Save your Google Docs drafts as WordPress blog posts in seconds.
Introducing WordPress.com for Google Docs: A New Way Forward for Collaborative Editing
Mar 7, 2017 @ 7:01 pm
We are happy to announce WordPress.com for Google Docs, a new add-on that lets you write, edit, and collaborate in Google Docs, then save it as a blog post on any WordPress.com or Jetpack-connected WordPress site. Your images and most formatting will carry over too. No more copy-and-paste headaches!
To get started, just go to the Google Web Store page and click to install it.
You will be prompted to give our plugin access to post on your behalf, and then you are ready to write.
When you’re ready to save a Google Docs draft as a blog post, go to the Add-ons menu and open WordPress.com for Google Docs. A sidebar will appear where you can add WordPress.com or Jetpack-connected sites.
Click the Save Draft button — when it’s saved, a preview link will appear so you can see how it looks on your site. Edit the post in WordPress.com to make any small tweaks, then hit publish when you’re ready to go live!
You can find the source code on GitHub if you want to take a closer look at how things work. And, of course, this post was composed in Google Docs and posted with the WordPress.com Add-on for Google Docs.
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Oooooh yeeeeesss! I cannot wait to give it a try!
I was waiting for a new editor since the live writer was discharged by windows!
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This is indeed a wonderful update, as it will allow users like me, who spend tons of time on Google Docs to blog more effectively!
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Is this only for Macs?
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No, this will work on Windows, Linux, or any web browser that Google Docs supports.
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It was a little slow to connect but it did work. Plus, I sometimes run into people who tell me about a new tool/app and learn it’s for IOS while I use Android or it’s for a MAC and I use a PC. Thank you for answering and I will enjoy using this using DOCS on my tablet.
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This is a very nice addition. Looking forward to give this a try.
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This is excellent, enhanced, utilization! I live in Google Docs all day, and now being able to bind that workflow directly back to my blog is a Godsend of Multitasking! Thank you for the ongoing services innovations!
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Very cool.
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Cool! Might have to try.
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You can only use chrome with this addon
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The add-on will work in all major desktop browsers. If you are experiencing an issue please contact us to let us know which browser you are experiencing issues in.
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I can’t for that update!
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This wonderful however, since it will be saved to the Google “cloud” your work cedes copyright to Google by default or does WordPress have a special arrangement with Alphabet(Google) on this or am I wrong?
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We are not able to offer advice on Google’s terms of service.
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This is truly an amazing update. I hope bloggers will take advantage of this and I will spread the word with my friends.Thanks so much!
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This is a very welcome development. Thank you.
Did a quick test. Could not make an image show up in the draft post, when the image is inserted via a URL. Is this possible?
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In our testing, when an image is inserted by URL the image will be uploaded to your media library and inserted into the draft. Please try it again and make sure that you are using a publicly available URL for the image.
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Several of my blog posts today have been saved (and now published) via Google Docs. I could not make the images show up in my media library on any of the posts. The images I am inserting via URL, are all public.
Please let me know if you want me to do something different. I am more than willing to help you troubleshoot this for me. It will be a significant time-saver if I could insert images via URL in Google Docs.
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Thank you for looking into that. I’ve reached out via email to get some more information.
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Very good having Google Docs work like this it will speed up the process and complements Publicize!
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Can’t wait to try it!!!
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Hi George!
I tried installing the add-on, but after logging in to my WP site to complete authorization, nothing happens. Where can we go for support? I really wanna start using this for my blog!
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If you are not able to complete the authorization process, there may be something wrong with your Jetpack plugin. Please take a look at these troubleshooting tips to see if they help.
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I tried changing the theme, reinstalling Jetpack, deactivating my other plug-ins, but nothing. By any chance does this only work for Google Docs accounts tied to a free Gmail account? I’m currently using the Classic Google Apps.
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I’ve emailed you to get more information and see if we can get you connected.
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A nice update yeah…I liked it!👍
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Excited to try this!
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Can you use this off line?
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You can write in Google Docs offline, but this add-on requires an internet connection so that we can transmit the post to your site.
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Thank you for sharing this info, really glad knowing this!!
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Can’t wait to try this. Looks great!
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unfortunately it took just the text without the design definitions
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Right now we are only supporting the most used formatting features. As designs get more complex, we run into conflicts with themes so there is a limit to what we can support. We will keep this in mind as we plan out the future of the add-on. Thanks for trying it out!
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Reblogged this on Luminus Alabi.
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Keen to give it a go! I do most of my writing in Google Docs so this is great!
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Amazing achievement. Let me try it.. 🙂
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This is an awesome feature. I’ve been thinking about blogging again and this is the little nudge I needed. Using columns should work nicely and I’m looking forward to trying it out soon. Thanks so much.
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Hey, it seems to work good so far. I saved a draft. I haven’t published anything yet but I’m pretty sure I will this week! Thanks Automattic
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great feature! Is there a way to define tags and categories prior to saving as draft into wordpress?
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Not at this time, but it is something we are considering for the future.
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Reblogged this on Trail Mix and commented:
Sharing for fellow wordpress bloggers with the full disclaimer I have not tested it out yet. I do plan to try this in the next week or so. If you have feedback please do post your experience the comments!
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Is this for only paid wordpress sites, or is this something a free site could use also?
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This works with all WordPress.com and Jetpack plans, including our free plans.
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Problems with Microsoft Edge. You can’t authorise or add a site.
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention, it appears to be related to pop-up blocking. While we work on a fix, as a work-around it’s possible to add sites in another browser and then use them in Edge.
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Using Google Chrome if I select a photograph by “Add Image” and then selecting one from my Google Album, the photograph appears on the Google Doc but does not transfer to WordPress when I press Save Draft.
Not much use for a photography blog.
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I’ve emailed you to try to get some more information about this and see if we can get it fixed for you.
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Thank you for sharing this information!
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Thank you! I was reading an article on PC World that didn’t have very good info and a broken link. Found this one in the top of my feed and setup was beyond simple. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Just made my first post and it went very smoothly. The only issue I found is having to set the featured image, add tags, and categories manually. I see myself using this on a regular bassis.
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That’s super useful. The HTML that Google Docs exports is very much unusable, so this is a very elegant solution for publishing the text including formatting to WordPress.com. Thank you!
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I’m still using Windows Live Writer, and works pretty well, but the last version was updated in 2012. So having this add-0n for google doc is a good news.
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FWIW
Ran into redirect issues when trying to add a WordPress site. I deactivated Cloudflare on that site and was able to add the site to the Google Doc and push it to the site. Next I re-activated CoudFlare on the site and created another Google Doc and was able to select the previously added website and push the second doc to the site.
So it looks like, at least in my case at Siteground, active CloudFlare prevents adding a target site for this plugin, but once the site is added it stays available if you then re-activate CloudFlare.
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Excellent! I remember last time when I copy pasted from Google doc images (screenshots) were not inserted. I had to insert the images (screenshots) manually, it consumed my half day.
I write my articles on Google docs because easy to access them anywhere and collaborate with anyone.
Thanks for this awesome news.
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Perfect Update for Bloggers. Really amazing
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