The Ultimate Roundup of WordPress Tutorials, Themes and Guides

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thumbnail1 freebiesWordPress is the most popular blog software in use today. Also developers number is growing so every developer is interested with WordPress development to offer better products for his clients. One of the great things about working with WordPress and developing your own themes is the community and all of the resources that are available. If you’re not sure how to do something or looking to see what solutions other theme designers and developers are using, you can find plenty of information and tutorials to help.

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Today, I prepared a good selection of the best resources to learn this wonderful blog and CMS covering every thing from books, tutorials, tricks and tips … Hope you will enjoy this collection !

WordPress Essentials and Basics:

This section includes some official resources for the WordPress community and some general articles that will help you to get more out of your development for WordPress.

  • Installing WordPress – This is an official WordPress.org tutorial showing how to install WordPress. Also if you want to install it locally you can take a look at this Installing WordPress Locally.
  • WordPress Support Forums – If you need anything or you have something going wrong with your WordPress blog you can always ask for information.
  • WordPress Docs – This WordPress.org section contains everything you need about WordPress to get started.

WordPress Theme Roundups, Theme Templates, and Theme Frameworks:

Below you will find a wide variety of theme roundups, theme frameworks for building your own themes, and premium theme sites.

Theme Frameworks:

  • WordPress PSD Framework – A free PSD template that includes all the common elements in a WP design for you to build on.

  • Carrington – A free WP CMS theme framework that includes two browser versions and a mobile version.
  • Hybrid – Justin Tadlock’s framework that features 13 page templates, 15+ plugins supported within the framework, advanced breadcrumbs and much more.

Themes And Templates:

Now Let’s move to the best sites where you can find premium and free WordPress designs and templates:

  • WordPress.org – The official theme repository from WordPress, with nearly 1,000 free themes available.
  • Top WP Themes – A directory of free themes, many with a corporate or professional look.
  • Themes2WP.com – A categorized directory with more than a thousand themes.
  • Elegant Themes – Another great premium themes site that allows unlimited access for less than $20.
  • WooThemes – Offers paid themes in a club format, though you can also purchase individual themes.
  • Obox Theme Shop – A premium theme site with some really awesome themes available with single-site licenses or developer licenses.
  • StudioPress – Premium WP theme site that lets you download themes individually or as a package.
  • StudioPress Premium WordPress Themes

  • NattyWP – Another club-based premium themes site.
  • ThemeForest – One of the best sites where you can buy premium WordPress themes.

Theme Development Tutorials:

The tutorials listed here will walk you step-by-step through the process of creating a WordPress theme.

Tutorials and Tips :

There are far too many tutorials and hacks for theme designers and developers to list here, and a number of excellent collections have already been put together by other bloggers. Above you will find some of the best tutorials and other collections.

Tutorials :

Collections :

WordPress Plugins  :

Tricks and Hacks :

WordPress Books :

There is a good number of WordPress books but I recommend the books above :

Digging Into WordPress
A book by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr. Digging into WordPress is the best book I have seen for WordPress designers and developers. I have the PDF version, but a print version is now available as well.

How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer
A great book from Envato written by Collis Ta’eed and Harley Alexander.

WordPress Cheat Sheets :

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  • Andyka

    Posted 60 days ago
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    Hi, very nice and awesome template collection. Been searching for cool templates over google search and found your coolest template collection website.Thanks for share these lovely templates mate!

  • windows web hosting provider

    Posted 90 days ago
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    Cool article, very well established points and writing technique. Interesting idea and topic as well.

  • Swamykant

    Posted 131 days ago
    36

    Superb Collection. Thanks for share.

  • buchete

    Posted 157 days ago
    35

    Hey Ryan, WP is the most world spread platform for blogs and sites. Thanks for the beautiful resources for creating a good site with a great design.

  • sikis

    Posted 289 days ago
    34

    w00w nice theme ı am downloading:))

  • Harmony Eclarinal

    Posted 376 days ago
    33

    I like the valuable info you produce inside your articles. I’ll save your blog and check again here frequently. I am quite sure I will learn many new stuff right here! Good luck for the next!

  • feyt talu

    Posted 566 days ago
    32

    Thanks your great list.

  • Carol

    Posted 695 days ago
    31

    Thank you very much for yet another great article. I am always on the look-out for original WordPress tricks to suggest to my readers.Thank you for making this article. It’sjust what I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

  • Neobux Fan

    Posted 704 days ago
    30

    Amazing List. This is the mini-encyclopedia of WordPress.
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  • Gopal Bhattacharjee

    Posted 721 days ago
    29

    awesome list..It’s help me lot to make wordpress powered site…Thanks Ryan…

  • Sylvia

    Posted 735 days ago
    28

    this will be interesting to read once WP goes to 3.0
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  • Jordan Walker

    Posted 736 days ago
    27

    Excellent round up, very encompassing.

  • Cortex Cerebri

    Posted 737 days ago
    26

    WOW, that was really an amazing article.
    Thank you for the resources!
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