How to publish from Google Docs to your WordPress blog
Blog, Docs, Google — By Matthew Tommasi on 26 April 2009 10:29 am
Do you use Google Docs?
Do you have a WordPress site?
Why not integrate them and be able to publish from Google Docs to your WordPress blog? Just another tool in your publishing arsenal.
Here’s how..
Firstly login to your WordPress site and under the Settings section click on Writing,
On the Writing Settings page you will see a section called Remote Publishing.
Under that check the XML-RPC Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, Meta Weblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols option,
Now login to Google Docs and select Settings,
On the Settings page enter,
Display Name: enter Display Name
Blog Settings: click edit info
On the Blog Site Settings pop-up enter/select,
Existing Blog Service: My own server / custom
API: MetaWeblog API
URL: enter the URL to the xmlrpc.php file on your blog.. this is located in your blog’s root directory
eg. http://example.com/xlmrpc.php (if your blog is in your root directory)
http://example.com/blog/xlmrpc.php (if your blog is in a /blog directory)
Username: username for your blog (eg. admin)
Password: your blog’s password
Blog ID / Title: enter a title
Options: check the Include the documentation title when posting option
Click on the <Test> button,
If you have entered everything correctly you will see a confirmation,
Click <OK> to close the confirmation pop-up.
Click <OK> to close the Blog Site Settings pop-up.
Click <Save> on the Settings page to save everything.
Now that you have configured everything lets do a test post.
Select New –> Document,
Type something into the new document,
Select Share –> Publish as Web Page,
Now click on the <Post to blog> button,
Click <OK> to post to your blog,
This document has been published to your blog displays with the posted date and time,
Now go and check your blog.. this document has now been published!
Click on Back to editing,
Make sure you save your document,
Any future edits to this document can be done from either the WordPress interface or directly from this saved document.
To republish this document from Google Docs, just repeat the above steps by clicking on Share –> Publish as web page –> Republish post.
Happy publishing!
Tags: docs, Google, guide, how, instructions, integrate, integrating, publish, setup, wordpress
Tweet This
Share on Facebook
Digg This
Bookmark
Stumble
16 Comments
This no longer works. My Google Documents settings doesn’t offer the choices you mention.
Thanks for the comment
I have done all of this and still get a 403 error when running the test. I have changed my access to that file to full access and still nothing. I'm attempting this on WP v.2.8.6 and Google Docs via Chrome.
Hi Junal
I'm not sure of a way to add categories and tags via this method.. if you
find out please let us know!
Cheers
Matt
————————————————–
How to add category and tag while posting to WP from Google Docs?
No worries Tarun!
Glad to be of help!
Hi James
I am only aware of this working with Google Docs.. I haven't been able to get it to work with Spreadsheet or Presentation.. if you find a way please let me know.
Thanks
Matt
Thank you for your posting. I tested it on a regular Google doc and it worked great with drupal's blog. When I tried a spreadsheet, no dice. Are you aware of limitations with other document types?
Thanks for the tips will be testing it soon.
i dont have remote publishing screen , what can i do? help me?
thanks
Hi Vlaamse
I'm not too sure to be honest.
If anyone knows of a way to assign multiple categories and add tags please let us know!
Nice! Is there a way to assign to multiple categories and add tags?
Great stuff, thanks for the post.
I'll have a wee trawl around the site later – looks like some really nice content here
)
Are you on twitter? – http://twitter.com/graemesuth
Thanks Graeme.. yes I'm on Twitter – http://twitter.com/matthewtommasi
Looks like your site has some useful information too! I'll be checking that out.
thank you very useful post i have just tested this on my blog http://telecomtalk.info/gsm-subscriber-base/ thanks a ton
Trackbacks