Press This

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 scraping with JSON-LD structured data support
• Client-Side Only Scraping – All content extraction happens in your browser for better privacy and security
• Featured Image Support – Set any scraped image as your post’s featured image
• Improved Media Grid – Better thumbnail display with support for video and audio embeds

Filters for Developers

Press This 2.0 includes new filters for customization:

• press_this_allowed_blocks – Customize which blocks are available in the editor
• press_this_post_format_suggestion – Modify the auto-suggested post format

See the Developer Documentation section below for details.

Contributing

Bugs and PRs can be submitted via https://github.com/WordPress/press-this .

Developer Documentation

New Hooks and Filters in 2.0

press_this_allowed_blocks

Customize which blocks are available in the Press This editor.

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;
} );

Default blocks: core/paragraph, core/heading, core/image, core/quote, core/list, core/list-item, core/embed

press_this_post_format_suggestion

Modify or override the auto-suggested post format based on content.

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 );

The $data array contains scraped content including:
– u – Source URL
– s – Selected text
– t – Page title
– _images – Array of image URLs
– _embeds – Array of embed URLs
– _meta – Meta tag data
– _jsonld – JSON-LD structured data

Preserved Hooks from 1.x

All existing hooks continue to work:

• press_this_redirect_in_parent – Control post-save redirect behavior
• press_this_save_post – Filter post data before saving
• press_this_save_redirect – Filter redirect URL after save
• enable_press_this_media_discovery – Toggle media scraping
• press_this_data – Filter the complete scraped data array
• press_this_suggested_html – Filter default content templates
• shortcut_link – Customize the bookmarklet URL

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.

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.