Whether you are on a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted blog, these shortcuts are equally applicable and will surely save you lots of time and you’ll feel more productive and satisfied using WordPress.
Here, goes the shortcuts list some of which you might not know.
Tired of moderating hundreds of comments daily clicking on approve or select box of each comment. Then give your hands some rest and use keyboard shortcuts to moderate comments.
WordPress 2.9 provides keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation. Though to use them, you’ll need to enable them in your profile page.
Approving and replying comments becomes tedious jobs when daily more than 50+ received by any Blogger, To make this comments replying process more easier, wordpress provides many shortcuts to deal with commnts,
you need to activate Keyboard functionality from wordpress dashboard as shown in Image.
When you have a long list of unapproved or waiting comment in your WordPress dashboard to be moderated .
Here are the some of keyboard shortcuts that WordPress has in built and its really easy to use.
First you will need to go to your User profile page and enable the keyboards shortcut option as shown in th image With RED circle.
- R- For Replying to a comment.
shortcuts For WordPress Comments
- D-For Deleting comments.
- K-For moving up and then onto the previous page
- X-for marking comments.
- S-For marking a comment as Spam.
- A-For Approving the comment.
- J-For moving down and then onto the next page
- Q-For editing the comment and then Tab and Enter to save the comment.
- Escape-For canceling a reply.
- U-For Un-approving a comment.
- Shift+X -To toggle the selection.
- Shift+A/S/D/U -For moderating multiple comments in a go.
If you want to apply an action on more than one comments then use following shortcut keys:
- Select a comment: x
- Toggle on other comments: shift-x
- Approve all selected comments: shift-a
- Un-approve all selected comments: shift-u
- Spam all selected comments: shift-s
- Delete all selected comments: shift-d
Note: You can apply bulk actions by selected comments,
I hope u will Enjoy this and can have easy quickly access to moderate your comments 
Hopefully, these shortcuts will save you time and make you more productive writing for stuff you love.
If you know of any more time saving wordpress shortcuts, please share them in comments below.
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