Press This
Posting images, links, and cat gifs will never be the same.
3.7(25 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Press This is a WordPress post plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 102K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.9+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 35% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
3.7/525 reviews
6.0K+active installs
50%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
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.
Version 2.0 – Gutenberg Block Editor
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.
New Features:
- Gutenberg Block Editor – Full block editor integration for a consistent WordPress editing experience
- Smart Post Format Suggestions – Automatically suggests Video, Quote, or Link formats based on content
- Enhanced Content Extraction – Improved sc…
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Ratings & Reviews
3.725 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Must Have
by dmsr·3 years ago
J’adore cette fonctionnalité de WP, pourquoi s’en passer si on partage des liens sur son site!?!?
Currently partially broken
by silentwisher·4 years ago
Its currently broken causing many images being generated for the featured image. Please fix.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by silentwisher.
Worthless Without Scriptlet
by lestado·4 years ago
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·5 years ago
I think this is one of the perfect plugins to keep the blogs alive and helping to make them more a personal bitacora. Thanks!
- This topic was modified 5 years ago by comunicacionabierta.
Tried, killed browser (Safari), uninstalled.
by bkahlert·5 years ago
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.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by bkahlert.
Download Trends
Today: 92Yesterday: 119This week: 1KPeriod total: 18K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.9+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
55.9%
v2.0
43.9%
v0.1-20150312
0.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.2
- New: Undo/redo support in the block editor (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z)
- New: Block transform keyboard shortcuts (e.g. heading, list, quote)
- New: Rich text format keyboard shortcuts via format-library (bold, italic, link, etc.)
- New: Bookmarklet now preserves HTML formatting in text selections
- Fix: Critical error when saving posts with external images in REST context
…and 6 more changes
Contributors
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