Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin vs WebEquipe PDF Search

Offline publishing for you, site visitors, and the world outside WordPress. Print My Blog makes WordPress content useful outside of your website, like in print, PDFs, and other formats. It has 3 main features: Quick Print: print thousands of posts in a few clicks Print Buttons: let site visitors print individual posts Pro Print: make professional-quality books and documents Each of which takes your WordPress content and optimizes it for print, PDF, and eBook by: removing ink guzzlers like site logo, sidebars, and footer avoiding page breaks inside images, between images and captions, and even right after headers allowing you to use other plugins in your printed output Read more about each… Quick Print Quick Print lets you easily print your entire blog to paper, PDF, or eBook. Print your blog to read offline. Create a paper backup (book or printout) to read when your blog is taken offline. Create a PDF, ePub, or MOBI file as a human-readable, portable backup. Send it to friends, store it in the cloud or a hard drive, or even archive it with a historical organization. Copy your entire Blog for quick pasting into another program like Microsoft Word or Google Docs Quick Print Features Loads all your blog’s posts into a single web page so you can print them from your web browser (to paper, PDF, ePub, or anything your web browser supports) or copy-and-paste them into another program (although the other program likely won’t format it as nicely) supports printing thousands of blog posts in one click (the record is over 3000 posts) prints posts and pages uses your theme’s and plugins’ styles (so Gutenberg and page builders are supported) print your entire blog, or filter by author, date, status (e.g. draft, pending, private, password-protected, trashed, etc.), category, and tags optionally prints comments optionally places each post on a new page resizes text resizes images or removes them altogether replaces embedded videos with a link, full video title, screenshot and QRCode optionally removes hyperlinks optionally includes post excerpts orders posts by date, and pages by the “order” attribute place the “Print My Blog” Gutenberg block on a page and allow site visitors to print your blog too no watermark in print-out, and attribution optional, GDPR compliant (no data is collected about you or your visitors) free, open-source software, so you can use it for whatever you like without fear of changing terms of use, customize it to fit your needs (although we’d be curious to hear what you’ve done with it), and even redistribute it. There is no lengthy legal document describing how you’re giving up your rights by using this software! Print Buttons You can also automatically add print buttons to help your visitors print your blog. Share your content with friends offline Save it for reading later Improve long reads by converting a portion of your blog to eBook or PDF Print Button Features prints individual posts and/or pages just like Quick Print (e.g. omits the theme’s header, sidebars, footer, etc.) displays on all posts and/or pages, or specific ones using the shortcode [pmb_print_buttons] enable buttons for print, PDF, and/or eBook customize print output settings for each (using the same print settings from Quick Print) place buttons above or below content, or somewhere in-between using the shortcode [pmb_print_buttons] customize print button text (e.g. “Print”, “Imprimir”, or just a print emoji like 🖨) buttons use theme’s design make more seamless integration with your design or content using the shortcode [pmb_print_page_url] to just get the URL of the print page (see this FAQ for more details) Pro Print Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Word with WordPress! Turn existing posts, pages, and custom post types—or write all new print materials—into professional-looking documents that are ready to share with customers and the world. Use your browser to print Pro Print projects for free, and access premium features (e.g. automatic page references, footnotes, and full control of page margins) with a Pro PDF Service subscription. Example uses: white paper. Share an in-depth analysis of a topic on your website and in print. printed version of entire website or blog. Print it all, except ink guzzlers like site heading, sidebars, footers and pop-ups. Use your own printer or send to a printing service such as lulu.com. book from select content. Add a title page, introduction, table of contents, and pick existing content from your site to make a book. Sell it on Amazon KDP. Just like that, you’re an author! new book from scratch. Write new print-only materials that never appear on your website. Leverage WordPress’ great editors and other plugins. lead magnets. Compile content on a subject into a PDF and grant access after users signup for your email list. members-only content. Combine with Restrict Content Pro or other plugins to only allow access to select downloadable PDFs of your content. printed course materials. Create a course using an LMS (learning management system) plugin, and use Print My Blog for learners to print. event brochure. Let event attendees print a useful copy of your event’s details to take with them. printed user manual. And digital user manual on the website. product brochure. Use WooCommerce or other WordPress e-commerce plugins to make content accessible to those who would rather not browse online. monthly magazine or newspaper. Reuse the same design and blog post content to create a digital or print magazine to send to your email subscribers. research paper. Put your research on your website and print it with a consistent design. restaurant