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When it comes to designing and developing your WordPress site, why invent the wheel! There are loads of resources online that are just brilliant to give you a hand when you get stuck and help save the burn out on your gray matter. Let someone else take the strain! Here are 6 of the best development and design cheat sheets:.
- WordPress Optimization / Cheat Sheet: Ok, let’s start with an obvious one. WordPress.org is one of the best and biggest WordPress sites out there. The name kind of gives it away and we love them. Their offering is the WordPress Optimization / Cheat Sheet and can be found here at http://codex.WordPress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Cheat_Sheet, and is one in a series of articles to help you. This one offers hits such as the lazing man way – little effort = big result approach, and is as simple as caching and has a list of areas for optimizing WordPress.
- WordPress Cheatsheet Version 1: If you like a more pictorial way of working then this flowing diagram from Andy Wibbels could be for you. Set out in a logical spider diagram style, the thicker category legs make clear the areas you need to be considering and each one has a vast amount of ideas coming off in the form of smaller legs – a really user friendly resource we feel, and can be as a PDF file which you can then print off and save from: http://andywibbels.com/files/WordPress_Cheatsheet_v1.pdf
- The WordPress Help Sheet (Basic): This is another useful resource, and although it is less pictorial it is still laid out in an easy to read format that gives you hints on PHP- it is not essential to understand a huge amount about PHP when using WordPress and this could just about cover what you should know – or rather instantly show you what a PHP tag means, and the lovely people who provide it at wpcandy.com have translated it into Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, Swedish and Danish should you feel the need. Get it here at http://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/the-WordPress-help-sheet.html
- WordPress Theme Development Check List: Another key area of designing WordPress sites is the theme development, and at http://wptoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/WordPress-theme-development-check-list.pdf there is another printable PDF check list, where you can easily work through the logical steps and areas you need to have covered just so you don’t forget anything important. Again, another very useful resource.
- WP Help Sheet: Found at http://frozr.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/wp-cheat1.html this is a resource page that has snippets of PHP for you to steal that saves you having to worry about getting your syntax spot on, as they have done it for you. This is another helpful page that could save you some time. Well worth a look and a bookmark.
- WordPress SEO Cheat Sheet: This cheat sheet is set out in logical number order so you can follow it step by step and make sure your WordPress site is optimized for search engines. It can be found at http://www.tekka.de/seo-for-WordPress/cheat-sheet-seo-for-WordPress.pdf.
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