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

July 23, 2024

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

Make printing your blog easy and impressive. For you & your visitors. One post or thousands.

Offline publishing for you, site visitors, and the world outside WordPress.

Print My Blog makes WordPress content useful outside of your website, like in print, PDFs, and other formats. It has 3 main features:

Quick Print: print thousands of posts in a few clicks
Print Buttons: let site visitors print individual posts
Pro Print: make professional-quality books and documents

Each of which takes your WordPress content and optimizes it for print, PDF, and eBook by:

removing ink guzzlers like site logo, sidebars and footer
avoiding page breaks inside images, between images and captions, and even right after headers
allowing you to use other plugins in your printed output

Quick Print

Quick Print lets you easily print your entire blog to paper, PDF, or eBook.

Print your blog to read offline.
Create a paper backup (book or printout) to read when your blog is taken offline.
Create a PDF, ePub, or MOBI file as a human-readable, portable backup. Send it to friends, store it in the cloud or a hard drive, or even archive it with a historical organization.
Copy your entire Blog for quick pasting into another program like Microsoft Word or Google Docs

Quick Print Features

Loads all your blog’s posts into a single web page so you can print them from your web browser (to paper, PDF, ePub, or anything your web browser supports) or copy-and-paste them into another program (although the other program likely won’t format it as nicely)
supports printing thousands of blog posts in one click (the record is over 3000 posts)
prints posts and pages
uses your theme’s and plugins’ styles (so Gutenberg and page builders are supported)
print your entire blog, or filter by author, date, status (eg draft, pending, private, password-protected, trashed, etc), category, and tags
optionally prints comments
optionally places each post on a new page
resize text
resize images or remove them altogether
replaces embedded videos with a link, full video title, screenshot and QRCode
optionally removes hyperlinks
optionally includes post’s excerpt
order posts by date, or pages by the “order” attribute
place the “Print My Blog” Gutenberg block on a page and allow site visitors to print your blog too
no watermark in print-out, and attribution optional,
GDPR compliant (no data is collected about you or your visitors)
free, open-source software, so you can use it for whatever you like without fear of changing terms of use,
customize it to fit your needs (although we’d curious to hear what you’ve done with it), and even redistribute it. There is no lengthy legal document describing how you’re giving up your rights by using this software!

Print Buttons

You can also automatically add print buttons to help your visitors print your blog.

Share your content with friends offline
Save it for reading later
Improve long reads by converting a portion of your blog to eBook or PDF

Print Button Features

prints individual posts and/or pages just like Quick Print (eg omits the theme’s header, sidebars, and footer, etc.)
display on all posts and/or pages, or specific ones using the shortcode [pmb_print_buttons]
enable buttons for print, PDF, and/or eBook
customize print output settings for each (using the same print settings from Quick Print)
place buttons above or below content, or somewhere in-between using the shortcode [pmb_print_buttons]
customize print button text (eg “Print”, “Imprimir”, or just a print emoji like 🖨)
buttons use theme’s design
make more seamless integration with your design or content using the shortcode [pmb_print_page_url] to just get the URL of the print page (see this FAQ for more details)

Pro Print

Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Word with WordPress! Turn existing posts, pages, and custom post types —or write all new print materials— into professional-looking documents that are ready to share with customers and the world.
Use your browser to print Pro Print projects for free, but some features (like automatic page references, footnotes, and full control of page margins) require printing using our Pro PDF Service for a subscription fee.

Example uses:

white paper. Share an in-depth analysis of a topic on your website and in print
printed version of entire website or blog. Print it all, except ink guzzlers like site heading, sidebars, footers and pop-ups. Use your own printer or send to a printing service lulu.com
book from select content. Add a title page, introduction, table of contents, and pick existing content from your site to make a book. Sell it on Amazon KDP. Like that, you’re an author!
new book from scratch. Write new print-only materials that never appear on your website. Leverage WordPress’ great editors and other plugins.
lead magnets. Compile content on a subject into a PDF and grant access after users signup for your email list
members-only content. Combine with Restrict Content Pro or other plugins to only allow access to select downloadable PDFs of your content
printed course materials. Create a course using an LMS (learning management system) plugin, and use Print My Blog for learners to print
event brochure. Let event attendees print a useful copy of your event’s details to take with them
printed user manual. And digital user manual on the website
product brochure. Use WooCommerce or other WordPress e-commerce plugins to make content accessible to those who would rather not browse online
monthly magazine or newspaper. Reuse the same design and blog post content to create a digital or print magazine to send to your email subscribers.
research paper. Put your research on your website and print it with a consistent design
restaurant menu. Optimized for display on your website, and to look great in print.

Pro Print Features

saveable projects
create digital PDFs, print-ready PDFs, ePub eBooks (paid only), and Microsoft Word documents (paid only)
select posts, pages, print materials (posts intended only for use in Pro Print) and most custom post types (eg products from WooCommerce)
search and filter for posts based on post type, status, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, author, and publish date
drag-and-drop reordering of content (and add new print materials on-the-fly)
organize posts into parts
add front and back matter (usually numbered with roman numerals with Pro PDF Service)
select from a variety of pre-built designs (similar to WordPress Themes, but for Pro Print)
customize designs (each has different settings and can have custom CSS) and can be saved for future projects
Theme Designers will feel at home creating a custom design using HTML, CSS, and even Javascript
better integration with plugins than Quick Print (especially those using Javascript)
save project metadata (like title, extra cover page content, categories etc)
automatic table of contents (with page references using Pro PDF Service)
automatically replace hyperlinks to included content with page references (Pro PDF Service only)
automatically replace hyperlinks to external content with footnotes (Pro PDF Service only)
automatically move or automatically resize images to reduce whitespace and fit better on the page (Pro PDF Service only)
choose image quality and maximum image size to reduce filesize or save ink
choose article templates (eg “Content Only” or “Centered Content”)
choose fonts, font sizes, page sizes and lots more
optionally apply your active theme’s CSS (this is optional and because themes usually aren’t designed for print, support for this requires payment)

Some designs have features like:

roman numerals for front matter
page numbers always in bottom-right corner
page numbers appearing in outside corners
running titles (an article’s title appears in the top margin on subsequent pages)
background colors, even with gradients and choosable logos
two-column layout

Read more about Pro Print in our extensive user guide.

