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Adding those social bookmarking buttons at the end of your post

Posted by Daniel - 1,942 Views

It is a good option to add the social bookmarking buttons at the end of your post right? The easiest way to do it is by using one of the available plugin called Add Me Dichev, it is a bundle of social bookmarker buttons packed as a WordPress plugin by Alexander Dichev. It will insert some even many social bookmarking buttons at the of end your post. All you need to do is install it to have it setup. That simple BUT unfortunately it does not happen here on my blog.

Somehow the installation of Add Me Dichev is crashing the ContuttoPDF - a php warning message - header already sent (something like that) and it will stop the ContuttoPDF plugin to work - too bad since I like both plugins, so I decide to disable the Add Me Dichev plugin but keep trying to have the feature of it by adding it into the page outside the plugin system or manually as a pure php function.

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Wordpress, Combining ContuttoPDF with Code Snippet Plugin to get your code sample printed on the PDF

Posted by Daniel - 956 Views

I also use Code Snippet plugin. It’s a plugin to provide syntax highlight for programming code within the post. I want the formatted code produced by the Code Snippet is also printed in the PDF output with the same appearance as what Code Snippet does on the web page.

But unfortunately it won’t happen automatically, the ContuttoPDF does not recognize the Code Snippet formatting request tag when producing the PDF file, so you need to modify the code to get the intended result. Here is the list of steps you can follow to get the Code Snippet format printed on the PDF file:

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Customizing the PDF file created with ContuttoPDF Wordpress Plugin

Posted by Daniel - 2,267 Views

As I said before on the previous post, ContuttoPDF is a great plugin for WordPress to convert your post into PDF file. It’s a powerful one and the PDF output can be easily customized by CSS styling.

The easiest way to start tweaking the PDF layout will be to modify the ContuttoPDF default theme. The theme files are located at /wp-content/pdf-themes/default/.

To get a simple design you will only need to modify the style-print.css file. For example, the layout of the PDF file for this blog can be achieved by modifying these CSS elements only:

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Wordpress, How to insert the Gravatar icon into the comment section

Posted by Daniel - 1,472 Views

When I was blog-walking to several blogs, I saw not all of them but most of them use Gravatar icons to represent the commentator’s email addresses - its cute. Gravatar or Globally Recognized Avatars is basically a 80 x 80 pixel image used to represent your email address. If you do not have any gravatar yet you can got to gravatar website then signup yourself to get it - it’s simple.

OK, now lets find out how you can retrieve the gravatar of each commentator’s email address on your blog. First open your comments.php file - commonly it is placed on your current theme folder - with your text editor.

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ContuttoPDF (Wordpress Plugin to convert your Content to PDF)

Posted by Daniel - 5,184 Views

Before I finally found this plugin, I had been using MS-Word Printer Addins which only provide limited flexibilities for example they won’t transfer MS-Word hyperlink into the created PDF file and that is not the result I want get.

OK lets talk about this plugin. ContuttoPDF is a Wordpress plugin which I think you should have when you need to convert your WordPress post content into PDF file. It’s a great plugin and it’s relatively quite easy to install and yes it will transfer your hyperlink to the created PDF - perfect enough for me…

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