noprint

I suggest adding some print-focused styling to the main CSS file of your theme (usually style.css, but might differ).

One would just set those elements, which you don’t want to be displayed, to either

.my-class { display: none }

to make em completely disappear – or if you still want whitespace, in cases where the former method might break the page layout, you could use visibility: hidden, ie.

.my-class { visibility: hidden }

A good introduction might be CSS Design: Going to Print.

cu, w0lf.

appreciate you jumping in to help, w0lf

guess i should have been a little more detailed in my problem. i know how to hide something from a hard copy. i just can’t find where the Simple Social Buttons element gets inserted into the page, and can’t figure out how to identify it so i can add the correst CSS to the syle page. you familiar enough with this plug in to give me some “look, dummy, right there” help?

-tjones