Let Them Print Your Posts
Not that many bloggers think about it, but some people want to print your posts and if you don’t let them, an article you spent a lot of time on may lose some readers. I am subscribed to a lot of blogs, and a lot of times, I’ll see something I want to read, but I’ll put it off until later because I don’t have the time or I’m heading somewhere without internet connectivity, etc. In many cases, these are timeless articles that I would love to have available for those times when I just want some reading to fill the time (like road trips or camping). With a January cabin trip coming up (no Internet for a whole weekend), I found myself thinking about this, and coincidentally, one of the blogs I read daily, Daily Blog Tips talked about simple solution called wp-print. You can see it in place on this blog now.
Installation is pretty simple. Just do this:
- First, download wp-print
- Next, follow these instructions
- Then follow these instructions
Tip: Put the “print” code near your social bookmarking icons for better visibility.
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As Daily Blog Tips pointed out, a good example of this in action can be found over at Pick The Brain, but now you can try it here, too.
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December 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Not a bad idea I guess. I think that’s what tab’s are for though.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Steven: Tabs are handy for when I want to read something later this morning. Bookmarks are handy for when I want to read something tomorrow, perhaps, and printing is handy for when I want to take it with me or save it to read much later.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Wow, what a terrific idea. My father in law used to have all his correspondence printed for him because he didn’t quite “get” the internet. But, there are plenty of good reasons to print an article. I’ll have to add that to my website. Should be able to do it with Javascript I think.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
I agree with this point. At work I like to print out blog posts to read during a spare moment. I’m going to check out wp-print. I tried using HP Blog Print, but I haven’t been able to set it up properly.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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December 31st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Will this work on a blogger blog?
Laura
December 31st, 2007 at 3:40 pm
This method will not because it’s made for WordPress, but there’s surely a way to do it with blogger. I’ll look into it.
January 6th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Very cool! I’m switching from Blogger to WP this month so I am looking forward to finding all of latest plugins.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:29 am
There’s a lot to try, but I’ve kept it to just a couple simple ones.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
But … can i post on wordpress? Just tell me that.