You are gonna look soooo smart

All you’ll need now is a pocket protector. 

There is a little known very cool thingie in Wordpress that comes with every installation - meaning, its already there - the Bookmarklet. Once activated, this looks like another of your bookmarks in your Bookmarks or Favorites folder.  But hiding underneath it is the coolest thing!

First, to activate it:

• in your administration panels, in the write post screen, in the sidebar, is a “Shortcuts” paragraph.  In there is a link called “Press This”.  Follow the instructions:  just right click and save as a bookmark.  Now, it looks like a bookmark in your list right?
• In older versions of wordpress, I think the link is called “Bookmark it!” and it is located at the bottom of the write post screen.
• This function was removed from version 2.5 and reinstated as “Press This!” in 2.6.

To use it:

This is the cool part:  while you are reading your favorite blogs (ahem!) and you see something that you want to publish to your readers (I can think of something), just go to the Bookmarks or “Favorites” menu and click on your Press This link.  It will automatically open a new screen.  AND it will be the write-post screen of your blog!  AND it will have the link to what you were just reading already in the post ready for you to write up!  If you don’t want to write a new post at that moment, that’s ok.  Simply press the save button and it will save it as a draft.

How cool is that?

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