Print This Button On Your Posts

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.

Use my Print button at the top of this tutorial to see how this plugin works.

Print button on a Blog Post/Page

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

1. Upload and activate the plugin (search term: wp print)
2. You then need to re-generate your permalinks by going to (WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks ) and saving changes
3. Go to Settings/Print in your admin panel
4. Choose to display a link or just printer icon
5. Choose the wording on your print link. Eg. Mine says ‘Print this tutorial’.
6. Choose whether you want to print links (the printed version is the entire url), blog comments and images
7. Refine the copyright to go at the bottom of each printed page (it is a great idea to add your website address to this)
8. 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
9. If you want the link to appear automatically at the bottom of every post, add a line of code into the post.php or index.php  file in your website’s theme files. See instructions…

Printer Friendly Version of this Post

If you’re using Genesis, see my comment below on how to implement this plugin.