Wanna See it in Action? Try Print My Blog on a Free Test Site Now

Translations

Print My Blog includes translation files in the following languages:

German
French
Spanish
Italian
Japanese

To improve the translations, please get in touch.

Give your story life outside your blog!

Want more? Tell us what matters to you on GitHub. Thanks to a revenue stream through optional payments, this is actively supported and improved.

Plugin Compatibility Highlights

PMB strives to be compatible with all plugins. But here are some that are especially noteworthy:

BasePress for creating a user manual on both the web and print
WP Quick LaTeX for mathematical formulas
Translate WordPress with GTranslate for quick and automatic translating of projects
WPML for more advanced translating of projects, and add print buttons different languages. Read Translating Projects with WPML Plugin
TablePress makes tables look good in print too, even when they span multiple pages

If you are delighted how PMB worked with another plugin, or had trouble, please let us know!

Our Mission

Preserve your blog for decades to come in a low-tech format.
Make WordPress an alternative to Microsoft Word and Google Docs for publishing documents.

Alternatives to Print My Blog

If this doesn’t meet your needs, there are good paid and free alternatives.

Alternatives to Quick Print
printmy.blog we run a hosted version of this same plugin, so you can print your blog without even installing this. Especially useful for WordPress.com users, or those who can’t install the plugin on their site. (Its free like Quick Print, but won’t use your blog’s styles).
Anthologize is another great plugin for customizing your blog’s content before exporting to an e-book format. Also free.
Blog To HTML is actually very similar to Print My Blog. It allows you to export your blog to HTML for eBook creation.
blogbooker prints a book, or creates a PDF, from your blog using their pre-made styles. Paid service.
blog2print ditto, but temporarily requests your username and password. Paid service.

Alternatives for adding print buttons
Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly lets visitors easily print to paper, PDF, or email themselves a copy. Easy setup and very customizable. Doesn’t use theme’s styles. The free version is not GDPR-compliant and inserts advertisements.
WP Print Friendly automatically adds a link to print the current post, page, or custom post type. Can convert links to endnotes. Doesn’t use theme’s styles.
WP-Print printouts quite customizable. Requires editing theme files. Does not use theme’s styles.
Print-o-Matic add print buttons with a shortcode. Customizable and can work with theme’s and plugin’s styles.
PDF Generator for WordPress Create & Customize PDF for Post, Pages and WooCommerce Products

Alternatives to Pro Print
MPL – Publisher is another free eBook creator / PDF converter plugin you can use to self-publish a book. To be honest probably the best alternative right now. There’s both free and paid versions.
PressBooks is a good paid, hosted alternative. Begin creating or import content for free, and can pay to export to PDF and other formats.
Designrr is great for creating short documents, but is a fully paid option.
Aspose.Words for exporting Microsoft Word documents from selected posts.

Best Wishes Publishing for Print with WordPress!

Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/print-my-blog directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress

To Print Your Blog using Quick Print

Under the “Print My Blog” menu item, click “Quick Print.”
Select the format you want, and click “Prepare Print Page.”
When you see the “Print” button appear, click it. Your blog will be printed from your browser.

To Add Print Buttons to Posts and/or Pages

Under the “Print My Blog” menu item, click “Settings.”
Beside “Show print buttons on:”, check “Posts” and/or “Pages”
Click “Save Settings”

Also see this FAQ for more options to show the print buttons using shortcodes and postmeta.

To Print with Pro Print

Under “Print My Blog”, click “Pro Print”
Follow the instructions presented, or refer to our user guide.

To Add a Print Form for Visitors

Add a page using the block editor (added in WordPress 5.0), maybe call it something like “Print My Blog”
Add the “Print My Blog” block anywhere you like
Publish the post or page.
You may want to add a link to the page in a menu, widget, or footer

Screenshots

Print My Blog removes junk that doesn’t belong in a printout— like ink-guzzling logos, menus, search-bars, sidebars, footer widgets, etc.
Quick Print Setup page. Start printing right away, or customize which posts to print and how to print them.
Print Button settings page. Select whether to show on posts or pages and save. Or customize the buttons' and printout appearance.
Print Buttons on a post. Notice how much clutter is removed from the printout!
Pro Print project organizer. Search for content, drag-and-drop it into your project, organize in front matter, back matter, and parts.
Pro Print print-ready PDF table of contents. Notice the page references and how the content is grouped into 3 parts.
Pro Print print-ready PDF page spread. Notice the running head of the article title (yellow), the graphs generated via a plugin using Javascript (green), the external hyperlinks converted to footnotes (blue), and the page numbers are on the outside of each page (pink).
Pro Print digital PDF using Buurma Whitepaper design. The design adds a background color with a gradient, and a custom logo behind the page number. Designers can use the full power of HTML and CSS in their PDF designs!

FAQ

Can I use Pro Print for Free?

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 (eg 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.

