13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes
We’ve already shown you some beautiful sites built using WordPress. So now that you are inspired, you probably want to start building your own themes using this powerful and popular content management system. If you are just getting familiar with WordPress or even if you have been using it for a while, it’s a good idea to have some cheat sheets handy when building a theme. Here are 13 cheat sheets that I find to be very helpful.
WordPress Loop
WordPress Template Tag Reference
The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet
WordPress Optimization/Cheat Sheet
The WordPress Help Sheet
WordPress Theme Development Checklist
WordPress CheatSheet
WordPress Theme Cheat Sheet
WP Help Sheet
My WordPress Cheat Sheet
WordPress SEO Cheat Sheet
WordPress Template Tags
WordPress Theme Cheat Sheet
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37 comments
Luke Jones
July 23, 2009Niiiiiiiice
Abu Farhan
July 23, 2009great collections, thanks for sharing
seeal
July 23, 2009ooohh yea xD thx for sharign ¡¡
Jay Philips
July 23, 2009Thank you for the great collection. Bookmarked & digged.
web2000
July 23, 2009Thanks for sharing 13 helpful cheat sheets for building wordpress themes. These will come in handy!
Laura McGuigan
July 23, 2009Thanks! This will be quite helpful, especially to someone who’s just starting out with WordPress!
Laurent LaSalle
July 23, 2009I think I’m in love…
Lisa Duhamel
July 23, 2009Excellent collection of resources – Thanks for sharing!
Rahul
July 23, 2009Very cool collection of power resources for WP theme development. Cheers.
Ersin HAN
July 23, 2009Thanks for this great cheat sheets. That will be very useful for me later.
Jay
July 23, 2009Great content. Thanks.
Nancy
July 23, 2009Thanks for the treats! Wonderful information!
Vassilis Mastorostergios
July 23, 2009Absolutely amazing list, time to stop using google every now and again with “wordpress” as the first keyword
tutorialslounge
July 24, 2009i like your way for building WP themes. thanks
web themes
July 24, 2009Wow thats cool dude….13 sheets come to think about it.
Omar
July 24, 2009Great compilation! thanks for the list.
Sahus Pilwal
July 24, 2009Have downloaded each and everyone one of them! thanks..!
Andy Gongea
July 24, 2009Thanks for including My WordPress Cheat Sheet in this list. Cheers!
Geoserv
July 24, 2009Wow, that’s a fantastic list.
Thanks for the share.
Pablo Contreras
July 25, 2009Brilliant! these are really handy. Thanks a million
jZine
July 27, 2009Thanks!
Brad Magnus
July 27, 2009This is just what I needed Henry! I’m working on my first wordpress theme for a nonprofit. We would usually build a custom CMS, but that’s not in the budget. This will help me get through it I’m sure.
Nassim Chemil
July 30, 2009Thank you very much. This is complementary when you want to go beyond editing css.
Cristian
July 30, 2009Thanks for the list! I’ll be sure to use it in my next WP project.
tmdesigner
July 31, 2009..a loto of useful sheets.. thanks 4 sharing! WP the Best
VectorsOnFire
August 4, 2009That’s a lot of cheat sheets! It will make my life a lot easier.
Leandro
August 10, 2009awsome list! thanks for sharing
IdealHut
September 14, 2009Thanks for sharing great post!
velviapersky
October 6, 2009Thanks for sharing…
George Susini
November 13, 2009Great List of WordPress resources.
George Susini
vivek bandebuche
November 24, 2009this cheat sheets are very imp very nice post..keep writting
Chicago Web Design
March 8, 2010Awesome! As a wordpress developer, I often use cheat sheets to streamline my workflow. Great roundup!!
Tim
March 19, 2010More WordPress cheat sheets here – http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/wordpress/
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Denis Polishchuk
May 17, 2010Thank you for your crib! You forgot a cheat sheet number 14 – Your site webdesignledger.сom
Dave Clements
August 22, 2011These are some immensely useful cheat sheets. I particularly like the second one down from dbswebsite.com. Great collection, thank you
Paul
January 21, 2012Awesome just what I was looking for. Thanks.