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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Adding a print stylesheet to your blog


While creating web sites for my company, most of our clients ask us to create print functions for the web site which we're designing for them. Yes, it can seem a little obsolete in a technically advanced world and it isn't green at all, but the fact is that many Internet users still print pages for offline consultation.

In this recipe, we shall learn how to create a print button and add it to your blog, as well as creating an efficient print stylesheet..

Getting ready

To achieve this recipe we need to perform two actions. The first action is to create a print button and add it to your single.php file. The second action is to create a CSS stylesheet specially designed for printing so that we can hide the useless parts of the page (while being read offline) such as site footer or sidebar.

How to do it...

Let us start with adding a print button to our blog.

  1. Open the single.php file from your theme.

  2. Add the following code anywhere in the file (though it is better...