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