Writing a long and value-packed article on Google Docs and then publishing it on your WordPress blog can be a daunting process. You have to complete several steps, which include uploading, reformatting of content, adding links, adding images to the content one after the other and more, before you can make your post to go live. And as you do the same steps every time you are publishing a blog post, it will be very time-consuming, where you spend countless hours fixing format and content issues before your post goes live, which can have an impact on what you are doing in the long run.
Thankfully, this daunting process has become a thing of the past with Publish to WordPress. This free Google Docs add-on is simple, yet powerful, in allowing users to publish content to their WordPress site from right within the interface of Google Docs. In order to publish your articles, you don’t even have to explicitly login to your WordPress account every time. Plus, this add-on retains all the content formats—images, sub-headings, bullet points, font style, font color, font size, etc….—when your blog post goes live. Basically, it ensures that none of the elements of formatting go haywire and limits the entire publishing task to just a few clicks. Plus, it does it with style, giving you a seamless and effortless publishing experience and saving you a ton of your valuable time that you spend on dealing with other important matters.
Using Publish to WordPress
To make Publish to WordPress properly work for you, you have to follow certain steps. Here they are:
1. Install and activate Publish to WordPress from the Google Add-Ons directory. To do this step, you can simply go to “Add-ons” on the Google Docs menu bar and then click on “Get Add-Ons”. This will show you a message prompt of the Google Docs Add-Ons marketplace, where you will be able to do a quick search for Publish to WordPress. You can then head to the add-on page and install the add-on by clicking on the “+ Free” button. You will find it to be quite self-explanatory, where you only need to progress through the given steps and you will see the add-on going live on your Google Docs account.
2. Get the Publish to WordPress add-on in action. After you launch Publish to WordPress from your Google Docs menu bar through the “Add-Ons” tab, you can then add your first WordPress site where you like to publish your content. In doing this step, you will be required to put in the log-in credentials of your site. After this, the add-on will then store your websites login information and will use it again when you try to publish a different blog post in the future.
3. Publish your content. Once you are prepared to publish your blog post, you can click on “Publish” on the add-on column of Google Docs, which will take you to the last step. If you still do not have a title for your document, you will be prompted to enter it. When putting in the title, select your preferred site from the “Select Site” dropdown, and then click on “Publish Post”. Your post will then be published, together with all the formatting, on your selected website. Also, you will receive a notification of the completion of the process.
Other Important Features of Publish to WordPress
Aside from easy publishing, Publish to WordPress will also let you draft your document (making it easy for you to perform editing within WordPress), publish and add content on unlimited websites, and even update your existing posts. You can also publish your blog post to a new website by adding such a site by following the steps that are shown above.
Final Note
The Publish to WordPress add-on is something that is very useful when you are running a WordPress blog. It connects your website to Google Docs effortlessly, and you will receive the collaborative benefits of both platforms, without you having to do all the reformatting or juggling between multiple tabs while exporting your blog post to WordPress.
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