menu. Optimized for display on your website, and to look great in print. Pro Print Features saveable projects create digital PDFs, print-ready PDFs, ePub eBooks (paid only), and Microsoft Word documents (paid only) select posts, pages, print materials (posts intended only for use in Pro Print) and most custom post types (e.g. products from WooCommerce) search and filter for posts based on post type, status, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, author, and publish date drag-and-drop reordering of content (and add new print materials on-the-fly) organize posts into parts add front and back matter (usually numbered with roman numerals with Pro PDF Service) select from a variety of pre-built designs (similar to WordPress Themes, but for Pro Print) customize designs (each has different settings and can have custom CSS) and can be saved for future projects Theme Designers will feel at home creating a custom design using HTML, CSS, and even Javascript better integration with plugins than Quick Print (especially those using Javascript) save project metadata (e.g. title, extra cover page content, categories etc.) automatic table of contents (with page references using Pro PDF Service) automatically replace hyperlinks to included content with page references (Pro PDF Service only) automatically replace hyperlinks to external content with footnotes (Pro PDF Service only) automatically move or automatically resize images to reduce whitespace and fit better on the page (Pro PDF Service only) choose image quality and maximum image size to reduce filesize or save ink choose article templates (e.g. “Content Only” or “Centered Content”) choose fonts, font sizes, page sizes and lots more optionally apply your active theme’s CSS. Note: Themes are usually not designed for print, so we offer a paid service to those who need help customizing a design to match their brand. Some designs have features like: roman numerals for front matter page numbers always in bottom-right corner page numbers appearing in outside corners running titles (an article’s title appears in the top margin on subsequent pages) background colors, even with gradients and choosable logos two-column layout Read more about Pro Print in our extensive user guide. Wanna See it in Action? Try Print My Blog on a Free Test Site Now Translations Print My Blog includes translation files in the following languages: German French Spanish Italian Japanese To improve the translations, please get in touch. Give your story life outside your blog! Want more? Tell us what matters to you on GitHub. Thanks to a revenue stream through optional payments, this is actively supported and improved. Plugin Compatibility Highlights PMB strives to be compatible with all plugins. But here are some that are especially noteworthy: BasePress for creating a user manual on both the web and print WP Quick LaTeX for mathematical formulas Translate WordPress with GTranslate for quick and automatic translating of projects WPML for more advanced translating of projects, and adding print buttons in different languages. Read Translating Projects with WPML Plugin TablePress makes tables look good in print too, even when they span multiple pages ⚠️Incompability: Some users have reported incompability issues with the Divi theme. If you are using this theme, please use Print My Blog with caution and always back up your database before use. If you are delighted how PMB worked with another plugin, or had trouble, please let us know! Our Mission Preserve your blog for decades to come in a low-tech format. Make WordPress an alternative to Microsoft Word and Google Docs for publishing documents. Alternatives to Print My Blog If this doesn’t meet your needs, there are good paid and free alternatives. Alternatives to Quick Print printmy.blog we run a hosted version of this same plugin, so you can print your blog without even installing this. Especially useful for WordPress.com users, or those who can’t install the plugin on their site. (Its free like Quick Print, but won’t use your blog’s styles.) Anthologize is another great plugin for customizing your blog’s content before exporting to an e-book format. Also free. Blog To HTML is actually very similar to Print My Blog. It allows you to export your blog to HTML for eBook creation. blogbooker prints a book, or creates a PDF, from your blog using their pre-made styles. (Paid service.) blog2print ditto, but temporarily requests your username and password. (Paid service.) Alternatives for adding print buttons Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly lets visitors easily print to paper, PDF, or email themselves a copy. Easy setup and very customizable. Doesn’t use theme’s styles. The free version is not GDPR-compliant and inserts advertisements. WP Print Friendly automatically adds a link to print the current post, page, or custom post type. Can convert links to endnotes. Doesn’t use theme’s styles. WP-Print printouts quite customizable. Requires editing theme files. Does not use theme’s styles. Print-o-Matic add print buttons with a shortcode. Customizable and can work with theme’s and plugin’s styles. PDF Generator for WordPress Create & Customize PDF for Post, Pages and WooCommerce Products Alternatives to Pro Print MPL – Publisher is another free eBook creator / PDF converter plugin you can use to self-publish a book. To be honest probably the best alternative right now. There’s both free and paid versions. PressBooks is a good paid, hosted alternative. Begin creating or import content for free, and can pay to export to PDF and other formats. Designrr is great for creating short documents, but is a fully paid option. Best Wishes Publishing for Print with WordPress!

