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Yup, that’s one of many!
Note this is also useful for subsets of posts. E.g., I write a series of posts on a given subject, marked with a category. I export just the posts for this category. Then I get a PDF for this series. I have had this requested before but did not know how to do it. This solves it.
Aha, you’re right about that one, John! Thanks for pointing that out: I’d only considered the small picture.
Thank you so much. I too had found “you can’t do that” from Google and wasn’t accepting it. I however did not have the savvy that I am glad you have. Thank you. I can now review the info. It is as you said a little clunky in word but the pdf version is beautiful. I think I will have to just cut and paste a little at a time as I edit it into my final book. i am looking forward to reading more of your blog.
Thanks! It’d be nice if it was easier but at least there’s SOME way of getting the text out without using copyright-breaching spiders and stuff! Certainly a lot easier than re-typing the whole lot or copy/pasting everything.
Hey Freaking Genius! Awesome post… you could consider using Nitro PDF.. it took me 2 minutes to convert my 57-page blog book to .docx.
Why thank you, sir.
Nitro PDF would be a fine choice but it’s something you’d have to buy and I wanted to figure out a free way to do it (‘cos I’m cheap and nasty!). Whatever works for you!
Alternatively you could use the Export to Text plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/export-to-text/
Now, why couldn’t I find that when I went looking, eh?
Ah, I know – it won’t work on a .com domain because you can’t use plugins. But it’s GREAT to know there’s a simpler way for self-hosted. Thanks for that!
Great post Spike, thanks for the tip, much appreciated
So far, this post and its comments are the best info I’ve seen on this subject. In my case, I’m using WordPress for an “Articles Library” for an historical society. Although we currently have fewer than 50 articles, eventually we will have hundreds. Although WordPress is likely to be around for a long time, we are talking about historical documents many of which are more than 100 years old to start with. Actually, I’m still considering the other option of everything being originally created as a txt file, then imported into WordPress for presentation, but haven’t considered all options yet. Thanks for your help and pointers.