Title: Printer Friendly pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Printer Friendly pages

 *  Resolved [papadoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papadoc/)
 * (@papadoc)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/)
 * Can anyone tell me how the syntax works for setting a different CSS sheet in 
   WP?
 * I’ve managed to make it work in local webpages on my machine, but I think there’s
   something screwy going on with the way WP pulls in pages, and I’m not quite so
   clear on how the code works in the HEAD.
 * My website is [http://www.nixsight.net](http://www.nixsight.net)
    The current
   code collecting the stylesheet is, as lifted from “connections”: `<style type
   ="text/css" media="screen">@import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
   </style>`

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335334)
 * Back in the olden days of 1.2.2 and before, we used this in the header:
    ` <link
   rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”print” href=”<?php echo get_settings(‘
   siteurl’); ?>/print.css” />
 * Would that help if you wrote the print.css ?
 *  [pcmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcmt/)
 * (@pcmt)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335363)
 * What’s wrong with:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/wp-content/themes/default/print.css" type="text/
   css" media="print" />`
 * … in the header file?
 * Added: looked again at Podz’s suggestion… yes, I see what you mean. Same thing,
   but for a template.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335367)
 * I prefer:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/print.
   css" type="text/css" media="print" />`
 * since it uses the current active theme directory. But this is (of course) dependent
   on keeping print.css with the other theme templates.
 *  Thread Starter [papadoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papadoc/)
 * (@papadoc)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335583)
 * Looking into the website’s source code after putting each of those in would seem
   to show that they’re doing what they need to be doing, but unfortunately it’s
   not working when I go to print the page.
 * Do I need to change something else on the page? At the moment, the following 
   bit of code is still intact in the header:
    `<style type="text/css" media="screen"
   >@import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> ); </style>
 * And I’ve been putting your suggested bits of code with the other `<link rel=...`
   coding that’s there.
 * So the whole thing looks like this:
    `<meta name="generator" content="WordPress
   <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /><!-- leave this for stats please -->`
 * <style type="text/css" media="screen"> [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
    </style>
 * <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php 
   bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"
   title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" /> <link rel="pingback"
   href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
 * <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/print.
   css" type="text/css" media="print" />
 * <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
    <?php wp_head(); ?> </
   head>
 * But as I don’t really understand what the code is doing, I know I’m probably 
   putting it in completely the wrong place, or not making some fundamental important
   change that’s needed. I’ve always relied on Dreamweaver to do the stylesheet 
   attaching, I’m ashamed to admit.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335586)
 * First things first: do you actually have a print.css file?
 *  Thread Starter [papadoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papadoc/)
 * (@papadoc)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335591)
 * Tut, yes… what do I look like, an amateu… actually, scratch that.
 * But yeh, there’s a really stripped down CSS file in there, named “Print.css”…
   just pretty much takes out everything but the main content.
 *  [Kate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katie1/)
 * (@katie1)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335596)
 * Is that Print.css or print.css? capital letters will be affected.
 *  Thread Starter [papadoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papadoc/)
 * (@papadoc)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335600)
 * Good point. All changed to lower-case now… but still not working! Although that
   would have been a bonehead typical error on my part!
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335652)
 * When looking at the source of your front page I see this:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/wp-content/themes/default/print.css" type="text/
   css" media="print" />`
 * Which does not exist, and it seems you want this:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/wp-content/themes/no_game_plan/print.css" type
   ="text/css" media="print" />`
 * So may I again recommend using:
 * `<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/print.
   css" type="text/css" media="print" />`
 * Which, if the print.css is with the theme, clears up any mistakes.
 *  [pcmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcmt/)
 * (@pcmt)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335653)
 * I don’t see /wp-content/themes/default/print.css on your site.
 *  [jbsprague](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbsprague/)
 * (@jbsprague)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335661)
 * I use WP-Print by GaMerZ (aka Lester Chan of Singapore). I tried to write the
   Print CSS but it was just a pain. GaMerZ created a great plugin that is easy 
   to customize. I would recommend checking this out if you want printer friendly
   pages.
 * WP-Print can be downloaded from here:
    [http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php](http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php)
 *  Thread Starter [papadoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papadoc/)
 * (@papadoc)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335783)
 * pcmt said: “I don’t see /wp-content/themes/default/print.css on your site.”
 * Yeh, this is me not looking at the files properly and forgetting that the default
   theme isn’t the one I’m using.
 *  Thread Starter [papadoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papadoc/)
 * (@papadoc)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/printer-friendly-pages/#post-335797)
 * Kafkaesqui had it with his last suggestion… thanks for all your insights, guys…

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