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thesacredpath on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

thesacredpath — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:33:39 +0000

/nod to timethief
The CSS hack shown above, if you have the CSS upgrade, should work. I say should, because I do not know if it will work the same with all themes or not. Knowing engtech, I would think that it would.

timethief on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

timethief — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:28:57 +0000

@jacqueline1230
The original post in this thread provides the instructions to print your posts out without the header, sidebar, comments and footer.

I do not know what your css/html comment means. We cannot access or edit the html or php in our underlying blog templates at wordpress.com http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/edit-my-templates/

Provided we have css editing experience and we are prepared to do the work ourselves (no staff support for learning) then we can alter the appearance, but not the function of our blogs by purchasing a css editing upgrade http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/about-the-custom-css-upgrade/

jacqueline1230 on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

jacqueline1230 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:18:16 +0000

I'm new to the 'hood (over from Blogger) and loving it. Mostly.

How do I get an individual post to be printable? This is a significant disadvantage if it's not possible...

I don't know CSS either, just got HTML proficient....please don't make me go back!

-Jacqueline

http://theleatherdistrictgourmet.wordpress.com
http://the sixteenthminute.wordpress.com

Thanks!

vivianpaige on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

vivianpaige — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:26:31 +0000

I added this code to my blog - thanks so much! Only problem: my sidebar continues to print. But hey, it's better than it was before!

judyb12 on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

judyb12 — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:12:43 +0000

very nicely done

raincoaster on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

raincoaster — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:43:23 +0000

I should check that out. Thanks.

engtech on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

engtech — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:35:46 +0000

Wrote a blog post about it: http://internetducttape.com/2007/10/15/css-save-paper-with-print-media/

twhit on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

twhit — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:02:39 +0000

Thanks so much, engtech!

I think this by itself could be enough reason for some people to get the CSS upgrade.

This works well with the 1-Column skin in Sandbox. With the 3-Column skin, the sidebar columns do not print, but the middle column with the content remains limited in width as if the sidebars were still there. I haven't figured out how to override that.

Also, anyone who wants the Comments to print along with the post can just remove the line that says

.comments { display: none; }

from the engtech's CSS above.

materialmama on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

materialmama — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:34:23 +0000

Wow, THANKS! It looks just perfect. Nice to be perfect in some way LOL.

mark on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

mark — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:22:50 +0000

Completed.

The above applies to anyone else too who wants to import data.
All I ask is that you first drop all stats data and tags data. materialmama's file was perfect but I have had seriously huge files sent before.

materialmama on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

materialmama — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:46:06 +0000

Done, and I'm off to donate and buy some credits. Thanks so much.

Meg

materialmama on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

materialmama — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:38:09 +0000

Wow, thanks Mark! That's why I Adore WP

:D
Meg

mark on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

mark — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:12:20 +0000

Export the .sql file (zipped please) , then send it to support@wordpress.com
Tell me the name of the blog you want it imported into (I don't want to assume I know) and I'll take care of that :)

materialmama on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

materialmama — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:53:33 +0000

I don't know if it helps, but I've tried exporting the database, but I'm only given these options:

SQL
LaTeX
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Word 2000
CSV for MS Excel
CSV
XML

None seem to work when I try to upload them to my new blog here.

Thanks again

materialmama on "Importing wordpress.org blog database info here"

materialmama — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:34:51 +0000

I was hosting my personal blog on my own site using WordPress.org. I had a stalker and went into my ftp account and deleted all the files, but didn't touch the database.

The situation has been resolved, and now I'd like to import all that db info here, to start a new blog but with my old posts intact. I can see them using myPHP, so I know they are there.

Is that possible? How would I do this?

Thanks so much,
Megan

sunburntkamel on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

sunburntkamel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:38:46 +0000

nice tip, thanks!

entomoagricola on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

entomoagricola — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:30:37 +0000

I was thinking these days how to do it, but I was not finding the way (at least not an elegant way).
It me works perfectly with IE 6.0 and 7.0, and with Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, under linux and Windows ;-)
Thanks, great job!
Alex.

engtech on "Nice blog printing using CSS and Sandbox"

engtech — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:52:09 +0000

I just did this CSS hack to make articles on my blog print without the header, sidebar, comments and footer. Felt like sharing.

@media print { /* If printing the page, get rid of the sidebar and comments */ div#wrapper { width: 100%; } div#wrapper * { width: auto; } div#header { margin: 0; padding: 0; display:none !important; } div#footer { margin: 0; padding: 0; display:none !important; } div.sidebar { margin: 0; padding: 0; display:none !important; } div.container { margin: 0; padding: 0; } .navigation { display: none; } #blog-title { display: none; } .comments { display: none; } }