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A WordPress tip

A lot of my fellow Montreal bloggers are switching over to WordPress; either .com or .org, so I have a little trick I learned today that I’d like to share with you all.

If you’re in the visual editor writing a post, you can hit Shift-Alt-V in Firefox or Alt-V in IE and a new set of buttons will magically appear in the editor toolbar, allowing you to:

  • Create headings
  • Do underlining (but remember, underlining on websites is a Bad Thing)
  • Justify
  • Change text colour
  • Paste in plain text and paste from MS Word
  • Remove formatting when you mess up
  • Add funky characters (handy if you don’t have a French keyboard)
  • Undo / Redo

February 8, 2007 @ 1:34 pm

John said

You are some kind of scary genius. That rocks.

February 8, 2007 @ 1:38 pm

High Desert Wanderer » Blog Archive » Blogging Tip - Extra WordPress Formatting Toolbar said

[...] Be Lambic or Green has the full details, and I don’t want to steal their thunder, so go and check it out.  Don’t forget to come right back. [...]

February 8, 2007 @ 1:49 pm

zura said

Ooh, exciting. I tried it, and now I’m going to Shift-Alt-V more often. :) Thanks for the tip.

February 8, 2007 @ 4:02 pm

Procrasto (mark III) said

Being a newbie wordpresser yet veteran bloggartiste you can’t begin to believe how exciting this is…

February 8, 2007 @ 9:40 pm

blork said

Hmmm. For some reason it doesn’t work for me. It just opens the browser’s View menu (as if I hadn’t even pressed shift). I’m still on 2.0.5. Is that a new feature in 2.1?

February 8, 2007 @ 9:47 pm

Greg said

I wanted to know why underlining is a bad thing, so I tried to click on it, because it was underlined, but all my hopes of enlightenment that underlined words bring were dashed when my cursor failed to turn into a little pointing hand. And then I realised what underlining is a bad thing.

February 8, 2007 @ 10:14 pm

lambic said

blork, yes it’s part of the editor upgrade in 2.1, sorry, should’ve mentioned that.

February 9, 2007 @ 1:28 am

Sage's Unicorn! said

I was reading High Desert Wanderer and he suggested in his blog to come over and pick up this tip. Thanks a lot, I have really been missing my Hot Pink Text!

February 9, 2007 @ 8:33 am

lambic said

Oh and blork, 2.0.5 has a couple of security issues, you should at the very least upgrade to 2.0.7, although I recommend making the leap to 2.1.

February 9, 2007 @ 10:46 am

blork said

I plan to upgrade, but I need to back up first, and I haven’t gotten around to it. (For some reason, the automatic backup thingy doesn’t work for me…)

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