The WordPress Help Sheet

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.

First off, I’d like to thank Liquidicity for being a bunch of cool dudes to chat with.

You may be asking, well how come WPCandy decided to make this WordPress Help Sheet with Liquidicty. Well, in the past they made two other Help Sheets on CSS and XHTML. I really liked the style they used in their PDFs, so I got a hold of one of their AI files, and edited it away to best fit WordPress.

The WordPress Help Sheet includes the following:

  • Basic Template Files
  • PHP Snippets for the Header
  • PHP Snippets for the Templates
  • And Extra Stuff for WordPress

Well it’s the end of the post and I bet you’re dying to get the link to it.

Check out what Liquidicity said about the cheat sheet.

UPDATE: Check out the WordPress Help Sheet in Spanish! (Thanks to lordmax.org)
UPDATE: Check out the WordPress Help Sheet in Romanian! (Thanks to m.tg-jiu.ro)
UPDATE: Check out the WordPress Help Sheet in Portuguese! (Thanks to wpthemsegallery.com)
UPDATE: Check out the WordPress Help Sheet in Swedish! (Thanks to http://www.infektia.net)
UPDATE: Check out the WordPress Help Sheet in Danish! (Thanks to http://www.stiern.com)

Michael Castilla November 2nd, 2007 Articles, Tutorials

309 Responses to “The WordPress Help Sheet”

bboywicked
Posted on November 2nd, 2007 at 7:06 PM

Thanks for sharing bro :D good stuff.

Elmbrent
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 6:52 AM

Wow you’re a god! Brilliant resource bro :)

John Kolbert
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 9:32 AM

Nice list! That’ll be a nice time saver.

Keith
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 AM

Awesome cheat sheet! Thanks for making this available in PDF format. This will be hanging on my wall shortly! I may try to develop something similar to this for my Wordpress Plugin Framework project to help developers understand how to best utilize the framework.

Link

Lori
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 AM

I LOVE THIS!!! I recently moved to wordpress from blogspot, so this helps a tremendously when it comes to tweaking the theme. Thanks so much!!!

Michael Castilla
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 11:02 AM

Hey everyone! Thanks for saying all those nice things about the help sheet!

We appreciate it and we thank you all as well. Thanks for visiting WPCandy, have a nice rest of the day!

Matt
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 1:15 PM

Thank you for sharing :)

Gary Burge
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 1:41 PM

Thanks for this valuable bit of documentation. I used it this morning as a shortcut to WordPress’s labyrinth of documentation pages. Find the snippet on your Help Sheet, then do a Google search to read the details: bloginfo(’charset’) site:wordpress.org.

Fernando
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 3:55 PM

Really great job, very useful and easy to understand. It’s a must-read ;)

Michael Castilla
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 3:58 PM

Thanks for stopping Fernando! I’m glad you like the PDF!

Lanooz
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 4:20 PM

nice!
But why not in online or image version? .pdf sucks right now ;)

Dre
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 11:31 PM

Wow, this is really helpful!

Paul OFlaherty
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 5:19 AM

Thanking you kindly guys. The PDF is a much appreciated resource :)

Andy Bailey
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 10:04 AM

thanks for taking the time to do this, it has gone straight up on the wall with the css cheat sheet !

Dennis Gerik
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 12:26 PM

Thank you for this resource… I have been looking for something like this for a while…

Dennis

Michael Castilla
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 1:22 PM

Your welcome everyone! And thank you as well. I appreciate your kind words and I’m glad WPCandy was able to help you.

Artur Kim
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 9:17 PM

Hey Michael,

I sent you an email earlier today regarding another translation and I was wondering if you got it.

Michael Castilla
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 9:20 PM

Hey Artur, I thought I had replied?

Artur Kim
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 10:03 PM

I’ve never received any email from you.

sherikrot
Posted on November 5th, 2007 at 4:15 PM

The link to the spanish version is wrong, the correct is:
http://www.lordmax.org/descargas/WordPress-Help-SheetES.pdf

Michael Castilla
Posted on November 5th, 2007 at 4:19 PM

@sherikrot: Thanks! The owner must have changed it.

