For all you bloggers out there, here are three Wordpress hacks/tips you may not have known about!

1. Editing the Timestamp
   You can write several articles at once and set them to be automatically published on a certain date, very helpful if you’re going on vacation and still want the blog to be active! MsDanielle has a nice writeup about timestamping here.
2. Advanced Editing
   A little feature in Wordpress 2.1+ is to open up the advanced visual editing toolbar. To do this, simply hit Alt-V when editing (Shift-Alt-V in Firefox). It brings up an extra toolbar with things like: Paste as plain text, Clean up messy code, Change text color, and Insert special ©ha®acter§.

   

3. Keyboard Shortcuts
   If you’re a regular reader, you’d know I’m a big fan of keyboard shortcuts for improved efficiency. In the wordpress editor (TinyMCE), there are shortcuts you can use to prevent having to click the toolbar. (Shift-Alt in Firefox and Ctrl for Macs instead of Alt):

• • Alt+B = Bold (Ctrl-B may work too)
  • Alt+I = italic (Ctrl-I may work too)
  • Alt+Q = Blockquote
  • Alt+T = more
  • Alt+U = ul (Unordered list)
  • Alt+O = ol (Ordered list)
  • Alt+L = li (list item)
  • Alt+A = link
  • Alt+C = code
  • Alt+P = Publish (the post)

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