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May 30, 2020 Muhammed Swalih

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts – A Complete Guide

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WordPress keyboard shortcuts are always the sweet workers which boost the task completion speed. Even we have a mouse in our hands, we always like to use some keyboard shortcuts which are faster than the mouse clicks. They save a lot of time with the quick completion of time taking tasks. We are using so many keyboard shortcuts every day. For eg:

  • Ctrl+C: To copy something
  • Ctrl+V: To paste something
  • Ctrl+X: To cut something

Like this, The WordPress also uses some keyboard shortcuts to make the tasks very simple. They are very simple but effective than the mouse clicks. In this article, we listed out some of the most useful WordPress keyboard shortcuts which can help you to make tasks simpler. If you like to tap your hands on those cute keys be ready and read this full article to get them in your pocket

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts using Ctrl + key

These are the common and most useful basic keyboard shortcuts for WordPress using the “Ctrl+Key“. These are mainly useful in WordPress editor which the warehouse of each of our articles. The article writing is the most time consuming one for a blogger. Each time to copy or paste something, why to choose the mouse when we have some simple keyboard shortcuts to use. If you like smart work than the hard work, you will definitely find these shortcuts useful.

LetterAction
Ctrl+cCopy
Ctrl+vPaste
Ctrl+aSelect all
Ctrl+xCut
Ctrl+zUndo
Ctrl+yRedo
Ctrl+bBold
Ctrl+iItalic
Ctrl+uUnderline
Ctrl+kInsert/edit link

If you are Using the Mac operating system, the ‘Ctrl‘ button used on the above table must be replaced with the ‘Command‘ button.

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts using Alt + Shift + key

These are the WordPress keyboard shortcuts using the “Alt + Shift + letter” keys. The WordPress article editing area is the target of these shortcuts too. But, these are for some more advanced tasks and styling. You will never find this difficult than the mouse moving. To access the shortcuts follow the below methods on different operating systems.

Press:

  • “Alt + Shift + letter” on Windows and Linux (and on Macs for WordPress versions below 4.2).
  • “Ctrl + Opt (Alt) + letter” on Macintosh for WordPress 4.2 and above).
LetterAction
Alt+Shift+nCheck Spelling
Alt+Shift+lAlign Left
Alt+Shift+jJustify Text
Alt+Shift+cAlign Center
Alt+Shift+dStrikethrough
Alt+Shift+rAlign Right
Alt+Shift+u• List
Alt+Shift+aInsert link
Alt+Shift+o1. List
Alt+Shift+sRemove link
Alt+Shift+qQuote
Alt+Shift+mInsert Image
Alt+Shift+wDistraction Free Writing mode
Alt+Shift+tInsert More Tag
Alt+Shift+pInsert Page Break tag
Alt+Shift+hHelp
Alt+Shift+xAdd/remove code tag
Alt+Shift+1H1
Alt+Shift+2H2
Alt+Shift+3H3
Alt+Shift+4H4
Alt+Shift+5H5
Alt+Shift+6H6
Alt+Shift+9Address

WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts To Adjust the Editor Width

To adjust the width of the WordPress editor for clearer editing and accessibility, use the following WordPress shortcuts.

LetterAction
Ctrl +Wider
Ctrl –Narrower
Ctrl 0Default width

These are the main keyboard shortcuts of the WordPress, If you found some errors or can’t access any one of them, let us know that through the comments. You can also post your questions or doubts there, we are always happy to hear it from you. So, Support us.

Why WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts?

WordPress keyboard shortcuts are always useful for every blogger and website article writers to quickly do their job. Being the user of the WordPress, I can assure the speedy task completion of the WordPress keyboard shortcuts which always better than the mouse moves.

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Muhammed Swalih

A WordPress expert who has been tweaking WordPress functions, plugins, themes and almost everything related to WordPress for the past 5+ years.

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