To any Joomla users that are managing to get live view to work but can't get it to discover dynamic files, I think I found the problem, Rachels post made me think....if permalinks in Wordpress cause a problem, I wonder if enabling SEO in config does the same?

I'm sort of glad to say taht if you untick the seo stuff in teh global configuration, everything works and all files are properly discovered in DW5

Just a minor bug taht hopefully they will sort

@ azfar_82

Your very welcome! I'm glad it worked for you as I can remember how frustrating it was!

Michael

turning of Joomla 1.5.2 global settings for SEO worked! Thank you I messed with this fo more than six hours. Adobe, you should mention this and the word press solutions in you multitude of how to's. It will spare you many bad-mouth posts. When this feature is working it is marvelous.

Hi there,

In my case, DW only likes workpress "Ugly" link (default) setting. If it's doesn't work for you, there may have setting problems in site definition.

In your case, I think you only need to create ONE site definition even you host more than one wordpress in the same site root. But the site need to be properly defined:

you can follow this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPpjuievC04

Just take a look at site definition setting.

From experience:

when using the wordpress files in dreamweaver, do I need to set up a new site definition just for the wordpress blog?

A. NO, only One site definition is enough... but technically, you can create a site definition for your wordpress only.

is it ok to simply add on another testing server to the remote server I already have for my whole site?

A. for web development, it's always good to set up a testing server, and one testing server is enough.

you see my site is not just a blog, the blog is only a part of it cuz I also have a bunch of nav buttons for home page, videos, pictures etc. and whenever I see tutorials on how to bring wordpress into dreamweaver, they always make a brand new site definition in dreamweaver as if its the only thing in the site which is unlike mine, because the blog is among many other pages.

A. Take a look at tutorial video from lydia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exSNc_t3jVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoEvTGCgmnU

there example project is exactly what you are looking for, the wordpress blog is only part of the feature ofthe whole website.

hope can help you.

bruce

Still no fix for this issue....oh well at least

the default permalink works.

Cheers

Micheltm

OK I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes!!

I found out the only issue I was having was that the web URL on my Remote Server was wrong, I always had it http://www.MYDOMAIN.com because I thought thats what I was supposed to do, but I was watching more tutorials and realized that doesnt have to be because I always seen them put their web URL for the local info in the advanced section as http://localhost/DATABASENAME/ and since they have to be the same thing thats why I was confused.  so I changed my web URL of the remote server to be the http://localhost/DATABASENAME/ one and miraculasly it worked!

so now that thats out of the way, is the purpose of opening the wordpress files in dreamweaver to actually edit the blog posts or is it just to change the styling and stuff like that?

lol, I actually have no idea what 'WYSIWYG' means

Hi Jordan,

You definitely wouldn't edit blog posts inndreamweaver, just the design. Use the wordpress admin to edit and add new posts.

Rachel.

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I can't beleive that it's just pretty permalinks choking up DW... Well, CS5 improve on CS4... Hopefully CS6 can handle multiple virtual hosts (and DocumentRoots) and htaccess's at the same time! (with perhaps xampp or some sollution bundled and managing the host file for us! LOL)

Also, check out the second answer here and the link to here for sollutions to running more then one testing site.

I really am hoping that the next version has built in management for this (or some nifty CS5 Extension that I could easily install...)

I understand the frustration, Prakash. While this is certainly an issue, I'm not sure that it's fair to call it a bug in Dreamweaver. Wordpress is artificially generating pretty URLs that are different than the actual record indexes for the posts and pages stored in the database. This is functionality that is in the Wordpress code and would require an entirely new level of functionality in Dreamweaver rather than some kind of "bug fix." (An analogous situation, if you have a Wordpress site online, occurs if you change its permalink settings. All the search-engine-indexed pointers to the site will fail, because they have the now-obsolete URLs. That's not a bug in the search engines, although it certainly is a problem.)

You can work with generic permalinks on your testing server and pretty-permalinks on your remote site without issue, since it's a Wordpress dashboard setting, not a change to the existing page or post database records, so it's not a major practical hurdle. I certainly prefer having DW able to handle dynamically linked files now than have the DW team wait until they added pretty-permalink handling before releasing the functionality.

For other Dreamweaver users who need help setting up a testing server and getting WordPress to work  in Dreamweaver without the problems discussed above I have written this tutorial

http://www.webdesignforbeginners.info/dreamweaver-and-wordpress/

Regards,

Theo