Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Print Friendly & PDF for WordPress.com

Now you can add the one-and-only Print Friendly & PDF button to your WordPress.com website!

PrintFriendly makes your website look great when printed, and saves paper and ink. It cleans and optimizes webpages before printing, plus you can remove-images, change text-size, and save as PDF. It's free, and easy to add to WordPress.com. Learn more about Print Friendly & PDF.

These instructions are for WordPress.com, not to be confused with WordPress.org. If you're using WordPress.org for self-hosted and hosted WordPress sites, you can get the PrintFriendly Plugin for WordPress.org.

Step 1: Go to Sharing Settings

From Your Dashboard, click "Settings", then click "Sharing".




Step 2: Add a New Service

From the Sharing Settings, click "Add a new Service".


In the Popup Window, enter...

  • Service name: Print & PDF (Or your preferred name)
  • Sharing URL: http://www.printfriendly.com/print?url=%post_full_url% 
  • Icon URL: http://cdn.printfriendly.com/icon-print-friendly-16x16.png
  • Click "Create Share"



Step 3: Drag-and-Drop Print Friendly Button to "Enabled Services"

Left-Click (and hold) the new Print & PDF button. Drag to "Enabled Services", and release the mouse button. Don't forget to save!



That's it! You should see the Print & PDF button on the bottom of every post.
Posted by Taylor Norrish at 11:18 PM
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30 comments:

  1. Hi,
    I was wondering if there's anyway you can select the pages in which you want the button to appear. (or the opposite: if you do not want the button to appear on certain pages.) THANKS!

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  2. Anonymous: The answer is at WordPress.com
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/#disabling-sharing-on-specific-posts

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  4. Thanks, very helpful! I really like the services of the Print Friendly and this is of great value to my blog!

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  5. Thanks for this tool and this article, this is really nice tool to add in blog. Thanks

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  6. I recently implemented this into my own blog. At first I was about to put it at the bottom of every page on my site, but realizing it's optimized for articles and posts, I put it on my blog instead.

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    1. You got that right. The button works best on articles or news pages.

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  7. Great tool. Any way I can create a PDF of a single page on my website? I use Wordpress to maintain a website rather than a blog, so I don't need the capability to print posts, just a single web article. Thanks.

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    1. Hi,

      You can just use the PrintFriendly button on posts as well. Just install PrintFriendly plugin on your WordPress installation and make sure you make the button visible on both posts & pages from the settings page.

      Here's a link in case you need help: http://support.printfriendly.com/customer/portal/articles/511667-how-to-add-printfriendly-button-plugin-to-wordpress

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  8. Hi,
    is it possible to print the post's comments as well as the post?
    Thanks

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    1. Hi,

      As of now, you cannot include the comments in the print.

      Thanks.

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  9. Great tool. But I need it to reduce the font size to 50% instead of the 70% that is listed. How/Where would I find to do that in the JS to change? Thanks ahead of time.
    Cheers,
    Leo

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    1. Hi, This article will come in handy for you.

      http://support.printfriendly.com/customer/portal/articles/895256-custom-css-styles

      Thanks. Please contact support if you have questions.

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  10. Great tool!, but I cannot print the post title (or I can´t find how)
    thanks
    Francisco

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    1. Hi Francisco, I have just added your website's link to the list for reviewing. Our developers will soon look into it for issues.

      Thanks.

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  11. Hi,

    thank you for the review. In order to help you to isolate the problem, I found that some posts print the post title correctly (https://recetasxacompartir.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/sopa-de-tomate-y-albahaca-fresca/) while others don´t (https://recetasxacompartir.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/arroz-con-coco/)

    thanks

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    1. Hi,

      I apologize deeply for the problem. I have alerted our developers of these URLs and they will be working on it as soon as possible.

      Thanks for helping us make PrintFriendly a better product. :)

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  12. Hi All,

    Am using your printer friendly plugin for wordpress on my website. It is working fine i chrome and firefox. But on IE it is showing a error.

    An error has occurred. We've been alerted to the error and will do our best to get it fixed.

    So can you please let me know the fix for this.

    Thanks

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    1. Hi,

      Is this error occurring all the time with all the posts? Please give me the URL so that I can check.

      Thanks.

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  13. Hi all, I have a wordpress blog but this button seems to only print text and not the images? If someone could help it would be much appreciated. :)
    Michelle

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    1. Hi,

      Can you give us your site URL? Perhaps email it to support@printfriendly.com for a better support. We'll see what's causing the problem.

      Thanks.

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  14. Hello, we´ve installed print friendly on wordpress. Its great. But there is one problem: If we test pdf function a really ugly google ad sense is shown (someting with thai women). We do not want disturb our visitors with this kind of advertising:-(

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    1. Hi,

      Our free version briefly shows advertisements while sending the page to printer. Publishers can subscribe to our pro version which will remove the ads. More information is available here: http://www.printfriendly.com/pro

      Thanks.

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  17. Great article and a great plugin. :D
    Thank you!

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  18. I am trying to get Printfriendly to work on my blog peterurbani@wordpress.com but all it does is print the title and does not pick up the embedded ExcelOnline file I actually wish to print. Any thoughts ?

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    1. PrintFriendly at this point does not support embedded content, that is why your embedded ExcelOnline file is not being picked up by PrintFriendly.

      Thanks.

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  19. Is there any way to get the plugin to include the featured image?

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  20. If the featured image is visible in the actual content area, then the image should automatically be picked up by PrintFriendly. If not, then there is no way to get that to show in PrintFriendly.

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