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Google My Blog: Publishing to WordPress with Google Docs
Posted on August 29th, 2007 12 commentsGoogle Documents has a feature for Publishing documents to blogs. Let’s take a look at it and see how good a job it does with WordPress.
Google Docs & Information Products
If you haven’t signed up for Google Docs I would recommend it. It works really well for gathering notes from Google Notebook and then build into information products (ebooks, special reports, or trend gathering).3+ Steps to Setting up Your Blog Connection
- Select setting your blog site settings link to configure Google Documents conduit (Figure 2)
- Now you need to select what type of blog software you use and a user account and password to post the document to.
- For WordPress on your own server (Figure 3)
- Select My own Server
- Set the API to MovableType API
- Set URL http://<yoursitename>/path/to/xmlrpc.php. This is installed in the root directory where you installed WordPress.
- User Name and Password: enter a valid user name and password for your WordPress installation.
- Enter in the Blog ID/Title for your blog
- Options - Include document title when posting - this doesn’t seem to work at this time.
- Press the Test button to test accessing your WordPress installation. Once everything is working press the Ok button to save the settings. Everything is set.
Once they blog is setup Google Docs will remember these settings for all future publishing.
6 Steps to Publishing a Document
- Go back Google Docs.
- Create a new document
- Save the Document
- Select the Publish option (see Figure 1)
- Select the Post to Blog button (see Figure 4)
- Press Ok button to post the document to your blog (see Figure 5)
This publishing method works but you will still need to setup the categories for the post as well as the title from within WordPress.Give it a try.
By the way, this document was created and posted via Google Documents as an example.
Figure 1 - Google Document Publishing
Figure 2 - Setting your blog settings
Figure 3 - Setting up your blog (WordPress)
Figure 4 - Post to Blog
Figure 5 - Press Ok and it Posts
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great idea, only issue I see is that is does not put in a title…
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I just cut and paste it out of the document and then save the post. What I would really like to see is an option to post as a draft. Then I could make the changes and then post it.
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Found this http://writetomyblog.com/ site, does about the same thing
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Interesting, have you given it a try yet?
Thanks for commenting,
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Interesting. I really like the blank canvas of Google Docs for composing a blog entry.
Experimenting a little I found that using the MetaWebLog API for WordPress 2.3.1 correctly added the title of the blog post. Not sure whether this supports categories though.
Desperately would like ‘Publish Draft’. If GD supported that I may well use it all the time.
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Andy C, I agree, I use Google Docs a lot. I have also tried using ScribeFire - http://www.scribefire.com/ - and like it for quick posts. It does allow you to post as draft so you can build articles over time.
Give it a try.
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Hi, thanks for sharing the great information and resources by this helpful post, i found this blog while searching on Internet. Sarah
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This seems to be out of date a bit, Google has changed a few things since this.
Also, I’ve found MetaWeblog API to work a lot better than MovableType.
Here’s yet another guide.
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Thanks for the message.
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