New Integration WordPress and Google Docs

Just What the Doc Ordered!

Now you can create and edit your WP content in Google doc and save as a new and/or edited page or post on your WordPress website. Does that feel just a wee bit awesome?

Share and collaborate on Google Docs, a dedicated page editor. Then post to your blog.

Simple.

Elegant.

Fun even.

From Matt himself (see Matt’s full blog post WordPress Collaborative Editing)

I’m really excited about the new Google Docs integration that just launched — basically it builds a beautiful bridge between what is probably the best collaborative document editor on the planet right now, Google’s, and let’s you one-click bring a document there into a WordPress draft with all the formatting, links, and everything brought over.

In other words, one or multiple people can edit a document in the perfect environment for initial content creation – including links and formatting… let’s continue reading…

I think this is highly complementary to the work we’re doing with the new Editor in core WordPress. Why? Google Docs represents the web pinnacle of the WordPerfect / Word legacy of editing “pages”, what I’ll call a document editor. It runs on the web, but it’s not native to the web in that its fundamental paradigm is still about the document itself.

Gotcha Matt. Create initial text document in Google. And in WordPress add the flourish – the images, videos, galleries, forms etc.

With the new WordPress Editor the blocks will be all about bringing together building blocks from all over — maps, videos, galleries, forms, images — and making them like Legos you can use to build a rich, web-native post or page.

… so fitting together like Lego blocks, a perfect union.

Now you can do in Google Docs what can be done better in google docs – create and collaborate on text documents, then publish draft to WordPress with a simple click of a button. And finish off in WordPress what is best done in WordPress – adding images, galleries, videos and such.

So we’re all excited about this!

Do you think you will use this new feature? Have you tried it? What do you think?

Let us know in the comments below!

Note: This blog post was written in Google Docs, and images added in WordPress. 🙂