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Snap Live

January 13, 2007  ·  Updated on July 12, 2025  ·  1 min read
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After the overwhelming response to our last entry about Snap, we’ve decided to make it available for everyone.

It should also now work for comments (which is really cool) and your blogroll.

It’s now available for everyone, of course if you don’t want it on your blog you can uncheck the box in Presentation > Extras to deactivate it.

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  1. PassioneMobile's avatar MobileMan Jan 13th at 10:58 am

    Hi matt, this is working great for me. Thanks for the Snap

  2. OberLeo's avatar Gerhard Lehnhoff Jan 13th at 10:59 am

    I do not see any use on it and feel annoyed by Snap. I am very glad that obviously I can deactivate it. The other way would have been better: inform users that there is a new feature available and leave it to them to switch it on or not. But default should be switched off.

    Leni

  3. elvenbyte's avatar elvenbyte Jan 13th at 10:59 am

    Oh, really really thank you! I was waiting for it since you told us you were proving?

  4. Helar Sun Belangelo's avatar helar Jan 13th at 11:07 am

    Love it! It really makes a page look more professional and makes it easier for you to navigate!

  5. Pierro Marie's avatar pierro marie Jan 13th at 11:09 am

    matt -> owing to on all your current away`s 🙂
    thanks for this

  6. Sha's avatar Sha Jan 13th at 11:20 am

    Woohoo! Thanks WordPress!

  7. Eija Mäkinen's avatar viidesrooli Jan 13th at 11:22 am

    It´s working and it´s absolutely wonderful. Thank you!

  8. Hameedullah Khan's avatar Hameed Khan Jan 13th at 11:25 am

    Thanks again Matt.

  9. Menco's avatar Menco Jan 13th at 11:28 am

    Gotta love it ! Realy love it ! This rocks !
    Would it be possible to also snap the url from people who comment on a post ? Or am I to fast… 🙂

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  11. Inutil Imprescindible's avatar egdp Jan 13th at 11:41 am

    Thanks again.

    WordPress is always thinking about us, just like our mothers 🙂

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  13. nappyme's avatar nappyme Jan 13th at 11:52 am

    Really cool. Thanks!

  14. christooss's avatar christooss Jan 13th at 11:55 am

    This is supererb

  15. Jerry's avatar Jerry Jan 13th at 12:04 pm

    Just great!, you are doing a *super* job

  16. joaobeltrao's avatar joaobeltrao Jan 13th at 12:06 pm

    Thanks, I’ve be waiting for Snap for a while now.

  17. kenneth's avatar iNOsaint Jan 13th at 12:06 pm

    Ohh cool i will try it out…thanks for yet another improvement to blogging…

  18. roidis's avatar roidis Jan 13th at 12:21 pm

    it’s very annoying if seriously want to read…
    I don’t like it, it’s a bit of a show-off which wordpress does not really need.

  19. mikslatvis.lv's avatar 0nkulis Jan 13th at 12:26 pm

    thanks Matt!
    Now the next cool feature would be OpenID. 🙂
    how about that?

  20. Ritesh Nayak's avatar itsmeritesh Jan 13th at 12:31 pm

    thank you so much. appreciate the addition. keep up the good work!!

  21. misslionheart's avatar misslionheart Jan 13th at 12:33 pm

    Thanks! It’s made my day! : )

  22. pazarlama's avatar Cengiz Ç. Jan 13th at 12:36 pm

    Thanks Mat 🙂

  23. Henri's avatar Henri Jan 13th at 12:48 pm

    Nice!
    Good of you to give us users the opion to switch it on/off.

  24. Manzoor Ali's avatar manzoor Jan 13th at 12:48 pm

    cool

  25. TimTheFoolMan's avatar Tim Jan 13th at 12:51 pm

    I just noticed this on a friend’s blog, and then saw it on mine. The immediate reaction was:

    “Oh, my, gosh… this is outrageous!” 😀

    Thanks – Tim

  26. myepinoy's avatar myepinoy Jan 13th at 1:06 pm

    Thank You very much.

  27. blogscapes's avatar blogscapes Jan 13th at 1:12 pm

    Great! At first I was wondering what Snap was and then I saw it on my blog! Love it! Adds an added dimension of dynamism to my site! Thanks!

  28. Sankar's avatar Sankar Viruthachalam Jan 13th at 1:16 pm

    Super…

  29. grhomeboy's avatar grhomeboy Jan 13th at 1:18 pm

    That’s great news! I really love this feature, so Thank You very much!

  30. CM's avatar Solo Jan 13th at 1:33 pm

    Hey Chaps,

    In your above comment, you might wish to add the link

    Snap to it!

    so any newbies or technophobes (like moi) who more often type their little hearts out than supe up their blogs with wonderful gadgets, know what the heck this snappy thing is!
    (I didn’t)

    Pure good fortune that I’ve learnt most of your new stuff is fab and even if I don’t completely understand it, know it to be well worth persevering with until I do.

    Kind regards, as always,

    – Solo.

  31. Jay's avatar riversaredamp Jan 13th at 1:44 pm

    Way cool. Thanks!

