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18 Seriously Helpful Cheat Sheets for Easier Coding

Henry JonesApril 22, 200940 Comments07.7k

A few weeks ago, I showed you the best cheat sheets for web designers. Following that post, many of you showed interest in having cheat sheets to help you write code. That is no surprise since the skill set of many web designers today go beyond visual design. So whether you are a seasoned programmer or just starting to learn how to code, these cheat sheets are going to be a big help to you.

WordPress

The WordPress Help Sheet

The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine Quick Reference Chart

PHP

PHP Cheat Sheet

MYSQL

MySQL Cheat Sheet

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet

JavaScript

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet

jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet

mootools 1.2 cheat sheet

Prototype 1.6.0.2 Cheat Sheet

XHTML

(X)HTML Elements and Attributes

HTML/XHTML in one page

CSS

CSS Cheat Sheet (V2)

CSS CHEAT SHEET

ActionScript

Actionscript 2.0 Cheat Sheet Flashpaper

ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 Migration Cheatsheets

Papervision 3D Cheatsheets

Other resources

The people at Dzone have some more great cheat sheets for developers that you may want to check out:
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Henry Jones

Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. He is the founder of WDL and ThemeTrust.

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40 Comments

Filip Salindrija April 22, 2009 at 3:37 AM Reply

Thanks for this, really helpful. 🙂
Arun Kumar April 22, 2009 at 4:14 AM Reply

Thank you very much !!!
arunbeysi April 22, 2009 at 4:17 AM Reply

Many thanks
Marvin April 22, 2009 at 4:36 AM Reply

what a great listing. i like the actionscript and the jquery sheets. thanks for that 🙂
Jonny Pioww April 22, 2009 at 4:45 AM Reply

.NET anyone? I found these yesterday: https://john-sheehan.com/blog/net-cheat-sheets/

Good list and collection, cheers!
Patternhead April 22, 2009 at 6:02 AM Reply

Great resource.

Thanks for putting this together.
teddY April 22, 2009 at 6:31 AM Reply

Wow, what an amazing compilation of cheat sheets! I’m not familiar with half of the stuff (eg MySQL and Expression Engine’s), but the WordPress, CSS, jQuery, Prototype and Scriptaculous cheat sheets are really of great use to me. I no longer have to google like a madman for simple tutorials 🙂 thanks!
Hami April 22, 2009 at 7:29 AM Reply

some what really nice CheatSheat checking them, one by one.. I liked that one for MooTools
dev.My April 22, 2009 at 8:29 AM Reply

Very useful Cheat Sheets especially Xhtml , Css and ActionScript, JavaScript & JQuery
Michael April 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM Reply

I’ve found a new bookmark 😉
Kendall Wouters April 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM Reply

Thank you for putting this together. Very helpful!
K April 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM Reply

No Python? 😀
royss April 22, 2009 at 2:14 PM Reply

Thanks, it very usefull resources!
Here is Python https://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/python-cheat-sheet/
Dror Zaifman April 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM Reply

Awesome cheat sheets. Thanks.
I love the MySQL and PHP sheets as well as wordpress.
Guild Invite April 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM Reply

Excellent post, I’ve got the PHP and MySQL cheatsheets next to me now while I code out my World of WarCraft guild website 😀
John SHeehan April 22, 2009 at 3:14 PM Reply

@Jonny Pioww: Thanks for the plug!
Ian April 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM Reply

Perl please!
tashfeen April 22, 2009 at 4:20 PM Reply

Great stuff!
Paul Randall April 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM Reply

Really useful cheat sheets. I think I should print out a small version of each and keep them in my Moleskine.
Trek Glowacki April 22, 2009 at 5:43 PM Reply

The Rails cheatsheets are three years/two major revisions out of date. Using them as references will cause you a lot of heartache.
jim w April 22, 2009 at 7:11 PM Reply

great tips there, cheers very much!
dposorio April 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM Reply

Excellent resources – thanks! I noticed the link was off for the advanced WP cheat sheet, it should be https://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/the-advanced-wordpress-help-sheet.html
alex April 23, 2009 at 3:12 AM Reply

The wordpress cheat sheets seem out of date
rjene April 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM Reply

this absolutely cool. thanks for sharing!
Paul Pennel April 23, 2009 at 4:11 PM Reply

Thanks, I just printed out several of these.
Trey April 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM Reply

These are great! Thank you for putting them all in one place.
Rizza April 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM Reply

Thanks for sharing.
Must print and put it in the wall..
w3planting April 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM Reply

it is good but would have been great if asp.net cheat sheet were also included.
multiSai April 27, 2009 at 12:49 AM Reply

it is really informatic. Thanks.
Muneef April 29, 2009 at 4:25 AM Reply

Were’z Drupal ?
https://www.minezone.org/blog/2009/02/04/drupal-6-theming-cheat-sheet/

https://drupal.org/files/drupal_6_core_hooks_cheat_sheet.pdf
mary April 29, 2009 at 6:06 AM Reply

Thanks for compiling these in one place. Cheat sheets make life easier 🙂
Nikolai April 29, 2009 at 1:17 PM Reply

These are great. Printing away!

You should also check out these cheat sheet wallpapers:

https://www.webdesign-guru.co.uk/icon/web-wallpaper/
wallpapers April 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM Reply

this page is the cheatsheet cheatsheet – 😉
ByColor April 29, 2009 at 10:25 PM Reply

Great info, thanks!
Peter April 30, 2009 at 5:26 AM Reply

Cool Stuff, thanx
mark May 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM Reply

really great stuff – thanks
graphicfuse May 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM Reply

Very nice information. Thanks a lot, it will help a lot in my development.
sandman6665 June 21, 2009 at 10:37 AM Reply

Great stuff! great help!
Scott October 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM Reply

Really useful – I will be bookmarking this page for future use. Thanks
quicklycode May 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM Reply

WordPress Help Sheet Wallpaper
https://www.quicklycode.com/wallpapers/wordpress-help-sheet-wallpaper

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