POST2PDF Converter
This plugin converts your post/page to PDF for visitors and visitors can download it easily.
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- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 14 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.3 (latest is 7.1)
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Rankings
Where POST2PDF Converter stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| convert | >100 |
| download | >100 |
| page | >100 |
| >100 | |
| post | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About POST2PDF Converter
From the official readme · v0.4.2Description
This plugin converts your post/page to PDF for visitors and visitors can download it easily.
You can add a download link above/below every posts/pages.
Note: This plugin requires PHP 5.
Features
- Base on “TCPDF“.
- Convert your posts/pages to PDF file dynamically or statically.
- Easy to add a download link into every or specified posts/pages.
- Support caching created PDFs.
- Easy to add your TrueType fonts.
- Easy to configure.
Localization
- 日本語(Japanese) by redcocker
- Deutsch(German) by Uli Sobers(Free Templates, IQ137)
Support plugins
You can use POST2PDF Converter with following code syntaxhighlighter plugins and convert posts/pages with sourcecodes to PDF.
- WP SyntaxHighlighter
- SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
- WP-Syntax
- CodeColorer
- WP-CodeBox
- WP-SynHighlight
- Syntax Highlighter Compress
- Auto SyntaxHighlighter
- Syntax Highlighter and Code Colorizer for WordPress
- Syntax Highlighter MT
- SyntaxHighlighterPro
- Easy Google Syntax Highlighter
- WP-GeSHi-Highlight
- WP Code Highlight etc.
You can use POST2PDF Converter with following LaTex plugins and convert posts/pages with mathematical formulas, chemical formulae and charts to PDF.
You can use POST2PDF Converter with following translation plugins and generate translated PDF.
This list is only one example.
Installation
Installation
- Upload plugin folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
- Go to “Settings” -> “POST2PDF Converter” to configure.
Change the default font
- Go to “Settings” -> “POST2PDF Converter” to configure.
- Enter new font name to “Font” and “Monospaced font” option in “PDF Settings” section.
- If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, disable “Font subsetting” option.
- If your font file is xxxx.z, font name is xxxx.
- Don’t apply a proportional font to “Monospaced font” option.
Fonts for Japanese
This plugin includes following Japanese fonts.
Font name: cid0jp, kozgopromedium, kozminproregular
This plugin can’t quite convert contents which include Japanese characters to PDF file using bundled fonts.
However, you can download better Japanese fonts and use them.
If your contents are written in Japanese, please install one of these fonts. You have only to upload font files without converting and configure some setting options.
- Upload all *.php, *.z, *.ctg.z files to
/wp-content/plugins/post2pdf-converter/tcpdf/fontsdirectory. - Go to “Settings” -> “POST2PDF Converter” to configure.
- Enter font name to “Font” and “Monospaced font” option in “PDF Settings” section.
- If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, disable “Font subsetting” option.
- If your font file is xxxx.z, font name is xxxx.
- Don’t apply a proportional font to “Monospaced font” option.
You can also use following fonts.
If you want to use your own TrueType font, you can convert TrueType font to a font for TCPDF using “Font converter” in setting panel.
Fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
This plugin includes following Latin fonts.
Font name: courier, helvetica, times
You can also use following fonts. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
Font name: pdfacourier, pdfahelvetica, pdfatimes
You can also use “FreeFont” or “DejaVu fonts”. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
Fonts for Simplified Chinese
This plugin includes following Simplified Chinese fonts.
Font name: cid0cs, stsongstdlight
Fonts for Traditional Chinese
This plugin includes following Traditional Chinese fonts.
Font name: cid0ct, msungstdlight
Fonts for Korean
This plugin includes following Korean fonts.
Font name: cid0kr, hysmyeongjostdmedium
Fonts for Cyrillic
You can use “FreeFont” or “DejaVu fonts”. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
Fonts for Arabic
This plugin includes following Arabic fonts.
