Do you want to save time while writing a post on WordPress? Almost all of you use combination of keyboard and mouse to write and publish an article in your WordPress blog/website. But you know that you can do all things with your keyboard only. You can save your time and energy with keyboard shortcuts. In your WordPress visual editor, you can do all jobs till publishing your post with keyboard only. There are some shortcuts that will definitely help to save your time and efforts. You need not to use your mouse to work after knowing all these.
Some of the keyboard shortcuts you use often in your daily chores like control+c (copy), Control+x (cut), Control+v (paste) and control+k (add hyperlink). These are also very useful in WordPress visual editor. I hope that you will definitely use these other shortcuts to increase your working efficiency in WordPress. Here is a list of WordPress 60+Keyboard shortcuts.
Ctrl keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl + c – To Copy content
Ctrl + v – To Paste content
Ctrl + x – To Cut content
Ctrl + z – Undo
Ctrl + a – to select all
Ctrl + y – Redo
Ctrl + p – to Print content
Ctrl +b – bold
Ctrl + i – Italics
Ctrl + u – Underline
Ctrl + k – to insert a link
Keyboard shortcuts with Ctrl & shift
Ctrl + Shift + Right – select a word to the right
Ctrl + Shift +Left-select one word to the left
Shift + Home – select the all text of a current line
Shift + Left – select a letter to the right side
Shift+Right- select a letter to right side
Ctrl + Shift + Up – select a line upside
Ctrl + Shift + Down – select one line downside
Shift + End – select the all text of a current line till end
shift+Enter- Move done one line below
Keyboard shortcuts with Alt, ctrl & shift
Ctrl + Shift + v -Paste the chosen text without formatting
Alt + Shift + a – second shortcut to insert a link
Alt + Shift + c – Align center
Alt + Shift + d – strike through
Alt + Shift +h- For help
Alt + Shift + j – Justify
Alt + Shift + l – Align left
Alt + Shift + m – open media to upload media files or access media gallery
Alt + Shift + o – Starts an ordered list
Alt + Shift +p- for page break
Alt + Shift + q – Creates a quote
Alt + Shift +r – Align right
Alt + Shift + s – Removes a link
Alt + Shift +t – Insert more tags
Alt + Shift + u – to add number list
Alt + Shift + w – Full screen
Alt + Shift +x- To add/remove tags
Alt + Shift + Z – spread the editor formatting bar
Alt + Shift+1 to 6
Alt + Shift+1- heading 1
Alt + Shift+2- heading 2
Alt + Shift+3-heading 3
Alt + Shift+4-heading 4
Alt + Shift+5-heading 5
Alt + Shift+6- heading 6
Alt + Shift+7- Paragraph
Kindly reply in comments, if any shortcut is not found in this list; we will definitely add them in our list here. To know about Twitter keyboard shortcuts, click on this link: Twitter keyboard shortcuts. In the same way, you can use Gmail keyboard shortcuts to reduce your emailing work tension, visit here: Gmail keyboard shortcuts. To know about Facebook keyboard shortcuts, click on this link: Facebook keyboard shortcuts.