WordPress forum with keyboard shortcuts like Reddit or Hacker News

Power users in my community really dislike having to click through every thread on a touchpad. On Reddit and HN I can mash j and k to move through posts, hit a key to upvote, another to reply, and never leave the home row. It makes catching up on a busy day feel like 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes.

Is there a WordPress forum plugin that actually builds keyboard navigation in as a first-class thing, rather than bolting it on with a third-party script? The community is roughly 2,000 members and the most active ones are developers who live on the keyboard.

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Tom Anderson Tom Anderson 2 7 months ago

Jetonomy ships keyboard shortcuts as part of core, not as a plugin add-on.

  • j / k to navigate between posts and replies
  • l to upvote the focused item
  • r to reply
  • / to open instant full-text search
  • Quote-to-reply: select any text, click Reply, and the quote is inserted

Supporting the keyboard-first experience, there is also in-app notification bell with unread count, threaded replies up to 3 levels deep with collapsible threads, and search-as-you-type backed by MySQL FULLTEXT indexes so / feels instant.

Honest limit: the current shortcut set is not user-remappable in the UI yet; the defaults follow the Reddit/HN convention most power users already know.

Pro adds Web Push Notifications so your keyboard-driven users get browser push for new replies and mentions without tabbing back to the community, which is a nice fit for this audience.