Prev-Next Keyboard Navigation

Prev-Next Keyboard Navigation adds javascript to allow moving through postings on index and archive pages using the J/K keys to skip to the next or previous post.

A “post” is defined as any DIV with the class “post”.

Features

• Scrolls the current post to the top
• View next post with “J”, previous post with “K”
• After the last post on a page, continues to the next page

Planned features:

• Allow admins to define custom classnames to match for posts

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0.6

• Fixed the algorythm to account for fractional scrollTop property in Firefox

0.5

• Adds a listener to page scroll event, to update the position for keyboard navigation

0.4

• Continues to next page when you pass the last (or first) post on the current page

0.3

• Moved javascript to separate file
• Added jQuery
• Fixed scrolltop
• Tested on Windows Vista in Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7, Google Chrome 3, Safari 4

0.2

• Don’t add key navigation on single posts
• Don’t function on keypress inside of textarea or input elements

0.1

• Initial version.

1. Download the Keyboard Navigation zip file.
2. Extract the files to your WordPress plugins directory.
3. Activate the plugin via the WordPress Plugins tab.