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[BERNIE FLORESCA Contribution Level: 2]

I am starting a blog for work, that I want to also double as a physical newsletter to hand out.
Is there some newsletter format in WordPress that would allow this "double application?"

Thank you.

[George Fourie Contribution Level: 2]

When you say physical, you want it in print, correct?

And do you want it as an automated process?

Depending on the amount of work you want to do, here is a manual option for you...

There is a Wordpress plugin called WP-Print which you can download here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-print/

That will allow you to print manually to paper.

If you want it done more professionally, there is a software app that I use called Edoc Printer PDF Pro, which allows you to print directly to PDF.

Do a Google search, I think it was free or 20bucks. But there are many free equivalent applications (check download.com)

That will get your blog posts printed to PDF and you can get a print company to print out your newsletters if that's what you want done.

Not sure if that's ideal, but it might do as a quick fix in the meantime.

[BERNIE FLORESCA Contribution Level: 2]

Thanks, George. Yes, I wanted to print specific articles in my blog as I upload them. Think of a realtor's newsletter, it's something like that, but I want to implement it via a blog facility. I'm using the internet branding concept for a real brick-and-mortar business, and I'm thinking of a way to "drip" on future clients, as I visit them in person regularly. Problem is, they're not internet savvy, hence, the need for physical copies.

I love the immediacy of editing a blog for errors/additions/etc. So, that is why I want the newsletter in
blog format. I'm hoping there is a plug-in for printing out individual blog articles as needed.

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 9]

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Hey Bernie,
One pretty cool way of doing this is to create your article content in a text editor.
I prefer TextWrangler for MacOS, but any text editor will do.

I don't use Word for my writing because there are too many default formatting errors or incompatibility issues with Microsoft html in Word. So a basic text editor is my personal choice.

Anyway, now you have raw text that you can import into any other format such as Wordpress and html newsletters. The way I do this is to copy/paste into Wordpress, use the "kitchen sink" to format my text then ... post it.

Then copy/paste the raw text again into my autoresponder using one of the html formatted newsletter templates. Of course I like to tweak the design to personalize it a bit, but most of them are actually pretty good out of the box.

Now either preview the newsletter or send yourself a copy and open it.
Now print that window and choose AdobePDF as your printer and save the file as a PDF.
If you don't have that print option, download and install Open Office (OpenOffice.org), this will install the PDF print extensions you need to print as PDF.

NOTE: in Print preferences select "none" for all header and footer print options. This options will make sure the document url, date, time, etc., do not print on the page; giving you a nice clean border around the entire document.

Now you can upload the PDF file to your Media uploads in Wordpress and ... voilà!
You have a downloadable, fully formatted PDF newsletter file and the Wordpress post.
Add the download link for the PDF at the end of your post for extra viral exposure.
And of course you can print a hard copy of the PDF as well if you need to.

Make sense?
Cheers!
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