Press-This

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

Description

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!

Contributing

Discussion and updates

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 process

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

Setting up Grunt (compiles/autoprefixes Sass)

1. You need to have Sass installed.
   • To check to see if you have it, type sass -v in your terminal.
   • On Mac, type 'gem install sass' in your terminal. If you get an error, try sudo gem install sass instead.
   • You need to have Node.js installed.
   • To check to see if you have it, type node -v in 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

Changelog

0.0.1a

• 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

0.0.2

• 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

0.0.3

• 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.

0.0.4

• 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.

0.0.4.1

• PHP compatibility updates: some of our syntax could error on some PP versions.
• Still alpha level code.

0.0.4.2

• Added to make it extra responsive on mobile.
• Still alpha level code.

0.0.4.3

• Improving our github to svn tool flow
• Still alpha level code.