Automating WordPress Posting
Have you ever found a good blog post or a website that you wanted to write a WordPress post on and refer your readers to the URL within your post? Did you know there is a way to automate the process using the “Press This” link provided with your WordPress blog.
Say your browsing the web and you come across a nice site that you want to elaborate on and write a WordPress post about it. This Feature was called Press It up to WordPress version 2.5. It is now called Press This and what it does is give you a shortcut or bookmarklet to your WordPress blogs write post panel. Below is the description from the WordPress Codex:
WordPress makes it easy to quickly add links and information to your site through the use of a bookmarklet called Press This. A bookmarklet looks like a link in your Favorites, Bookmarks, or Links list but it is much more powerful. It adds the capability to quickly create WordPress post entries on the fly while working on the Internet.
Setting up this feature is really quite simple: From within the WordPress dashboard go to Write to open the write post panel. Look over to the right of the post editor for Shortcuts. On older versions look at the very bottom of the write post panel. There you will see the instructions how to drag your WordPress blogs Press This link to your favorites or bookmarks.
After you drag and drop the Press This link to your favorites you now have access to a small pop up version of your WordPress write post panel to make a quick post. The post will automatically have URL of the site you are currently visiting and the title of your post filled in. Of course you can change all of that before posting. This a great way to do a quick post including a trackback.
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I thinkg everybody knows it.
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already done that!
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Nice, I didn’t know that was possible.
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Hi,
That is a handy little gadget. I can see that saving a lot of time , something that I do not have.
Anything that is automation has to be something good.
Keep the articles coming
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Nice feature, I never noticed it before. Will give it a try. There are many other not so commonly used features of Wordpress. We often don’t see them, and continue with our old routine of posting. Thanks for the update.
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Very good essential gadget, I will be getting this right now, thanks!
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Hi Houdy,
I’m glad I dropped by, I had forgotten how informative your site was. Thanks for the useful tip.
Graham
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Hi Jeff,
I am learning more about Wordpress every time I visit your blog.
Alan Thomas
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I had no idea you could do this, I’m adding the link right after I get done adding this comment.
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This feature has something good to post in and wordpress is always my favourite just because of its so many features.
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NIIIIICE…i’ll be doing thiiiiis, now. That’ll probably make me post more too….not just more easily.
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