How to fix "Press This" 404 errors
As the White King advised, I'll begin at the beginning. Press This is a bookmarklet built into WordPress, that allows you to grab bits of the web and post them easily to your blog. If you're not already using it, find it in Admin > Tools; drag-and-drop the link to your browser's bookmarks bar, and you'll have a handy button for instant blogging without cut and paste.
At least, you should do. My chum Maria at the Knicker Mafia told me tonight hers isn't working. I did a little testing, and found it worked for some of my blogs but not for others. Some blogs post okay; others throw up a 404 error in the Press This window. Bizarre. Then I found this thread on the WP support forum which already had the answer from Qvprof: Press This's URL encoding gets mixed up with WP's mod_rewrite.
To fix Press This, you need to slightly change the javascript it uses. The easiest way to do that is:
- Right-click the link on your browser bar, and select "properties".
- You'll see a long bit of javascript in the location box. Copy that.
- Paste what you copied into Notepad or another text editor (not Word).
- Find u='+e(l.href)+'
- Change it to u='+e(l.href.replace(/\//g,'\\/'))+'
- Paste the whole thing back into Press This > properties > location, and save it.
- It ought to work now.
Tags: Press This
Posted by Sue on August 18, 2009 in WordPress.
Thank you - Thank you - Thank you! I have been wrestling with this for over 6 months and even just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress 2.9 which says it fixed the PRESS THIS bookmarklet - but it didn't. I have tried many other fixes I found on the web and NONE of them worked . . .
Then low and behold - one more search and I found you site and BANG now it's working again. You are a wordpress angel - thank you so much!
Phil
Thanks! This worked for me, too. There is still one issue though. Looks like it is only picking up Text, not images or videos. I thought you were suppose to see three or four tabs. I don't see any tabs at all.
I am new to blogging. I am also having this problem but your solution does not work for me. I get the same error. I searched for other solutions and I found 2 others but they also fail. Our web team sent me your link. Any suggestions?
Many thanks, Mike
Yes, thank you as I just spent about 2 hours trying to 1. Figure out how to get the bookmarklet on my favorite bar and 2. Getting rid of the 404 message. Thank you again!