Title: Printer Friendly CSS file for WP
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Printer Friendly CSS file for WP

 *  [estjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estjohn/)
 * (@estjohn)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-css-file-for-wp/)
 * I might be jumping ahead of myself here.. I have only used WordPress for a couple
   of months and I have only been playing with CSS for those couple of months as
   well..
 * But I had been trying to find a plugin that would work so I could make printer-
   friendly prints of pages and posts. I did find a good plugin, but I did not know
   enough to get it to work right. And, I also found a few CSS scripts, but it would
   not print what I wanted it to, or it would print too many things.
 * So, I finally found a basica tutorial on CSS and created one from scratch. It
   does not give an on screen print preview, but you can see a preview in your browser
   by going to File / PrintPreview.
 * So anyway, I thought I would put it out there with a few basic how-tos on it 
   for anyone else that might like to try it.
 * I have never done this kind of thing before, so if you try it out, or if you 
   even read it.. please let me know if I have made it simple enough to use.
 * I have it posted at
    [http://www.aleeya.net/2005/10/20/css-printer-friendly-for-wordpress/](http://www.aleeya.net/2005/10/20/css-printer-friendly-for-wordpress/)
 * and please excuse me if I am jumping ahead of myself or if I have mangled up 
   something.. I would be happy to correct any mistakes in it. My intentions are
   just to help anyone else with the same problems I had.

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-css-file-for-wp/#post-273637)
 * yeah, making print-cleaner CSS files is completely dependent on:
    1. the look
   you want for the printout, and 2. the original theme CSS file.
 * It’s very hard to have any sort of ‘generic’ solution, unfortunately. I’ve also
   found that for many reasons, sometimes having a different template file (or otherwise‘
   different code path’) to show a page prepped for printing is more useful, gives
   a lot more control than just trying to turn things off in CSS. 😉
 * Keep on digging, it’s the only way to learn! 🙂
 * -d
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-css-file-for-wp/#post-273638)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_for_Print](http://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_for_Print)
 *  Thread Starter [estjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estjohn/)
 * (@estjohn)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-css-file-for-wp/#post-273640)
 * Personally, I don’t even know why I wrote that post. Chalk it up to late at night.
   I guess more than anything I dug through post after post trying to find an answer,
   trying to get another one to work, but none would, so I made that one and I wanted
   to show others a way to edit one to work, not just use another one and not have
   it work. I tried to go through and exaplin what I did to modify it and how and
   where to look to see to modify it for the next person. So when someone else had
   the problem.. they could ee how to modify vs it doesn’t work and not understand
   why.. which is what I did. Just hope others can learn from my mistakes 😉
 *  Thread Starter [estjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estjohn/)
 * (@estjohn)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-css-file-for-wp/#post-273641)
 * Beel yup.. that is one I worked with to get what I made. I expected the “default”
   to work and it didn’t so then I went back and tried to understand what I was 
   looking at , and wht it would take for it to work with the theme I was using.

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