Press This Bookmarklet
Blogging is about more than sharing your ideas. It’s about sharing your discoveries: quotes, images, videos, announcements from awesome blogs like this one. And it’s about doing it quickly.
Collect and share bits of the web easier and faster than ever with Press This, the new WordPress bookmarklet.
Check out this video to see how it works:
For those more textually inclined, here’s the rundown:
- Drag the Press This bookmarklet to your toolbar from the Shortcuts section to the right of your post editor.
- Surf the web.
- Click the Press This button in your toolbar any time you find something cool you want to re-post. Try highlighting text first if that’s what you want to share.
- Select and arrange text, images, video, or quotes within the Press This window. Add your thoughts and edit at will.
- Publish (or save) directly from the window when you’re done.
- Ta da! Your favorite content is now live on your blog, along with your brilliant insights.
Update! The “Press This” bookmarklet is now on the Tools page of your blog.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:36 am
nice…you can do this now without downloading one of those blog apps onto your PC!!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Swell
Thank You!!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Amazing. (I’m I the first one to reply? But this is way to cool!)
August 14th, 2008 at 3:42 am
great!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:54 am
Wow. That looks amazing! I’ll have to give it a whirl.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Cool Thanks for this very helpful tool.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:05 am
pretty quick turnaround on this third party service and bringing it into wordpress. you guys do a strong job on taking internet trends and user trends and incorporating them into wordpress.com very well. strong value add.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Awesome!!! Nice one, wordpress!
Adam♥
August 14th, 2008 at 4:20 am
no audio? mp3s or podcasts?
August 14th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Noel, this works ha ha..testing it on your post first.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Hadn’t this feature been around for a while? Why blog about it now?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:01 am
NICE!! – NOW, I don’t have to “steal” content! – I can just “re-blog” it !!
ThanX Noel !
August 14th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Wow this is is great. I love it!
August 14th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Great idea! Thank you
August 14th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Brilliant addition!
August 14th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Oh awesome, how efficient!
August 14th, 2008 at 5:54 am
this is an amazing feature…
but then for everything I want to publish, first I’d have to check whatever licensing is specified.. even then, it is a great feature..
August 14th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Genius! Just pure genius.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Interesting feature, but I doubt I’d ever use it. If I had something to say about something that I saw elsewhere online, I’d need much more than blockquoting part of it and having a link going back to it.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Fantastic! Will give it a try as soon as I can.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Absolutely stellar. Thanks!
August 14th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Hey, this is a cool thing!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:14 am
let me see, thank u
August 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am
you are addicting me
August 14th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Nice, but the video doesn’t appear using Linux, Firefox and the last adobe flash plugin.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
erm… doesn’t this just make it easier for people to plagiarise your content?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:10 am
This is just great! Thank you for making it available. Using WordPress to publish out blog just gets better and better.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:17 am
wow! its sound good! thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 10:17 am
wow! it sound good! thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Another feature to prove that WordPress is the best blogging site on the web… now if you could just get us some social bookmarking tools we would really be cooking with gas!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Great facility ppl!!
August 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am
awesome xD
August 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Thanks a lot.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I like it.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Wow – I am thoroughly im”press”ed. Thanks for adding this feature in a way that will make blogging even easier for us.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hmm… not sure if I’ll use this or not, but it definitely sounds worth checking out.
I’m all for sharing information. More power to the people of WordPress.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Uau!!! WONDERFUL!
August 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
We’ll see…
August 14th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Hay! Noel , Thanks you very to share with us. It’s awesome updates and more productive.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
it’s COOOOOL man thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Sounds interesting enough.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Great!
August 14th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Interesting. I’m not sure what I’d use it for, but it might come in handy…
August 14th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Fantastic!!!! Thanks!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
August 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I well see
August 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
So this is a little like Evernote?
