15+ Useful Cheat Sheets for WordPress Design and Development
Posted By Andrew Jhonson on May 11, 2010
WordPress is an amazing blogging platform. It is just so simple and easy to use. On the top of this, it provides a range of useful extensions/plugins which make the things more easier. But somehow you need to deal with the coding of your WordPress blog. Cheat Sheets are very helpful while developing WordPress theme. So you will find some really helpful cheat sheets below. Just check out….
1. WordPress Optimization Cheat Sheet
This gives a quick list of areas where WordPress can be optimized. Includes issues like Server optimization, WordPress performance, offloading, Caching, Adding database servers.
2. The WordPress Help Sheet
The WordPress Help Sheet include: Basic template file, PHP Snippets for the header, PHP Snippets for the template, and extra stuffs for WordPress.
3. The Advanced WP Help Sheet
Although the Advanced WordPress Help Sheet is mainly aimed for more advanced WordPress developers, beginning WordPress developers can use it to further their knowledge. The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet includes snippets from Styling Different Categories to Dynamic Page Titles.
4. WordPress SEO Cheat Sheet
This tell you the steps to create an optimized WordPress blog. This includes optimize theme: Body, optimize theme: header, URL structure for the posts, user tracking , adding sitemap and lots more.
5. WordPress Templates Tag Cheet Sheet
Template tags are used within your blog’s Templates to display information dynamically or otherwise customize your blog, providing the tools to make it as individual and interesting as you are.
6. WordPress Architecture
This is a description of the general site architecture for WordPress v1.5. WordPress Theme authors are encouraged to maintain much of the core site architecture of XHTML tags and CSS selectors, but they are not required to.
7. WP Visual Cheat Sheet
The WordPress visual cheat sheet is divided into the following tag categories: include, blog info, list & dropdown, login/logout, post, comment, category, tag, author, date & time, edit link, trackback, permalink, links manager, query and title.
8. WP Template Designer Cheat Sheet
This includes: template files, template functions, template examples, template hierarchy, links .
9. WP Plugin API Cheat Sheet
This is also one of our favorite cheat sheets..
10. WP Server Model Cheat Sheet
11. WP Blog Maintenance Checklist
Interesting template checklist, suggesting that you must follow this if you want to maintain your blog. This also suggests you to monitor your bandwidth usage and be prepared to upgrade your plan if you consistently hit at least 90 percent of your hosting package’s bandwidth allocation.
12. GraphicRating – WP Cheat Sheet
If you want to create a WordPress theme, these shown files must be included in order to be a standard theme.
13. WP Theme Building Cheat Sheet
14. WP Theme Generator
This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.
15. WP CSS Cheat Sheet
If you are looking into creating your first website or first WordPress theme, then the following little CSS Cheat Cheat can help you learn some of the most important basics of CSS coding.
16. 30+ WP Snippets Collection
List of commonly used snippets. This will definitely help people for developing themes.


































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Wow, great sheets for wordpress. I am a new user so this will help me out to get started. Thanks for your great infos and help. Which SEO Plugin is currently the best? Any recommendations?
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awesome collection.. this will be helpful for me as I am planing to come up with my own WordPress custom theme.
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Thanks man! Its very helpful.. bookmarking it right away. I just used to take help from wp function reference and wp codex.
Thanks for enlighten us
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This Cheat-sheet is going to be very helpful. Thanks for Sharing.
Nice list. I found some useful cheatsheets for me here (especially the SEO cheatsheet). Thank you very much for sharing.
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Super freakin awesome! Thanks! It’s so incredibly random how you threw a CSS cheat sheet in there though. And the CSS theme generator, while awesome, wasn’t really a cheat sheet. Didn’t generate valid code either, which is kinda sad of them. It worked though, so hey!
Good post.
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This is really awesome, I’m a WordPress wanna be Rockstar but I don’t know where to start, this cheat sheets will definitely come in handy. Thank you very much…
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Great list of WordPress related cheats. I really like this.
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Great list of cheat sheets, will come in very handy! Thanks for sharing, Ted.
Very useful, thank you!