14 WordPress & Drupal Plugins to Make Your Blog Printer Friendly
Anyone who has attempted to print specific information off of a webpage understands the dilemma when 5 to 7 pages later, the information is printed but includes pictures, ads and other undesirable bits of knowledge that became part of the bargain. There are plug-ins available to ensure a blog in WordPress or Drupal is printer friendly. Other plug-ins provide various management options that include creating a web page, gathering traffic and customer related information or for keeping the blog free of spam.
Plug-Ins for WordPress
- Askimet: A plug-in that filters unwanted spam and backtrack links from comments.
- Blog2Print: This plug-in provides users with the capability of turning a blog into a book. There are options to create a PDF file or print to hard copy (extra charges apply), but it only prints on A5 paper.
- Cleanprint: Creates print friendly pages. Users have the option of creating a customized logo that appears at the top of printed pages.
- Post Teaser: Provides visitors with a sneak preview of archival, category and main pages in a blog. The plug-in includes estimated reading times, image and word count.
- Print Friendly: Enables bloggers to include a special button that visitors use to create print friendly formats. Specific information is printed without unwanted pictures and ads.
- PrintWhatYouLike: This plug-in automatically formats blog pages. The blog page can be customized to create a print layout or saved to PDF.
- Subscribe to comments: The plug-in creates a special area containing check box options enabling bloggers to know which customers or visitors elect to be notified by email.
- VoucherPress: Enables bloggers the ability to create customer vouchers and special incentives that can be downloaded and printed. Bloggers can implement time or quantity limits which cause the special offer to expire.
- WP Print: Creates printer friendly formats of blog pages.
Plug-Ins for Drupal
- #D7CX: Enables bloggers to create a PDF rendering which can be sent to customers by email. The plug-in also creates printer friendly formats for visitors. Drupal 5.17 or 6.11 is required.
- dompdf: This plug-in provides full CSS support and creates reproductions of a web page, but it is not unicode supported (only ISO-8859-1). PHP5 is required.
- Pdfview: Creates simple PDF’s from nodes and may include pictures. UTF8 is supported by the 4.7 version but relies on TCPDF.
- wkhtmltopdf: Launches the blog browser to create PDF. Uses 30Mb of RAM and requires an X server, but is considered one of the better plug-ins.
- PrinterFriendlyPages: Creates printer friendly formats and identifies and separates links, adding them as footnotes.
The plug-ins and modules make blogs more user friendly for customers and visitors, which increases traffic and conversion rates. They also equip bloggers, not possessing technical skills, the ability to create a web page with ease.
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Good List .. Something which I was looking for my new blog.
Which is best among this, for wordpress
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#D7CX is not a module, it’s an community effort to get Drupal 7 versions of as much contrib modules as possible.
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Thanks kvantomme about notifying about this, I will try to motify the guest author too about the same
Good to see that u have started getting into Drupal also. WordPress plugins u have mentioned seems to be useful and I am going to use it for my blog.
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Mukundan it is not me but it is the author James who knows Drupal…Me I really dunno much about Drupal
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Drupal is not my favorite, but it has the best framework for building great sites with good security.
thanks for the plugins.
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Yes Robin, Drupal too is a good framework and many people work on Drupal too
nice list……….
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Lol..this is the shortest comment I ever got
is it…….?
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I was unaware of few of the plugins , thanks for sharing. I don’t use Drupal as don’t have much idea about it.
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Giving a printable version of a blog post will make easy for people to keep it in their resources folder and also share.
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I’m using sociable bro
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Useful!
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Lol….Should I consider your one word comment as spam. Well, still thanks for your first comment at Netchunks and Hope so your other comments will be a little longer
Well, I guess I commented on the new wordpress post first
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I saw it later dude, no problem
Wow! Time for one ore feature addition to my blog
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nice list. i use Askimet for my blog , its work very well
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Yup bro, Akismet is one of the best plugin ever made
Superb list. Boon for new bloggers
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Glad you liked the list Den
Nice idea! i think it will help me a lot on my site. I’m glad you have been posting this article for helping people earn money. I do home base job and it help me to increase on my income.
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yes ! shiva
you have great post. this is very helpful . i will follow your tips. anyways thanks for sharing your experience.
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Your blog is great. Drupal and wordpress plugins are both useful to make your blog printer friendly.
Drupal or WordPress? I think it depends on the specific plans ou have for your blog. WordPress works best for me as I don’t have any knowledge about programming code. WordPress makes it very simple and user friendly. Their plugins are also very useful.
Thanks for the list. I have use some of these plugins before, I will check out the others.