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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. David Boles's avatar David W. Boles Jan 13th at 1:40 am

    Huzzah!

    Thanks, Matt! Enabling it for comments is VITAL and appreciated!

    Adding it to the Blogroll is also super-killer!

    Will Snap! remain free or become a paid feature?

  2. archiearchive's avatar archiearchive Jan 13th at 2:29 am

    Yeehaaa – This is really good gear! – Now, if only akismet would stop seeing me as a spammer

  3. mister's avatar Nobodyknows Jan 13th at 2:31 am

    Awe-some!

    This is a fantastic feature. Thanks so much for making it available!

  4. Randy's avatar Randy Jan 13th at 2:33 am

    Thanks a bunch! I was excited to see it pop-up on my blog tonight. 🙂

  5. windiepink's avatar windiepink Jan 13th at 2:34 am

    Thank you Matt… i love this feature… its wonderful… but not half as wonderful as wordpress is… you guys are the greatest..!!!… my hope is others will be inspired by my blog and find their way to enjoy their own personal wordpress doings… i now have three lay outs.. and each one of them is different… i have not completely finished the book style yet.. but it is getting close… i get lots of complitments on my wordpress design layouts….. of course i take all the credit… bit smile..

    ohhh… yes.. i guess i have more than one hope… another one of my hopes is that somehow… snap will get a code so i can add it to the intent of blog notification… this the little doll photo as well as the words i leave when i post someones photo to my blog… i like to let them know i have used their work… i think this would be a wonderful feature… but i guess it would have to be worked out with flickr… oh well.. so it goes..

    Matt.. again.. i want to thank you and all the rest on your team.. for the great service you offer… tiandra…

  6. Dark Blader's avatar Dark Blader Jan 13th at 2:34 am

    That’s pretty cool!

  7. Luke Hallam's avatar Luke Hallam Jan 13th at 2:35 am

    Awesome. I just came back to my blog and found Snap working. My blog has only been on WordPress for a couple of days. So far I’m impressed with the ease of use, the features and your business model. Well done to all concerned.

  8. mosaicartsource's avatar mosaicartsource Jan 13th at 2:40 am

    Very cool! You guys are doing a fantastic job…

  9. Jeff Ventura's avatar Jeff Ventura Jan 13th at 2:40 am

    Very cool. Thanks Matt.

  10. meisok's avatar meisok Jan 13th at 2:44 am

    Esta bien disponer de esta opcion…It seems to me a good idea to have like option this utility.
    Saludos.

  11. charleslemark's avatar charleslemark Jan 13th at 2:45 am

    wow.. that’s good! i’ve seen it work in my blog.. i dont know if its only my blog, but there is a bit of problem, the SNAP box goes up, but does not preview the site… or it takes too long to preview it.

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  13. el nuko's avatar nuke Jan 13th at 2:52 am

    thanks matt!

  14. Ian's avatar IR Jan 13th at 2:56 am

    Looks good!
    Thanks.

  15. Mitch McDad's avatar Mitch McDad Jan 13th at 2:58 am

    SO AWESOME!

  16. David Boles's avatar David W. Boles Jan 13th at 3:01 am

    Snap looks great on my Blogroll but isn’t showing in Comments.

  17. Cat's avatar carocat Jan 13th at 3:08 am

    I was just wondering why it suddenly was on my blog. 🙂

    I’m not too sure if I’ll keep it on my blog, I suppose I’ll ask the readers, but thanks for your work guys. 🙂

  18. Kollectif's avatar kollectif Jan 13th at 3:14 am

    Amaaaaaaaaaazing! Thank you so much!

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  21. Author's avatar chinaview Jan 13th at 3:18 am

    Nice feature. Great work. Thanks a lot for doing this.

  22. K's avatar Kristina Jan 13th at 3:19 am

    Very cool! Thanks.

  23. Kei Kurono's avatar keikurono Jan 13th at 3:21 am

    I like it.. thanks for opening to everyone 😀

  24. hikeoflife's avatar hikeoflife Jan 13th at 3:22 am

    Awesome thanks so much.

  25. Amie's avatar adam Jan 13th at 3:23 am

    welp, i’m glad i have an extras panel 🙂

  26. Lady Rose's avatar Two Witches Jan 13th at 3:23 am

    I love the new feature …

    except that it does not seem to work on the links I have in my sidebars.

  27. admin's avatar pakosuperstar Jan 13th at 3:25 am

    I like it matt. a bit slow.

  28. rami's avatar Rami Nasser Jan 13th at 3:30 am

    Greet feature guys, keep up the good work

  29. bach's avatar bachodi Jan 13th at 3:31 am

    Yooohoooooooo!!!
    Really really cooooool… Thank you very much !!

  30. Patrick Zimmerman's avatar disembedded Jan 13th at 3:34 am

    Hi Matt,

    Thanks very much! I liked this addition before (when I had it briefly), so I’m really that you’ve made it officially available. Again, thanks so much for your ongoing work to make WordPress better and better and better!!

