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Yesterday, I went downwardly a frustrated rabbit pigsty as I looked for the all-time way to copy and paste blog posts written in Google Docs to WordPress.

If you've ever tried to do this before, you'll have encountered a bunch of formatting and paradigm embed problems. In fact, that'due south probably why you're here reading this right now.

Later hours of searching and trying to implement suboptimal solutions, I found the best solution for me. It isn't perfect, just it was shut enough to continue me sane:

Information technology's a combination of manual copy and pasting and the Gutenberg block editor'south upload external image push button bachelor in the toolbar.

At the lesser of this mail service, I go into more detail about the trouble I was trying to solve and why this was the all-time solution for me.

The best resource to dig deep

I searched " import Google Docs into WordPress" and "copy and paste into WordPress".

Kinsta's mail, Google Docs to WordPress — 6 Tricks You Need to Know, was the best post I could notice on the subject. They gave three detailed solutions which I'll review briefly below. If you want to see exactly how to implement them, I suggest you read their commodity.

Here are the 3 solutions I tried:

Wordable

Wordable seemed like the answer to my prayers. Their headline literally says Publish content from Google Docs to your web log in two minutes. Aye!!! It'due south a service made exactly to solve the problem I had: formatting and image embed issues when importing content from Google Docs into WordPress.

Unfortunately, their pricing plans are prohibitively expensive and start at $49/month. Clearly they are meant for much larger companies than mine! So I quickly moved on…

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Mammoth .docx converter plugin

This was the next suggestion in Kinsta's post. All the same, I rapidly dismissed the Mammoth plugin because of the suggested workflow, which was:

1. Download your Google doc as a .docx file
2. Upload .docx file into WordPress via Mammoth

This method could've worked. But manually exporting an entire Google medico and re-uploading it into WordPress felt like I was dealing with Microsoft Word in the late 90s and I just couldn't bring myself to practise information technology.

Moving on…

Jetpack and WordPress.com for Google Docs add-on

The WordPress.com for Google Docs addition seemed like the perfect solution. Better yet, information technology was free! If you don't have a WordPress.com account, you can simply use the free version of Jetpack instead.

I didn't already accept Jetpack installed on my blog, so I jumped through the hoops to install it. The process was fairly uncomplicated, simply they practise downplay the free plans and strongly encourage you to purchase a paid version.

I felt ridiculous installing Jetpack, which is a plugin that offers a zillion features (literally — I counted), just for a tiny integration. But I was committed to finding a solution at this betoken and can be pretty stubborn!

I so installed the WordPress.com for Google Docs add-on. Once again, the installation process was quick and piece of cake. But when I tried to connect my blog to Google Docs, I kept getting this error:

"That site does not seem to be accessible or no longer has the Jetpack plugin installed."

Subsequently hunting effectually, I learnt that I could debug the upshot using Jetpack Debug. Ok, I have to admit that'due south pretty cool!

I chop-chop learnt I had an XML-RPC problem, which made me become downward a whole other rabbit hole. Somewhen, I constitute out that the reason for this problem is that my host, Cloudways, disables XML-RPC by default for security reasons. And so I had to login and enable it.

Trust me, having to manually enable something that someone disabled by default across their entire hosting solution for security reasons didn't brand me experience good. 😅

Anyway, I did that, finally managed to connect Jetpack to Google Docs and tried to import my starting time Google doc into WordPress.

Major anticlimax. I got stuck in "saving" mode. The mail service never actually saved to WordPress.

At this point, I had already spent 2 hours trying to make this piece of work. I was tired and hungry, so I gave upwards.

Holler Box to the rescue!

Equally a last ditch attempt, I searched "copy and paste google docs into wordpress -jetpack -wordable" and found this unproblematic blog post, Copy/Paste Google Docs to WordPress (With Images), by Scott Bollinger at Holler Box.

This wasn't perfect. But given the constraints, this solution was perfect for me.

The biggest import trouble is images

You run across, the block editor has actually solved nigh of the formatting problems that the classic editor had.

It's now actually pretty piece of cake to select all and re-create a post in Google Docs, and then paste it into a WordPress mail. Everything really works and comes out pretty nicely. Including the images!

Images are however hosted on Google

Yet, the images are still hosted on Google. Meaning, you won't detect the images in your media library because the images oasis't been imported.

Now, you definitely don't desire this because that means your images will break if you delete your Google doc. And pulling your images from Google this way is less efficient and not helpful for your SEO (if you intendance about that).

No straight way to save images from Google Docs

Another problem is that there's no directly way to download and save embedded images from Google Docs. So if you lot're working with other writers and they embed an epitome in the doc, you can't simply right click and salve the image to import into WordPress.

Instead, when you correct click an embedded paradigm, your just saving-related option is salvage to Keep. Keep is a note-storing product by Google and they don't make it easy for you to download images from Keep either. So this ways your images are stuck in Google.

The almost common way to solve this is by duplicating the piece of work. You first embed images in the Google doc so everyone knows where in the post the image goes, so you create a separate folder and add together all the images in there for easy downloading.

This is really annoying because when you're writing, you want to quickly create screenshots, embed them into the post, then keep writing. You don't want to spend time adding them into a dissever binder as that breaks your catamenia. Or worse, hunting down the one thousand thousand images you used later your post is done.

And if that's not painful enough, when publishing the post to WordPress, you have to bulk upload all the images into the media library, then manually get through the mail and match and supercede the external images.

This laborious task is so painful, I even explored Dropbox Paper in the hope I could circumvent this result. Unfortunately, Google Docs' suggest edit and collaboration features were lacking in Dropbox Paper and I found myself missing them enough to subject myself to this crazy rabbit hole.

My solution and final workflow

Coming dorsum to Scott Bollinger'due south article, I realised I could skip:

1. Creating a duplicate separate binder of images used
2. Bulk uploading images into WordPress
3. Manually matching and replacing external images with my uploaded ones

Yous meet, the block editor now has a tiny button yous can press that simply lets you upload whatsoever external prototype you've pasted into the post.

So now, all I practise is:

1. Write my post in Google Docs and add together images as I become
2. Copy and paste the mail service into WordPress
3. Gyre through the mail and click Upload external image for each paradigm

Final thoughts

Yep it's still a chip abrasive that I have to manually click Upload external paradigm for every image. But this is ameliorate than:

1. Paying $49/calendar month to copy and paste Google docs into WordPress
2. Downloading the .docx file and then uploading it again like I was still in the 90s.
3. Installing a gigantic plugin, Jetpack, for a tiny integration that never really worked for me

More importantly, I'k pretty happy and impressed with how seamless the block editor has made this procedure. If you read the Kinsta postal service, you'll realise how troublesome it is to copy and paste into the classic editor.

If you're wondering, this mail was written in Google Docs and transferred into WordPress using the exact workflow I detailed above.

When writing for myself (without collaboration) I usually write directly in the block editor. Simply in this instance, I chose to write this post in Google Docs merely then I could say I did!

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