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macOS Finder
Windows Filesystem
Screenshots
Adobe Photoshop
Gimp
LibreOffice
GoogleDocs
Adobe XD
SVG from Adobe XD, Illustrator, Figma and Affinity Designer (Note: An additional plugin for SVG Support is required. My favorite: Safe SVG)
And some more…

… and paste it to Classic Editor or directly to the media library.

The most recent Desktop versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari are supported.

Install Safe SVG to enable SVG support.

The paste at GitHub

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Known Issues

Firefox does not support pasting multiple files from the OS filesystem.
Safari lacks the support to convert images to the webP format.
Pasting in TinyMCE triggers a JavaScript error if Real Media Library is active. Pasting in the media library is still working.
Edge is working suspiciously well, which is very unusal in the Microsoft world and must be considered a bug.

Installation

Follow the standard WordPress plugin installation procedere.

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

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Tyler Tork

1/26/2022

On my "essential" list

This is a most excellent tool for giving your pasted images useful names, for your later reference and for better SEO. There's one extra step -- you don't simply paste into the editor, you have to tell it you're inserting an image and do your pasting in the media dialog. It would be better if you could just paste in the editor and were asked for the filename automatically, but this is probably the best we can do via a plugin.

Screenshots

Pasting into classic editor. You can either upload the image immediately or do so later. Disable ‘Paste as file’ to turn off pasting.
The media library is pastable too
Pasted multiple images from macOS Photos into Chrome
A layer pasted from Adobe Photoshop 2023
Pasted from Affinity Designer. SVG Clipboard contents on the right.
Plugin options (Settings > Writing)

Changelog

2.1.4

Fix Image dialog: hide webp option if extension not allowed in multisite
Fix: Fall back to pasting if tinymce content is pasted
Bind debug mode to constant SCRIPT_DEBUG

2.1.3

Bring TinyMCE activation to Editor toolbar
SVG paste: Without SVG upload allowed you can still upload pasted SVG as raster image
Fix: Pasting with Safe SVG forbidden
Fix: render shortcode after inserting in tinymce

2.1.2

Fix Classic Editor + Safari not pasting image (re-arrange js build)

2.1.1

Fix PHP Fatal on Alpine/Solaris (GLOB_BRACE)
Fix some tweaks in block editor

2.1.0

Introduce Admin Settings
Quality slider in image dialog
Pasting into image dialog now possible
TinyMCE: Remove DataURI pasting feature
TinyMCE: “Paste as File” is now “Prefer pasting files”
TinyMCE: Restore functionality of “Paste as Text”
TinyMCE: Use current attachment display settings when pasting
TinyMCE: Skip images with src from same origin
Fix: Resolve some Block Editor conflicts
Fix: Paste issue in Classic Block

2.0.9

Fix: pasting plain HTML broken

2.0.8

Introduce Image Quality option
Image Dialog: use generated filename if filename is empty
Rearrange user options
Add date and time format options for default filenames
Compatibility with Advanced Editor Tools
Reduce JS filesize
Fix: missing TinyMCE toolbar icon
Fix: Image Quality setting not effective

2.0.7

Support images from MS Teams chat
A11y: Paste Modal submit now submits on press enter
A11y: Aria hidden attributes on buttons
Fix: Cannot paste into textfield in paste modal
Fix: Filename entered in paste modal unfunctional

2.0.6

Feature: Toggle image pasting in tinymce toolbar
Feature: Support SVG

2.0.5

Fix: Compatibility issue with Real Media Library

2.0.4

Remove debugging artefact

2.0.3

UI Tweak (instruction placement)
Fix: Classic editor plugin crashing
Fix: sometimes not pasting in Firefox
Fix: Dialog overlays media frame in Block Editor

2.0.2

Paste from Google Docs (Docs and Presentation)
More Filename placeholders
Fix PHP Fatal if network activated on a multisite

2.0.1

Fix: Filename placeholders

2.0.0

Paste files and images in the media Library
Paste multiple files (except firefox)
Convert to WebP (except Safari)
Disable dataURI pasting in user profile (now default)
Performance: Check upload capability before scripts are loaded

1.1.2

Fix: Fatal error in user profile
Fix: Compatibility with the SEO Framework

1.1.1

Feature: Make pasting into tinyMCE optional. (Fixes unpredictable cursor position during file drop)
Fix: php 8.2 deprecation warnings

1.1.0

Fix: PHP 8 warning
Fix: Add data: to wp_kses allowed protocols
TinyMCE: Users without file upload capability could not paste images as data-url.
TinyMCE: Don’t show upload buttons if user are not allowed to upload files

1.0.7

Fix auto upload large images

1.0.5

Prevent Editor Crashes: Only embed images up to 262144 px, upload otherwise

1.0.4

Support Text Widget
Better Media Titles

1.0.3

Fix JS Error in TextWidget

1.0.2

Performance improvements
Add Textdomain to plugin header
Remove unnecessary settings

1.0.1

Update plugin URL
Fix double pasting

1.0.0

Initial release

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