The Press This bookmarklet itself on the tools page does not have the code

[chazzzzy]

The actual bookmarklet that you drag to your bookmarks bar in the tools menu does not have the code attached to it. (So it doesn't drag, or do anything)

It's related to your function press_this_get_shortcut_link()

The code also doesn't show up in the mobile textarea box as well. (Screenshot below)

If you already have the bookmarklet saved from before, it works fine, you just can't add it from the tools.php page.

I'm running it on a stand-alone site with https://

Thanks!

[kraftbj]

Fixed in 1.1.1. The Github version worked, but I missed adding all of the files via SVN. My apologies.

[chazzzzy]

Works great! Thanks!

[flexseth]

Not to be negative, but it makes me sick to my stomach every time I get an email notification about this plugin. Seriously considering ditching WordPress all together and just doing social media. It's like it wasn't broke... and now I'm having to follow fixing it? IDK even how to describe the feeling

[chazzzzy]

@flexseth it’s simple, turn off notifications about this plugin. It’s right st the bottom of each email you receive.

If you had followed the conversation from the beginning, the plugin is hugely useful and an important component for sharing articles was removed thus removing the ability to share articles easily, which is a huge component of what social media is all about.

It has now been fixed, but I would definitely suggest unsubscribing from this plugin’s updates since it’s making you ill.

[flexseth]

Yeah, I mean, I want to follow up to see where the functionality exists. Save signing up for Automattic's email list and them sending out a blast directly about this functionality, I'm not exactly sure where to do that. Again this is a thread I should not have to follow, but I am following it because I need to know if I should continue to use WordPress or just do social media advertising.

Sorry for the confusion

I actually wrote an add-on for this plugin, for The Events Calendar

[chazzzzy]

If you are into social media, the sharing bookmarklet was/is significant because it allows users to share and discuss articles from around the web, easily. When Wordpress decided last week to remove the functionality from the core and make it a standalone plugin, the sharing button (bookmarklet) was removed and there was some serious discussion that occurred in order to get it put back, so, yes, the plugin was broken as of last week, but now it’s fixed again.

So you can continue to follow the plugin as that part of the discussion is now over and it’s back to normal feature requests, improvements, etc.

[flexseth]

I'm aware my dude, I was very much involved in the conversation on that thread, and also the one on WP Tavern. I'm talking about ditching WordPress and web dev all together, in lieu of just doing social media marketing. Go back to the original thread, you'll see more comments from me there (no time to link back now, and I'm not that great at Github anyway)

[chazzzzy]

Got it. You were just venting. No prob. The bookmarklet was important and will remain important until someone makes a browser extension, which I think is now the direction being taken.

Whether you want to bail on Wordpress and do Sociel Media.. the social media world, in my opinion, needs help.. just look at what the CEO of Snap just posted.. and he’s not even anyone on most people’s radar: https://www.axios.com/how-snapchat-is-separating-social-from-media-2513315946.html

[dshanske]

The idea of giving up on having a website in favor of just using social media saddens me.

[flexseth]

@chazzzzy Snapchat is gearing themselves to be more augmented reality than social media. They would prefer to keep all media inside their ecosystem (didn't even include linking away from Snapchat until like 2 months ago)

@dshanske the idea of WordPress making really bad, poorly thought out, decisions that can drastically affect revenue for their users (and developers) is my point. I don't want a browser extension to do something WordPress can do. Chrome is bloated enough already, and also, I kinda pride myself on stating all the awesome things wordpress can do

I've been doing this since 2009. not a fly-by-night opinion

[flexseth]

Leaving/unsubscribing I guess, if they make this a browser extension, I'm personally leaving WordPress. Don't know where I would go if I stayed in the web space, I've used Drupal before, but probably it would be pivoting into social media marketing (SMM) only. Already have paid clients for this... and I mean, I just really do not understand this decision at all. How can you guarantee a browser extension is going to be more secure? It seems like maybe Automattic cut the salary for the developer of this plugin? Perplexing decision all around and one of the first times I've ever been this critical of the platform

[markjaquith]

This conversation has veered far away from the purpose of this ticket. This is a conversation better suited to blogs, social media, etc.