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How to Hide the PDF Button on Some Content

Some content should not be saved as a PDF: members-only lessons, legal pages, or offers that expire. There are three ways to keep the button off.

Open the post in the editor. In the sidebar’s Content to PDF box, tick Hide the PDF button on this content, then save the post.

The hide box ticked in the post editor

Go to Content to PDF → Configuration → Rules and enter the post IDs in Excluded IDs, separated by commas. You find a post’s ID in its edit link, after post=.

Excluded IDs with one ID entered

On the same tab, choose them in Excluded Categories and Tags. Every post in any of them loses the button. The list covers post categories and tags.

Click Save Changes.

Open the post in a private window. The button is gone. A reader who opens an old reader link gets “This PDF is not available.”

The reader link of an excluded post

  • Excluded content also drops out of shortcodes and blocks that point at it.
  • Excluded posts can still go into an ebook from the Ebook Builder, which is an admin tool.