WPCandy

Adii
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 am

As a WP designer, I must admit that I expected some more advanced code snippets… Some of the snippets included are pretty basic indeed - like the Theme Details & Next/Prev Links. I still think it’s a great release! But not advanced enough for me to actually use it…

Irrespective, keep up the good work and I’m sure this release will bring another glut of traffic to a great WP Resource!

Andrew
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 am

I find that it is really difficult to judge what is basic, general, advanced, etc. I think this is a really good start.

bboywicked
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 am

Wow, WP is a really tricky system huh. Theres so much things to do with it, well anyways nice post mike. Thanks for sharing!
Keep it up, WPCandy is doing a great job!

hellyeahdude.com
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Well I must admit this is a great resource for people looking to get into Wordpress designs. They can print out this sheet and reference it as much as possible. That is the best way to learn web design and code, to memorize the code by referencing it.

I must say Adii, I think Michael is saying this Wordpress Help Sheet is more advanced than the previous. This doesn’t cut him back from releasing all of these help sheets as a “series.” Just like calling a product organic or calling it fresh. He next release might be advanced enough for your site. Even though, I don’t think your Web site is even using any “advanced” code. Releasing an actual media medium is much better than just blogging about how much traffic you get. Contribute don’t gloat!

Adii
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm

@ Patrick - I’m definitely not gloating and even though my own blog doesn’t neccessarily use “advanced” code, it doesn’t mean that I can’t code it. I’ve actually been in contact with Michael and I’ll be contributing to the next sheet. When I commented, I was just suprised some (what seems to me) like pretty standard snippets, whereas I expected something less well-known - but I definitely wasn’t trying to knock this release.

I love the initiave and ideas behind it and the WP community can only benefit from blogs such as WPCandy and passionate community members like Michael Castilla.

Ehab
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Obviously better than the previous one, but not necessarily “advanced” as in Advanced

Replaces the previous one for good though. Keep up the good work Mike.

Mike Diesel
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm

You rock man. Thanks for putting together another help sheet.

CP
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Thanks Michael. This is very helpful.

Ali Salem
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Thanks a lot Michael. Helps a lot!

Michael
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Just what I needed, Michael. I’m just starting to tinker with some styling on separate pages, and your Help Sheet will be right by my side.
It really helps to have all that stuff in one easy sheet, rather than scattered through the Codex.

Happy New Year!

Jake
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm

A great idea and definitely useful.

One potential pitfall though is that the behaviour of “is_home()” is not as straightforward as might be anticipated: it will only return true when “Front page displays: Your latest posts” is set on the options > reading page - not when “Front page displays: A static page”

Looking forward to the next installments!

hellyeahdude.com
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm

@adii -
If you are a wordpress designer you should know that probably 80% of the people who use wordpress only use it with theme’s and to do personal blogging. Thus, someone even informing others of these code snippets would be considered advanced to many.

Kevin King
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm

I wish I would have had something like this when I first started.

Thanks.

Referáty zeměpis
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Thank you for this guide especially for showposts

Hannah Warmbier
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm

What a great resource! I’m looking forward to more of these in the future.

Michael Cromarty
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm

I’m lovin it pal!

Lets carry on releasing them!

Gary R. Hess
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Nice cheat sheet. I’m sure this will come in handy with my never ending quest of editing my template

Jermayn Parker
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 pm

Thanks for this and the past “tip/ cheat sheet”, I have downloaded both and will print off soon…

I also look forward to Adii’s contribution for a ‘more’ advance sheet.

Could we also put a wish list together of what we would like to see??? I personally would like to see more on editing and changing the admin side of things…

Thanks

Mark Penix
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 1:59 am

Nice contribution, however I’d call this intermediate not advanced… these are things you can get from the codex… I’d say advanced are things not necessarily available via the codex.

P.S. you have a typo under “Unique Templates for Categories” you list in_category 3, cat4.php not cat3.php… just FYI.

Again nice contribution

Matt Packer
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 6:18 am

Thanks for putting the time in to create this. As a relatively new WP user this is guaranteed to coming in handy for me.

Cheers
Matt

Lifestyle Blog StyleSpion
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 6:47 am

This is an amazing piece. Thank you so much!

Hafiz Rahman
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 6:57 am

Thanks for the Help Sheet! Looking at the PDF is definitely much more pleasant than looking around the WordPress Codex for the same info.

Pchere
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am

This is a truly wonderful compilation. A must download for wordpress users.

Vijay Teach Me $$
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 10:32 am

Hi Mike,
A nice collection for my wp websites, it is a powerfull combination.

Steve Bruner
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

Nice job on the cheat sheet.

You may want to revise one section: Unique Templates For Categories.

There is no need to write all that code to provide a unique template for a category.

Just create a file called: category-3.php if you want a unique template for category 3.

Steve Bruner
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Absolutely!

It’s the Wordpress Template hierarchy:

“The Template Hierarchy specifies that WordPress will use the first Template file it finds in your current Theme’s directory from the following list:

1. category-6.php
2. category.php
3. archive.php
4. index.php”

You can find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

Bram
Posted on January 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am

A very nice one mate! Quite the valuable thing!

CP
Posted on January 6th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

Michael, I used the “Previous & Next Posts Links” on my site but the previous link doesn’t seem to show on the “next” pages. Any ideas? Thanks.

http://knoxify.com/

CP
Posted on January 6th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

That was it Michael. Thank you.

cjp
Posted on January 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

Very useful thank you, I will have this pinned up on my wall whilst I write my new theme for my site. Though I would agree with a previous poster that an even more advanced version would be useful, the WP codex can be a little dry so having it is this straight-to-the-point form is ideal.

Thanks again.

cjp

Thássius V.
Posted on January 9th, 2008 at 4:30 am

I enjoyed it a lot. Congrats, Mike!

readywpthemes
Posted on January 10th, 2008 at 11:03 am

It’s a good resource for beginners but not for advanced users.

Jason
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

This is such a great resource… True, it’s good for beginners… but even for advanced users, it’s great for a quick-reference. Thanks!

Kiran
Posted on January 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

I had been looking for something like this for a long time, thank you! Love the very web2.0′e layout!

vladbuk
Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 5:05 am

Russian translate: http://networkforpeople.blogspot.com/2008/02/wordpress.html

yanuar
Posted on February 24th, 2008 at 2:03 am

thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for

Mike Roussell
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

This is great.

I wanted to use the customize category template addition but my theme (Revolution) doesn’t have a category.php file

What do I do?

These are the files I have:

* Stylesheet
* tab.css
* Archive Page
* page_section.php
* Search Results
* Main Index Template
* r_sidebar.php
* s_footer.php
* Footer
* Sidebar
* 404 Template
* functions.php
* Comments
* l_sidebar.php
* Archives
* home.php
* Page Template
* Header
* tabber.php

brad
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am

This is a great big help! Thanks a lot!

G4HQ Forum
Posted on April 17th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

Thanks!

Graham
Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 8:02 am

Absolutely fantastic - thank you!
I have only been into Wordpress for around 4 months and already I am loving it. This is going to help me stax!

Lina
Posted on July 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am

What is wrong with your typeface?
I am using FireFox 2.0 and I see the text all broken-up, extremely difficult to read.
In Internet Explorer it looks fine.
Check your website in FireFox!
(thought I’d drop you some feedback)

Max
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 am

I’m about to make my first WP design on my own. These Help Sheets are a great help!
Thank you very much.