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Hi,
You would think this would be the ultimate no-brainer, as big as a city. You would think people want this more than almost any other tool, and that there would be many to choose from.
There are share links for sharing to just about everything else - FB, Twitter, you name it. There is even a share link for sharing to WordPress.com hosted sites. But there is virtually no share link or tool for sharing to self hosted WordPress vs. from when you are on a website or watching a video that you want to share and post to WP.
There used to be "Press This." I had tried it years ago, but it was not that great anyway. But it is defunct, no longer supported. I thought there was none left, but I just found "Nominate This."
"Nominate This" is almost there, but it still requires a lot more time and effort to do what I want to do. If you use "Nominate This" it shares the entire contents of an article, for instance, rather than an excerpt with a link. And there is no link to the source added. So in other words, you have to spend all kinds of time editing and adding a link. You also have to do editing that way if you use the tool to post a video hosted elsewhere.
So while "Nominate This" is certainly better than nothing, it's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something that works more like sharing to FB, Twitter, etc. I have searched and searched and searched but so far "Nominate This" is the only best item I have found. I can share 50 to 100 articles, websites and videos to FB in a week for instance - even much more, and I want to be able to do that just as or at least almost as quickly and easily in the form of blog posts to a self hosted WP site.
Also, given the very nature of WP to begin with as a premier blogging and publishing platform, does it even make any sense at all that we are not swimming in a multitude of options for a tool like this?
And what about Invision and XF - do they have much better options for what I want to do if there are none for WP, especially Invision?
You would think this would be the ultimate no-brainer, as big as a city. You would think people want this more than almost any other tool, and that there would be many to choose from.
There are share links for sharing to just about everything else - FB, Twitter, you name it. There is even a share link for sharing to WordPress.com hosted sites. But there is virtually no share link or tool for sharing to self hosted WordPress vs. from when you are on a website or watching a video that you want to share and post to WP.
There used to be "Press This." I had tried it years ago, but it was not that great anyway. But it is defunct, no longer supported. I thought there was none left, but I just found "Nominate This."
"Nominate This" is almost there, but it still requires a lot more time and effort to do what I want to do. If you use "Nominate This" it shares the entire contents of an article, for instance, rather than an excerpt with a link. And there is no link to the source added. So in other words, you have to spend all kinds of time editing and adding a link. You also have to do editing that way if you use the tool to post a video hosted elsewhere.
So while "Nominate This" is certainly better than nothing, it's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something that works more like sharing to FB, Twitter, etc. I have searched and searched and searched but so far "Nominate This" is the only best item I have found. I can share 50 to 100 articles, websites and videos to FB in a week for instance - even much more, and I want to be able to do that just as or at least almost as quickly and easily in the form of blog posts to a self hosted WP site.
Also, given the very nature of WP to begin with as a premier blogging and publishing platform, does it even make any sense at all that we are not swimming in a multitude of options for a tool like this?
And what about Invision and XF - do they have much better options for what I want to do if there are none for WP, especially Invision?
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