This plugin allows you to use Microsoft’s evolutionary code editor Visual Studio Code. To get started, you’ll want to download it from https://code.visualstudio.com and be sure to follow our Installation instructions below. Microsoft has recently made leaps and bounds into open source code development and that’s been reflected in their latest acquisition of GitHub and their absolutely…
Introduction to Local SSL Many of today’s plugins require you to have SSL enabled in order to function. This can create issues in local environments because a registered certificate with the domain name is required in order to for a site to have true SSL security. With the local SSL plugin enabled, web browsers will…
Ngrok Integration provides you with a tool to share your local DesktopServer website with a Client, Designer, Developer or anyone out past your firewall. Ngrok is a service that easily sets up an encrypted tunnel between a client site and your locally developed DesktopServer site. What’s a tunnel? It is essentially a secure point to…
Uses MySQL Admin tool to flush database tables, logs and status to avoid corruption Usage Scenarios: The plugin works on both Windows and Mac and will use the built in MySQL Admin tool to flush the database. We’ve noticed on some systems (especially Macintosh where the database process usually is restarted less often) that there…
This plugin resolves an issue where the host has an older version of MySQL then what DesktopServer has installed. Installing the Database Collation Fix The Database Collation Fix plugin is available in the DesktopServer 3.8.3 or the standalone plugin can be downloaded here Unzip the file and copy to your DesktopServer folder. The destination location is…
Introduction The Dreamweaver Support plugin provides extended support for Adobe Dreamweaver’s Live View. DesktopServer directly renders WordPress template files (and their include file fragments) for more visual feedback and to assist in faster theme design & development. Installing Dreamweaver Support The Dreamweaver Support plugin comes included with the Premium versions of DesktopServer. To activate it: Select “Stop or restart…
The Database Archive Utility is a Design-Time plugin created exclusively for DesktopServer. It’s purpose is to automatically create backups of all of your databases along with the DesktopServer configuration files quickly and easily Installing Database Archive To download the Database Archive Utility, log into your account and go to the downloads section. You will find a link…
Introduction to the Admin Color Bar When we released DesktopServer v3.8, we introduced you to the Developer Plugin feature. Developer Plugins make managing workflow easier for developers and designers but the plugins do not remain on the live sites. We plan to build quite a few more plugins that extend the functionality of DesktopServer. Every local dev site…
Mailbox Viewer provides quick developer offline viewing of mail delivery services. WordPress, plugins, and PHP code that utilizes PHP’s mail function will deliver mail to DesktopServer’s temporary mail folder. The Mailbox Viewer plugin allows you to easily view the contents of the mail folder within your web browser. There is no need to have an Internet connection or rely…
Convert a site’s tables to InnoDB on Create, Copy, Move, and Import operations. Installing InnoDB Convert The InnoDB Convert plugin can be downloaded from here. To activate it: Select “Stop or restart the web and database services.” [ Next > ] Under the Enable Developer Plugins, check the InnoDB Convert Select “Restart the web and database…