WordPress have great online documentation but is all scattered across many pages and it is hard to find a path that explains fully how to develop a template.

So here it is a WordPress template tutorial that explains the basics and advanced techniques of templating with WordPress 3, useful if you want to know the key concepts or just discover the updated techniques of WordPress templating.

• WordPress Template Setup: template hierarchy, useful settings and the data structure
• WordPress Template Content: the loop, custom fields and the categories
• WordPress Template Custom Queries: custom queries, the WP_Query, the get_posts and the query_posts
• WordPress Template Functions & Plugins: useful functions and useful plugins

Download the Cheat Sheet.