Incredible WordPress Shortcuts For Fast Blogging

WordPress is the most easiest and loved platform used by bloggers. This CMS is so much easy that anyone on this planet with little knowledge of computer can become master of it in 2-3 days.WordPress has changed the way of blogging completely and helped many entrepreneurs across the world to make their online presence.

With stunning themes and almost 27,519 awesome free plugins you can take you WordPress CMS to any level.

• But do you know that we can use keyboard shortcuts while using WordPress to complete our task even more fast?

Well, we all want productivity in our online activities so that we can complete it as soon as possible and then head over to next task, so little knowledge of these WordPress shortcuts will help you to achieve your daily writing goals at much  faster speed.
WordPress has already given many shortcuts in our editing area, but I think you never checked them.
So let's see how to see those WordPress shortcuts?

WordPress shortcuts for Editor

1. There is one little button in your editor area called Kitchen Sink.

After clicking on this icon you will one extra bar below your current bar.
2. Click on help button.

After clicking on help button one popup will open. Click on Hotkeys and you can see all commands listed there.

For reference I am going to write down all commands here so that you can have a quick look on them.

• Ctrl + b = Bold
• Ctrl + i = Italic
• Ctrl + c = Copy
• Ctrl + v = Paste
• Ctrl + x = Cut
• Ctrl + a = Select All
• Ctrl + z = Undo
• Ctrl + y = Redo
• Ctrl + [number] = Insert heading sizes, e.g. CTRL+1 = < h1 >  , CTRL+2 = <  h2 >.
• Alt + Shift + n = Check Spelling
• Alt + Shift + j = Justify Text
• Alt + Shift + l = Align Left
• Alt + Shift + d = Strikethrough
• Alt + Shift + u = Unordered List
• Alt + Shift + m = Insert Image
• Alt + Shift + c = Align Center
• Alt + Shift + r = Align Right
• Alt + Shift + a = Insert link
• Alt + Shift + o = Numeric List
• Alt + Shift + s = Remove link
• Alt + Shift + q = Quote
• Alt + Shift + w = Full screen distraction free writing mode
• Alt + Shift + t = Insert More Tag
• Alt + Shift + p = Insert Page Break tag
• Alt + Shift + h = Rich text editor help

In this window you will see very basic shortcuts which we have used on Microsoft operating system too.

Here are few extra WordPress shortcuts for setting tags and and doing advance formatting.

• H1 Header Tag: CTRL+1
• H2 Header Tag: CTRL+2
• H3 Header Tag: CTRL+3
• H4 Header Tag: CTRL+4
• H5 Header Tag: CTRL+5
• H6 Header Tag: CTRL+6
• Paragraph: CTRL+7
• Format: CTRL+8
• Address: CTRL+9
• Advanced Editor (Kitchen Sink): Alt+SHIFT+z
• Go to End: Ctrl+End
• Go to Top: Ctrl+Home

WordPress Shortcuts for Comment Moderation

You know these days many people are spamming big blogs by doing spams comments to get backlinks, and managing those all comments is really a very tough job.
But WordPress has given us few shortcuts which we can use to say bye bye to all spammers and we can delete comments with push of just one button.
But for getting this feature you will have enable one setting from your WordPress profile.

Simply go to: Profile > Edit profile.

Just enable keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation.

Note: You will have select those comments first which you want to moderate and then use following commands.

• Pressing a will approves the currently selected comment.
• Pressing s will marks the current comment as spam.
• Pressing d will moves the comment to the trash.
• Pressing z will restores the current comment from the trash or activates the Undo when that row is selected.
• Pressing u will unapproves the currently selected comment (send them back into moderation).
• Pressing r will initiates an inline reply to the current comment.
• Pressing q will activates "Quick Edit" which allows for rapid inline editing of the current comment.

For more reference check Keyboard shortcuts.

Final words.

These quick WordPress shortcuts are helping me to manage my blogs with much ease and this is the biggest reason that my 95% of the blogs are running on WordPress.
If you are using any extra shortcuts then please let us know so that we all can start using them and enjoy blogging.Do let us know if you have missed any in your comments :)

About the Author: This Guest Post is provided by Kulwant Nagi from BloggingCage.com where he writes about Wordpress, Blogging and Traffic Tips.

