The Command Palette offers you a way to quickly navigate and manage your entire site with the ability to invoke different actions such as:
- Navigate to a different part of your dashboard, from the Media Library to creating a new post.
- Search for individual posts or pages and create new ones.
- Search through templates, template parts and patterns.
- Add custom CSS.
- Access Styles and style revisions.
- Transform and manipulate blocks.
- Toggle settings and preferences.
- Reset customisations.
It exists in any admin screen, the Site Editor, and the Post/Page editor. It is not available when you view the front end of your site.
How to access the Command Palette
To access the Command Palette, use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+k on Mac or Ctrl+k on Windows anywhere in your site. Once the command line opens, you can start typing to search for the action or content you want. Please note that the keyboard shortcut is not available in some environments at the moment.
You can also invoke it specifically when you’re in the Site Editor and click on the title, at the top center of the editor.
WordPress 7.1 brings the Command Palette everywhere. It now shows in the admin bar, making it easier to find. Command Palette now be reach via the Search + Cmd+K icons for Mac and the Search + Ctrl+K icons for Windows and Linux in the WordPress admin bar.
Admin bar on Mac
Admin bar on Windows
You will also find it available when in the Site View in the sidebar by clicking on the search icon.
List of available commands
Here are some of the available commands:
- Edit Template when editing a page.
- Back to page to return to editing a page from a template.
- Reset template
- Reset template part
- Reset styles to default
- Delete template
- Delete template part
- Toggle settings sidebar
- Toggle block inspector
- Toggle spotlight mode
- Toggle distraction free
- Toggle top toolbar
- Open code editor
- Exit code editor
- Toggle list view
- Toggle fullscreen mode
- Editor preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Show/Hide block breadcrumbs
- Customize CSS
- Style revisions
- Open styles
- Learn about styles to trigger the welcome guide for Styles
- Reset styles
- View site
- View templates
- View template parts
- Open Navigation Menus
- Rename Pattern
- Duplicate Pattern
- Manage all custom patterns
- Go to Site Editor
- Add new page
- View site
- Individual Pages (searchable by title)
- Individual Posts (searchable by title)
- Individual Templates (searchable by title)
- Individual Template Parts (searchable by title)
- Go to: Dashboard
- Go to: Posts
- Go to: Posts> All posts
- Go to: Posts> Add post
- Go to: Posts> Tags
- Go to: Posts> Categories
- Go to: Media > Library
- Go to: Media > Add media file
- Go to: Pages
- Go to: Pages > All pages
- Go to: Pages > Add page
- Go to: Comments
- Go to: Appearance
- Go to: Plugins
- Go to: Plugins > Add plugin
- Go to: Plugins > Installed plugins
- Go to: Users
- Go to: Users > All Users
- Go to: Users > Add User
- Go to: Users > Profile
- Go to: Tools
- Go to: Tools > Available Tools
- Go to: Tools > Import
- Go to: Tools > Export
- Go to: Tools > Site Health
- Go to: Tools > Export Personal Data
- Go to: Tools > Erase Personal Data
- Go to: Tools > Theme File Editor
- Go to: Tools > Plugin File Editor
- Go to: Settings
- Go to: Settings > General
- Go to: Settings > Writing
- Go to: Settings > Reading
- Go to: Settings > Discussion
- Go to: Settings > Media
- Go to: Settings > Permalinks
- Go to: Settings > Privacy
An up-to-date list of all the available commands can be found here.
Registering custom commands
It is possible to extend the Command Palette by registering your own commands. You can read more details on how to register your own commands here.