WebEquipe PDF Search indexes your PDF files and makes their text fully searchable. When visitors search your site, they see instant results from both your posts/pages and the content hidden inside your PDFs. Search returns one clean result per PDF with a smart excerpt from the best-matching page. The plugin interface is available in English, French, German, Dutch, and Swedish, loading automatically to match your WordPress language. Looking for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned documents? While the free version indexes standard text-based PDFs, WebEquipe PDF Search Pro brings advanced Cloud OCR capabilities directly to WordPress, allowing you to index and search scanned image PDFs, historical archives, and photo-only documents seamlessly. Video Watch our feature overview to see standard indexing and Pro Cloud OCR capabilities in action: Supported PDFs & OCR Compatibility Standard Text PDFs: Works flawlessly out of the box with digital PDFs exported from Word, Google Docs, InDesign, etc. File size default 50MB, configurable up to 500MB in PDF Search → Settings. Mixed Layout PDFs: If some pages contain extractable text and others are image-only, indexing succeeds with an admin warning; core search covers the native text pages. Scanned or Image PDFs: Image-only or scanned PDFs with no embedded text are marked Error in the free version. To make these searchable, WebEquipe PDF Search Pro uses automated OCR to extract and index the text for you. Protected Files: Password-protected PDFs cannot be indexed. Keep Private PDFs Out of Search Need to hide or protect certain PDFs? The free version lets you use Exclude so a PDF is never indexed and never appears in search—even when you run “Re-index All PDFs” or bulk index. Excluded PDFs stay in your Media Library; they just won’t be searchable. Use Include later to allow indexing again. You can exclude or include PDFs from the Media Library or from PDF Search → Manage PDFs. Looking for Restricted or Member-Only Search? (Pro Feature) If you want to keep documents indexed but restrict who can see them, WebEquipe PDF Search Pro includes a Private PDF Search feature. This allows you to index files and mark them as Private so that only logged-in users can find them in search results. Logged-out or public visitors will never see them, making it perfect for member directories, internal company handbooks, and premium resources. How to Use Install and activate the plugin. Open PDF Search in the WordPress admin sidebar (Dashboard is the home screen). Click Re-index All PDFs on the Dashboard or PDF Search → Index Activity to index existing PDFs (new uploads are indexed automatically when Enable PDF Indexing is on). Use your site’s search or add the shortcode [webequipe_pdf_search_form] on a page—PDFs will appear in results when Enable Search Integration is enabled. Use PDF Search → Manage PDFs to scan the library, filter by status, and run bulk actions. Use PDF Search → Index Activity to review indexing runs, export a CSV log, or start another full re-index. Settings at a Glance All options are under PDF Search → Settings: General – Enable PDF indexing on upload, include PDFs in WordPress search, maximum file size (50MB default), search result excerpt length. Indexing options – Batch size (PDFs per re-index step), pages per batch (background page steps), page index threshold (when large PDFs switch to page-by-page indexing), max page content length (0 = unlimited; re-index after changing). Search display options – Show or hide PDF icon, file size, page count, last updated date, author, thumbnail preview, and summary/snippet text in search results. Advanced – Debug logging, memory limit, processing timeout, background processing, delete data on uninstall. Full details and shortcode options: PDF Search → Help. What You Can Do Dashboard – Indexed PDF count, pages indexed, coverage, search health, recent activity, quick links, and Re-index All PDFs (status banner uses live index data). Manage PDFs – Scan the library, filter by status (including Processing / Scheduled), cancel in-flight jobs, bulk actions, and accurate Re-index All progress with a do-not-refresh notice. Full-text search – Search inside PDF content by page; one result per PDF with the best-matching excerpt. Control each PDF – Index, unindex, exclude, or retry from the Media Library, Manage PDFs, or the attachment screen. Bulk actions – Index, unindex, include, or exclude multiple PDFs at once (Media Library or Manage PDFs). Index