Description
Speed up your workflow by pasting files and image data directly into the WordPress media library.
You can copy files and image data from many desktop applications:
- macOS Finder
- Windows Filesystem
- Screenshots
- Adobe Photoshop
- Gimp
- LibreOffice
- GoogleDocs
- And some more…
… and paste it to Classic Editor or directly to the media library.
The most recent Desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari are supported.
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Screenshots
Pasting into classic editor. You can either upload the image immediately or do so later. 
The media library is pastable too 
Pasted multiple images from macOS Photos into Chrome 
A layer pasted from Adobe Photoshop 2023
Installation
Follow the standard WordPress plugin installation procedere.
Reviews
September 3, 2023
Its much fater and convinient to just copy/paste the image than save/download and then upload and insert.
Thanks for this plugin. Works good.
September 10, 2023
Been using The Paste at several sites for a while and it's a huge time saver and never caused any issues.Thanks!
February 23, 2023
Perfect! Usefull! Super gut! Danke Mann!
December 23, 2022
Un complemento demasiado práctico para ser realidad 😉
Hasta ahora, el único en su tipo, no he visto otro que haga algo tan simple como copiar una imagen al porta-papeles, para luego pegarlo en la biblioteca de medios.
Maravilloso!
July 5, 2022
Man, such a great plugin! I hope the author continues to maintain it. This should be a default function in wordpress.
GREAT JOB!
March 24, 2022
I regularly copy & paste images between programs on my computer, most of the time it's Chrome to Photoshop.
I'm glad I found this plugin to assist me, instead of having to save images to my PC every time I want to upload.
One tiny bug that isn't too big of a problem: I sometimes can't click between "Media Library" and "Copy & Paste". I have to go from "Media Library" to "Upload Files", THEN click "Copy & Paste". Otherwise the menu doesn't change. No big deal!
Contributors & Developers
“The Paste” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“The Paste” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
2.0.4
- Remove debugging artefact
2.0.3
- UI Tweak (instruction placement)
- Fix: Classic editor plugin crashing
- Fix: sometimes not pasting in Firefox
- Fix: Dialog overlays media frame in Block Editor
2.0.2
- Paste from Google Docs (Docs and Presentation)
- More Filename placeholders
- Fix PHP Fatal if network activated on a multisite
2.0.1
- Fix: Filename placeholders
2.0.0
- Paste files and images in the media Library
- Paste multiple files (except firefox)
- Convert to WebP (except Safari)
- Disable dataURI pasting in user profile (now default)
- Performance: Check upload capability before scripts are loaded
1.1.2
- Fix: Fatal error in user profile
- Fix: Compatibility with the SEO Framework
1.1.1
- Feature: Make pasting into tinyMCE optional. (Fixes unpredictable cursor position during file drop)
- Fix: php 8.2 deprecation warnings
1.1.0
- Fix: PHP 8 warning
- Fix: Add
data:to wp_kses allowed protocols - TinyMCE: Users without file upload capability could not paste images as data-url.
- TinyMCE: Don’t show upload buttons if user are not allowed to upload files
1.0.7
- Fix auto upload large images
1.0.5
- Prevent Editor Crashes: Only embed images up to 262144 px, upload otherwise
1.0.4
- Support Text Widget
- Better Media Titles
1.0.3
- Fix JS Error in TextWidget
1.0.2
- Performance improvements
- Add Textdomain to plugin header
- Remove unnecessary settings
1.0.1
- Update plugin URL
- Fix double pasting
1.0.0
- Initial release