Code: Add A “Print This” Button

June 18th, 2009

Code Snippets

Want to make it easy for your readers to be able to print your blog’s content?    Adding a “Print This” button below your blog’s posts can serve as a great visual cue to readers to remind them to print your content.

If you’d like to add something like this to your blog, first you’ll want to make sure your blog’s theme has a print stylesheet loaded, then simply add the following bit of Javascript code where you want your print button to be: Read the rest of this entry »

WordPress Tutorial: Building a Print Stylesheet

June 18th, 2009

Tutorials, WordPress Tutorials

As the internet continues to grow as a source for news and information, there is a growing need for websites and blogs to be printer-friendly.  Whether you run a news site, a recipe blog, or simply offer your opinions to your readers, it is inevitable that people will want to print your content. 

Unfortunately, many web designers aren’t including separate stylesheets for printers with their designs.  As a result, we decided to write this tutorial to explain how to create a print stylesheet.   Due to most of our readers being on WordPress, we will place our focus there, though this can be adapted for just about any blogging platform! Read the rest of this entry »