Ryan
Posted on November 6th, 2007 at 4:44 AM

Thanks, printed off ready for my next attempt at theming :)

Nice website too by the way, you’re now in my feed.

Michael Cromarty
Posted on November 6th, 2007 at 5:52 AM

JESUS MIKE!!!

My internet had to go down just when we get the big hits.

Nice one mate gd stuff!!!

I’m back now so ill tlk to you later mate ;)

John Yellow
Posted on November 20th, 2007 at 6:23 PM

Great guide! For me it was really helpful in designing and developing themes. Keep up the good work!

Tom
Posted on November 21st, 2007 at 7:37 AM

Very handy, go double sided and add some more!

Steven
Posted on November 27th, 2007 at 1:38 PM

This will come in handy. Good work! I’ve listed it on http://TechCheatSheets.com

Luca M.
Posted on December 6th, 2007 at 8:15 AM

You can find the Italian translation at the following address:

WordPress foglio d’aiuto in italiano

Ciao

wordpress user smith
Posted on December 6th, 2007 at 2:25 PM

Thanks for the info, I will try it on my blog.

Michael Castilla
Posted on December 6th, 2007 at 3:27 PM

No problem guys! Glad you liked it.

Penispatriot
Posted on December 13th, 2007 at 8:15 AM

Hey there. Is it possible to get the help sheet in a editable version? i would translate it into german if its appreciated.

Michael Castilla
Posted on December 13th, 2007 at 8:40 AM

@Penispatriot: Hey there! If you download the PDF and open it in Illustrator, you’ll be able to edit it.

Ed Boress
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 PM

Thanks for sharing!!!

Arnaldo
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 PM

Great!!!
Thanks for sharing…

Jermayn Parker
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 PM

Late to the discussion and to this website but am now looking and downloading the pdfs etc.

I have been after stuff like this for a while, so thanks for providing the information etc. This is a huge help for some simple and not so simple tips etc for smoother WP coding.

Michael Castilla
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 PM

Hey Jermayn, thanks for visiting WPCandy!

And you’re not too late! The party continues :)

I’m glad the sheets are of use to you. Enjoy.

TzuVelli
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 5:57 PM

Thanks for the cheat sheets. It has already helped me implement some code on my new blog that I wasn’t sure about.

Beau Hooks

nakedtruth4im
Posted on January 5th, 2008 at 9:18 AM

Thanks You so much for this!

I was looking for something that would make it easy for me to do stuff within Wordpress.

vladbuk
Posted on January 5th, 2008 at 1:12 PM

Теперь и на русском языке.

Russian translate here: http://vladbuk.googlepages.com/WordPress-Help-Sheet_RU.pdf

Post about The WordPress Help Sheet in russian: http://networkforpeople.blogspot.com/2008/01/wordpress.html

KAPSCigarBar.com
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 5:14 PM

Looks very helpful. Thanks for sharing all that work!

成
Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 10:40 PM

Looks very helpful. Thanks for sharing all that work!

sauravh
Posted on January 28th, 2008 at 2:13 AM

love it cool …..

Saussyattiz
Posted on March 20th, 2008 at 5:38 AM

Snx for you job!
It has very much helped me!

Peter Steen H'øgenhaug
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 6:08 AM

Hi there! Thank you very much for this incredible pdf… I would like to translate it into Danish, do you have an editable file?

Peter Steen H'øgenhaug
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 8:00 AM

Hi again… I looked at a previous comment, and I’ll try to open it in Illustrator when I get home…

Project Wicked
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 11:52 AM

I find this very useful. This is an incredible for a lot of beginners. Cheers!

Loretta
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 AM

Thanks for the great reference :)

Raw
Posted on April 5th, 2008 at 4:09 AM

Wow, great resource. I wish I had known this sooner. Thanks for the worksheets!

Rajita - Logo Design
Posted on May 12th, 2008 at 3:01 AM

This is really awesome guidance.Thanks for this.

Teenager
Posted on May 20th, 2008 at 10:45 AM

what program to open PDF?

Juan Carlos
Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 10:25 AM

Hi every body!!

Good stuff, congratulations!!

Two thing more, to teenager using foxit reader 2.3 you will have not any problem, and link to spanish translation is not working.

