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21 Most Useful Time Saving WordPress Shortcuts

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21 Most Useful Time Saving WordPress Shortcuts

Sometimes writing a blog post can be a long process. To help you save some time in writing your blog posts in WordPress, we have decided to share with you 21 most useful time saving WordPress shortcuts. If you know any more then feel free to suggest them in the comment and we will add it in the list.

  1. Bold: Alt+SHIFT+b
  2. Italics: Alt+SHIFT+i
  3. Link: Alt+SHIFT+a
  4. Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q
  5. Code: Alt+SHIFT+c
  6. Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t
  7. Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u
  8. Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o
  9. List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l
  10. Advanced Editor: Alt+SHIFT+v
  11. Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p
  12. ins: Alt+SHIFT+s
  13. del: Alt+SHIFT+d
  14. Unquote/outdent: Alt+SHIFT+w
  15. Undo: Alt+SHIFT+u
  16. Redo: Alt+SHIFT+y
  17. Edit HTML: Alt+SHIFT+e
  18. Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+f
  19. Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c
  20. Align Right: Alt+SHIFT+r
  21. Ctrl+[number] to get various header sizes on highlighted text.

Use them and you will save a lot of time when writing posts. Save this list to your delicious and share it with your friends.


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Comments

  1. Zseller Istvan says:

    I’ve always been a console using Linux guy. To work efficiently I believe that you need to learn a few shortcuts. Whenever I start to use a new program I always check what kinds of shortcuts it provides. Those mentioned seem sensible to me, I still think emacs or vim style stuff would be beneficial, mostly because many folks are used to them. Of course I understand that it is not as easy, and to implement it the editor component should be hacked. It would be still a nice touch.

  2. allarminda says:

    How do I make a list without bullets or numbers? I’ve done it in the past but can no longer remember the shortcut!!

  3. D. West Davies says:

    I tried the Cntl + number on highlighted text but it just jumped to a different tab in Chrome.

  4. Nikunj says:

    Thanks a lot, I was searching for them for quite long time finally got it :)

  5. D. West Davies says:

    Great list. Do you have more shortcuts to share? Perhaps a list of 100?

  6. Sam says:

    Very nice list. Thanks. Loving this whole website

  7. ravi says:

    Hi,

    Could you please tell me how you do, what plugin you use to make custom short URLs like

    http://www.wpbeginner.com/refer/hostgator

    Thanks.

  8. jan geronimo says:

    Hey, thanks! This is very useful list of keyboard shortcuts. Guess what – I’ve been using the mouse all the time. Yay. Time to be an uber blogger with these handy shortcuts. :)

  9. shureiman says:

    Thx, I didn’t know that.

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