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Plugin info

Total downloads: 93,004
Active installs: 6,000
Total reviews: 25
Average rating: 3.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 26 language(s)
Contributors: 4
Last updated: 11/26/2024 (400 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 6/4/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.7.4
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 400 days ago • 25 reviews

32/100

Is Press This abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 400 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.7.4
Requires PHP: f

Ratings

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Developers

Brandon Kraft (Owner)5WordPress.org (Owner)6WordPress.org71Brandon Kraft11

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Russian27,196French (France)20,849German19,853Italian15,565Swedish14,890Japanese14,019Portuguese (Brazil)13,276Czech10,389German (Formal)9,953Chinese (China)9,700English (Canada)8,372Spanish (Chile)8,024Turkish6,934Chinese (Taiwan)6,927English (Australia)6,825Norwegian (Bokmål)6,152Greek5,862Korean5,844Romanian5,144Croatian4,253Albanian2,280Serbian1,926French (Belgium)1,910Slovenian1,063

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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.

Installation

  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.

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Seth Carstens
2/22/2018

Love this plugin - needs ability to edit posts

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?
bkahlert
4/27/2020

Tried, killed browser (Safari), uninstalled.

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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Changelog

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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