Written By: EMG
Posted On: Mar 11, 2010
Filed Under: Administration, In the Studio, On Being a Blogger, On Being a Webmaster, On the Web Development Front
It is, it is!
Thanks to AddThis and my print-friendly CSS stylesheet, this blog is officially ‘Print Friendly’!
Remember what I said about the AddThis Printing feature printing out entire blogs instead of specific blog posts?
Well, I found out from the AddThis support team – thanks! 
– that AddThis has a specific Printing function called Printer Friendly which can enable a specific blog post to be printed out of a whole page of blog posts given the proper setup.
If you click on the ‘Share’ button at the bottom of this post, you will notice a Print Friendly option. If you click it, it will open up the blog post the button is associated with in a new viewing window/tab and will allow you to print that one post rather than doing the default ‘Print Whole Web Page’ function.
Pretty neat, huh?
At least… I think so! 
Thanks again AddThis team; I really appreciate the tip and I’m really glad you implemented the Print Friendly functionality!
~ EMG
Written By: EMG
Posted On: Mar 07, 2010
Filed Under: Administration, In the Cyber World, On Being a Blogger, On the Web Development Front
So I’m using AddThis to Print that one blog post right there between that one post and that other post and… WHOOPS!
You know what happened?
I ended up Printing the entire blog – ACK!
Thankfully, I was only printing to PDF and the blog in question was my own and I have my blog settings set so that one page can only display a certain number of posts at any given time.
But… still.
The whole blog!
Man oh man.
I sent a support ticket to the AddThis team; hopefully I’ll get some sort of answer or workaround for this issue.
I can’t imagine that I might be the only person to have this issue unless… I’m the only person who tacks on the AddThis feature to every blog post on a page of posts?
We’ll see.
I’ll post again with more news when I find out what’s going on, but I figured I should let everyone know what’s going on in case someone else wants to try and Print a single post.
~ EMG
Written By: EMG
Posted On: Jul 19, 2009
Filed Under: Administration, On the Web Development Front, On the WordPress Front
So uhmmm… whooops?
EDIT: Justin Thorp from the AddThis team directly replied to this post in a comment and said that the team is looking into resolving both issues! Thank you, Justin!
The newer version of the WordPress-specific AddThis coding (the one you can manually add to your posts that uses the php echo?) does NOT validate through W3C. It WORKS, but because of the ampersand and perhaps something else, W3C is going bonkers over it, offering up anywhere between 5 to 9 errors on account of it.
So if you visit the blog and validate it and see a million AddThis validation errors? That’s why.
And oh yes, the ‘Print’ functionality does not work for a single post if you have the AddThis coding enabled on say your main blog page where it appears multiple times – once on each post.
Instead of printing that one post, it will print the entire page – whooops!
I hope AddThis fixes that soon!
~ EMG
