Google My Blog: Publishing to WordPress with Google Docs
Google 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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