There is the “bookmarklet” (Javascript code) on “Dashboard / Settings / Writing”, and there is the PHP code at wp-admin/press-this.php of your installation.
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This#Usage !!! (CGI form parameters etc, selecting content, …)
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This#Technical_Note !!!
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This#Technical_Note_2 !!!
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/press-this-reloaded/ : “Press This Reloaded”, the alternative
CGI form arameters:
- u = URL
- t = title
- s = selection
- i = image
AddThis also makes use of this. AddThis can pass this: URL, TITLE, CONTENT, SOURCE.
I really like to create a blog article from a Google Reader resp. InoReader RSS feed article “preview”. And I really like, how much rich content gets passed to an article on a Blogger blog via “Send to / Blogger”. I don’t manage to create a WP blog article with a lot of content from the article preview, not even from a selection thereof.
This is true for the standard use of Press This and seleced content:
There is a magic boundary with the amount of text you can select and passed to the new article. If you pass that boundary, you end up with only the “URLed title”.