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:

Copy from / paste to	Firefox 117+	Chrome 114+	Safari 16.5+	Edge 114+
Image from Mac Finder	OK	OK	OK	OK
File from Mac Finder	OK	OK	OK	OK
Multiple Files from Finder	-	OK	OK	OK
Mac Finder Screenshot	OK	OK	OK	OK
Mac Preview (PDF page)	OK	OK	OK	OK
Mac Preview (selection)	OK	OK	OK	OK
Mac Photos App (Single)	OK	OK	OK	OK
Mac Photos App (Mutliple)	-	OK	OK	OK
QuickTime Player	OK	OK	OK	OK
Adobe Photoshop 2023	OK	OK	OK	OK
Adobe Illustrator 2023	OK	OK	OK	OK
Adobe Illustrator 2023 (SVG)	OK	OK	?	?
Adobe XD	OK	OK	OK	?
Adobe XD (Copy as SVG)	OK	OK	?	?
A Webpage	-	OK	OK	?
Singe image from LibreOffice	OK	OK	OK	OK
Affinity Designer 2	OK	OK	OK	OK
Affinity Designer 2 (SVG)	OK	OK	OK	?
Affinity Photo 2	OK	?	?	?
Google Docs	OK	OK	?	?
Signal (Desktop)	OK	OK	OK	?

Windows 10 (Virtual Box)

copy from / paste to	Firefox 117+	Chrome 114+	Edge 114+
Image from Explorer	OK	OK	OK
File from Explorer	OK	OK	OK
Multiple files from Explorer	-	OK	OK
Screenshot	OK	OK	OK
A Webpage	-	OK	?
Gimp	OK	OK	?
Pictures App	OK	?	OK
Paint	OK	OK	?
Libre Office	OK	OK	?
Adobe Photoshop 2023	?	?	?
Adobe Illustrator 2023	?	?	?
One Note	OK	OK	?
Google Docs	?	?	?

Windows 10 (Real Machine)

copy from / paste to	Firefox 117+	Chrome 114+	Edge 114+
Image from Explorer	OK	OK	OK
File from Explorer	OK	OK	OK
Multiple files from Explorer	-	OK	OK
Screenshot	OK	OK	OK
A Webpage	OK	OK	OK
Gimp	OK	OK	?
Pictures App	OK	?	OK
Paint	OK	OK	?
Libre Office	OK	OK	OK
Adobe Photoshop 2023	OK	?	OK
Adobe Illustrator 2023	?	?	?
One Note	OK	OK	?
Google Docs	?	?	?

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.

copy from / paste to	Firefox 117+	Chrome 114+	Edge 114+
Image from Filesystem	OK	?	OK
File from Filesystem	OK	?	OK
Multiple files from filesystem	-	?	?
Screenshot	OK	?	OK
A Webpage	OK	?	OK
Gimp	?	?	?
Pictures App	?	?	?
Paint	?	?	?
Libre Office	OK	?	OK
Adobe Photoshop 2023	OK	?	OK
Adobe Illustrator 2023	?	?	?
One Note	?	?	?
WeChat	OK	?	OK

Android (Tested with EMUI edition)

copy from / paste to	Firefox
Image from Filesystem	OK
File from Filesystem	OK
Multiple files from filesystem	-
Screenshot	OK
A Webpage	OK
Libre Office	OK
WeChat	OK

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)