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Set up a code editor

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Set up a code editor

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- To write code, you'll need a code editor. You can't use Microsoft Word or Word Processor since those automatically use special characters and formatting. You'll want a code or text editor. A couple of well known code editors in the WordPress world are Atom, which we'll be using in this course, it is free and created by the people behind GitHub. Sublime Text is another popular option. You can try it for free, and if you like it, you can get the paid license. It's around $80 for the current version. Coda is another great editor, and built by the Panic team who make Transmit, an FTP program, and other really great web development software. If you don't know where to get started, I'd give Atom a try since it's free and very customizable, and you'll be able to follow exactly what I do in this course. In a previous video we found our local development files. We can open up local, and then at the top of our site, we can see local sites, a new site. I'll click this little arrow here…

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