I have a question about Pro Print

You’re in luck, we have an entire use guide that walks you through the first project, then onto customizations, and even through making your own custom designs in HTML, CSS, and Javascript (with a bit of PHP). These FAQs are mostly about Quick Print and Print Buttons.

How do I create a PDF using Quick Print?

Quick Print just puts the content onto a single web page so your browser can print it or create a PDF from it. Because your browser is what creates the PDF, it depends on the browser. Check out the instructions that apply to you:

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Note: images may be missing from very large PDFs. See the FAQ “My PDFs are missing images” below for help.

If you use Pro Print, you can download the PDF using our print service.

How do I remove the headers and footers from printouts?

One option is to upgrade for the Pro Print service, which adds more professional-looking content to the margins (like just page numbers, running headers, and logos).

You probably don’t want the site’s title, date, and URL appearing in printouts. Here is how to remove it for various browsers:

Google Chrome (for paper and PDF)

Mozilla Firefox (paper)

Mozilla Firefox (PDF)

How do I create an eBook using Print My Blog?

Create ePub eBooks requires payment, or you can create ePub eBooks using Quick Print and dotEPUB browser extension

Note: if your printout has many images, dotEpub warns you it will replace them with links.

Once the eBook has been generated, you can read it from your computer (here’s instructions on how to read ePubs and MOBI files), or a phone or tablet.

Some images aren’t appearing

Print My Blog can work too fast for some webservers, meaning the webservers refuse to load all the content, most noticeably some images.
In order to fix this, you need to tell Print My Blog to slow down. On the configuration page, show options, then scroll
down to show Troubleshooting options, and increase “Post Rendering Wait-Time” (eg to 2000 milliseconds, or whatever
value you need to in order to get all the images to load).

My PDFs are missing images

This is usually a problem with browsers, which our Pro PDF service hasn’t experienced. So you may want to try Pro Print with the Pro PDF Service.

If your print-page has hundreds of images, browsers may generate PDFs that are missing images at the end.
To fix this, just retry generate the PDF. Each time the browser will fetch more images. Continue re-generating the PDF until the images at the end are included.

The Print Page says “There seems to be an error initializing…”, or is stuck on “Loading Content”, or I can’t filter by categories or terms from the print setup page

This isn’t a problem for Pro Print (even when printing using your browser for free.) If you’d rather use Quick Print, keep reading…

A plugin has probably disabled the WP REST API, which Print My Blog uses for loading data.

This is often done by a security plugin.

Don’t use “Disable REST API” plugins
“All in One WP Security” has a setting called “Disallow Unuahtorized REST API requests”. Disable it.
Wordfence has a setting on their “All Options” page, under “Brute Force Proection”, called “Prevent discovery of usernames through ‘/?author=N’ scans, the oEmbed API, and the WordPress REST API”. Disable it.
iThemes security has a setting under “WordPress Tweaks” called “REST API”. Switch it to “Default Access” if you want to let site visitors print your blog.

If none of the above help identify the issue, please use Print My Blog plugin’s Help page or the WordPress.org support forum to report the problem.
Along with that, it can also be helpful to follow the steps in the following video in order to provide more information about the error.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNK39YuuhMM

How do I remove post content from the printout?

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. Eg, 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 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.

How do I make post content only appear in the printout?

Use the shortcodes [pmb_print_only_text]...text, text, text...[/pmb_print_only_text] and [pmb_print_only_blocks]...paragraphs, images, other blocks...[/pmb_print_only_blocks].

Alternatively, add the CSS class “pmb-print-only”. See the above question for more details.

How do I show or hide background colors in the printout?

In Pro Print, the background colors are dictated by your project’s design, which might be easily customizable. Go to your project’s “Customize Design” step and see what settings are available. You can also switch to a different design on the “Choose Design” step, or add some custom CSS to your design (body{background-color:black;}).*

If you’re using Quick Print, the background colors are controlled by your WordPress theme and the browser.

Your theme may use different styles when printed, including setting the background to white in order to conserve ink.

But if not, your browser can also remove background colors.

For Google Chrome: when printing, click on “More Options”, then uncheck “Background graphics”
For Firefox: when viewing the print preview, click “Page Setup” then uncheck “Print Background (colors & images)”.
For Firefox Extension “Print to PDF”: click on “Add-ons”, then click “Print to PDF”, then “Options”, and uncheck “Whether the background colors should be shown”

How do I force a page break before something? (So it’s always at the top of a page)

Add the CSS class “pmb-page-break” onto the the element/block you want to be at the top of the page.

How do I avoid a pagebreak inside something?

Add the CSS class “pmb-no-break” onto the element/block. The browser will avoid a pagebreak in that element if possible.
If browsers ignore that, you force the pagebreak to happen just before an element by adding the CSS class “pmb-page-break”.

How do I print a draft?

The easiest way to print a draft post is to enable the front-end print buttons, then view the preview of the post, and click the print button you want.

How do I show the print buttons on posts or pages?

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 (ie, 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 (eg 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>

How do I change the color of the print buttons?

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.
Eg, 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; }

How do I customize the printouts made with the Print Buttons?

From the Print My Blog Settings page, click “Customize Buttons”. From here you can customize:
* whether print buttons appear by default above or below the post content
* which print buttons appear (print, PDF, and eBook)
* the text used on each button (translate them, or just an emoji, or whatever)

Under each format, you can also click “Show Options”. These options affect the printout produced by the button. These
options are the same as when printing out multiple posts simultaneously: you can remove the printout metadata, the post’s featured image, etc.

How can I help translate Print My Blog?

