Follow button messes up printing

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  sourcedelica · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 7:56 pm

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  WordPress.com sites usually look great printed. The one exception now is that the follow button popup sits right in the middle of the printed output rendering that part unreadable.

  Please fix the CSS on the follow button so it is hidden when printing.

  Example site: http://plainoldobjects.com/2014/04/01/building-microservices-with-spring-boot-part1/. Print and scroll down to page 9 in the print preview (on Chrome).

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  timethief · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 8:04 pm

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  Will you provide a screenshot for Staff please? I’ll tag this thread for their attention. You can use http://snag.gy/ to share screenshots and link to them here. If you use the WordPress.com guide for screenshots http://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/ you can and upload it to your Media Library, and return to this thread to provide the file name so Staff can examine it.

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  sourcedelica · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 8:10 pm

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  Sure thing.

  

  Is a shot from http://plainoldobjects.com/2015/01/11/the-world-is-an-amazing-place-the-photos-on-my-business-cards/

  I noticed that the follow button does not show up if I am logged into WP.com. So’ll you’ll want to log out to replicate.

  Thanks for the quick response!

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  lizthefair · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 10:44 pm

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  Hi @sourcedelica

  There is a better way to format your posts for printing that will help you avoid this problem. If you add the “print” button to your sharing options, you and your followers will be able to click on it to get a copy of your post specifically formatted for printing. Here’s more on how to add that button.

  Add Social Share Buttons

  Let me know if you have any questions about that!

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  sourcedelica · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 2:15 am

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  Hi Liz – this isn’t actually for a site of mine, it’s just a problem that I have been running into as a reader of a bunch of WordPress.com sites.

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  lizthefair · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 12:19 pm

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  I see.

  Thanks for letting us know about this hiccup. I wasn’t able to replicate the behavior but I did see from your screenshot that it sometimes happens.

  Hopefully the combination of using the print button when it’s available, and printing only when you are logged in with keep this from negatively impacting your process.

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  sourcedelica · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 12:53 pm

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  Hi Liz – were you logged out when you tried to replicate?

  As far as workarounds go, yes, I can try logging in (hopefully I’ll remember). What I have been doing in the past is, using the browser “Inspect Element” feature removing the follow button using CSS.

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  sourcedelica · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 12:54 pm

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  Also another workaround I use is using Readability. But it is a bug that ought to be fixed.

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  lizthefair · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm

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  were you logged out when you tried to replicate?

  I was logged out, but I wasn’t in Chrome. Logged out and using Chrome I was able to replicate.

  I’ll report the issue to our developers but can’t make any promises on when this will be addressed.

  Thanks for the report!

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  sourcedelica · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 11:47 pm

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  No rush – I just thought it would be a good thing to fix in general.

  Thanks!

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  iamtakashi · Staff · Oct 6, 2015 at 12:00 pm

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  Hi there,

  Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We hide the follow widget from the print. Please let me know if you need further assistance.

  Thanks.

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  sourcedelica · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 12:09 pm

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  Great – thanks!