- How To Tutorials
Have you ever forgotten your password? It can happen to the best of us. DesktopServer makes it really easy to create multiple sites fast and losing one of your passwords isn’t uncommon. Perhaps you got side tracked working on another project or the client delayed getting back to you. You revisit your existing site and attempt a login only to realize you’ve totally forgotten the login details! Thankfully, DesktopServer includes the phpMyAdmin utility for administering your WordPress website’s MySQL database and it allows you to update your password painlessly. Here is how to do it: Read more »
Tagged forgot, lost, password, remember, wordpressNetBeans is an excellent, free IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that is well suited for WordPress website development. Coupled with the free or premium version of DesktopServer and you will have a modern, professional IDE setup. Even if you are already using another editor or development environment like Adobe Dreamweaver (great for design, not so great for debugging), you may still want to give NetBeans a try or use it as your powerful secondary editor. In this post I’ll show you how easy it is to get started and I’ll cover the basics of using NetBeans for WordPress development.
NetBeans IDE
But first, why NetBeans? NetBeans is a mature editor with years of refinement under its belt. While NetBeans is a serious and optimized editor for C++, Java, and PHP coding, beginners will appreciate the straightforward and simple features. Hardcore developers will appreciate the lighter runtime and active community support for PHP (unfortunately, development has stalled for the heavier Eclipse editor for PHP). Since WordPress ‘template tags’ are just PHP functions, NetBeans makes working with WordPress powerful yet elegant. It provides code hinting to predict your needs and help correct your mistakes. For instance, it underlines and changes the font color to make errors obvious. NetBeans tries to understand your code, not just allow you to edit it. A built-in navigation panel allows you to walk through HTML elements, CSS elements, and blocks of PHP code to simplify the critical task of just finding things. Code folding makes reading long complex template documents a breeze by summarizing lines of code into convenient rollovers. This makes it much easier on the eyes (and the brain) by simplifying complex document parts into smaller ‘folded’ excerpts. Given the right key combinations, NetBeans will even write code for you. Read more »
Tagged debugging, develop, editing, IDE, netbeans, wordpress
- News Announcement
We’re happy to be accepted as an official sponsor for WordCamp San Diego 2012 “Spring Training”. WordCamps are casual, locally-organized, non- profit conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They typically include sessions on how to use WordPress more effectively.
Check out the WordCamp San Diego 2012 pages for more information on what you can expect from WordCamps. You can find links back to WordCamp central and where to find WordCamps in a city near you. Hopefully we’ll be there to meet you too! Please visit http://2012.sandiego.wordcamp.org/about/ to learn more.
Tagged sponsor, training, wordcamp, wordpressDeploying your WordPress website from your desktop to a live server is easy if your host uses cPanel. You won’t even need to mess around with FTP software as cPanel includes a file manager utility that can greatly simplify and speed this task for you. DesktopServer Premium also features a Quick Deploy feature that can make it faster for small to medium-sized sites. But in this post I’ll show you how to deploy a site manually with cPanel alone which is better suited for larger or more complex sites that Quick Deploy may not support. There are three basic steps to deploying manually:
- Create an Empty Database
- Export Your Development Website
- Upload Your Website Data
- Software Updates
Note: Existing users should use our update instructions below to preserve existing sites.
A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.3.1) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes critical and important updates to both our free DesktopServer Limited and DesktopServer Premium version.
- System Status
All ServerPress.com servers have been upgraded to support mixed clusters with new support for Nginx. We’ll now be able to bring Nginx and/or Apache servers into the mix for upcoming 2012 features and services.
DesktopServer Premium edition version 3.3 now includes extended support for Adobe Dreamweaver’s Live View. No other web server provides extended Live View support directly for WordPress template files in Dreamweaver. At best, you can only use WordPress with Dreamweaver’s Live View on just the index.php file in your WordPress’ site root folder. But DesktopServer takes Live View further by sensing Dreamweaver’s built in browser. DesktopServer directly renders WordPress template files (and their include file fragments) for more visual feedback and to assist in faster theme design & development. Originally introduced in Dreamweaver CS4, Live View (formerly Live Data in CS3) provides a more modern embedded web browser. Dreamweaver optimizes web development by allowing designers to work on their website files in Code View while seeing a real Live View of their site in Dreamweaver’s Design View window. For an abridged overview, check out the video below. Read more »
Note: Existing users should use our update instructions below to preserve existing sites.
A new version of DesktopServer (version 3.3.0) is now available in our downloads section. This version includes critical and important updates to both our free DesktopServer Limited and premium member access DesktopServer version.
Tagged desktopserver, dreamweaver, updateMany hosting providers use cPanel as their control panel for website administration. You can use cPanel features alone to copy your WordPress website and run a mirror image locally on DesktopServer. In this article, I’ll show you how to copy your existing live WordPress website to your local computer. Note that this requires DesktopServer Premium. We are going to use DesktopServer’s import feature which will ask you for a zip archive file containing your WordPress website (plugin files, theme files, etc.) and a “database export” file that contains your posts, pages, configurations, and settings. You can create this zip archive file in a two step process that I will detail below. The first step will be to download all of your WordPress files and the second will be to obtain the database export file. Both can be done easily through cPanel. The third step will be to simply import the zip file as a new website in DesktopServer. Read more »
Tagged desktopserver, export, import, mysql, transferNow that WordPress 3.3 is out, you may wish to update DesktopServer which originally comes with WordPress 3.2.1. You can easily update DesktopServer to create websites using WordPress 3.3 from the start. Likewise, you can have DesktopServer use a custom build (such as WordPress in a specific language) by simply updating DesktopServer’s blueprint folder. The blueprints folder will also allow you to have more then one version of WordPress to select from when you use DesktopServer’s “Create a new development website” option. This flexibility also allows you to include your most commonly used plugins and theme frameworks should you wish to do so. But keeping a lean and basic installation is a good idea for quickly creating sites for testing and development. Read more »
Tagged install, update, wordpress
