Printing all posts

In a word, no. This function is not available.

If you can give me a specific use case for such an option, as well as a suggestion as to how/where this should be implemented (front end or back end, accessible by whom), I might consider it.

Think about a site with thousands of posts. Surely you wouldn’t be proposing something which could be used for malicious purposes to choke the server and the bandwidth during a transfer of such data?

I might see something like this in the back end as an admin option to generate a page of links, with each link representing a post/page, and then the ability to compile groupings (or all) into “volumes” (single pdfs), but this is well beyond the scope of this plugin.

Thanks for your inquiry!

Lewis

How about the ability to print all posts in a given loop. For instance I need to provide a way to output FAQs as a PDF. The way we create the FAQs is as a custom post type, but no one wants to print out each one individually, which is what the plugin currently allows. So the ability to have just one print option for an entire loop would make this plugin much more useable.

i’m joining you, belljr: i’d like to create a pdf from all or a certain amount of posts, optionally without all the headers on each page.

there’s a high demand for this because of a simple reason: more and more bloggers want to dive into the eBook- and print on demand world, and providers of such services have nothing to offer to get a smooth transition from wordpress to pdf.

there’s another issue here: wordpress stresses the idea of themes. theme aesthetics normally get lost once you convert the page to pdf. typography, background colour etc.

@lewis: thanks for the great work!

Okay, I can see the logic of the request for this feature.

I’ll take it under advisement and add it to the list. Sorry that I don’t have a quick hack for you in the meantime,

@maxarchive: Thanks for the compliment!

Cheers

Lewis

Did we have any update about this one? Any solution?

I also could use a backend option to create pdfs from all of the posts. I have about 300 posts on one site, and I’m trying to save its content into pdf files before its retirement. Yes, this would probably load up the server and so on, but it’s a one shot thing.

Hi, all…

This is still on my to-do list, but not bubbling to the surface just yet, as I’m really just now getting back to this. All good points, and I can see the use cases as presented here as being valid.

What we’re seeing are a different though somewhat related objectives:

1. Allow the user to create from the front end a single collection of posts or pages, with optional include/exclude ability.
2. From the admin area, have the ability to pre-populate the cache with PDFs of all non-excluded pages.
3. From the admin area, have the ability to create PDFs (or a single PDF) of all site content, without regard to inclusion/exclusion settings (for archival purposes, for example).

The multiple page/post issue raises additional concerns for header, title, page numbering, footer, etc. which will likely require additional options. In fact, I could actually see two additional, yet completely separate, plugins for these: a make-an-ebook plugin and an archive-the-site plugin, instead of packing all of this into this one plugin.

Input is welcome, and again, thanks for the great ideas and thoughtful commentary.

Cheers

Lewis

Hi Lewis I’m another user interested in an archive-the-site plug in.

In my use case my wife has been using WordPress as a family journal and we are interested in printing her entire site to create a physical copy of it for posterity.

I have the same concern…i use my blog to create a diary of experiences and can only show one at a time. I would like to print out the older posts and certainly not delete them.