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My Wordpress Cheat Sheet I know that there are many resources regarding this topic but there are never enough. This post is dedicated to small snippets from WordPress that will make your life easier. Or maybe my life easier and in this case I want to have them in one single post. In a way I’m trying to help you and in another I’m trying to organize this stuff for myself. Theme Structure If you want to create a WordPress theme, these following files must be included in order to be a standard theme. header.php - header section index.php - main section sidebar.php - sidebar section footer.php - footer section single.php - post template page.php - page template comments.php - comments template search.php - search content searchform.php - search form archive.php - archive functions.php - special functions 404.php - error page The Loop You will often see “the loop” as reference in many tutorials or samples. <? Note: the space in front of ? Template Include Tags Template Bloginfo Tags < ? WordPress Conditional Tags < ?

So you want to create WordPress themes huh? How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation. Table Of Content Below is the index of the topics that we will go through: Structuring This is a very important part in designing a web layout. HeaderPosting areaSidebarSingle pageCommentFeedbackSearching fieldPage menuRSSArchives, Links and About Page Something we need to keep in mind. Display too many things in one single page.Use too many colors and font type. In this sample, I also try to make is as simple as possible because the purpose of this series of tutorial is to give an example on how to create a wordpress theme. Final Result Photoshop Step 1 Create a new document with 1024px X 768px as we are going to create a layout which suit for 1024px resolution. Step 2 Grab the rectangle tool and draw a header for it. Step 3 I use Myriad Pro. Step 4 Step 5

The Ultimate WordPress Cheat Sheet Messing around in WordPress is a pure knowledge thing. It really has nothing to do with skill since all you really have to do is learn what all the different tags do, mean and what their possibilities are. There is no other way to get to that information than to check the tags out and try them for yourself or read up about each one of them. It so happens that after the huge success of Techking‘s HTML 5 infographic, they set out on a mission to create one of the most complete (if not THE most complete) WordPress Cheat Sheets you can lay your hands on, and it is completely free. So if you’re a theme creator or a WordPress modifier and blog owner, you can step up your game with this ultimately useful sheet.

WordPress Cheatsheet: What You Need To Know In One Sheet Today, we are glad to provide free a WordPress Cheat Sheet for WordPress theme designers or developers. It's created by Paul Maloney a UK based web designer or developer exclusively for Onextrapixel's readers. He particularly enjoys using and working with WordPress and has a keen interest in typography. WordPress Cheat Sheet WordPress is one of the very best content management systems available, it has won numerous awards, has a huge community and following with a number of high profile users. The Content Management System (CMS) has moved away from being a blogging CMS to being a pretty compete solution to nearly every niche you can imagine, with plugins such as Buddypress you can even build a social network on WordPress. So given its obvious success and attraction, designers and developers are getting up to speed with WordPress theme development, and producing themes for personal use, themes to sell and for their clients projects. Conclusion

3 Best WordPress Cheat Sheets Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language. Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection. This first WordPress cheat sheet comes from Ekin Ertac’s blog: It covers a lot of the basics for your template and theme creation tags, and can also be downloaded at blog.ekinertac.com. The WP Help Sheet is the next one I want to show you. Last, but not least, we have a cheat sheet for template tags to use in WordPress from DBS Interactive. Hope these three cheat sheets help out the next time you dive into WordPress template editing, and get a little lost.

WordPress Rolls Out New HTML5-Friendly Theme WordPress has just introduced Toolbox, a brand new theme that will let its users take advantage of some nifty HTML5 elements with the Custom CSS upgrade. Toolbox is "a semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of super-clean templates for your own WordPress theme development." Designers can use the Toolbox markup to do "anything you want," according to WordPress. For those familiar with designing around WordPress themes, Toolbox might strike you as distinctively Sandbox-like — and you wouldn't be wrong to think so. WordPress themes shaman and web designer Ian Stewart wrote today on the official WordPress blog, "Much like the Sandbox theme, Toolbox provides all the markup you need to build your very own theme with CSS alone — with one difference. "Toolbox uses some really exciting new HTML5 elements — like <article>, <header>, and <nav> — that better describe what your content is all about." To see Toolbox in action, check out this dummy site.