What is a "must have" application if I would like to build wordpress sites on my MAC OS X?

Textwrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
Cyberduck: http://cyberduck.ch/

Other than graphics editing, that’s all I use =)

Thank you! I am using Transmit for FTP and already using Textwrangler. Nice to know, that people are using same apps for same stuffs :)

TextWrangler most certainly, I also use an HTML editor called TACO. When I downloaded TACO it was free… it no longer seems to be free. http://tacosw.com/, it has a 30 day trial.

One thing Cyberduck does that I’m not sure if Transmit does—it’ll let you “edit in place”

Essentially opens a temporary copy of the live-on-site file in textwrangler, when you save, it re-uploads to the website. Super handy for doing a bunch of small edits.

sweet, I did not know that, but I will check it tonight at Trasmit

MAMP

Trasmit

Textmate
or
Coda

Coda… $100 ;-(

+1 for cyberduck, textwrangler, MAMP!

also, perhaps you should check out Joomla!

I don’t want to use other blog/site engines except wordpress. I would also welcome some sites about new trends and great plugins for wordpress engine, what make the page more 2009 and web 2.0able :)

What does MAMP get you? I mean, on OS X you already have apache and php, why not just download mysql instead? (curiosity question, I used to use XAMP on windows)

@phoenyx MAMP stands for “MAC Apache mySQL and PHP”. It allows you to build/manage websites that use databases locally. and when you are finished you can export the database to your server and upload your files and your site is online.

I kinda figured what it stood for because I’ve used XAMP in the past. I just wondered what it gave you that you don’t already have. OS X already has apache installed and php installed.

I already do that kind of stuff without MAMP.

(I guess I should just go to their website and find out for myself).

+1 for MAMP, though to be honest if you have server space to play with it’s better to develop online so that you can cross-browser test more easily.

I have both Coda and Transmit and I’d say if you like Transmit, you’ll love being able to code and use the baked-in Transmit-based FTP stuff in Coda.

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@benseven Thanks a lot! :) Great sites!

@tilc No problemo.