If you’re not already using Press This, maybe now’s a good time to start. Press This is a for you if you’d like to share excertps from other websites on your own site. It’s a simple Javascript bookmarklet that opens a new window with a link to the site you’re on. It then lets you add pictures, text and post it to your site – just as if you’re writing a new post. It’s genious! Find it under “Tools” and drag the link to your browser bar – no installation needed, it’ll only be a simple bookmark.
However, on some sites the new window brings up a 404 error, indicating that something’s amiss. Turns out that WordPress is getting confused about certain mod-rewrite rules or something… Whatever the reason: Fret not, there’s an easy solution to fix this (thanks to Blogmum and the WordPress Forum for these instructions).
- Right-click the Press This link on your browser bar, and select “properties”
- You’ll see a long line of javascript code in the location box
- Find the following code:
u='+e(l.href)+'- Change it to this:
u='+e(l.href.replace(/\//g,'\\/'))+'- Tada – Press This is working now. Hurra!
Please note that you might find it easier to copy the entire line of code into a text editor, search for the string and then post it back into the Properties section.
Happy Pressing 😉
this is great thanks for that, dont understand why this isnt fixed in the core updates?
That is a good question… same here, I don’t understand it 😉
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!
It’s such an awesome feature that is hindered by this little bug, they really should fix it.
Thanks again!