WordPress Shortcuts

Learn your useful WordPress shortcuts

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    Using WordPress or Word? If so you’re probably familiar with a keyboard shortcut or two. Let’s say – Copy? Ctrl+C; Paste? Ctrl+V; Undo? Ctrl+Z and so on. But WordPress, as a powerful and amazing platform, has plenty more shortcuts, in order to make your life easier, and to save time. A lot of time.

    As a productivity tool, we have shortcuts for Visual post editor, Plain text editor and Comment moderation screen.

    So let’s go – learn your useful WordPress shortcuts:

    Keyboard Shortcuts for WordPress Visual Post Editor

    Ctrl / Command + B Bold
    Ctrl / Command + I Italic
    Ctrl / Command + C Copy
    Ctrl / Command + V Paste
    Ctrl / Command + X Cut
    Ctrl / Command + A Select All
    Ctrl / Command + Z Undo
    Ctrl / Command + Y Redo
    Ctrl / Command + 1 H1 Header
    Ctrl / Command + 2 H2 Header
    Ctrl / Command + 3 H3 Header
    Ctrl / Command + 4 H4 Header
    Ctrl / Command + 5 H5 Header
    Ctrl / Command + 6 H6 Header
    Alt + Shift + N Spell Check
    Alt + Shift + L Align Left
    Alt + Shift + R Align Right
    Alt + Shift + C Align Center
    Alt + Shift + J Justify Text
    Alt + Shift + D Strikethrough
    Alt + Shift + U Unordered List
    Alt + Shift + A Insert Link
    Alt + Shift + O Numeric List
    Alt + Shift + S Remove Link
    Alt + Shift + Q Quote
    Alt + Shift + M Insert Image
    Alt + Shift + W Full Screen
    Alt + Shift + T Insert “more…” tag
    Alt + Shift + P Insert page break tag
    Alt + Shift + H Help

    I personally don’t find the following shortcuts useful, because it’s very rare that I use these screens, but it’s good to know anyway:

    Keyboard Shortcuts for WordPress Plain Text Editor

    Ctrl / Command + C Copy
    Ctrl / Command + V Paste
    Ctrl / Command + X Cut
    Ctrl / Command + A Select All
    Ctrl / Command + Z Undo
    Ctrl / Command + Y Redo
    Alt + Shift + P Publish
    Alt + Shift + F Fullscreen

    Keyboard Shortcuts for WordPress Comment Moderation Screen

    J Next comment
    K Previous comment
    A Approve comment
    U Unapprove comment
    D Delete Comment
    R Reply Comment
    Q Quick edit a comment
    Z Restore comment from trash
    Shift + A Approved Checked comments
    Shift + D Delete checked comments
    Shift + U Unapprove checked comments
    Shift + T Move checked comments to trash
    Shift + Z Restore comments from trash

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