  32. VeNa®'s avatar Rodrigo Venancio Jan 13th at 1:54 pm

    At last! Thanks for this “extra”, Matt! I think it increases a lot our Blog visual valor!

    My Best!

  33. D.'s avatar Dennis Pater Jan 13th at 1:55 pm

    It is super cool
    Thanks a lot.
    I hope the visitor like them as much as I do.

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  35. Aishah's avatar Aishah Jan 13th at 2:10 pm

    It looks great!

  36. rz's avatar Root Zero Jan 13th at 2:13 pm

    I don’t like this feature but I love the way you are working and improving wordpress day after day. Congratulations 😉

  37. Jope's avatar Jope Jan 13th at 2:16 pm

    Cool! I was tinkering late last night and noticed… thanks for that! 🙂

  38. Chittaranjan's avatar Chittaranjan Jan 13th at 2:18 pm

    Goodie! WTG WP!

    But I’m not sure if it was a good idea having it even in the comments section! Most comments come frm non-blogging users who just fill in Google or Yahoo as their Web address 😛

  39. Íñigo Sodupe's avatar Íñigo Sodupe Jan 13th at 2:20 pm

    It’s an incredible Extra!!!

    Thanks a lot for such a great work!!!

  40. Chittaranjan's avatar Chittaranjan Jan 13th at 2:23 pm

    Err….I just noticed that many preview windows sho “Queued for Capture. Please Check back shortly”. I Guess they don’t have the preview at the moment! Also some previews are way too old 👿

    P.S: If I’ve a link to my own WP Blog in apost, the Snap preview doesn’ load!

  41. Amarjeet's avatar Amarjeet Singh Rai Jan 13th at 2:32 pm

    Thank you sooo much!

    Peace.

  42. Nemesi's avatar MadMark Jan 13th at 2:32 pm

    Thank you very much!!! Another great step for WP!!!

  43. Harsha's avatar Harsha Jan 13th at 2:35 pm

    Great feature Matt! Keep up the good work. More premium services please.

  44. Gioxx's avatar gioxx Jan 13th at 2:39 pm

    Thanks a lot, it’s a nice widget for our blog 🙂

  45. (kb)'s avatar Kurt Jan 13th at 2:45 pm

    Thank you ! Great (especially the part that you give users the option to use this feature or not)

  46. notsaussure's avatar notsaussure Jan 13th at 2:52 pm

    Thank you. I think it’s a great addition.

  47. Helton Kuhnen's avatar Helton Jan 13th at 2:54 pm

    Ow! great idea Matt, it’s very good, thanks.

  48. webmaster's avatar webmaster Jan 13th at 3:06 pm

    Spiffy!

  49. icedmocha's avatar icedmocha Jan 13th at 3:09 pm

    This is cool. I have a question: Why are the preview shots so old? How often will the preview database be updated?

  50. Peter Berkenbosch's avatar Peter Berkenbosch Jan 13th at 3:22 pm

    Thanks Matt!

    Very cool indeed.

  51. RefinedOne's avatar refinedone Jan 13th at 3:26 pm

    Thanks.

  52. Rick's avatar rickbennett Jan 13th at 3:40 pm

    Thanks! 🙂

  53. torpy's avatar torpy Jan 13th at 3:45 pm

    Nice, it’s finally here. Great work guys!

  54. aquitambien's avatar aquitambien Jan 13th at 3:51 pm

    great, i love this feature and wanted to be free for everyone when i first saw in this site, even with my 56k dial up modem it works good for me.

  55. cap's avatar cap Jan 13th at 3:54 pm

    Cool & Thanks! 🙂
    But I had to update the Extras before I could see it though.

  56. Karina's avatar kars Jan 13th at 4:09 pm

    cool!

  57. Zeon's avatar Zeon Jan 13th at 4:15 pm

    Cool! Looks nice, thanks!

  58. mermaid632's avatar mermaid632 Jan 13th at 4:29 pm

    thanks!!

  59. tobeme's avatar tobeme Jan 13th at 4:44 pm

    Interesting feature, not sure how much I like it. Seemed to slow down links the first few days, however working fine today.

  60. spiritualoasis's avatar spiritualoasis Jan 13th at 4:51 pm

    Thanks, Matt!

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  62. Lisa's avatar Lisa Jan 13th at 4:57 pm

    Ive got it!!!
    Thank you! I love it!
    My readers will too!!

  63. that girl again's avatar that girl again Jan 13th at 5:17 pm

    Lovely, for the past few hours you have been inflicting these ridiculous popups on my readers without my knowledge or permission. Thank you so very much.

    I have yet to hear your reasons for making this frivolous little ‘feature’ opt-out rather than opt-in (certainly if somebody proposed it for wordpress.org you’d be the first to yell ‘plugin material’), and until I do I will have to assume that you’re getting some sort of kickback from Snap for putting it on everyone’s blogs by default.

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  65. rumours's avatar rumours Jan 13th at 5:39 pm

    WP Loved 🙂

    Salute

  66. Kris's avatar Kris Jan 13th at 5:43 pm

    Perfect! 😀

  67. قسام's avatar قسام Jan 13th at 5:45 pm

    Great!

