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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |