Have you ever looked over the shoulder of a photoshop-wiz?

The best of them never even touch the upper menu with their mouse cursor but accomplish everything with esoteric short-cut functions that (sometimes) include intricate finger-ballet and often look like being dangerously close to muscle-cramp!

But it’s not just Photoshop. The productivity of any creative software can be radically improved by learning a few simple shortcuts.

It’s the same with WordPress.

Here are a few shortcuts that allow you to continue hacking away in a flurry without ever having to move your hands out of their ready-set-type position.

Quick And Easy

Bold: CTRL+b …………. example

Italics: CTRL+b …………. example

Underline: CTRL+u …………. example

( NOTE: These three are supported by most Office and text-processing software, as well. )

H1 Header: CTRL+1
H2 Header: CTRL+2
H3 Header: CTRL+3
etc…

(depending on your stylesheet not all of them may be supported)

Undo: CTRL+z
Redo: CTRL+y

Link: Alt+SHIFT+a

Intermediate to Esoteric

Strikethrough: Alt+SHIFT+d …………. example

Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q ………………… (again, depends on the stylesheet)

Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t …………………. (creates this little “read more” link)

Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u ………………… e.g. lists with bullet points
Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o ………………… lists with numbers

Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+l

Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c

Align Right: Alt+SHIFT+r

Insert img URL: ALT-SHIFT-m

PLEASE NOTE:

Depending on your WordPress version and browser, the functionality of these shortcuts may vary. I tested all of the above on Chrome and apparently there are even more but some of them I couldn’t get to work so I didn’t list them.

To be quite frank, usually I never use more than those listed under Quick & Easy, myself. But having that bold, italic and underline button right at your fingertips plus being able to quickly insert headers makes the formatting a lot easier.

P.S:

All of the above shortcuts work only on the edit post or page screen. There are also special shortcuts for moderating comments. See here for more.

P.P.S:

If after all of that you still can’t get enough of shortcuts for WordPress, check out this plugin.

Happy Typing Everyone!

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What shortcuts do you use? Which one work for you, which don’t? Tell us!

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