Features

ThemeDreamer unlocks Dreamweaver’s potential and turns Adobe’s Dreamweaver into a faster design environment for WordPress themes and applications. Here are some of the top benefits and features:

  • Real Time Design View
    • Enables instantaneous WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) feedback on common CSS and WordPress Template Tags.
    • Automatically combines theme file dependencies, eliminating the need to combine and splice header.php, index.php, footer.php, search.php, sidebar.php, etc.
    • Supports both function-style and query-string-style Template Tag parameters.
  • Content Simulation Panel
    • Simulate a variety of different types of post content and style them within Design View.
    • Simulate sidebars, widgets, threaded comments, and post attachments .
    • Share and redistribute post simulations with your themes and work groups.
  • ThemeServer compatible
    • Preview your themes instantly in a web browser on your desktop using ThemeServer for WordPress 1.0
    • Work on multiple theme files from various projects. Dynamic theme activation based on currently selected document in Dreamweaver.
    • Preview with a compact PHP, MySQL, and WordPress desktop server.
    • Perfect compliment or alternative to LAMP, WAMP, MAMP servers.
  • Code View Hints
    • Provides WordPress Template Tags, Include Tags, and Conditional Tags at your finger tips.
    • Enhanced Code Hints have additional support for the WordPress Plugin API (both Actions and Filters).
    • Hints reveal syntax, parameter defaults, and common enumerated optional values.
    • Updated for the latest WordPress APIs (version 2.8.4).
  • Font Wizard
    • Includes 50 royalty free cross browser/platform web fonts.
    • Tested for English alphanumeric characters on FireFox 3.5, IE6, IE7, IE8, Opera 10, Chrome 3.0, iPhone 3.0, and Safari 4.0.
    • Leverage Text-to-speech compatible (users with disabilities), screen reader capable text.
    • Easy to use real selectable fonts that are both beautiful and highly SEO (search engine) visible.
    • Convert your own True Type ‘basic’ fonts to become cross platform/cross browser.
  • Graphic Designer and Application Developer Benefits
    • Offline theme development - There is no need for a server connection or a need to install WordPress locally to view most common style edits.
    • Accelerate theme development time by reducing hassels with server round trips (‘download-edit-upload-view’).
    • Works with most third party WordPress themes allowing for instant customization of existing themes.

These are just a few features already present in the latest ThemeDreamer build with more features being added in anticipation of the final release this August.

Click here to view application screenshots. or check out version 1.0’s user guide.