C U

temizlik
Posted on July 1st, 2008 at 9:48 AM

thank you…

Dariel
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 PM

el link en español no sirve sera que lo pueden resuvir

otomatik kapı
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 at 8:53 AM

thank you…

David
Posted on July 8th, 2008 at 3:53 PM

Very much appreciated. :)

John Deszell
Posted on July 12th, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Thanks for this great resource. I’ve been experimenting with Wordpress more and more. It’s great, this really helps out.

istioselida
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 2:39 AM

very useful materials! thank you for sharing

RaaVi
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 5:14 PM

Great help for me and thanks for sharing, glad that are people that share their wisdom with others.

shin
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 1:25 PM

sweeeet

SEO Checklist
Posted on September 17th, 2008 at 6:47 AM

Why didn’t I found this post before ;-)
Very very helpfull. Thanks for the super PDF.

David
Posted on October 9th, 2008 at 10:52 AM

The link to the spanish version is wrong, the correct is:
http://www.lordmax.org/descargas/WordPress-Help-Sheet-ES.pdf

http://www.lordmax.org/2007/11/04/wordpress-theme-cheat-sheet/

Thanks to LordMax ; )

Sherley
Posted on October 12th, 2008 at 5:51 PM

This is a great resource. A blog new’b like myself find it very useful… Thank you!

izmir evden eve
Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 7:15 AM

thanks..

deryk
Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 12:27 PM

wonderful work. thanks for the cool info sheet

Johnsons.D
Posted on November 2nd, 2008 at 5:19 AM

Brilliant, actually im new to wordpress theme design and these will certainly help me out big time.
thanks for this cheat sheet.

pakdoz
Posted on November 25th, 2008 at 6:31 AM

Really useful sheet! Thank you very much

Gögüs Büyütücü
Posted on December 4th, 2008 at 7:34 AM

thanks..

George Smason
Posted on December 24th, 2008 at 1:18 AM

Where is the link to download the English version of the PDF?

Harry M
Posted on December 24th, 2008 at 10:11 PM

yeah right, I’m dying to find the link, but I made it…

dmk
Posted on December 25th, 2008 at 6:06 PM

Hi there… thanks for letting us download that PDF. I am gonna find it SO useful over at my blog. Y’know? for tweaking.

Karthikeyan
Posted on December 27th, 2008 at 11:48 AM

Thanks For Sharing :)

KChristoph
Posted on December 27th, 2008 at 5:11 PM

Thanks.
Greatings full of sun from Hannover, Germany.
http://hype.yeebase.com/story.php?title=Icons-Finance-wonderful-freefree–WordPress-Cheat-Sheet-

Coterfield
Posted on December 30th, 2008 at 6:49 PM

Para la versión en Castellano el url correcto es:

http://www.lordmax.org/descargas/WordPress-Help-Sheet-ES.pdf

por favor actualizar el enlace

seoaddlink
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 4:33 AM

Help Sheet is great , i can explain to my self soo many things , that was unable to understand before. Thank you. This site will be bookmarked for sure.

Ben
Posted on January 30th, 2009 at 10:04 AM

This is awesome!

Any chance there’s a style.css help sheet anywhere or in the works?

Many thanks!

Samsul
Posted on February 26th, 2009 at 5:46 AM

great tutorial, I’m designing a unique theme for my own blog. this gonna be my best reference :-)

Julia
Posted on March 9th, 2009 at 3:58 AM

Hi! I checked out the Wordpress Helpsheet tutorial myself. Thanks for the simple presentation. I surely would be checking other tutorials in this site. Thanks for sharing.

Rocky
Posted on March 9th, 2009 at 4:24 AM

Wow nice

Oscar
Posted on March 11th, 2009 at 9:22 AM

The link to the spanish version is wrong, the correct is:
http://www.lordmax.org/2007/11/04/wordpress-theme-cheat-sheet/

joyoge designers' bookmark
Posted on July 21st, 2009 at 6:19 PM

Awesome cheat sheet! Thanks for making this available in PDF format.

Adam
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 at 3:02 AM

I’ve found the Wordpress cheatsheet to be the most valuable and well presented I’ve found so far. Thanks a lot for the help!

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