Content Publisher for WordPress: How to Get Started
Content Publisher is a content integration service that allows you to publish content created in Google Docs to your WordPress website (we plan to support other authoring tools than Google Docs in the future). The service acts as a middle layer between Google Docs and your website, where content can be enriched, organized and structured. Think of it as a headless-CMS with Google Docs as an editorial interface.
Our goal on this page is to help you get to the point where you can effectively publish content on a website. For that, you’ll need:
- You and/or your content creators to install our Google Docs add-on
- A content collection initialized in Content Publisher
- A WordPress website configured for Content Publisher where the content in your collection will be published
Let’s get this running!
- A hosted WordPress website where you have options to install plugins of your choice.
- Ideally, run it on Pantheon.io (there’s a free sandbox if you want)
1. Create a new WordPress site on Pantheon (see instructions) or get ready to use an existing one
2. Download the latest release of the Content Publisher WordPress plugin
3. In the WordPress admin dashboard, install the plugin and then enable it
4. Go to the plugin setting page, here the interface will ask you for an authentication token to initiate a content collection for your WordPress website. Open a new tab to go create a management token on Content Publisher:
- Go to https://content.pantheon.io
- Authenticate with your user email from the Google Workspace you want to use Content Publisher with. (Personal Gmail/GDoc accounts are not supported)
- Go to the Management token settings, create and copy a management token
- Paste it in the WordPress plugin configuration page
- This will automatically create a content collection for that website
- Choose if you want content from Content Publisher to be posted as Post or Page in WordPress
5. Prepare for publishing your first document by going to Google Docs and installing Coontent Publisher add-on
- Go to the add-on page
- Install the add-on
- Create a new Google document for your first test
- Open the add-on
- Connect the document to your previously created collection (referred to by the website URL)
- Preview and publish the document
- Check the live page.
🎉 You made it!