Most blogs have so much stuff around the main body of information that you end up using up a lot more pages when you print a particular post or page. This plugin displays the post or page with all its text and formatting, a listing of all the links, a link to actually print the page, and nothing else.

Lester Chan, aka GaMerZ, has produced quite a few plugins and he has a single page from which you can download all of them. He’s also provided a documentation page for each of his plugins as well as a forum. Bravo!

Overall Grade: A

Plugin Name:	WP-Print
Version:	2.11
Plugin URI:	http://www.lesterchan.net/porfolio/programming.php
WordPress Plugin Page:	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-print/
Description:	Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
Author:	Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan
Author URI:	http://lesterchan.net/
Documentation:	http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-print.html
Forum:	http://forums.lesterchan.net/index.php?board=18.0/

Installation

To install this plugin, copy it to a folder called print, activate it, then go to your wp-admin page and navigate to Options -> Permalinks and update your permalink structure.

Administration

A Print tab is added to the Options page to allow you to manage the plugin.  The following options can be set:

• Text that is displayed on posts.  Defaults to Print This Post.
• Text that is displayed on pages.  Defaults to Print This Page.
• Whether to display text only, icon only, both text and icon, or custom display.
• Which icon (choice of two different ones) to display.
• Wheter to include comments, links, and images in the resulting web page to be printed.

Usage

This plugin requires modifying your theme as it modifies the part of the web page that is theme specific. In any page that does this:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

add this below it:

<?php if(function_exists('print_link')) { print_link(); } ?>

This will place the specified text/icon at that place on the web page.  You can also simply type print_link between square brackets (’[' and ']‘) anywhere in a post or page and the configured text/icon will be displayed there - I can’t actually show you as it will get replaced on this page with the configured text if I do .

Conclusion

This is a terrific plugin. I plan on installing this on all my WordPress sites.