Posting images, links, and cat gifs will never be the same.
Press This is a redesign of the Press This bookmarklet with a focus on automation and speed. It will have a simplified interface, efficient media upload, content scraping, and site switching.
CAUTION: This is in super early development. Don't use on a production site. There be dragons!
Discussion should mainly take place here via Issues or in the #feature-pressthis channel on Slack.
Weekly updates will be posted on make.wordpress.org/core/
You can see initial planning and discussion at corepressthis.wordpress.com.
Development of this plugin is done on Github. Pull requests welcome.
Don't commit directly to master. Create a new branch per issue you're working on. Then, when ready open a PR for review.
Example branches:
add/cool-thing
fix/dumb-bug
update/other-thing
- You need to have Sass installed.
- To check to see if you have it, type
sass -vin your terminal. - On Mac, type 'gem install sass' in your terminal. If you get an error, try
sudo gem install sassinstead. - You need to have Node.js installed.
- To check to see if you have it, type
node -vin your terminal. - Download and install the package here.
- Navigate to the plugin folder in your terminal.
- Type
npm install, which installs Grunt and the node modules needed. - Type
grunt, which starts the Watch task and compiles/autoprefixes the Sass when changes are detected. - You can exit grunt watch using
Control + C
- Core architecture of the plugin/tools is an as-pure-Javascript app as possible
- Currently AJAX driven, but ready to be switched to using the WP-API endpoints as they become available
- Is backward compatible with the current version of the Press This bookmarklet as bundled in WP, but also bring its own, more powerful one with it
- Can blog any web page found online, blockquoting an excerpt, including a selection of in-page images to choose from. Said images are augmented with meta data to sort them in the order the site advertises to be best
- Overrides /wp-admin/press-this.php and its behavior, so that we’re 100% backward compatible
- Overrides the bookmarklet JS code provided in /wp-admin/tools.php
- Quick featured image switching
- Saving draft and publishing
- Image side-loading
- 3 modes:
- Direct access: quick post of sort, more to come with media and formatting tools
- Modal: when accessed via new bookmarklet code: will show in an iframe within the visited page itself
- Popup: if the currently visited page is SSL but the target install is not, we open Press This in a popup instead. We also do that if the”legacy” bookmarklet code is used. It’s pretty awesome for pressing from your sweet smartphone.
- Alpha level code
- Added the start of an admin bar
- Major code refactoring for easier code reuse and better performance/stability
- Started backend work on Chrome extension, not functional, but a start
- Started work on adding/editing/removing a user's different Press This instances
- Still alpha level code
- Photo upload (without page reload, and with preview), take 1!
- Handy field for users to enter a URL to scan for media, if accessed without providing one.
- Refined algorithm that selects what picts to present as interesting/worthy to the user.
- Continued work on adding/editing/removing a user's different Press This instances.
- Major UI/UX improvements.
- Major backend improvements.
- Still alpha level code.
- Dropped the iframe mode to an experimental file devs can play with, now defaulting to popup for better security and less fighting browsers on sameorigin policies.
- Improved UI/UX: new icons and related behaviors, etc.
- Better photo selection experience, including when uploading.
- Ability to dismiss having a photo.
- Lots of backend work to start moving towards multiple media types and selection.
- Still alpha level code.
- PHP compatibility updates: some of our syntax could error on some PP versions.
- Still alpha level code.
- Added to make it extra responsive on mobile.
- Still alpha level code.
- Improving our github to svn tool flow
- Still alpha level code.