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About a month ago, WPCandy released The WordPress Help Sheet, a PDF packed with PHP snippets, the basic template files, and other extra stuff for WordPress. It became pretty popular around the Blogosphere within a couple of days and was translated into quite a few languages. The WordPress Help Sheet was a great success and allowed WPCandy to become known to the rest of the world.

The WordPress Help Sheet was a good WordPress resource, but it was pretty limited and only had the basics of WordPress. I kept thinking to my self, “What about more advanced WordPress developers? They need something too!”. I felt they were being left out of all the fun. So here’s something for all you WordPress gurus…

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Coda, a Panic product, is a one-window Web development application for Macs. Coda is packed with all kinds of built-in goodies like ‘Sites’ (an organizer for all your sites), Transmit 3 (an amazingly fast FTP program) a terminal, and virtual books. Despite its price tag of $79 ($69 if you already have Transmit 3), Coda is a one-hell-of an app. I used use Adobe Dreamweaver, but when I came across Coda, I couldn’t begin to compare the two. Coda was just the app I was looking for.

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Hey what’s up everyone, I am a contributing writer here at WPCandy.com for a couple of posts. My name is Patrick Algrim and I am the owner of hellyeahdude.com, I am sure you have heard Michael Castilla talk about our Web site before. Well, I am here to share with you a great trick to help improve your network. Creating an “About this Author” portion for your Web site is much easier than you may think!

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For some of you this may have never even crossed their minds, but have you ever wondered how to add your own WordPress Post Editor buttons? (When I say the WordPress Post Editor, I’m referring to the area where you write your posts).

Well, yesterday it dawned on me that it would make my life a lot easier if I could, with 1 click of a button, add in <h1> and <h2> tags into my posts. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Hell yeah dude!

Alright, so with that said, I’ll be running through some steps with you to get your WordPress Post Editor (in Code view) to look like this:

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Once upon a time, there was a Web stats application called Mint. “Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint’s flexible dashboard.”

I love Mint. Although it costs $30, it’s still simple, sexy, reliable, and easy to work with. But what does Mint have to do with WordPress?

In this post, I’ll be going over how to install Mint, install a Pepper (a Mint add-on), my review of Mint, and show you how it can work with WordPress.

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WordPress by default is a blogging tool and works extremely well at it. After much debate the developers added the ability to create pages as well as posts, however WP isn’t built for advanced pages, it was only developed to say create an about page or contact page with simple text only.

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If you’ve been to WPCandy before, you know we’ve already released a WordPress Reference Guide. Now I admit, it’s not the best or most useful WordPress guide for developing themes. That’s where The WordPress Help Sheet comes in.

WPCandy, in partnership with Liquidicity, is proud to present you The WordPress Help Sheet! We’ll let the PDF do most of the talking.

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