Make it Easy to Print Your Posts or Webpages

Giving your website or blog visitors the ability to print your blog posts or webpages is a great way to add value to your product and improve your overall customer experience. It is also a fact that many people still prefer to read information from a printed page rather than a screen. Customers who print your website/blog content can take it home, read it further, follow your instructions, pass it on to others etc.

Read on for instructions on how to add print this page and email to a friend buttons on your website or blog.

Print this blog post

The easiest way to add a Print this Post link at the bottom of every blog post or just the posts you choose (check the bottom of this post) is to download the WP-Print plugin. See instructions below:

1. Upload and activate the plugin
2. You then need to re-generate your permalinks by going to (WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks ) and saving changes
3. Go to Options/Print in your admin panel
4. Choose to display a link or just printer icon
5. Choose whether you want to print links (the printed version is the entire url), blog comments and images
6. Refine the copyright to go at the bottom of each printed page (it is a great idea to add your website address to this)
7. If you want to add the Print this Post option to certain posts only, type the following code on the bottom of your post in code view
8. If you want the link to appear automatically at the bottom of every post, add a line of code into the post.php file on your blog. See instructions…

Print this Website Page

You can also add a similar function to pages on your website.

• Use a simple javascript to automatically print the page
• Create an Acrobat file including your branding and webpage information, then link to it.

Email this Post

You can also help spread the word by adding an Email this post or Send to a friend link on your posts or webpages. The image on the left shows what customers see when they click on the link.

• Download the WP-Email Plugin for your blog
• Get Send to a friend javascript for your website