  31. Michael Sync's avatar Michael Sync Jan 13th at 3:37 am

    Thanks a lot..
    i love this features

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  33. Queen Ebong's avatar Queen Ebong Jan 13th at 3:56 am

    Wow, I love it.
    Thanks

  34. Mahakal / מהכאל's avatar whig Jan 13th at 4:01 am

    Very nice, it just started working and surprised me, but I liked it once I realized what was going on.

  35. ggwfung's avatar ggwfung Jan 13th at 4:05 am

    A January Christmas gift from Matt.

    Thanks

  36. kev's avatar kev Jan 13th at 4:38 am

    This is great – thanks for this. My mouse happened across it, and it was like finding an extra Christmas present when you take the tree down. Have to do that…

  37. Rushi's avatar Rushi Vishavadia Jan 13th at 4:39 am

    Awesome, thanks Matt!

  38. petermello's avatar petermello Jan 13th at 4:42 am

    Another cool feaure!!
    Thanx!

  39. gottabkd's avatar gottabkd Jan 13th at 4:51 am

    Wow, cool. umm thanks
    You rock!

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  41. Shuribear's avatar Ray Jan 13th at 4:57 am

    Yuk….It’s like smart tags…..in the way and like an unwanted pop up or spam. I do not like it, The pop ups make my blog look like an advertisement. It is not something that I would think you would have enabled by default. I will turn it off.

  42. kystorms's avatar kystorms Jan 13th at 5:00 am

    Thank you guys, its great to have it!

  43. scribez's avatar scribez Jan 13th at 5:02 am

    Thanks I just turned it off.

  44. Ryan Martin's avatar Ryan Martin Jan 13th at 5:03 am

    Thanks!

  45. JV's avatar JV Jan 13th at 5:05 am

    Thanks, I was left out in the experimental phase. 🙂

  46. living journey's avatar livingjourney Jan 13th at 5:10 am

    That is great Matt, thanks for that, I know I really like it on my blog when you were beta testing!

    Thanks again

    V

  47. ceeque's avatar ceeque Jan 13th at 5:37 am

    wow!! Just accessed my blog to find Snap up and running very smoothly and wondering how the hell it got there!!!!
    Thank You for adding this, I felt a little sceptical at first but after looking around my links it does look and feel good, excellent addition to the arsenal!!!! 🙂

  48. Josie's avatar Josie Jan 13th at 5:42 am

    I think it’s a brilliant idea! Rock on!

  49. w's avatar w Jan 13th at 5:43 am

    Thanks!!!

  50. homesweethome's avatar homesweethome Jan 13th at 5:45 am

    I love it! Thank you!

  51. mysimsreality's avatar mysimsreality Jan 13th at 5:50 am

    Cool! Again, thanks so much for adding this feature. 🙂

  52. Saiga's avatar Qsar Jan 13th at 6:04 am

    first……..
    coooool

  53. Nita's avatar Nita Jan 13th at 6:06 am

    You guys had given it to me and then took it away. I was sulking for a while but now it’s on for everyone. Pretty quick.
    Thanks.

  54. AmaiRamune's avatar storymode Jan 13th at 6:12 am

    I’ve been totally waiting for this. Might just be the interesting “extra” kick in the butt I could use to get back into blogging semi-daily again.

    Thanks WP! ^^

  55. sisa's avatar Karen Jan 13th at 6:23 am

    yeah, baby! thanks a bunch 🙂 .

  56. jewaira's avatar jewaira Jan 13th at 6:29 am

    Fun feature 🙂

  57. cmerry's avatar cmerry Jan 13th at 6:49 am

    Thank you I love it! I go around to the links just to see it working… 🙂

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  59. scrunchyy's avatar scrunchyy Jan 13th at 7:06 am

    Thank You!!! This is great news!
    It will help keep my blog updated much easier.

  60. SoCal Muchacha's avatar SoCalMuchacha Jan 13th at 7:12 am

    LOVE this feature! For those who might not be seeing it, which browser are you using? I was editing a post using Firefox and saw SNAP, then Firefox went all wonky on me for a bit, so I had to open up my WordPress blog with Internet Explorer (ick). Didn’t see SNAP on IE and still don’t. Only see it when using Firefox, which thankfully is back to normal. Have only been using Firefox for a few days and I’d be LOST without it!

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  62. Arne Midtlund's avatar Arne Midtlund Jan 13th at 7:25 am

    Very nice. Thank you 🙂

  63. girlfriday's avatar girlfriday Jan 13th at 7:29 am

    Thanks. Noticed this on my blog earlier today. Will be fun for visitors … and I will be sure to use plenty of links so they can see where they might finish up 🙂

  64. Bruno Yporti's avatar Bruno Yporti Jan 13th at 7:32 am

    Perfect!

  65. Dmitri Marine's avatar Dmitri Marine Jan 13th at 7:32 am

    Thanks for the update, Matt. Just noticed it on my blog and slightly freaked out, hah.

    Just wondering, are people liking the SNAP?

    I’m not too sure if I want to keep it; seems like it slow things down. But it could just be me..so what do y’all think?

  66. Hendra's avatar Uncle Su Jan 13th at 7:33 am

    Wheee!

