An Automated Way of Taking Website Screenshot in WordPress
We were visiting one of our favorite sites (Binary Moon) and noticed this extremely cool service that WordPress has. Most people do not even know that WordPress has an option which lets you take screenshots of any website.
Ben at Binary Moon noticed that WordPress was using this feature of their Commercial Themes Page. He decided to contact Matt Mullenweg and asked his permission to implement this feature on his site. Then he kindly wrote a plugin that can be used by any WordPress user to implement this feature on their site.
Example:
http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwpbeginner.com%2F?w=520
You can generate a dynamic screenshot for each site and specify the width as well.
Ben is using this on his site called WP Vote. We think this concept would be great for a gallery type site.
Download BM Shots Plugin
Usage is explained on the plugin page above, but if you have any further questions feel free to ask it here.
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Very cool service, thanks for sharing.
Useful plugin… Thanks for sharing!!
excellent. Going to test it now!
Just wondering if the browsershots are realtime? or are they chached for a specific time?
The images are cached for a specific period of time. Do not know how long though.
great plugin, i have been looking for something like this for a long time
I’m still searching for a service which will provide me realtime (10min cache ok) thumbshots…do you have any ideas or tips?