Posting images, links, and cat gifs will never be the same.

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Brandon Kraft

<p>Press This is a little tool that lets you grab bits of the web and create new posts with ease.<br />
It will even allow you to choose from images or videos included on the page and use them in your post.<br />
Use Press This as a quick and lightweight way to highlight another page on the web.</p>
<h4>Version 2.0 – Gutenberg Block Editor</h4>
<p>Press This 2.0 brings the modern WordPress block editor experience to the bookmarklet popup. You can now compose posts using familiar blocks like Paragraph, Heading, Image, Quote, List, and Embed.</p>
<p><strong>New Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Block Editor</strong> – Full block editor integration for a consistent WordPress editing experience</li>
<li><strong>Smart Post Format Suggestions</strong> – Automatically suggests Video, Quote, or Link formats based on content</li>
<li><strong>Enhanced Content Extraction</strong> – Improved scraping with JSON-LD structured data support</li>
<li><strong>Client-Side Only Scraping</strong> – All content extraction happens in your browser for better privacy and security</li>
<li><strong>Featured Image Support</strong> – Set any scraped image as your post’s featured image</li>
<li><strong>Improved Media Grid</strong> – Better thumbnail display with support for video and audio embeds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Filters for Developers</h4>
<p>Press This 2.0 includes new filters for customization:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>press_this_allowed_blocks</code> – Customize which blocks are available in the editor</li>
<li><code>press_this_post_format_suggestion</code> – Modify the auto-suggested post format</li>
</ul>
<p>See the <a href="#developer-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Developer Documentation</a> section below for details.</p>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>Bugs and PRs can be submitted via https://github.com/WordPress/press-this .</p>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
<h4>New Hooks and Filters in 2.0</h4>
<p><strong>press_this_allowed_blocks</strong></p>
<p>Customize which blocks are available in the Press This editor.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'press_this_allowed_blocks', function( $blocks ) {
    // Add the gallery block
    $blocks[] = 'core/gallery';

    // Remove the embed block
    $blocks = array_filter( $blocks, function( $block ) {
        return $block !== 'core/embed';
    } );

    return $blocks;
} );
</code></pre>
<p>Default blocks: <code>core/paragraph</code>, <code>core/heading</code>, <code>core/image</code>, <code>core/quote</code>, <code>core/list</code>, <code>core/list-item</code>, <code>core/embed</code></p>
<p><strong>press_this_post_format_suggestion</strong></p>
<p>Modify or override the auto-suggested post format based on content.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'press_this_post_format_suggestion', function( $suggested_format, $data ) {
    // If the URL contains 'podcast', suggest audio format
    if ( ! empty( $data['u'] ) && strpos( $data['u'], 'podcast' ) !== false ) {
        return 'audio';
    }

    return $suggested_format;
}, 10, 2 );
</code></pre>
<p>The <code>$data</code> array contains scraped content including:<br />
– <code>u</code> – Source URL<br />
– <code>s</code> – Selected text<br />
– <code>t</code> – Page title<br />
– <code>_images</code> – Array of image URLs<br />
– <code>_embeds</code> – Array of embed URLs<br />
– <code>_meta</code> – Meta tag data<br />
– <code>_jsonld</code> – JSON-LD structured data</p>
<h4>Preserved Hooks from 1.x</h4>
<p>All existing hooks continue to work:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>press_this_redirect_in_parent</code> – Control post-save redirect behavior</li>
<li><code>press_this_save_post</code> – Filter post data before saving</li>
<li><code>press_this_save_redirect</code> – Filter redirect URL after save</li>
<li><code>enable_press_this_media_discovery</code> – Toggle media scraping</li>
<li><code>press_this_data</code> – Filter the complete scraped data array</li>
<li><code>press_this_suggested_html</code> – Filter default content templates</li>
<li><code>shortcut_link</code> – Customize the bookmarklet URL</li>
</ul>
<h3>History</h3>
<p>WordPress, from the earliest days, included some way to bring in snippets from other websites for you to post on your own.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In version 2.0, Press This was modernized to use the Gutenberg block editor, bringing it in line with the modern WordPress editing experience while maintaining backward compatibility with existing installations.</p>


Press This

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?

Love this plugin - needs ability to edit posts

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.

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