An Automated Way to Take Screenshots of any Website – Free — Ben Gillbanks

When I was building WPVote I wanted to have screenshots of the webpages that were submitted. There are few page that do this and they total money, or watermark the subject, or limit the number of requests, so I wanted to find something better.. And then I spotted the commercial topic page on WordPress.org. Because Pro Theme Design is on the I knew that the thumbnails updateed automatically and I did not know how.. This means any page can just link to general url and it will generate image of the website.. I thought this was fantastic and I did not want to get in trouble with Automattic or WordPress foundation so I emailed Matt suggesting he charge for the service. It's not power the effort to try to make it into search we have to support it anyway for our own apps... So I then went and wrote fast plugin that I could use and I tested it here on Binary Moon on my post about view in web design. To use this yourself all you have to do is download BM Shots plugin. You can either call the plugin via part in your topic or use the built-in shortcode inside your posts themselves.  Read more