Here’s a video showing how to use Poedit to submit a translation of Print My Blog

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

Changelog

3.27.2 July 19, 2024

Compatibility: for Pro Print with WPML, fix bug that prevented generating in a secondary language
Enhancement: for Pro Print, introduce constant PMB_DEBUG to control whether to display warnings when generating a project. Changed default to not show warnings.

3.27.1 June 21, 2024

Bugfix: for Pro Print, fix warning when a project contains a deleted post
Bugfix: for Quick Print, escape all post content before rendering to page

3.27.0 May 16, 2024

Feature: significant German translations contributed by Torben Bertram of https://archiv-wintermoor.de/
Feature: for Pro Print Haller Design, allow using a featured image for the header
Feature: for Pro Print Haller and Mayer Designs, add section template “Full Column Content” which omits article header info but leave the content in columns
Bugfix: for Quick print, fix an error that prevented the “print” button from being enabled when there was an error processing certain videos.
Bugfix: for Pro Print Haller Design when printing from the browser, remove duplicate header; all elements with class “pmb-pro-only” get removed when printing using the browser
Bugfix: for Pro Print, allow changing a design setting to blank (eg the Haller Design’s subtitle)
Enhancement: to facilitate styling articles and hiding certain elements, add CSS classes “pmb-post-id”, “pmb-post-author”, “pmb-post-author”, “pmb-post-date”, “pmb-post-categories”, “pmb-post-url-wrapper”.

3.26.3 January 29, 2024

Enhancement: update select2 Javascript library to 4.0.13 to improve compatibility with other plugins that also use it
Enhancement: add Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program to readme to encourage responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities

3.26.2 January 11, 2024

Enhancement: updated logo
Bugfix: in Quick Print, fix rendering local videos with the source as a sub-element
Bugfix: fix regression where some of 3.26.0 changes were lost in 3.26.1 (only released on Freemius)

3.26.1 December 20, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix QR codes being added onto videos
Enhancement: mention that Pro Print’s Word Documents don’t work with Apple Pages

3.26.0 November 21, 2023

Enhancement: remove Print My Blog dashboard news as I was just told this is in violation of WordPress.org plugin guidelines.
Bugfix: fix admin print buttons not including some HTML which could affect the design’s layout
Bugfix: fix image quality adjusting so the CSS class pmb-dont-change-image-quality works as intended
Developer: simplify adding custom fonts to designs (introduces PrintMyBlog\domain\DefaultDesignTemplates::getPdfFontSettings() and adds custom font CSS if those settings are used)
Enhancement: avoid pagebreaks between images and their captions
Feature: in Pro Print, introduce CSS class “pmb-snap” to snap a block or image to nearest page edge

3.25.5 August 31, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix missing dates when posts were on the same date
Bugfix: fix missing PMB icon on WP plugins update page

3.25.4 August 31, 2023

Bugfix: on the designs page, fixed bug that only showed first 10 designs
Feature: added GTranslate plugin compatibility (see https://wordpress.org/plugins/gtranslate/)
Enhancement: removed unnecessary jQuery UI Javascript file

3.25.3 July 17, 2023

Feature: in Pro Print PDFs, use DocRaptor’s Pipeline 10.1 which adds support for WebP and AVIF images and other features

3.25.2 July 5, 2023

Enhancement: improve stability of Freemius license/subscription features by updating Freemius SDK to 2.5.10

3.25.1 June 23, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print for Word, make nested items in the Word TOC appear indented by adjusting their heading levels
Translation: props to @ryanvdk for improving the Japanese translations
Miscellaneous: added @szepeviktor as a contributor (contributed to 2.1.4, so this is old)

3.25.0 June 16, 2023

Feature: in Pro Print Word Documents, add setting to specify maximum image height
Enhancement: make post row actions to generate PMB files smaller (eg instead of “Generate Word Document” it just says “Word Document”) to save space

3.24.4 June 6, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print for Word, avoid warning in header and footers when using default settings
Documentation: point users of the Haller Tabloid to the CSS class “pmb-dont-snap” to avoid image snapping
Compatibility: in Pro Print, prevent AdvancedExcerpt from filtering content on the print page

3.24.3 May 29, 2023

Bugfix: in Admin Print Buttons, respect the design’s “Apply Website Theme” setting
Bugfix: in Admin Print Buttons, add a unique code onto print page URLs

3.24.2 May 29, 2023

Feature: show Admin Print Buttons to Free users too (again, they can be removed from Print My Blog > Settings)

3.24.1 May 29, 2023

Feature: display Admin Print Buttons by default (although they can still be removed from Print My Blog > Settings)

3.24.0 May 27 2023

Feature: add Admin Print Buttons, to quickly create PDF, eBooks and Word documents from individual posts, pages, and other post types. Go to Print My Blog > Settings to enable.
Feature: add Designs page, where you can set the default design for each project and customize any design (even ones not in use on any projects currently.)