August 14th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
cool new feature, and cool guy with ascent talking and cool background music. Everything is just cool.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Thanks so much.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
wow!!!!! AWESOME
August 14th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Hello Noel, Is this a new feature? I remember it to be present from many days! Or you are just sharing this info today and not announcing it as new?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
This is cool! Gonna try that it anytime soon :]
August 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
OMG…
This is a real time saver.
Keep up the innovative work!
Thanks a lot for coming up with this!!!
August 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Nice… but… I would prefer to be able to integrate with del.icio.us. So I can config del.icio.us to publish to WordPress (good) but the post is published straight away. Would be much nicer to let us configure it so the post from del.icio.us defaulted to draft (should be straight forward it’s just XML-RPC) that way we can edit the post before publishing it. Afterall WordPress is good but it’s not the only web app we use – please play nicely with the other web apps.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Good!!!!!!!!!!! Genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
August 15th, 2008 at 2:40 am
thats smart its i good idea
August 15th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Hey Noel, This looks wonderful! Will give it a try today.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:18 am
nice…
August 15th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Coooool!!!!!
August 15th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Good booklet, post now !!!
August 15th, 2008 at 7:13 am
booklet smooklet?
Stop! Stop! i can’t take any more innovations!
LOVE the visual display of what the heck it iz you have come up with!!
noel – you’re THE man – a cotton pickin genius!
this invention is going to save me so much time
thank you
the ‘video’ alone must have taken for ever to do – nicely put together and clear instructions too
go on – how many months/yrs went into it?
[mmm - i wonder what yr working on now]
August 15th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Thanks for all the rave reviews!
For those of you wondering, yes, “Press This” is new. We used to have a bookmarklet a long time ago, but it was hardly used.
The new Press This bookmarklet that we created is new and will continue to get better down the road.
If you have any specific feedback, we’d love to hear it! Please send any specific suggestions or issues to Support.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Nice, no more copy, paste, link source for me
Thank you
August 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am
wow cool!!!! thanks
August 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
cool and awesome.
thanks a lot.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Amazing idea. Nice thinking, and extremely convenient.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
good
August 15th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Where do I find the thing??
C
August 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
That’s great! Thanks Noel!
August 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
This is awesome!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Perhaps I am missing something but I think this tool only makes it easier for people to copy your content, post it on their site and now both sites have duplicate content which does neither site any good whatsoever. As far as Google is concerned original content is king so why even put other peoples text on your site? (unless you are not into that whole getting traffic thing)
August 15th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Guy’s you are soooooooo GENIUS!
August 16th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Am I the only one who has been using this for months? There was an older less cool version of this for years as well before this. Are you guys running out of things to blog about?
August 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
its coooooooooool,thanks!
August 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Count me among the displeased. The old “Press It” bookmark at least respected content creator’s rights by inserting a link to someone else’s post in your Write Editor where you could then comment on it with the resulting trackback. The new “Press It” bookmarklet just assists content theft. Not happy, not happy at all.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
thanks
August 16th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
that’s splendid
thanks a ton 
August 16th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I like it.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:00 am
So that is why my slideshow appears in someone else’s blog/s; but not wordpress. Maybe they have something like Press This there, too!
August 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
good work, appriciate it.
August 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
lovely
August 17th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
This feature copies entire posts, content and all. It made one guy whom my wife linked to look like a thief, made my wife look complicit in it and promoted some bad feeling amongst readers.
Can you guys fix this?
August 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Not good! Not good at all!
It copies the entire content of other people’s work. It is beyond me why WP is providing a feature that does something that they actually suspend blogs for. This seems to be little more than a scraping tool from what I’ve seen.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:55 am
This is awesome. As i am always doing post quoting lots of images, articles or videos, Press This will definitely make my life easier! You are the best!
August 18th, 2008 at 8:49 am
awesome wp
August 18th, 2008 at 9:11 am
OH! this is great! I can add a video to my new blog.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Sweet!
August 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am
good
August 19th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Amazing!
August 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Hi its a Nice one..
August 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Great blog, thanks!!!!!!