The Paste

Official repository for the The Paste WordPress plugin.

Paste image data into the Editor and upload it to the WordPress Media Library.

• Developed in WP 3.8 – WP 6.3
• Should work with WordPress 3.5+
• SVG supported with additional plugin Safe SVG

Known Browser Support

• Chrome 114+
• Firefox 116+
• Safari 114+
• Edge 114+

Older versions of Edge, Chrome and Safari may also work.
Nothing is known about 360 Safe, Arc, Avast Secure Browser, Blisk, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Konqueror, Ladybird, Maxthon, Naver Whale, Opera, Otter Browser, Pale Moon, qutebrowser, Sleipnir or Vivaldi.

Known Issues

• Firefox does not support pasting multiple files from the OS filesystem.
• Safari lacks the support to convert images to the webP format.
• Edge is working suspiciously well, which is very unusal in the Microsoft world and must be considered a bug.

Applications tested so far:

Mac OS 13.4:

Windows 10 (Virtual Box)

Windows 10 (Real Machine)

Windows 11

Help wanted: Being trapped in the realms of macOS, I am lacking some real-world Windows 11 hardware.
If you think supporting an OpenSource project could be the best thing to do ever, feel free to edit the table below.

Android (Tested with EMUI edition)

Plugin API:

Filter the_paste_default_filename

Filter the default filename. You can use internal placeholders and a subset of php‘s strftime() as date/time placeholders.

Default (string): "Pasted"

WordPress Placeholders:

• <postname> Name of current post if present
• <userid> Current user ID
• <userlogin> Login name of current user
• <username> Display name of current user

Date and Time placeholders:

• %Y Four-digit year
• %y Two-digit year
• %m Number of month with leading zero (01 to 12)
• %d Day of month with leading zero (01 to 31)
• %e Day of month (1 to 31)
• %H Two digit hour in 24-hour format
• %I Two digit hour in 12-hour format
• %M Two digit minute
• %S Two digit second
• %s Unix timestamp (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC)