From Google Docs to WordPress
Do you use Google Docs? If so did you know that you can publish documents from it directly to your blog? Here’s how to publish to a WordPress site but it also works with other blogs.To set-up:
- Click the Share button on the right > Publish as a web page > “change your blog site settings” and fill in the details.
- For WordPress select “My own server/custom”
- In API select MetaWeblog API for WordPress (although any of the three options should work)
- The URL should be similar to:
http://YOURSITE/wordpress/xmlrpc.php for WordPress - Add the username and password and optioanly the blog’s name
- Tick “Include the document title when posting (if supported)”
- Click the Test button
Click the Share button on the right > Publish as a web page > Post to blog.
You can have a single blog setup to publish to.
Categorising Your Posts
“To automatically categorise your blog posts, just tag your documents with a category name that you already use on your blog site.” I understand this to mean that if the Google Docs folder name matches an existing blog category then it will be categorised with it. After a number of tests I have to say this just doesn’t work.
Images
If your Google Doc contains images then they will not be imported but linked to Google Docs instead.
Is it worth it?
I don’t think anyone is going to use Google Docs as a way to post to their blog on a regular basis however its a quick way to copy or import formatted text and images.
I like the idea of looking at your categories and blogging the most about that – it’s good inspiration. I have been torn between the direction of what my newest site should be focused on and after reading this and a little steve palina yesterday, i think personal is how i want to go next.