WordPress Theme Development Check List – PDF Version

Written by Stefan Vervoort on May 4, 2009

Back in 2008, I announced the WordPress Theme Development Checklist on DivitoDesign. The Checklist with many small tips, code snippets and checkpoints you usually forget about was a success.

Today it is time to release an improved official PDF version of the Checklist for the WordPress crowd. This PDF version is clean and easy to print, which makes it an excellent checklist when you are developing your new WordPress Theme.

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The Checklist covers the following points:

  • General
  • Stylesheets
  • Browser Compatibility
  • Pages
  • Styled Everything?
  • Standard CSS Classes
  • Validate
  • WordPress Code
  • Blog Elements

Download the Check List

I suggest you print the WordPress Theme Development Checklist and put it on your wall. And every time you are developing a WordPress theme, you know where to look.

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    May 12, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    You might also be interested in the theme developer check list in the WP Codex:

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