This cheat sheet was developed and released by Antonio Lupetti of Woorkup.com. We would say this cheat sheet is a must have for all WordPress users, especially theme developers.

You can view the cheat sheet here before downloading. The document contains 5 pages and includes all the tags used in WordPress ordered according to various categories like comment tags, author tags, date and time tags etc.

Download WordPress 2.8 Cheat Sheet (PDF Format)

Once installed, it performs a scan on all the themes installed on your blog and checks for any threats. In case the plugin detects any malicious or encrypted code, you can contact the theme author and check the exact use of the code before actually doing the code clean up.

This plugin shows the exact location where the malicious code is detected and when you click, it will open the theme editor with the file to be modified. So if you are using a theme which is not developed by you, this plugin could be useful to track any unwanted codes or scripts.

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After downloading the Web Installer, open the Web Applications tab and select WordPress (located inside blogs). Select the box against WordPress and then click install.

The installer will download the necessary files from web. Once the files are downloaded, the installer will install WordPress locally. Based on your Internet speed, download might take time.

Once the installation is complete, you need to configure WordPress and MySQL by entering the username and password.

Once Web Platform Installer finishes the installation of WordPress, click on the Launch WordPress link and it will open WordPress installation in browser window. You need to enter a blog name and it generates the default user and password. You can login to your admin dashboard using the credentials.

By default, you local login URL will be “http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php”. You can try out all the plugins and themes on this local installation before actually uploading to server.

This way of installing WordPress is much easier than installing XAMPP and then configuring MySQL and Apache.

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As the image suggests, the image editor is very basic and allows you to crop, rotate and scale images without the use of any plugins.

We are not sure whether this feature has been finalised for Version 2.9 as it is still under development. What is your view on this feature of WordPress, is this going to be a useful feature or plugins can do this job better? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

Once installed, the plugin will be available in Photoshop and you can launch the PSD file for creating theme from inside Photoshop. This plugin works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is compatible with Photoshop CS3 and CS4 32 bit.

The final version is not yet ready, so the current free version has some restriction on the resolution of the template, images should be GIF format, the template can be converted only to WordPress etc. There are tutorials on how to start using the plugin which can be found here.

Features of Divine;

• HTML page identical to your PSD design
• Clean standard compliant HTML-CSS layout
• No HTML, CSS or programming knowledge required
• Easy publishing from Photoshop® to your WordPress website
• Built in FTP-client
• Widget ready WordPress theme as output
• Generate unlimited WordPress themes
• Supports all Photoshop filters
• Supports all Photoshop layer blending options, layer effects, masks etc.
• Supports smart objects and layer groups
• Resulting HTML/PHP code is div-based
• Cross browser HTML / CSS code
• Encoding support

Divine is a great software especially for designers who can now convert their quality designs to WordPress themes easily. When the final version is released there would be paid versions without any restrictions.

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How to use the script?

1. Simply copy the source code into a new document called ‘timthumb.php’, place it in a folder on your site server in any folder or create a new folder called scripts

2. Call the image like this in the following format

<img src=”/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/images/whatever.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1″ alt=”">

Here replace whatever.jpg with the image name you want to resize and also use your desired size and height.

Parameters accepted by this script;

• w: width
• h: height
• zc: zoom crop (0 or 1)
• q: quality (default is 75 and max is 100)

More information on this script available here. You can also check out a live demo of the script in action.

The WordPress has some great customization options and allows you to open have an option to customize posts to Twitter or Facebook when a new blog post is added. Once installed and activated, you need to configure the settings of the plugin.

You have the option to either customize the Twitter posts or use the default settings for Twitter and Facebook. If you have opted for the first option in the settings “Display option to customize posts to Twitter or Facebook when I add a new blog”, then a new options box is available in Add/Edit post page.

Another great feature of this plugin is that you can host short URLs from your own domain (for example http://yourdomain.com/ABCD). Details on how to use your domain for short URLs are available here.

Features of this Plugin;

• Easily post to Twitter and Facebook when you publish your blog directly in WordPress
• Customize your post or one click post with your blog title
• Host short URLs on your own domain
• Search engine friendly short URLs (301 redirect)
• Drive more traffic with the self-hosted StumbleUpon toolbar

You can sign up for an account at Su.pr using invite code: “suprbeta”. Your API key and account name can be found at Settings. You will need the API key for the plugin to work.

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In the settings page, you can configure the plugin such that it does a daily anti virus scan and sends an email if any suspicions are found. You can also do a manually scan of the templates and this plugin will show any infections.

Features of Anti Virus plugin;

• Manual testing with immediate result of the infected files
• Automatic testing with notification
• Whitelist: Mark as no virus

AntiVirus for WordPress is a nice security plugin to have to check any infections in the form of malicious links or codes.

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We used this query to get the RSS feed of our Mobile Blog in the sidebar. Here is the code.

<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’);
wp_rss(’http://feeds2.feedburner.com/themobileblogin, 5); ?>

The first line of code is to call to RSS core file of WordPress and in the second line we specify the feed URL and the number of posts to be displayed using the wp_rss() function. You need to replace the feed URL with the URL you want to display in the sidebar. You can see the Mobile Blog posts showing up in the sidebar of this blog using this method.

You can also do some formatting using the <ul> and <li> based on your current theme style.

NB: If you are not comfortable adding the code, you might get some plugins to do the job, but it is always advisable to go with lesser number of plugins.

Thanks to WP Recipes for this tip.

The new improved look of Wordpress 2.7.

You can check out this video to see the complete features available in the new version of Wordpress.

Apart from the visual changes and better navigation, one of the major changes is the automatic upgrade of Wordpress. The new version of WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click.

The dashboard also has a very neat and clean look giving complete information of your blog.

Overall the changes are really good with improved navigation. So what are you waiting for, go ahead and upgrade to the latest version.