The WordPress Press It button I overlooked

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Posted on 18th April 2007 by Chris in General

I can’t find the forum post right now, but credit goes to nlowell for bringing this to my attention.

At the bottom of the Write Post page of my self-hosted WordPress blog there is a button that looks like this…

pressitfirst.jpg

I never quite knew what it did and never gave any thought to figuring it out. When I wanted to post to my blog, I would simply type in the direct address to the admin interface and then click Write. It took a few minutes but I wasn’t worried.

Then after reading nlowell’s posting on one of Steve Hargadon’s Ning sites, I figured it out. I dragged it up to my blog’s toolbar and now there’s a button that looks like this…

blogtocrucialbutton.jpg

If I load up to a blank new tab in Firefox and click it, I get a blank new post to begin typing in…

If I am already on a page, I get a link to that page.

This might seem silly, but I’ve been blogging for almost a year and never paid it any mind, maybe you overlooked it too!

3 Comments

  1. Lynne Crowe says:

    Thanks for this tip Chris. I didn’t even know it was there. I have been using ScribeFire to send things I want to post but this button is even better.

    18th April 2007 at 12:59 pm

  2. Tom Turner says:

    Chris!

    Thanks for the awesome heads up on this. I don’t think I’ve ever scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page on my edublogs site. What a time saving tip this is.

    Tom Turner
    http://tnturner.edublogs.org

    18th April 2007 at 6:43 pm

  3. Christy Tucker says:

    Count me in the group of people who didn’t know about this either. Actually, I guess I had seen it there, but hadn’t tried it out.

    Thanks for teaching me something new today!

    18th April 2007 at 12:02 am

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