  67. mr fausty's avatar nobody Jan 13th at 7:38 am

    good job in new year !!!
    thank u

  68. Digital Nomad's avatar Digital Nomad Jan 13th at 7:43 am

    Sweet! That was a really cool surprise, thanks! 🙂 Happy New Year to you good folks!

  69. adc's avatar Andrew Jan 13th at 7:45 am

    Right on, New features always appreciated.

  70. Brian's avatar Brian Jan 13th at 7:49 am

    Thanks Matt. I was a little taken aback to see it this morning, but since I am sick, I thought it was just the meds kicking in. LOL

    Have a great weekend. 🙂

  71. Brian Purkiss's avatar TheAdmin Jan 13th at 7:52 am

    Awesome!!! Thanks!!!!!
    Y’all are doing an awesome job!!!

  72. Vlad's avatar Vlad Jan 13th at 7:53 am

    Great, thanks!

  73. Shrutarshi Basu's avatar basu715 Jan 13th at 8:22 am

    Thank you very much. Been looking forward this for a long time. But I do wish I could tweak the javascript.

  74. Nigel Ajay Kumar (NAyK)'s avatar NAyK Jan 13th at 8:25 am

    Hey I tried it, and it’s actually quite cool. I especially found the search bar interesting, though I haven’t figured out a way to use it. Looks good, especially since it is functional enough to turn on and off (right?). Thanks again.

  75. mpb's avatar mpb Jan 13th at 8:27 am

    Would have preferred the default was unchecked. Then we could test it out first.

    Overall, I think it will be difficult for many readers, making information less accessible or the computer more confusing.

    At the very least, extras or others which change the reader or blogee experience should be carefully thought out (if communication is the goal)

  76. Taufiq's avatar Taufiq Jan 13th at 8:30 am

    WOW… great! I really love this feature.

  77. loranablog's avatar loranablog Jan 13th at 8:36 am

    It is totally COOL! Thank a lot WordPress!!!

  78. Ahmed's avatar Ahmed Jan 13th at 8:43 am

    Matt,

    Just one word : BRAVO !

  79. Ahmed's avatar Ahmed Jan 13th at 8:45 am

    ps : Do you ever sleep at all ?

  80. Elizabeth's avatar Elizabeth Jan 13th at 8:48 am

    Oh WOW!! Nice! I like this feature!

  81. Chelsea's avatar Chelsea Jan 13th at 8:58 am

    Thank You so much! I love this feature 🙂

  82. iamrainbow's avatar MJ Jan 13th at 9:00 am

    Yeay! 😀

  83. Guy Rintoul's avatar Guy Jan 13th at 9:19 am

    I love the Snap thing, it’s great. Would be better is it worked with links in text boxes in the sidebar as well, though… 🙂

  84. Ravi's avatar ravithesun Jan 13th at 9:25 am

    it’s really cool..
    Thanks a lot 🙂

  85. E@zyVG's avatar E@zyVG Jan 13th at 9:26 am

    Working really nicely and it spices up my blog in the cool way, as well as very handful for visitors ….. tnx

  86. kOoLiNuS - Nicola Losito's avatar kOoLiNuS Jan 13th at 9:27 am

    … and since I don’t like it, I’ve disabled it right away 😉

  87. Mike Rosales's avatar bullish1974 Jan 13th at 9:44 am

    you just gotta love that feature.
    truly wonderful!

  88. Bal Patil's avatar Bal Patil Jan 13th at 10:05 am

    Hi,
    I would like to Snap Snapit on my WordPress. I have downloaded it on my desktop but it appears it is not fully integrated with my browsing and my documents. I would like also to have it active on my google and other blogs and my website http://jaina.in

  89. Flamov's avatar flamov Jan 13th at 10:11 am

    Ohhh that’s sweet; good job!

  90. sulz's avatar sulz Jan 13th at 10:20 am

    it looks fantastic! it’s a killer on my dial-up connection, but who cares? it looks great.

    ps. it works on my blogroll, but not my comments…

  91. zappi's avatar zappi Jan 13th at 10:21 am

    YEEEHAAAAA!!!!1111
    Thx a lot, I luv u all. 🙂

  92. bizwriter's avatar bizwriter Jan 13th at 10:26 am

    This is such an irritating feature for the site user. I, for one, will deactivate it.

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  94. Martin's avatar Martin Jan 13th at 10:38 am

    Hi Matt, this is so great. Thanks a million man. Blogtastic!

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  96. Nicola's avatar Nicola Jan 13th at 10:45 am

    Hooray !!!! Thank you guys – does the happy dance.

  97. Tobal's avatar Cristobal Jan 13th at 10:51 am

    I’ve just get it in my blog!!! Thank you very much for all!!!
    Yes, it’s very coooolll!! 🙂

  98. Nimish Batra's avatar Nimish Batra Jan 13th at 10:54 am

    Oh Yes!

    Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!

  99. yuE's avatar yuE Jan 13th at 10:55 am

    for everything? even comments…

    but it will be messy for comments.. esp for the SPAMers…

    this is NOT good…

  100. origino's avatar origino Jan 13th at 10:55 am

    Hmm… it’s cool when you first have it, but gets kinda distracting and annoying after a while…
    Still, a nifty feature 🙂

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