Font name: aealarabiya, aefurat
You can also use “FreeFont”. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
Fonts for Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai
You can use “FreeFont”. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
DejaVu fonts
This plugin inclues “DejaVu fonts”. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
Font name: dejavusans, dejavusanscondensed, dejavusansextralight, dejavusansmono, dejavuserif, dejavuserifcondensed
Note: “dejavusansmono” is a monospaced font.
“DejaVu fonts” support Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters.
FreeFont
This plugin inclues “FreeFont”. However, If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, you had better disable “Font subsetting” option.
Font name: freemono, freesans, freeserif
Note: “freemono” is a monospaced font.
“FreeFont” supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai characters.
Add new fonts
You can add new fonts for TCPDF.
How to convert a font
Convert a TrueType font(*.ttf) to font files for TCPDF.
- Read TCPDF Fonts or Use “Font converter” in the setting panel.
You can download utilities to convert a font.
How to install a font
- Upload all *.php, *.z, *.ctg.z files to
/wp-content/plugins/post2pdf-converter/tcpdf/fontsdirectory.
How to use the added font
- Go to “Settings” -> “POST2PDF Converter” to configure.
- Enter font name to “Font” and “Monospaced font” option in “PDF Settings” section.
- If you allow visitors who receive a PDF to make changes to it even if they don’t have the same font, disable “Font subsetting” option.
- If your font file is xxxx.z, font name is xxxx.
- Don’t apply a proportional font to “Monospaced font” option.
Safe fonts directory
After automatic updating, your added fonts will be removed.
If you enable “Safe fonts directory” option in the setting panel, your fonts will never be removed.
Before you enable “Safe fonts directory”, you must make /wp-content/tcpdf-fonts/ directory on your server manually. And upload/move bundled fonts and your fonts to new directory and enable “Safe fonts directory”.
Now you can remove original fonts directory.
- Bundled fonts: Unzip a plugin zip file and you can find orignal fonts in
/post2pdf-converter/tcpdf/fonts. - Original fonts directory:
/YOUR PLUGIN DIRECTORY/post2pdf-converter/tcpdf/fonts
・You need not to upload all bundled fonts to new font directory. But you must upload helvetica.php, helveticab.php, helveticabi.php, helveticai.php to new font directory at least.
However, after automatic updating, fonts in the new directory will never be updated. You must maintain the new fonts directory by yourself.
Shortcode
You can insert the download link to your posts/pages using shortcode.
Note: Before you use shortcode, go to the setting panel and ebable “Shortcode” option.
[pdf]Click here to get a PDF[/pdf]
This plugin allows you to set some attributes.
[pdf id="1643" lang="jpn" file="id" font="cid0jp" monospaced="cid0jp" fontsize="11" subsetting="1" ratio="1.35" header="1" logo="1" logo_file="my_logo.png" logo_width="45" wrap_title="1" footer="1" filters="1" shortcode="parse" ffamily="0"]Click here to get a PDF[/pdf]
You can apply different font, image ratio, header logo on each posts/pages.
You can also make the download link for other posts/pages using “id” attribute.
Available attributes
- id: set post id by numbers. e.g. 1245
- lang: Set your language by language code. see “Available languages” below. e.g. eng
- file: Set filename type to
titleorid. - font: Set default font by font name. e.g. helvetica
- monospaced: Set default monospaced font by font name. e.g. courier
- fontsize: Set font size by numbers. e.g. 12
- subsetting: Set to
1or0to enable/disable Font subsetting. - ratio: Set image ratio by numbers. e.g. 1.25
- header: Set to
1or0to show/hide header. - logo: Set to
1or0to show/hide logo image. - logo_file: Set logo file name. e.g. tcpdf_logo.jpg
- logo_width: Set logo width in millimeters. e.g. 30
- title: Set to
1or0to show/hide title. - wrap_title: Set to
1or0. When set to1, long title will be wrapped. - filters: Set to
1or0. When set to1, WordPress default filtes will be applied to the title/content. - footer: Set to
1or0to show/hide footer. - shortcode: Set to
parseorremoveto parse/remove shortcode. - ffamily: If a PDF file has garbled characters, set to
1.
