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Google My Blog: Publishing to WordPress with Google Docs

Posted on August 29th, 2007 steve 12 comments

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
1. Select setting your blog site settings link to configure Google Documents conduit (Figure 2)
2. Now you need to select what type of blog software you use and a user account and password to post the document to.
3. For WordPress on your own server (Figure 3)
Once they blog is setup Google Docs will remember these settings for all future publishing.

6 Steps to Publishing a Document
1. Go back Google Docs.
2. Create a new document
3. Save the Document
4. Select the Publish option (see Figure 1)
5. Select the Post to Blog button (see Figure 4)
6. 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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12 Responses to “Google My Blog: Publishing to WordPress with Google Docs”
1. William August 30th, 2007 at 5:15 am
  
  great idea, only issue I see is that is does not put in a title…
2. admin August 30th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
  
  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.
3. William September 2nd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
  
  Found this http://writetomyblog.com/ site, does about the same thing
4. steve September 4th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
  
  Interesting, have you given it a try yet?
  
  Thanks for commenting,
  Steve
5. Andy C November 21st, 2007 at 11:50 am
  
  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.
6. admin November 23rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
  
  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.
7. document published from Google Docs October 8th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
  
  [...] Paupers Wood web site. This has been publish automatically from Google docs using these guidelines: http://www.chimp-simple.com/2007/08/29/google-documents-publishing-wordpress/ When updates are made, the document needs to the republished to WordPress though this version [...]
8. Bob S. August 30th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
  
  I loved reading this and I dont really like to read
9. 4 Alternative Blogging Interfaces for WordPress by ClintLalonde.net September 24th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
  
  [...] few days ago, I included an image pulled from my Flickr account and a drawing done in Google Docs. Connecting was pretty straightforward, however there was no specific WordPress API hook. Instead, I used the [...]
10. Sarah February 3rd, 2010 at 8:52 am
  
  Hi, thanks for sharing the great information and resources by this helpful post, i found this blog while searching on Internet. Sarah
11. Seth February 8th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
  
  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.
  http://sethmoore.info/?p=230
12. admin February 8th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
  
  Thanks for the message.
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