Chimp-Simple Publishing

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.

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)
   
1. Select My own Server
2. Set the API to MovableType API
3. Set URL http://<yoursitename>/path/to/xmlrpc.php. This is installed in the root directory where you installed WordPress.
4. User Name and Password: enter a valid user name and password for your WordPress installation.
5. Enter in the Blog ID/Title for your blog
6. Options - Include document title when posting - this doesn’t seem to work at this time.
7. 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.

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.

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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WordPress 2.2 has a problem with not posting the body of the email message when posting by email to your blog.

Replacing the class-pop3.php in the wp-includes directory with the 2.13 version fixed the email posting problem (blog by email).

Also, Gmail does not work with posting by email. I had to use my hosting providers (www.1and1.com) email program to fix that problem.

Give it a try and see how it works for you.

Disclaimer: I’m not sure if changing back to a prior version of a WordPress file will cause problems in other areas. Use at your own risk.

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There is a problem with Blog by Email in WordPress 2.2 that will remove the body of the email message after posting it to your blog. This link gives the details.

I’m going to replace the class-pop3.php for WordPress 2.2 to the file in WordPress 2.13 (wp-includes/class-pop3.php).

Without this change the Speed Link Site won’t work.

I will post back with the results.

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