{"id":5605,"date":"2008-11-15T04:03:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2008-11-15T05:11:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T12:11:52","slug":"adding-a-print-stylesheet-to-your-wordpress-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5605\/adding-a-print-stylesheet-to-your-wordpress-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Print Stylesheet to Your WordPress Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a Dead Tree Addiction.\u00a0 Somehow words seem clearer and truer, and their cadence more lovely when I read them on a printed page, rather than a computer screen.<\/p>\n

So, when I read a well written blog post, one that\u00a0addresses an important issue, one that speaks clearly to me,\u00a0\u00a0my first inclination is to hit “PRINT”.\u00a0 And all rational reasoning to the contrary, sometimes that urge to PRINT just simply\u00a0cannot be denied.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately many WordPress theme designers\u00a0neglect to include a print stylesheet in their theme files, and the resultant printer output often contains\u00a0an endless\u00a0jumble\u00a0of sidebar images and unusable navigation link text.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to make it easy for your readers to print your posts, add a print stylesheet.\u00a0 Here’s how:<\/p>\n

In a plain text editor (Windows Notepad works just fine) create a new file named print.css<\/p>\n

Paste this CSS code into your print.css file<\/p>\n

#nav {display: none; }<\/p>\n

#sidebar {display: none; }<\/p>\n

#content {width: 100%; margin: 0; float: none;}<\/p>\n

a:link, a:visited {color: #000000}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s it, that’s all.\u00a0 The code is saying: “Don’t display the navigation bar, don’t display the sidebar, don’t print the links in fancy colors, and fill the entire width of the page with the post content”.<\/p>\n

Save\u00a0the print.css file, and upload it to your WordPress blog host.\u00a0 Place it in the individual theme’s\u00a0folder; the most likely path would be something like\u00a0mysite.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/mytheme<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now at the WordPress dashboard, go Design -> Theme Editor -> and in the Theme Files – Templates column, click on header.php to open the file.<\/p>\n

Paste the code below into your header.php file, right below all the other lines that start with link rel=”stylesheet”<\/em><\/p>\n

<link type=”text\/css” media=”print” rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>\/print.css” \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make sure it is above the line that reads <\/head>.<\/em> Click Update File.\u00a0 This little piece of code is telling the system that if it receives a “print” command, to apply the print stylesheet instead of the “media” styleheet.<\/p>\n

To test, click Visit Site, click File -> Print Preview<\/p>\n

Notice that I did not remove the Footer.\u00a0 If you’d like all printouts to include your contact information, the footer can be Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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