Activity – Filterable log of every indexing run, stats, and CSV export. Search display – Configure icons, meta, previews, and excerpts in settings. Shortcode – Add a PDF-only search form with [webequipe_pdf_search_form] (see PDF Search → Help). Background processing – Large PDFs above the page threshold are indexed page-by-page in the background to avoid timeouts. Multilingual interface – Admin and front-end text is translated into French, German, Dutch, and Swedish, loaded automatically based on your WordPress language setting. Pro Version — OCR, Private Search & Analytics The free plugin indexes standard text-based PDFs. WebEquipe PDF Search Pro is optional (sold separately) and extends the free plugin with three features document-heavy sites often need: OCR for Scanned PDFs (Starter, Pro & Agency) Scanned PDFs, archived documents, and image-based files are invisible to the free plugin. Pro uses Google Vision OCR to read and index them automatically on upload—no pre-processing, no extra tools. Government records, old meeting minutes, scanned handbooks: all searchable. Private PDF Search (Pro & Agency) Mark any PDF as Private. It remains fully indexed but disappears from search results for logged-out visitors. Perfect for member-only handbooks, restricted resources, and confidential documents—without removing them from your Media Library. Analytics Dashboard (Pro & Agency) See exactly what visitors search for and—more importantly—what they search for and don’t find. Zero-result queries are your content gap list. Top queries, most-clicked PDFs, and click-through rates, all in one admin screen. Plans & Feature Comparison Choose the tier that fits your workflow. Every premium plan includes automatic background indexing, priority updates, and expert support: Free Plan: Full-text search for standard PDFs, auto-indexing, and shortcode integration. (Forever Free) Starter Plan: Adds Cloud OCR (up to 1,000 pages/month) and advanced search filtering. Pro Plan: Adds Private PDF Search, the full Search Analytics Dashboard, and higher OCR limits (3,000 pages/month). Agency Plan: Includes everything, White-Label mode, volume OCR processing (10,000 pages/month), and unlimited site licenses. View current pricing tiers and upgrade to Pro now -> Troubleshooting PDFs not appearing in search Ensure PDFs are indexed (Media Library → “Search Indexed” column), Enable Search Integration is on, and the PDF is not excluded. Check PDF Search → Manage PDFs for Error status and use Index Activity to see why a run failed. Indexing fails or times out In PDF Search → Settings: enable Background Processing, review Pages Per Batch and Page Index Threshold for large files, and lower Batch Size if Re-index All PDFs stops early. Under Advanced, adjust Processing Timeout and ensure PHP memory_limit and max_execution_time are sufficient (see Help). Very large PDFs are processed in multiple page batches automatically when over the threshold. Scanned PDFs marked as Error The free plugin cannot extract text from image-based or scanned PDFs natively—this is normal behavior. To automatically index scanned layout files, upgrade to WebEquipe PDF Search Pro (Starter plan and above) to utilize cloud-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR). See Pro plans → Legacy index after upgrade If you see a notice about migrating to per-page indexing, run Re-index All PDFs from the Dashboard or Index Activity page. Other issues See the FAQ above and PDF Search → Help for full documentation. Privacy The plugin stores extracted PDF text and metadata in custom database tables (webequipe_pdf_search_files, webequipe_pdf_search_pages, and webequipe_pdf_search_activity, with a legacy webequipe_pdf_search_index table until you re-index). A compressed backup may also be stored in WordPress post meta for PDF attachments. If debug logging is enabled, recent log entries are stored in a WordPress option (not written directly to disk). The plugin does not collect or send visitor search data to external services. If your PDFs contain personal or sensitive information, that content is in the index—mention this in your privacy policy if required. Third-Party Libraries smalot/pdfparser (LGPL-3.0) – PDF text extraction symfony/polyfill-mbstring (MIT) – multibyte string support Credits Developed by WebEquipe. Uses smalot/pdfparser for PDF text extraction. Support Support: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/webequipe-pdf-search Pro plans and pricing: https://webequipe.com/pdf-search/