    Thanks a lot man! I LOVED this service! 😀

    Take care…

  68. BBlogger's avatar BBlogger Jan 13th at 5:52 pm

    Yeah. This feature is really cool 🙂

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  70. Dr. Mike Wendell's avatar drmike Jan 13th at 6:26 pm

    Thanks for providing a method for turning it off. 🙂

  71. tekosound's avatar tekosound Jan 13th at 6:33 pm

    Thanks man ….. that’s really cool

  72. Belinda's avatar Belinda Jan 13th at 6:36 pm

    thanks! definitely a thumbs up for this. absolutely perfect for my challenge blog.

  73. JC's avatar Jayleigh Jan 13th at 6:45 pm

    I noticed it this morning! ROCK ON!!!!

  74. Heroes Inked's avatar Heroes Inked Jan 13th at 6:49 pm

    I love it for the http links, but it is REALLY annoying when you hover over a picture included with your blog entry. Is there or is a way planned to disable the picture hover component and keep the actual http links? Or am I missing something?

  75. Peter G. Klein's avatar Peter Klein Jan 13th at 6:49 pm

    Wonderful, thanks!

  76. Christian Burns's avatar Christian Burns Jan 13th at 6:59 pm

    Awesome! Any chance it could be enabled for RSS Feed widgets in the sidebar?

  77. Mateo's avatar Oracolo Jan 13th at 7:07 pm

    Yeah, i like it!

  78. pac's avatar pollyann Jan 13th at 7:43 pm

    I love it!!! Thanks much!

  79. Ruhi's avatar ruhi Jan 13th at 8:18 pm

    Awesomeeee!! Yippie 🙂 Thanks a TON

  80. accountiwontuseanymore's avatar Lucas Jan 13th at 8:19 pm

    WOW it works… And a cool search bar in that balloon too…! Snapperdesnap, I think I put more links on my blog… 😉

  81. lnxwalt's avatar lnxwalt Jan 13th at 8:28 pm

    Cool! I had seen this before on a few other sites and found it very helpful. Great job!

  82. emoat's avatar emoat Jan 13th at 8:38 pm

    Sweet deal!!

  83. Ed's avatar Ed Jan 13th at 8:48 pm

    Hey, this is fun. Thanks!

  84. micha's avatar micha Jan 13th at 8:56 pm

    Nice. But: How can i disable it?

  85. micha's avatar micha Jan 13th at 9:05 pm

    Ah. I’ve found it – now. Themes- >Extras – Disable SNAP!

  86. Rahul Razdan's avatar Rahul Razdan Jan 13th at 9:10 pm

    Thanks for making it available to everyone. Though I know I will be switching off mine 🙂 Too much of an annoyance — e.g. while I would just be scrolling up/down the page these things show up.

  87. Milla's avatar Milla Jan 13th at 9:12 pm

    Wonderful, Matt, you’re the best of the best! Thanks a WHOLE LOT!!!!

  88. scrambled's avatar Stephen Jan 13th at 9:27 pm

    Thank you for making this optional.

  89. Jamie's avatar Jamie Clark Jan 13th at 9:28 pm

    Great. I noticed this earlier today, though I didn’t see the post by Matt. It’s really cool. Then again, I’m easily impressed. 😛

  90. Marfa's avatar Marfa Jan 13th at 9:40 pm

    It’s nice, but there is a strange thing: it works properly when I’m working with Firefox, but it doesn’t wokr, when I’m using IE. Ho can I resolve that problem? :-/

  91. admin's avatar aishahdhorat Jan 13th at 10:04 pm

    A great feature. Please keep up the great work.

  92. Maz's avatar Maz Jan 13th at 10:05 pm

    just saw the feature on my blog, its great! It fits in nicely with the theme of my blog. thanks.

  93. scrunchyy's avatar scrunchyy Jan 13th at 10:39 pm

    Thank You!! This is a fantastic addition to WordPress.

  94. paralleldivergence's avatar paralleldivergence Jan 14th at 12:17 am

    Excellent feature to help make our blogs stand out even more! Thanks Matt.

  95. bettehall's avatar bettehall Jan 14th at 1:20 am

    Super! I think it’ll be a hit!

  96. Ben Hasic's avatar Ben Hasic Jan 14th at 1:48 am

    I’m loving this Snap Live. It works well for my comics blog, it shows a nice thumbnail of my comic which is pretty good. Thanks, you’ve made my blog nicer. =D

  97. fracas's avatar fracas Jan 14th at 1:54 am

    The Snap feature is working fine on the main part of fracas, but it isn’t working for comments or the blogroll.

    Since you’ve taunted me with the possibility that it can work in comments and the blogroll, now I want to know why it isn’t.

  98. Rizwan's avatar Rizwan Jan 14th at 2:53 am

    Thanks Guys .. A neat feature indeed !!!

  99. Brentini's avatar Brent Jan 14th at 2:56 am

    Thanks!

    😎

  100. Elsie's avatar Elsie Jan 14th at 4:02 am

    seriously….the coolest thing ever 🙂 How cute are the little squares that show up? love the mini site look! thank you matt for letting all of us benefit from the coolness.

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