Comments on: Easy Blog Posting with Google Docs - Any Platform!

By: Franca Richard

Franca Richard — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:30:26 +0000

Interesting post, I will try it today!

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:58:24 +0000

nice solution & tip for bloggers

By: agentsully

agentsully — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:29:11 +0000

@Moab - You are right about the two things it won’t do for you. Regarding title, I type the title as the first line. Then when I copy and paste everything into the WYSIWYG editor, I take one more step and copy/paste in the title into the title field. No solution for the tags. Just have to tag it after you copy/paste. Good luck. Thanks for commenting.

By: Moab

Moab — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:33:17 +0000

Sounds great, but my Google Docs Titles do not get turned into Blogger post titles, so I have no titles on my posts.

Additionally, I can’t seem to tag my google documents, so there are no catagories assigned to my Blogger posts. Any fixes?

Thanks!

By: AgentSully

AgentSully — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:08:46 +0000

Hi Nathan, Thanks for the comment. What I do is this: in Google Docs I Copy/paste the title of the doc into the top of the document. When it gets inserted into my blog editor on wordpress I just copy/paste it into the title line. Interesting blog. I joined your MBL community.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:27:54 +0000

Great tip!

If only it would do titles correctly, although not too much of a hassle to whip into my blog’s admin and add a title I guess (might mess up the permalink though, hmmm will need testing).

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:49:45 +0000

yeah copying and pasting can turn into a nightmare … when you do it you should copy and paste each paragraph at a time. i’m planning on tryin to post from within google doc tomorrow so I’ll let you know how it goes

By: Oscar R

Oscar R — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:03:40 +0000

It looks like a nice idea, but to be true I think it needs to be polished.

I haven’t give Google Docs a real oportunity yet, but I’ve tried posting in to a MT blog and didn’t work (pass problems, but every details was ok).

Anyway, I’m also missing things such as Summaries, extended entries… but this could be ok for the average Joe user maybe.

A note: the image of the sun in this post is near a 1 megabity. Not sure if this was you or GG Docs, but seems way too much.

By: agentsully

agentsully — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:49:50 +0000

Hey Dee, Yeah, it’s really cool. I don’t know if you ran into the problems I had with copy and pasting from MS Word into the Blogger posting tool. It was terrible. Pasting from Google Docs should work better. And I bet since Blogger is by Google it should work great simply posting to Blogger right from Google Docs.

Will you share with us how it works with Blogger? Thanks!

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:35:17 +0000

That sounds great. I’ve never used Google Docs. What I usually do is type my posts on Word just because I want an extra copy of each post incase a nightmare should happen and something happens to my blog. Google Doc sounds good I should give it a try sometime.