Offer Your Readers The Option to Print Your Posts
How many times have you read an article on one of your favorite Blogs and said to yourself… “I wish I could print this so I can keep it around for future reference“? I know I have, especially when there is some information that needs to be exact when I need to use it.
Well, I found a WordPress Plugin that fits the bill. As far as I can tell this is the third incarnation of this plugin, but it does what it says it will. Your readers can print an article or page including images in a very readable format.
Go to WP-Print 2.20 and download the zip file and unzip it
Upload everything in the Print folder to wp-content/plugins on your host
Activate the plugin
In your index/page/single post php
Look for <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Add <?php if(function_exists(‘wp_print’)) { print_link(); } ?> where you want the print option to show
Go to WP-Admin -> Options -> Print to set your preferences
This is really important
Go to WP-Admin -> Options -> Permalinks -> Update Permalink Structure to re-generate the Permalink, DON’T change anything, just Update the Permalink. (I overlooked this step and nothing worked until I did the update)
So far I can see only 2 minor glitches
The images will only print in Black & White, it would be nice to have some color options
There is no way to get back to the Blog unless you hit the <– Back Arrow
Overall I think this is a very nice clean way to offer your readers a way to print any article or page on your WordPress Blog.