3.23.5 May 16, 2023

Bugfix: fix creating database tables when the database has no charset specified
Feature: in Pro Print Mayer Magazine, add “Post Contents” option so you can include post ID, author, date, categories and tags, URL, excerpt, and custom fields; allow removing title, featured image and content

3.23.4 May 11, 2023

Compatibility: in Pro Print with Elementor, fix extra columns appearing in projects when using nested columns

3.23.3 May 9, 2023

Enhancement: in Pro Print, note that Mayer Magazine’s pagebreaks work best with Pro PDF Service; not so great with browsers
Bugfix: in Pro Print’s Mayer Magazine avoid warning when Cover Preamble is blank

3.23.2 April 5, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, avoid losing styles if there are warnings on the print page
Bugfix: in Pro Print with Pro PDF Service, prevent “Filesystem access not allowed” error because of relative URLs
Bugfix: in Pro Print content editing step, prevent exceeding maximum nesting level by dragging

3.23.1 March 10, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, avoid post being reset by setting up WP_Query properly

3.23.0 March 9, 2023

Feature: in Pro Print Word Documents, add support for headers and footers to documents
Bugfix: in Pro Print, prevent 403 error for some webservers because we used spaces and colons in the URL

3.22.0 February 20, 2023

Feature: in Pro Print PDFs and ePubs, add design options to set custom fonts
Feature: allow uploading font files to website
Feature: add Chinese translations
Feature: in Pro Print Classic Digital PDF and Classic Print-Ready PDF designs, add a “Show a Dividing Line Between Posts” setting
Bugfix: in Pro Print PDFs, apply the chosen font to content in margins (not just the main body)
Bugfix: in Pro Print Classic Digital PDF and Classic Print-Ready PDF designs, respect the “Each Post Begins on a New Page” setting
Bugfix: in Pro Print Word, enqueue PMB’s common print page CSS

3.21.5 February 13, 2023

Enhancement: in Pro Print’s Edit Content step, give a warning if project is empty
Bugfix: in Pro Print, when printing from browser, bring back the TOC (it disappeared in 3.21.0 when printing from the browser)

3.21.4 February 8, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, add support for relative hyperlinks, hyperlinks with wrong protocol, hyperlinks with an extra “www”, and support for anchor links
Bugfix: in Pro Print ePubs, make anchor links work for Kindle Previewer too
Bufix: in Pro Print Word docs, fix regression where file wouldn’t download

3.21.3 February 3, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, remove warning for designs that don’t use Page Reference Text (e.g., Mayer Magazine)

3.21.2 January 30, 2023

Compatibility: hide WP Socializer sharing bar
Compatibility: hide Post Like Dislike button

3.21.1 January 27, 2023

Compatibility: in Pro Print with Elementor, handle lazy-loaded YouTube and Vimeo videos
Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix downloading ePubs even when there is an error downloading an image

3.21.0 January 26, 2023

Compatibility: in Pro Print, improve integration with many other plugins by doing most print-page processing when the download button is pressed (which gives other plugins more time to do all their processing)

3.20.6 January 17, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print ePubs, tidy up galleries
Compatibility: show Elementor items even if they’re animated
Bugfix: in Pro Print ePubs, support CSS classes to prevent pagebreaks

3.20.5 January 10, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print ePubs, keep video text with video screenshot
Compatibility: in Pro Print with Elementor, handle lazy-loaded local videos
Compatibility: in Pro Print with Elementor, centre images by default
Compatibility: in Pro Print with Elementor, fix galleries in Calibre eReader

3.20.4 January 5, 2023

Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix protocols in URLs in inline styles added after pageload (again from Advances Ads plugin)
Bugfix: in Pro Print, when creating Word docs, handle errors when images dont exist
Bugfix: in Pro Print, prevent some Javascript from running out of order

3.20.3 December 21, 2022

Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix error creating ePub when page loaded in unexpected order
Bugfix: fix PMB’s icon appearing in the updates page

3.20.2 December 20, 2022

Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix protocols of URLs in inline styles (e.g. as with Advanced Ads plugin)

3.20.1 December 19, 2022

Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix regression in internal hyperlinks being replaced with footnote

3.20.0 December 19, 2022

Feature: convert Vimeo and other videos to screenshots and links
Feature: add QRcodes to video screenshots
Bugfix: in Pro Print, fix error downloading PDF when print page URL is too long
Compatibility: don’t hide Paid Membershipas Pro (PMP) content in projects
Compatibility: have Elementor rows and columns use the CSS “columns-count” property

3.19.1 December 13, 2022

Enhancement: help page debug data now includes “Must-Use” plugins
Compatibility: load SiteGround Optimizer lazy images
Compatibility: in Quick Print, use query parameter “pmb_f” instead of “format” to prevent plugin conflicts
Bugfix: in Pro Print, order image quality options
Compatibility: hide Orbit Fox Companion social sharing buttons in print
Compatibility: hide WPMUDEV’s Hustle Slide-In
Compatibility: pretty up YouTube videos in Elementor, too

3.19.0 November 30, 2022

Feature: in Pro Print, improved image quality control. More sizes (e.g., 300 pixels, 1024 pixels, etc) and always uses an image size that actually exists. Removed image sizes that cropped the image (i.e., 150×150 pixel option).
Bugfix: in Pro Print, prevent content in code blocks (e.g. <pre> tags) from overflowing off the page

3.18.11 November 24, 2022

Feature: in Quick Print, added action ‘pmb_print_page_after_posts’ for adding custom content at the bottom of printout

3.18.10 Novemer 23, 2022

Bugfix: in Pro Print, change relative hyperlinks to absolute ones
Bugfix: in Pro Print, prevent Javascript error on invalid hyperlinks

3.18.9 November 18, 2022

Bugfix: fix relative hyperlinks in Pro Print
User Experience: on instaWP and tasteWP demo sites, don’t ask for Freemius opt-in

3.18.8 November 16, 2022

Compatibility: remove Google AdSense ads from printouts
Aesthetic: rename Pro Print’s “Image Settings” to “Image and Block Settings”
Compatibility: prevent JetPack from hiding images
Compatibility: reveal Kadence Blocks Accordions

3.18.7 November 14, 2022

Bugfix: fix Quick Print authorization error when blank response instead of “Forbidden”