20 Best Wordpress Plugins so Far in 2012

Whether you pursue online writing casually or professionally, you cannot call yourself a blogger until you are familiar with a powerful CMS like Wordpress. What makes a blogger unique from others is the fact that instead of utilizing it for just a casual piece of writing material and clicking the publish option, a blogger knows how to use a CMS in the right way – they way in which the site content pleases both bots and real visitors.

The following is a list of the most reliable plugins for Wordpress in 2012 that every blogger should adopt in order to get effective results that quite simply define a job well done.

Top 20 Wordpress Plugins:

1)Smart 404

Research is always the most time consuming aspect in any blog’s composition if desired information cannot be found, Smart 404 can make a ‘smart’ move in this aspect, with the help of the current URL, as it manages to find the desired results.

2)Akismet

Hate spam? Fret not as Akismet is a helpful tool as it protects your blogs from unwanted spam comments quite effectively!

• Also Read:Best Commenting System for Blog.

3)All In One SEO Pack

With this powerful plugin, a wordpress site quickly becomes search engine’s favorite pal; which saves immense time of doing on-page SEO manually.

4)FeedBurner FeedSmith

Are you curious about your subscribers? FeedBurner FeedSmith can help you in that as it manages to inform you about your subscribers in your FeedBurner feed.

5)Google XML Sitemaps

As the name suggests, it makes XML sitmap for your site which you can submit to search engines to improvise the crawl rate. If you are searching for an efficient sitemap plugin then the powerful Google XML Sitemaps is definitely the thing you have been looking for.

6)Popularity Contest

By displaying the numerical value of your blog visitors and comments, the popularity Contest plugin enables you to know about how well is your blog being followed by visitors.

7)After the Deadline

It informs you about grammatical and spelling mistakes in your articles quite efficiently. As after the Panda update, typos can now damage a page’s reputation, therefore After the Deadline plugin is no less than savior as it makes sure your blog is mistake free.

8)Category Order

By the ordinary drag and drop feature, you will be able to categorize your blogs the way your heart desires quickly.

9)Google Integration toolkit

This powerful plugin connects your blog with Google’s top notch facilities such as Webmaster tools, Adwords, Keyword Tools etc.

10)Article2pdf

The title says it all. With this plugin your visitors can have the option of saving your blog content in the form of a PDF file.

11)Redirection

Worried about 301 redirects or 404 errors? Redirection plugin will take care of all 301 related issues.

12)WP-DB Manager

WP-DB Manager is a very handy database plugin when it comes to deleting, repairing or even recover activities to be performed on a database.

13)Captcha

To make sure that the visitor is a human being and not some online spam bot attempting to comment on your blog, a simple mathematical question will be asked before logging or commenting in your blog.

14)Do Follow

Tired of the annoying ‘no-follow’ feature added in the comment section of a wordpress by default? Do-Follow plugin will remove it and will allow you to pass your link juice to your commenter’s.

• Also Read:Difference between Dofollow and Nofollow Links.

15)WP Smush.it

When it comes to images, WP Smush.it helps to optimize, resize and even convert images from one format to another in the very best way possible today.

• Must Read:Make Images SEO Friendly.

16)Permalink Finder

Say good bye to all those endless 404 pages on your re-structured or migrated blog as this plugin does all the work.

17)Liveblog

If a blog post demands updates in the realtime during live coverage of an even (e.g. an iPhone launch coverage etc), then Liveblog is the thing for you as it enables the blog post to be updated quickly without ever visiting the wp-admin area!

18)W3 Total Cache

Loading can be a real pain if it’s taking too much time. With W3 Total Cache, a decent amount of time is saved through efficient cache-ing and the second loading time of your blog is incredibly reduced.

19)Subscribe to Comments

In order to maintain, if not decrease, the viewership of your blog, the Subscribe to Comments plugin is an excellent tool to keep the reader in touch with your blog posts by putting into action an email notification system on your blog with this plugin.

20)WP-Polls

Adding a poll by the WP-Polls plugin is a perfect way to increase visitor interaction on your blog!

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