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Press This

by Stephane Daury (stephdau)

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Description

Press This is a little tool that lets you grab bits of the web and create new posts with ease.
It will even allow you to choose from images or videos included on the page and use them in your post.
Use Press This as a quick and lightweight way to highlight another page on the web.

Contributing

Bugs and PRs can be submitted via https://github.com/WordPress/press-this .

History

WordPress, from the earliest days, included some way to bring in snippets from other websites for you to post on your own.

The original “Press It” was removed from WordPress 2.5 and a new “Press This” added in 2.6. It existed pretty much unchanged until WordPress 4.2, which completely refreshed Press This.

In WordPress 4.9, Press This was spun out to a “canonical plugin” — an official plugin from WordPress.org so sites who wanted to use it could, but streamline more niche functionality out of Core. This was previously done with the Importers.

  1. Install the plugin via your wp-admin dashboard via Plugins->Add New as normal.
  2. Visit the Tools page of wp-admin for additional installation steps.

Currently partially broken

By silentwisher on October 16, 2024

Its currently broken causing many images being generated for the featured image. Please fix.

Must Have

By dmsr on July 22, 2022

J'adore cette fonctionnalité de WP, pourquoi s'en passer si on partage des liens sur son site!?!?

Worthless Without Scriptlet

By lestado on October 29, 2021

If you don't have the scriptlet bookmarked already this plugin is WORTHLESS because there is literally NO PLACE to get the code for the bookmark ANYWHERE.

Great you continue developing this

By comunicacionabierta on March 7, 2021

I think this is one of the perfect plugins to keep the blogs alive and helping to make them more a personal bitacora. Thanks!

Tried, killed browser (Safari), uninstalled.

By bkahlert on April 27, 2020

I installed it, wrote a post, tried to save, my Safari browser hang, consumed more than 4GB of memory and finally crashed with my post gone of course.

Pretty Slick. Forgot About This Guy

By Seth Goldstein (GoldsteinMedia) on December 27, 2018

Forgot about Press This. Never used it in the past. But now I think I'll be addicted.

This is close to perfect for my needs

By winkelr on December 12, 2018

The only suggestion I'd make is to add a few options, like whether to embed the link as the text of the title or as the actual url. The latter is handy for making printouts usable by not concealing the url. In other words: 
<a href="http://blah">title of blah</a>  vs
<a href="http://blah">http://blah</a>

Love this plugin - needs ability to edit posts

By Seth Carstens (sethcarstens) on February 22, 2018

I tried out this plugin after being reminded about this feature of WordPress. I searched through core and found out its now a plugin. Tried it out, and it worked exactly like I expected! A problem is that, we like this new version of the post edit screen so much we want to come back and edit posts from this screen too... but you can't. 😢 Maybe now that its a plugin you guys can give us a way to add an "edit in press this" button in the wp-admin bar, or on the posts screen?

Does not work

By Ruisu on January 12, 2018

403 Forbidden A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site. Generated by Wordfence at Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:01:41 GMT. Your computer's time: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:01:41 GMT.

Happy that the Bookmarklet in WP 4.8 is restored

By bmwm (cbmwm) on December 15, 2017

I had to downgrade to WP 4.8 initially to restore the functionality of the Bookmarklet. As everyone can see luckily the Bookmarklet was added to the 1.1 plugin version after even MM supported that: https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/issues/15 I hope the Bookmarklet can be improved further for example to recognize line breaks in the selected text.

1.1.2

  • Fixes the styling of the .press-this .modal-close class (props https://github.com/crishnakh)
  • Bumps the Tested up to version to 6.7.1

1.1.1

  • Corrects an issue with the packaging of the plugin for SVN.

1.1.0

  • Restores the bookmarklet functionality previously found in WordPress 4.8 and prior verions.

1.0

  • Initial release as a plugin. Previously part of WordPress itself.
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