3.18.6 November 9, 2022

Bugfix: fix Quick Print permissions issue when server gives “Unauthorized” response instead of “Forbidden”

3.18.5 November 3, 2022

Compatibility: override Creative Minds table of contents’ inline styles

3.18.4 November 2, 2022

Bugfix: avoid having Haller images snap above front matter (like the frontpage header)
Compatibility: hide Creative Minds table of contents on print page (it’s buggy when used with PMB)

3.18.3 October 20, 2022

Feature: add support for footnotes and page references to Haller Tabloid design
Bugfix: fix setting page size in Pro Print
Aesthetic: all images and figures in Haller Tabloid designs snap to nearest page edge by default
Maintenance: removed deprecated the_meta function and replaced with pmb_the_meta
Dev Feature: added action ‘pmb_print_page_after_printed_on’ after Quick Print’s “Printed on…” area for adding custom content

3.18.2 October 17, 2022

Compatibility: have WPML translate new design settings in Haller Tabloid design

3.18.1 October 17, 2022

Aesthetic: decrease indent on lists in Haller Tabloid design
Aesthetic: Haller design defaults to leaving in-content columns alone

3.18.0 October 17, 2022

Feature: added Haller Tabloid Print-Ready design, a multi-column magazine
Bugfix: fix error on Edit Content page when a design no longer exists
Compatibility: remove empty pages added to PDFs by MathJax-LaTeX and other plugins
Aesthetic: renamed a project’s “Main Matter” to “Body”

3.17.2 October 11, 2022

Bugfix: fix error generating Pro Print print page for subdirectory WordPress

3.17.1 October 6, 2022

Compatibility: hide One Click Accessibility Toolbar on Print Page

3.17.0 September 28, 2022

Feature: build Print Page on front end requests insead of admin AJAX requests so more plugins’ JS and CSS load
Compatibility: make Supsystic tables render in projects
Compatibility: with WPML, prevent projects from hiding when selecting a different language

3.16.5 September 5, 2022

Bugfix: show all projects when there are more than 10

3.16.4 August 19, 2022

Compatibility: don’t cut off Elementor/WooCommerce items at the bottom of the page of PDFs
Compatibility: avoid leading empty page of PDFs when using WooCommerce

3.16.3 August 16, 2022

Bugfix: prevent warning from JetPack infinite scroll during generation by using $wp_the_query instead of $wp_query

3.16.2 August 3, 2022

Bugfix: when generating Word docs, prevent bug that downloaded it multiple times
Bugfix: avoid lazy loading featured images in Pro Print
Bugfix: for Word docs, change external stylesheets to inline ones to simplify debugging CSS issues

3.16.1 July 28, 2022

Bugfix: prevent no formats existing when opting into Freemius but before confirming email
Bugfix: prevent images in Word from being taller than the page and appearing stretched
Bugfix: don’t stop generating Word doc if an image fails to load
Feature: add custom CSS and “Apply Website Theme” to Word docs

3.16.0 July 19, 2022

Feature: introduce Microsoft Word documents for Pro licenses
Bugfix: fix Mayer Magazine center and right-aligned text
Bugfix: fix Quick Print image resizing by using “Post Rendering Wait Time” setting to calculate how long to wait before resizing images

3.15.9 June 17, 2022

Compatibility: hide Top Bar and Announcer banners from printouts
Bugfix: remove hairline above captions on gallery images
Enhancement: add some space between table cells in ePubs
Enhancement: in ePubs, because iBooks displays the alt tag on images: if it’s not set, set it to the title attribute or image caption
Bugfix: avoid resizing images before they’ve loaded in Quick Print and Print Buttons
Security: check nonces and escape output from DB in many places

3.15.8 May 26, 2022

Enhancement: debug info includes “is premium”
Enhancement: make click-to-reveal areas easier to see by styling them like a button
Enhancement: when reading ePubs on small screens, don’t float images
Bugfix: fix pro epubs where using custom table of contents and not using pretty permalinks

3.15.7 May 18, 2021

Enhancement: send more debugging info when using Pro PDF Service
Feature: Japanese translation

3.15.6 May 16, 2022

Update: assert WP 6.0 compatiblility

3.15.5 May 5, 2022

Compatibility: fix only printing one page when using Betheme
Compatibility: hide GDPR cookie consent overlay and “pum overlay”
Bugfix: Pro Print avoids Javascript error when there is an image with invalid src

3.15.4 April 29, 2022

Bugfix: ask for license key immediately when upgrading to Pro version
Feature: ask free users to opt in upon activation again (removing it caused the above-mentioned bug)

3.15.3 April 27, 2022

Bugfix: support making large ePubs on HTTP
Bugfix: don’t try to resize PMB logo in ePubs

3.15.2 April 23, 2022

Bugfix: fix ePub downloads for Google Chrome

3.15.1 April 23, 2022

Enhancement: debug info includes more projects

3.15.0 April 23, 2022

Feature: support making much larger ePubs on HTTPS sites

3.14.2 April 21, 2022

Bugfix: don’t cache images already on same domain

3.14.1 April 21, 2022

Bugfix: fix code introduced in 3.14.0 which aimed to automatically fix links using the wrong HTTP protocol
Bugfix: slow down caching external images so server can handle it

3.14.0 April 21, 2022

Feature: in order to show images from external websites in ePubs, cache them on the server (to uploads/pmb/cache) and adds new database table, pmb_external_resources (both are removed when all plugin data is deleted)
Bugfix: record PHP fatal errors when generating files even when WP_DEBUG is off

