Getting Started with Pantheon Content Publisher

A beginner’s guide to Content Publisher

Welcome to Content Publisher!
No matter your role, from a content operation specialist in a large organization working on large online content operations, to a business user contributing content to an app or an editorial leader looking to streamline the editorial workflow of your online media property, Content Publisher has many features for you to help improve and speed-up your content operation, streamlining the workflow from Google Docs to your websites and app!

Before you can start publishing on your website, you must understand the basics. Hang on, it’s not complicated, we’ll cover these below before you can experience them yourself.

Step 1: Get an account

You can get an account by simply signing up on https://content.pantheon.io. For now, the service is in beta and there’s no subscription or payment required before starting to use it. This will be subject to change when we move out of beta and release the service more broadly in a commercially supported way.

Step 2: Create a Content Collection

A content collection is a place in Content Publisher where content is managed and published. It’s your place to keep all your projects' documents organized. As you get to use Content Publisher, you might create different collections for different projects or use cases.

A collection allows you to granularly define access control (who can publish to your collection), metadata structure (additional fields enriching your Google Documents), content organization (a “content tree” for your documents to organize them in sections and sub-sections) and privacy. For now, we’ll just start with one.

Note: in the case of WordPress, you won’t even have to create a collection as this will be done automatically when installing the WordPress plugin.

Step 3: Connect your site to your content collection

Here, it will obviously depend on what you want to achieve specifically. Content Publisher can simply be connected with WordPress, Drupal and Next.js using the open-source integrations that we provide. It can also be used with other website technologies by leveraging our APIs.

For the sake of exploring and getting started, we recommend starting with a new site either on WordPress, Drupal or Next.js, but if you are confident, it can also easily be done on an existing site . See below for the detailed guides for each of these platforms.

As WordPress, Drupal and Next.js are very different systems, we integrated with each of these in a different way. Follow the guidelines below to get a working environment for Content Publisher in a few steps. If you need help to choose your target platform, please reach-out!

Step 4: Add Content Publisher add-on to Google Docs and start publishing

Once you’ll get your site connected to your content collection, you’re ready to publish content. Now it’s just about installing Content Publisher’s Google Docs add-on, authenticating, connecting and publishing your first documents.

Note: users can do it by themselves or your Google Workspace can do it for all your users.

Choose your platform

Next steps

The above instructions guided you through setting up  a working Content Publisher environment with the main website platforms we support.

If that’s just what you needed, please enjoy and create a lot of good content!

If curious for more, Content Publisher offers many other possibilities. Depending on your needs, feel free to explore or connect with us to achieve some special things with Content Publisher!
Some suggestions:

• Use the Ingest API to add new Content Sources to Content Publisher.
• Use the GQL API to pull your content in other web or digital apps
• Customize the metadata fields used with your content publisher collection
• Connect several collections to your website
• Check our roadmap and add insights regarding other things you wished for in Content Publisher