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Press This – WordPress plugin

Posting images, links, and cat gifs will never be the same.

I hadn’t been active with my wordpress site for a while, but am looking to post more.  One thing that I used to use a bit before social media sites like Twitter became the rage was a short post with a link, with some commentary.  The archives of outrospective.org do have a lot of these posts.

To make this happen WordPress used to offer a Press This bookmarklet, but they apparently removed it from the core functionality in v4.9 back in 2017 and turned it into a plugin.  It caused a bit of a ruckus since many people used it and the changes for v4.9 didnt quite elaborate or understand that the functionality would be broken.  It also didn’t have all the functionality back when it came back.

So far, I’ve installed the new plugin and bookmarklet and had mixed results.  Press This’ing doesnt appear to work on all sites, leading to a blank window.

That said, I am using Press This on the press this plugin page, and the nice thing is that its created a page with embedded images from the page, and a quote and a link to the source page.   It took a couple of goes, and on a working page, I had been prompted to login to WP again, before it started working.  So I suspect there was a session thing going on there behind the bug.

Source:  – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

 

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Time for a spruce-up

WordPress 3 has arrived and it coincided with a need to move my web host platform to one with an up to date php/mysql installation that could support WP 2.1+

The move to the new host was relatively straight forward and once confirmed working I proceeded to upgrade WP and take advantage of the new features.

Overall the admin screen is beautiful and the widgets editing is great.  I’m quite happy with the pimp up I’ve done so far and the fact I’m now free to write whatever I like without running into hurdles from my prehistoric WP version.

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Saved Bacon

If you have one of these clever domain name forwarding to point a blah.com to myisp.homespace.com/blah.  Dont ever, ever change the URI setting for your wordpress blog to match the new blah.com.

You’ll quickly find your stylesheets not found because blah.com/stylesheet doesn’t equate to myisp.homespace.com/blah/stylesheet.  Not only that, the wp-admin wont let you in because everything is pointing to the wrong spot.
WordPress Site URL Guide will tell you to do something like

update wp_options set option_value=’http://correct/uri’ where option_name=’siteurl’;

and shows how you’d do it in PHP myAdmin