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13 Shortcuts for Wordpress that you should know

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13 Shortcuts for WordpressWell I see that some people like to complain that they spend too much time on a blog and not get enough results therefore they think blogging is a waste of time. I also see some advising others on the forum that don’t rely entirely on blogging which is fine. But what I don’t understand is how long does it take you to write a post? An hour or two? thats it if you write quality posts. If you are Bs’ing a post then you can do that in 25 minutes. There are ways you can speed up your post writing process and those are shortcuts.

Here is a post that will save you some time on writing a post in wordpress. Yup some wordpress shortcuts that you should write down if you don’t already know about them. I have a list on my table that have all these shortcuts and more for photoshop. In time you will memorize them, but the way to start is writing it down on a paper and stick it on your table, so you can use them daily. Now I have all of these memorized.

Make the text Bold

Alt + Shift + b

Make the text Italics

Alt + Shift + i

Insert a Link

Alt + Shift + a

Insert a Blockquote

Alt + Shift + q

Insert a Code

Alt + Shift + c

Insert Read More

Alt + Shift + t

Insert an Unordered List (ul) – Bullets

Alt + Shift + u

Insert an Ordered List (ol) – Numbers

Alt + Shift+ o

List Tags (li)

Alt + Shift + L

Insert an Image

Alt + Shift + m

Insert Del Date time – Basically Cross a Word Comments Restricted

Alt + Shift + d

Insert timing – Basically Underlines the world Spread the Words

Alt + Shift + s

Publish a Post

Alt + Shift + p


More from Suggestions on Social Media:

Undo an action

Alt + Shift + u

Redo an action

Alt + Shift + y

Edit HTML

Alt + Shift + e

Align Left

Alt + Shift + f

Align Center

Alt + Shift + c

Align Right

Alt + Shift + r

Ctrl + Number Get you the header size on highlighted text

Edit: Ian Blackford of Blogging Rocket has confirmed that if you are using Firefox and MAC you should use CTRL + Alt and the letters above. Its in the comment so I thought I should put it here so everyone can read it.

Now when I wrote 13 ways I promote my blog post, I got questions like how much time do you spend on your blog. On email as well as comments on the forums. Now I don’t spend alot of time because I have web design firm as well. But I do take a good 1 – 2 hours a day to search for post and write a good post. Sometimes less, and sometimes more. But I can tell you one thing, if you use these shortcuts you will decrease the time you spend on writing a blog post.



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19 Comments »

Comment by Chetan
2008-08-21 07:33:13

I know most of them and they always make work easier for me while writing a blog post.


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-21 07:50:04

yeah they are very common, but it helps alot, so I think people who are starting should know this.


 
 
Comment by Normal Joe
2008-08-21 08:52:36

Hmmm, good stuff!!! I never had heard of these before so it’s news to me. I can definitely see how this can work out to make posting quicker!

Thanks man


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-21 11:30:44

yes these are very helpful specially when you enter alot of urls. Save you the time on using the touch pad. If I am on my new laptop and somewhere where I don’t have access to the mouse, these help alot.


 
 
2008-08-21 08:58:12

[...] 13 Shortcuts for Wordpress that you should know – If you use WordPress, you have got to learn these up! [...]


 
2008-08-21 09:13:10

Never heard any of these before. Thanks for sharing it with us..Dugg!

Yan


 
Comment by Geoserv
2008-08-21 09:55:42

STUMBLED!

Good list, some I knew some I didn’t.

Thanks


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-21 11:35:05

thanks for the stumble :)


 
 
2008-08-21 10:02:14

I can’t seem to get this to work on a WP 2.6.1 blog using Firefox on a Mac – can you confirm it’s not platform specific?


 
2008-08-21 10:05:04

I just had a little play and I have to use CTRL + Alt to get it to work on a Mac.


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-21 11:35:56

OO Thanks let me edit the post and add that note there :)


 
 
Comment by Otooo
2008-08-21 10:09:49

Some of those are pretty simple but some I have never heard of and are really good
BTW, I would love to see a list of Photoshop shortcuts – that’s what I really need


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-21 11:29:32

hehe sure thing … will copy and paste my list and look for more online and share with you guys :)


 
 
Comment by Enkay Blog
2008-08-21 16:04:33

Thats a great post. I actually write my posts in html code with the image tags and div tags and stuff so I haven’t come around those shortcuts yet. Cool stuff though, I actually didn’t know some of those things were possibly with shortcuts!


 
Comment by Laurel Plum
2008-08-22 01:59:05

This is the first time I’ve seen any WP key shortcuts. This will help a lot and give me some time back! I can follow coding, but have never done any myself so where I lose time is in the layout of my type. You just cut that in half. Thank you!


 
2008-08-28 07:32:56

[...] week ago I wrote about Essential Shortcuts for Wordpress. Which recieved a few comments and one of the comments wanted me to share my photoshop shortcuts. [...]


 
Comment by HighGrace
2008-08-31 00:43:27

Good practical advice. I learned the value of shortcuts when I start working with Photoshop. They CAN cut down on the scutwork part of posting a blog entry. Thanks for these. Got to your site via the ProBlogger Title contest. Have Stumbled you, too. Thanks! G.


 
Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-31 01:05:49

thanks for the stumble buddy :)


 
Comment by turkish kitchen
2009-02-13 16:09:34

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