{"id":120235,"date":"2013-08-23T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=120235"},"modified":"2013-08-23T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:30:37","slug":"awesome-time-saving-wordpress-keyboard-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/awesome-time-saving-wordpress-keyboard-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"50+ Awesome Time Saving WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re like me, you want to bang out a blog post as quickly as possible. After all, we’re busy people with lots of very important things to do (i.e. sleep).<\/p>\n

And while I’ll spend an hour sweating out a gut wrenching workout at the gym, I find it tedious reaching over to use my mouse. It’s barely 10 inches from where my hands sit on my keyboard, but it’s extra effort and I like to be efficient. Why reach over to use my mouse to click on a tab when there is a quicker way to do it with my keyboard?<\/p>\n

Luckily, WordPress includes a bunch of nifty shortcuts that will save you time and unnecessarily expending calories clicking your mouse.<\/p>\n

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Everything, Even the Kitchen Sink<\/h2>\n

First things first. You need to open the Kitchen Sink. This tiny feature reveals a whole other line of options to help you make the most of the post interface, such as font styles, copy and pasting from Word and one of my favourites, removing formatting.<\/p>\n

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You can easily toggle the Kitchen Sink on and off to display an extra line of options for styling your text.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And the option we’re after is Help<\/strong>. So either click the button or hit Shift + Alt + H<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Rich Editor Help window will open. Click on Hotkeys<\/strong> to reveal some shortcut goodness.<\/p>\n

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No more having to click the B<\/strong>\u00a0button with your mouse to make some text bold! There’s also no need to switch out of the Visual editor and into the Text editor to enclose < h2 > tabs around a heading. And instead of click Add Media<\/strong> to insert an image in your post you can simply hit Command + M<\/strong> for iOS or CTRL + M<\/strong> for Windows to quickly bring up the media manager. Sweet!<\/p>\n

But that’s not all. There are even more shortcuts that aren’t displayed in Rich Editor Help.<\/p>\n

Save Time Sifting Through Comments<\/h2>\n

Moderating comments can be a laborious task. Thanks to shortcuts, you can speed up the process and get your comments sorted in no time.<\/p>\n

Shortcuts to browse and moderate comments was introduced in WordPress 2.7. You will need to turn this feature on, so go to Users<\/strong> > Your Profile<\/strong> and tick “Enable keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation.”<\/p>\n

Now that’s done, head to your Comments<\/strong> page by clicking the tab in the admin panel.<\/p>\n

You can navigate up and down through you comments using the J<\/strong> and K<\/strong> keys, with the selected comment turning light blue. Give it a go.<\/p>\n

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When a comment is selected you can simply press:<\/p>\n