You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/post-new.php on this server.

It would seem that the plugin has a problem or is incompatible with WP 3.0.1 or another plugin. Have you tried deactivating all other plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

I am discovering that the regular Press This (built in) Plugin also produces the same error. For some sites (both plugins) work, but for most, I get the exact same error message. I actually don’t have that many plugins, so it is a simple matter of deactivating the two and see what happens.

Thanks!

Just deactivated all my plugins. Press this still produces the same error for the vast majority of pages. On another thread there was made mention the possibility that this could be host provider related. Some sort of anti hijack protection software they may be running on their Apache servers. A little bit too obscure and over my head upon first reading, and at the time, did not pay too much attention as I could not see how that could be related to the plugin. As I posted on another thread, I can add new posts, and am having no other outstanding issues doing the normal things in WordPress, so this has to be some other weird problem.

Thanks!

Try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

I am not sure I am following your most recent suggestion. If I am, in essence, creating a dummy (blank) plugins folder, at what point would it be feasible to test why the Press This or Press This Reloaded plugin is not working? I just took a quick glance. There appears to be many working files in that directory. If I reloaded the Press This plugin into that dummy folder to test, how could it possibly work? Unless…, unless Press This is not a true plugin and is functioning more as an administrative feature built into the program.

Looking at the plugin directory structure, that appears to be distinct possibility.

Won’t hurt anything to try, I guess.

No, did not work. Disabling all plugins by renaming the plugin folder to plugins.hold and then creating a blank plugins folder and then running Press This did not stop the permissions error. What has got me intrigued now is why a very small percentage of sites work. For example, any news story page displayed by the BBC invariably produces a successful result when using Press This.

Oh wait, I think I see the pattern! It’s the domain name!!! Sites ending in .com, .net, .org are all failing. Sites ending in .uk, .eu, .it are all passing. Its like the code can’t handle 3 character domain suffixes.

Can you explain this?

I’m getting the same problem stevepri had 7 months ago. I’ve used PRESS THIS to customize my site but now it doesn’t work. Below is the error I get:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/press-this.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at barbaraweitz.com Port 80

HELP…I want this function. It’s great.