3.13.2 April 18, 2022

Enhancement: in case a search engine comes across a Pro Print page, instruct them to not index those either
Bugfix: namespace form inputs on settings page to avoid conflicts with other plugins

3.13.1 April 11, 2022

Feature: offer email support for all users (it was a hassle to explain how to use it to non-technical folks)
Compatibility: hide Axeptio hovering button in print page
Bugfix: correct dynamic image resizing images with captions when restricted by width
Enhancement: warn if a project is very big, or has a lot of images, a sit can have errors, and suggest workarounds

3.13.0 March 30, 2022

Feature: show featured image captions in all built-in designs

3.12.11 March 30, 2022

Enhancement: tell free users to first create a GitHub account before reporting the issue
Bugfix: prevent galleries from overflowing into the bottom margin by hiding extra content

3.12.10 March 30, 2022

Bugfix: fix Quick Print page for Italian users (categories and tags weren’t being shown)

3.12.9 March 30, 2022

Bugfix: fix QuickPrint’s and Print Buttons’s print page content being blank (introduced in 3.12.8)
Bugfix: tell search engines to not even visit print page

3.12.8 March 28, 2022

Compatibility: fix QuickPrint with Thrive ThemeBuilder
Bugfix: tell search engines to not index print page

3.12.7 March 10, 2022

Bugfix: fix gallery blocks display (WP recently changed the HTML structure so our CSS needed updating too)

3.12.6 March 10, 2022

Bugfix: fix dynamic resizing external images based on their original dimensions

3.12.5 March 10, 2022

Enhancement: factor in image’s original dimensions when dynamically resizing

3.12.4 March 9, 2022

Compatibility: prevent error generating using WPML
Bugfix: fix image quality modifier on filenames with dashes
Bugfix: avoid image resizing on trickier items (YouTube videos, images in columns)

3.12.3 March 9, 2022

Bugfix: shows formats in a consistent order (Digital PDF, Print-Ready PDF, ePub eBook)
Bugfix: fix Javascript layouts (eg JetPack’s Tiled Gallery) by having the print-page’s content width match the generate PDF’s width
Bugfix: only do dynamic resize when requested

3.12.2 March 7, 2022

Bugfix: when adjusting image quality (new in 3.12.0) don’t try to change image quality on external images

3.12.1 March 7, 2022

Bugfix: fix regression in 3.12.0 which showed “Protected” and “Private” on post titles in Pro Print

3.12.0 March 7, 2022

Feature: all designs allow you to change image quality (uploaded image size, full size on web, or other smaller scaled image qualities)
Feature: add option to “Resize Images if they don’t fit on the page” as an “Image Placement” option
Bugfix: fix URL being printed out in classic editor’s Publish Box (it should have been a button)
Compatibility: update WPML translations of designs and projects when they are edited
Compatibility: fix WPML translation flags not appearing in some situations

3.11.4 March 1, 2022

Enhancement: update Freemius SDK to 2.5.0-rc2
Enhancement: improve a few French translations

3.11.3 Feb 17, 2022

Bugfix: prevent emojis in image descriptions in Mayer Magazine design from taking up full column width
Bugix: ensure underscore.js is enqueued on print page

3.11.2 Feb 17, 2022

Bugfix: prevent “pmb-dynamic-resize” images with captions from overflowing
Feature: “pmb-dynamic-resize” images respect the designs maximum image height

3.11.1 Feb 16, 2022

Bugfix: avoid warning using Ultimate Elementor by bundling a fake theme in PMB
Compatibility: fix WPML hiding projects and designs, and hide its language switcher when editing projects

3.11.0 Feb 8, 2022

Feature: add Pro ePub option to convert videos to images and links
Feature: add clearer links to modify the project and designs to the Generate page
Feature: images with class “pmb-dynamic-resize” are resized to fill remaining space on page
Feature: Added Italian translation
Enhancement: add more links to project steps from generate step
Enhancement: improve Mayer Magazine images by increasing priority of making images full width
Compatibility: remove WordPress Accessibility plugin’s toolbar from printouts
Bugfix: fix warning introduced in WordPress 5.9 (WP_User_Query “who” argument was deprecated)
Bugfix: resolve license mix-up by updating Freemius SDK to 2.5.0

3.10.1 January 21, 2022

Enhancement: Pro ePubs center images by default
Enhancement: Pro ePubs table of contents adds dashes to indicate nested content
Enhancement: notify free users of ePubs

3.10.0 January 11, 2022

Feature: ePub hyperlinks to internal content now link to the page in the ePub instead of the website
Bugfix: fix “file system access is not allowed” downloading test PDFs via Pro PDF Service because of URLs starting with “//” (like those added by LearnDash LMS)

3.9.0 December 29, 2021

Feature: Add ePub export format (Pro only)

3.8.2 November 24, 2021

Bugfix: fix redirecting to print page when it contains UTF-8 characters (eg Chinese)

3.8.1 November 24, 2021

Bugfix: fix a bug in 3.8.0 that prevented pro print from working

3.8.0 November 24, 2021

Feature: WPML integration for projects. Blog Post
Feature: Quick creation of Print Materials from other posts for customization in projects. Pro only. Video
Feature: PMB Print Materials now have their own capabilities which can be granted to users and roles
Bugfix: don’t show print buttons in widget areas on archive pages and others using multiple buttons. Video
Bugfix: fix a bug whereby PMB prevented the new widgets page from saving
Bugfix: print buttons print correct language when WPML is active
Bugfix: if there is a fatal error generating the print page, avoid runaway JS trying to parse the error response
Bugfix: prevent emojis in gallery image descriptions from breaking layout
Bugfix: if WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY setting is on, show warnings when generating print-page
Enhancement: Quick Print prevents featured images from being too big
Enhancement: improve Mayer Magazine intro text styling (add some padding and left-justify text)

