The press this button will not work for me

angietrafford · Member · Jun 27, 2015 at 8:12 pm
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When I try to use the press this button, the whole page goes blank with no title, text, or link.
I have tried to delete it, and reinstall it… And I have also tried to copy the link provided into a new bookmark.
Neither of these made any difference.

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simplysaru · Staff · Jun 29, 2015 at 5:19 pm
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Hi there,
What browser are you using? What is the browser version? Have you tried the press this button in a different browser? Could you please try it in a different browser and see if it works. I tried it on my test site with Chrome & safari and had no issues with it.

Do keep us posted.
angietrafford · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 11:31 am
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I usually use Google Chrome, and the version is: 43.0.2357.130 m
it is still not working today.
Today I tried to use Internet Explorer (version 9), and the box did not even show up!
I am starting to think that maybe it has attached itself to the wrong code. This is the code that it gives me:
javascript:var d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0)),f=”https:\/\/angietrafford.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/press-this.php”,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,u=f+”?u=”+e(l.href)+”&t=”+e(d.title)+”&s=”+e(s)+”&v=8″;a=function(){if(!w.open(u,”t”,”toolbar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=600,height=700″))l.href=u;};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a,0);else a();void(0)
simplysaru · Staff · Jul 1, 2015 at 2:40 am
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Hi,
Mine looks like this
javascript:var d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0)),f='https://simplysaru.wordpress.com/wp-admin/press-this.php',l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,u=f+'?u='+e(l.href)+'&t='+e(d.title)+'&s='+e(s)+'&v=4';a=function(){if(!w.open(u,'t','toolbar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=720,height=570'))l.href=u;};if (/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)) setTimeout(a, 0); else a();void(0)

Mine is from chrome on a mac. If you compare your’s and mine, the major difference seems to be your site URL. The code has a backslash (\) added in the URL. I am guessing it shouldn’t be there, for the URL to work properly. You can just edit the bookmark to remove the backslashes and save the new bookmark and it should start working fine.

Hope that fixes it.
angietrafford · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 4:47 pm
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nope, still same

blank box with no title/link
timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 4:50 pm
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Will you provide a screenshot for Staff please? I’ll tag this thread for their attention. You can use http://snag.gy/ to share screenshots and link to them here. If you use the WordPress.com guide for screenshots http://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/ you can and upload it to your Media Library, and return to this thread to provide the file name so Staff can examine it. Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
angietrafford · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 4:57 pm
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brookedot · Staff · Jul 8, 2015 at 12:40 am
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Hi angietrafford,

One thing to try is to highlight some content on the page prior to clicking the PressThis button. If that works let us know.

If you’re running any browser extensions you may also want to try to deactivate them and see if that helps.

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