year of Responsive Web Design. Rather, I’ll focus on how to do this with DesktopServer and your development WordPress websites. Read more »

- Software Updates

Note: Existing users should follow the How to Install DesktopServer’s upgrade instructions to preserve existing websites. Note: Manual installation will ERASE existing sites and is not recommended.

A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.5.1) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes important updates and critical fixes to both our free DesktopServer Limited and DesktopServer Premium version.

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- How To Tutorials

DesktopServer Premium edition has new export functionality for greater compatibility when deploying your WordPress creations to a live host. This document will show you how to use the new features with the original deployment methods to deploy your sites successfully on a wider range of hosting providers and with greater success when migrating proprietary theme and plugin settings. I’ll start by summarizing the new steps we’ll need to perform followed by a detailed step by step description below:

1. Ensure your target compatible host server has a working WordPress installation (to be overwritten).
2. Install the “DesktopServer for WordPress” plugin on your target live host’s WordPress instance.
3. Export your localhost development website to a compatible .zip archive for deployment.

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- Software Updates

Note: Existing users should follow the How to Install DesktopServer’s upgrade instructions to preserve existing websites. Note: Manual installation will ERASE existing sites and is not recommended.

A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.5.0) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes important updates and new functionality to both our free DesktopServer Limited and DesktopServer Premium version. Updates to documentation to follow.

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- How To Tutorials

PhpStorm is a cross-platform, IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that delivers a feature packed, fast, and efficient user interface for debugging and code editing. As a commercial product, you will find the runtime to be fast and what you would expect from a well written commercial native application. While still requiring a Java runtime, PhpStorm feels much faster than eclipse or even the lighter weight Netbeans IDE. Like Netbeans, it works with either DesktopServer Limited or DesktopServer Premium editions. It also provides all the common editing features you would expect to find in a professional IDE: code folding, code completion, debugging with breakpoints and step functions, variable watch lists and inspectors, and multiple disciplines for syntax highlighting (JavaScript, HTML, PHP, etc.) with an emphasis on PHP. Since WordPress ‘template tags’ are just PHP functions, PhpStorm can make working with WordPress fast. However, first setup is a challenge as placement of user interface elements is less than intuitive. In this post, I will help you simplify the initial setup process of using PhpStorm with DesktopServer to give you a fast and professional IDE for WordPress development. Once acclimated, users will find debugging quick, robust and even more responsive than Netbeans’ typical debugging sessions.

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- How To Tutorials

DesktopServer Premium edition version 3.4.0 now includes extended support for Panic’s latest Coda 2 IDE (integrated development environment). Now you can develop WordPress websites in Coda 2 with enhanced features such as WYSIWYG split view editing on template files (formerly only available in Adobe Dreamweaver). In addition, DesktopServer includes support for AirPreview in Panic’s Diet Coda for Apple’s iPad. AirPreview will allow you to work in Coda 2 while seeing a site preview on your iPad device. DesktopServer unleashes AirPreview functionality to work with your dynamic, PHP driven WordPress website. DesktopServer is the only web server that enables this level of functionality and integration with Coda 2 and WordPress to help you design, develop, and deploy faster then ever.

Watch the video below to follow along and learn how to get started with WordPress, Coda 2, and Diet Coda using DesktopServer.