3.7.3 October 8, 2021

Enhancement: Mayer Magazine styling improvements, such as revert special list styling changes to Mayer Magazine (they looked bad with like galleries), improving alignment of the table of contents, and don’t show the dividing line in front matter

3.7.2 October 7, 2021

Enhancement: further improved styling of title page in Classic Print and Digital PDF Designs
Enhancement: removed the “Credit Print My Blog” title page option as it’s usually redundant, credit can also be given in the footer
Enhancement: further improve styling of Mayer Magazine

3.7.1 October 7, 2021

Enhancement: styling improvements to Mayer Magazine (justified text, aligned lists, smaller side page margins)
Enhacnement: improved styling of title page in Classic Print and Digital PDF Designs
Bugfix: fix changing project section templates

3.7.0 October 1, 2021

Feature: add shortcode pmb_web_only_text to hide text from printouts and pmb_web_only_blocks to hide entire blocks (paragraphs, images, and any other block) from printouts. Also, the corresponding shortcodes pmb_print_only_text and pmb_print_only_blocks were introduced.
Feature: add CSS classes to control page breaks in printouts: pmb-no-break-before (avoids pagebreaks before a block), pmb-no-break (avoids pagebreaks inside a block, eg a paragraph), pmb-no-break-after (avoids pagebreaks after a block), pmb-break-before (always add a pagebreak before the block), pmb-break-after (always add a pagebreak after the block)
Feature: add CSS class pmb-dont-snap to prevent a block (eg image) from snapping, even if the design specifies it should.
Bugfix: on post editor page, don’t refresh available content when pressing tab

3.6.2 September 20, 2021

Enhancement: made content editor more keyboard-accessible

3.6.1 September 17, 2021

Bugfix: deselect previously-selected items when adding print materials to a project (to avoid accidentally manipulating them etc)
Bugfix: fix readme error in example using new shortcode [pmb_print_page_url format=pdf] (don’t put quotes around the format)

3.6.0 September 15, 2021

Feature: introduce shortcode [pmb_print_page_url] for just returning the URL of the print page (for advanced integration of print buttons)

3.5.0 September 10, 2021

Feature: duplicate projects for Professional and Business licenses
Bugfix: avoid sometimes redirecting to PMB welcome screen when activating other plugins
Bugfix: when removing an item from a project, don’t remove its parent items too
Bugfix: remove hyperlinks and images referring to items from the local filesystem
Bugfix: fix showing errors communicating with PMB
Bugfix: avoid fatal error when a custom design was deactivated
Bugfix: avoid gray background in print pages introduced in WordPress 5.8 and when used with certain plugins like WooCommerce and YARPP
Bugfix: avoid block galleries overflowing into subsequent text

3.4.7 August 27, 2021

Bugfix: fix external links and internal link footnotes (regression in 3.4.4)
Bugfix: fix nested subsections when moving sections between front, main, and back matter

3.4.6 August 25, 2021

Bugfix: show correct date of posts in Quick Print

3.4.5 August 20, 2021

Bugfix: don’t add the table of contents page to the PDF table of contents
Enhancement: temporarily don’t ask for Freemius data collection

3.4.4 August 17, 2021

Bugfix: fix anchor links (eg “#figure-2” which links to an element with ID “figure-2”)

3.4.3 August 17, 2021

Bugfix: don’t add footnotes when URL already spelled out
Bugfix: only add section titles to PDF table of contents
Bugfix: avoid conflict with other plugins/themes using WPTRT/admin_notices
Feature: snapping images now also snaps tables to improve layout

3.4.2 August 16, 2021

Bugfix: some themes overflowed the page
Security Fix: prevent access to uninstall from unauthenticated users. @props WPScan for responsible disclosure

3.4.1 August 2, 2021

Bugfix: only exclude items starting with “pmb-” from the table of contents
Bugfix: if removing images from PMB Pro by setting image size to 0, avoid having captions becoming super tall columns
Feature: render shortcodes in title page content (eg title, subtitle, coverpage preamble, etc)
Bugfix: fix page references and footnotes in front and back matter by wrapping all project content in a div with CSS class “pmb-project-content”
Bugfix: fix internal links to posts with special characters in their permalink

3.4.0 July 28, 2021

Content editing page redesign (select all, move buttons, improved design)
Content Editing defaults to not show content already in project
“Choose Design” step now has a “Customize” button to customize the design, and “Choose Design” to skip customizing it
Add integration with Google Language Translator plugin
Allow showing custom fields (postmeta) in classic designs
Pro Print show password-protected posts completely
Color-code formats to help identify when choosing or customizing the digital or print PDF formats

3.3.9 June 18, 2021

Remove left margin on leftmost print button

3.3.8 June 18, 2021

Add support for back matter to Mayer Magazine
Remove promocode notice

3.3.7 June 17, 2021

Bugfix: fix footnote numbers in front and back matter
Bugfix: fix cropped block galleries so they don’t take up the full page height

3.3.6 June 17, 2021

Bugfix: don’t show article title in header of new parts

3.3.5 June 12, 2021

Enhancement: Pro Print defaults to showing most recent posts first (rather than alphabetically)
Bugfix: allow Print Materials to be trashed and deleted
Bugfix: don’t break right on all back matter in Classic Print PDF

3.3.4 June 11, 2021

Bugfix: fix integration with Oxygen pagebuilder by getting it to add <base> tag to the header too