Note: When id is omitted, current post id will be set to. When other attribures are omitted, current setting value will be set to.
Available languages
- afr: Afrikaans
- sqi: Albanian
- ara: Arabic
- aze: Azerbaijanian
- eus: Basque
- bel: Belarusian
- bra: Portuguese(Brazil)
- cat: Catalan
- chi: Chinese(Simplified)
- zho: Chinese(Traditional)
- hrv: Croatian
- ces: Czech
- dan: Danish
- nld: Dutch
- eng: English
- est: Estonian
- far: Farsi
- fra: French
- ger: German
- gle: Irish
- glg: Galician
- kat: Georgian
- hat: Haitian Creole
- heb: Hebrew
- hun: Hungarian
- hye: Armenian
- ind: Indonesian
- ita: Italian
- jpn: Japanese
- kor: Korean
- mkd: Macedonian
- msa: Malay
- mlt: Maltese
- ron2: Moldavian
- ron3: Moldovan
- nob: Norwegian Bokmål
- pol: Polish
- por: Portuguese
- ron1: Romanian
- rus: Russian
- srp: Serbian
- slv: Slovenian
- spa: Spanish
- swa: Swahili
- swe: Swedish
- urd: Urdu
- cym: Welsh
- yid: Yiddish
- ltr: Other(Text direction: Left to Right)
- rtl: Other(Text direction: Right to Left)
Changelog
This version has new features, change and bug fix.
0.4.2
- TCPDF is updated to 5.9.149.
- Support qTranslate.
- Added new setting option to cache temporary data.
- Added new filter to add “aligin: right;” to some images.
- Added $get_by_http_request as a hidden setting option.
- Fix a bug: POST2PDF Converter version doesn’t be shown in “6. Your System Info” setting section.
0.4.0.1
- Fix a bug: When “Cache” is enabled, the first-time downloaded PDF becomes empty sometime.
0.4
- TCPDF is updated to 5.9.147.
- Support caching created PDFs.
- Added new setting option to show/hide title in the created PDF.
- Added a filter to remove own shortcodes([pdf]xxx[/pdf]).
- Extended shortcode format.
- Added some items to “6. Your System Info” in the setting panel.
- Changed some file name.
- Fix a bug: Applied shortcode parser for WP SyntaxHighlighter in an improper way.
0.3.3
- TCPDF is updated to 5.9.145.
- Added new setting options to add custom icon to the download link.
- Support WP SyntaxHighlighter, SyntaxHighlighter Evolved, WP-Syntax, CodeColor, WP-CodeBox, WP-SynHighlight and some other code syntaxhighlighter plugins.
- Support WP QuickLaTeX.
- Changed definition of “K_PATH_IMAGES” constant.
- Fix a bug: Wrong outputing css.
0.3
- TCPDF is updated to 5.9.144.
- Can convert post/page to a PDF statically in the setting panel.
- Can convert a TrueType font to a font for TCPDF in the setting panel.
- Changed the default font for Turkish.
0.2.4.1
- Fix a bug: When Site Address is different from WordPress Address and “Access” option is set to “Deny any access with the download URL directly”, Can’t donwload PDF file.
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Is POST2PDF Converter free?
Yes. POST2PDF Converter is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is POST2PDF Converter safe to use in 2026?
POST2PDF Converter shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 15 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use POST2PDF Converter?
POST2PDF Converter is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 23,080 times since it launched in December 2011. It was downloaded 100 times in the last 30 days.
Does POST2PDF Converter work with WordPress 7.1?
POST2PDF Converter is officially tested up to WordPress 3.3.2, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was POST2PDF Converter last updated?
The latest version, 0.4.2, was released on March 5, 2012 (15 years ago).
Who makes POST2PDF Converter?
POST2PDF Converter is developed and maintained by redcocker.
What are the best alternatives to POST2PDF Converter?
The most popular alternatives to POST2PDF Converter are EWWW Image Optimizer (1M+ installs), ShortPixel Adaptive Images (10K+ installs) and Cimo (10K+ installs).
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