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Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin

By Michael Nelson

E-commerce & Shopping / Digital Products & Downloads

Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin Review - In-Depth Analysis

Easily print your blog posts in various formats like PDF and eBook. Includes features for both users and visitors.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.9/10

User Rating

4.8/5 (based on 111+ reviews)

Active Installations

8,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Print My Blog makes it simple to publish your WordPress content offline. With features like Quick Print, you can print thousands of posts in just a few clicks. The Print Buttons allow visitors to print individual posts easily.

Quick Print lets you print your entire blog to paper or create PDFs and eBooks. It optimizes your content for printing by removing unnecessary elements like sidebars and footers. You can also filter posts by categories, authors, and more.

The Print Buttons feature allows you to add print options to your posts, making it easy for visitors to share content offline. Pro Print offers professional-quality document creation, enabling users to generate books and reports from their blog content.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin plugin.

Print blog

PDF converter

eBook creator

Screenshots

FAQ

Yes, you can use PMB’s Pro Print for free (it’s included in this plugin) to create projects, and can print or make PDFs with them using your web browser. Your web browser will not, however, support all the features that Pro Print is capable of (e.g. adding page references, footnotes, and fully controlling page margins).

ePub eBooks with Pro Print require payment.

So, creating PDFs and printing with PMB Pro Print is free, but it’s best when used with our Pro PDF Service which is paid.

There may be text, images, and other stuff that looks great when viewed from a screen, but doesn’t make sense to have in the printout. E.g. related posts, share buttons, etc.
To remove them from printouts, add the CSS class “pmb-screen-only”.
Alternatively, you can use the shortcodes [pmb_web_only_text]...text, text, text...[/pmb_web_only_text] and [pmb_web_only_blocks]...paragraphs, images, other blocks...[/pmb_web_only_blocks].

If you’re handy at writing CSS, add some additional CSS to your theme that uses the “pmb-print-page” class which is added to the body tag of the print page.

For example, if you want to hide all divs with CSS class “my-video” in printouts, but not on the regular website, add the following CSS to your theme:

.pmb-print-page div.my-video{     display:none; }

Also, if it’s content automatically added by a plugin or theme, please let us know in the support forum, and we can hide that content in the next release of Print My Blog.

Using Print My Blog Settings and Custom Fields
You can add print buttons to all posts and/or pages from the WordPress admin dashboard, under “Print My Blog”, click “Settings”, then, next to “Show print buttons on:” select the posts and/or pages.
If you don’t want to show them on certain posts or pages, add the custom field named “pmb_buttons” to them with the value “hide”.
Alternatively, if you only want to show the button on specific posts or pages, add the custom field “pmb_buttons” to those posts or pages with the value “show”.

Using a Shortcode in the Post Body
You can add print buttons directly into your posts and pages by using the shortcode [pmb_print_buttons]. You can also supply it with the ID of a different post or page like so: [pmb_print_buttons ID=123].
You can alternatively use the shortcode [pmb_print_page_url] to just get the URL of the print page for more advanced integrations. You can supply it with the ID of a different post, and the format (defaults to “print”, but also accepts “pdf” or “ebook”), and whether to add_protocol (i.e. by default, the URL begins with “http://” or “https://”, but setting this to 0 will prevent that, in case it was already added), like so: [pmb_print_page_url format=pdf add_protocol=0] will produce the URL of the print page for a PDF but not add the “https://” onto the start of the URL.

In a Widget (e.g. sidebar or footer) using a Shortcode
Alternatively, you can add the print buttons to a widget. In the WordPress admin dashboard, under the “Appearance” menu item, click “Widgets”. Add a shortcode widget and add [pmb_print_buttons] like mentioned previously. The print buttons will only appear on single posts (eg not on an archive page).

Editing Your Theme’s Template Files
If you’d like to add the print buttons somewhere in your theme’s template files, add the following PHP code anywhere inside the loop:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[pmb_print_buttons]'); ?>

<a href="<?php echo esc_url(do_shortcode('[pmb_print_page_url]')); ?>">View Print-Ready Version of Page</a>

The print button’s color is determined by your theme. But if you can’t change the button colors using your theme’s settings, you can change it with some custom CSS.
E.g. this here’s how to change the button’s text color to black and background color to white:

For Block-Based Themes
1. Go to wp-admin on your website
2. On the left, under “Appreance”, click “Editor”
3. On the left, click “Styles”
4. Click the pencil icon that appears (“Edit Styles”)
5. On the top-right, beside “Styles”, click the three dots
6. Select “Additional CSS”
7. Add the following code:

For Legacy Themes:
1. Go to wp-admin on your website
2. On the left, under “Appearance”, click “Customize”
3. On the left, under Additional CSS” add the the following code:

div.pmb-print-this-page a{     color:black;     background-color:white; }

Contributors and developers

“Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Pro version Free Version Docs Live Demo

WPS

6.9

Average

Pro version

Ratings

4.8 out of 5 | 111

Version

3.27.16

Last updated

1 month ago

Active installations

8,000+

WordPress version

6.9.4 or higher

PHP version

5.4 or higher

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Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (111)

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Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (7)

WPS

6.9

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