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Small Business Bookmarks | BlueWave Media - BlueWave Media Cafe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:41:04 +0000

[...] Use Google Docs with WordPress With Google Docs, you have the ability to post your document directly to your blog! [...]

By: Passegua

Passegua — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:17:20 +0000

I get error whenever I try to set up publishing to wordpress.

I double check everything but it doesn’t work!

why?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:24:18 +0000

I’m also having the same “We have encountered…” error message show up. Some people have upgraded or reinstalled WP and had it work. So far I have not, no matter what I try.

Some people who have had luck:
http://groups.google.com/group/Something-in-Writely-is-Broken/tree/browse_frm/thread/5f14bff6fd4e7624/1e9f0808b9d0a0e6?rnum=1&hl=en&q=wordpress&_done=%2Fgroup%2FSomething-in-Writely-is-Broken%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F5f14bff6fd4e7624%3Fq%3Dwordpress%26hl%3Den%26#doc_e2b7839b25ca9cdf

By: E

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:57:38 +0000

Yeah, I see that page fine. Got it set up for MovableTypeAPI and everything. I remember trying this a few months ago and the posts would sometimes go through but it would always return an error. So it continues to say “This document has not been published to your blog” and returns an error even if the blog (sometimes) gets published. :-/

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:49:41 +0000

It looks like an error on their side, E. Be sure you have the correct address to your xmlrpc.php file… other than that, it’s probably a technical issue on the Google side.

To test your xmlrpc.php location, just put it in your browser:
http://www.douglaskarr.com/xmlrpc.php

You should get an error stating: “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.” That means that it’s up and ready! This is the same file that accepts trackbacks as well.

By: E

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:43:40 +0000

This isn’t working for me. When I press Test it says “We have encountered an error, which we will investigate immediately. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

By: AL

AL — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:50:00 +0000

I don’t know about the Performancing extension. I used it once, it produced some weird formatting stuff and kinda broke out of my blog’s standard CSS. They’ve changed the name now though, ScribeFire I guess, and the company’s looks like it’s losing big time.

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:47:19 +0000

Hi Andy!

I’ve just started utilizing Docs and really like it. I still have a tough time not using WordPress to post though… I like putting pics, tags, trackbacks, etc. into my posts.

I also have the Performancing extension and I have the same problem, I can’t do the rest of that cool stuff. The Tiger Administration is something I’ve been using for a while and I really like it.

I wish I could take a couple of months off and rebuild the admin for WordPress. I think SixApart is onto something with Vox, they’ve simplified the blogging admin considerably. WordPress is in cahoots with ‘KnowHow’… so we’ll see if that leads to a better admin.

Thanks for commenting!
Doug

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:56:17 +0000

I will have to give this a try. I’ve only been trying out Google Docs this past week, so am still feeling my way through what it is capable of providing.

I already use the GSpace plugin for Firefox so I can use a GMail account for online file storage. And have you tried the Performancing extension for Firefox? That’s a pretty cool way of posting to any blog, and avoids the need to log in to your admin area, click through to write a post, etc…

A lot less laborious. And the Tiger Administration plugin provides a much funkier and useful interface for WP admin than the default, which is frankly boring and flat. x