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If you use Google Docs to edit and revise content with a team of people, you can now create a draft blog post or page in WordPress without cluttering your web content with inappropriate HTML and inline styles. The tool extracts images and allows you to download them or import them directly into WordPress.
This simplifies what would otherwise be a multistep process of
<ul>
<li>Either pasting into the rich text editor or cleaning up the HTML or pasting into code view and recreating styling</li>
<li>Downloading images from Google Docs, one at a time</li>
<li>Uploading images into WordPress</li>
</ul>
Originally created for use by the <a href="https://www.similarweb.com/corp/blog/insights/" rel="nofollow ugc">Insights Newsroom team at Similarweb</a>, this plugin allows editorial teams to collaborate on the writing and editing of a document, including image placement, in Google Docs, quickly turn that content into a draft blog post, and then tweak as necessary in the blog editor.
Works with either the block editor or the classic editor.
For the block editor, basic block metadata is added for paragraphs, headings, unordered lists, and images. Any other content will be displayed as classic blocks, with the option to use the Convert to Blocks function of the editor.
The shortcode [draft_from_google_docs] is available for including this functionality on a public web page. In that case, the content is not imported directly into WordPress but displayed in a format that allows it to be copied and pasted into the WordPress editor. In that case, images associated with the document are displayed in a format that allows you to download them into your computer and upload them one by one into your post or page. Including the download_ok=”1″ attribute within the shortcode means the images will be downloaded into the local WordPress instance. Otherwise, the download links will point to the Google Cloud url for those images.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E_eetgU0GJ0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<a href="http://www.rsvpmaker.com/draft-from-google-docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page www.rsvpmaker.com/draft-from-google-docs/</a>
Thank you to Miroslav Mitev for a <a href="https://gist.github.com/m1r0/f22d5237ee93bcccb0d9" rel="nofollow ugc">code sample</a> on how to download from a url to create WordPress attachments.
Butterfly image Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/jamesdemers-3416/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=55995" rel="nofollow ugc">JamesDeMers</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=55995" rel="nofollow ugc">Pixabay</a>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<pre><code>RSVPMaker
Copyright (C) 2022 David F. Carr

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

See the GNU General Public License at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
</code></pre>

Draft from Google Docs

Simplify the process of bringing Google Docs content into WordPress.

tooltester

When you copy content from Google Docs and paste it into WordPress, you get messy HTML like this:
<pre><code>Your perfectly normal text.
</code></pre>
And list items end up looking like this:
<pre><code><li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A simple bullet point.</li>
</code></pre>
None of this formatting does anything visible on your site. It just clutters your markup and can cause issues with themes and page builders.
This plugin automatically strips that junk every time you save a post or page.
What it cleans:
<ul>
<li><code></code> wrappers (keeps the text inside, removes the span)</li>
<li><code>style="font-weight: 400;"</code> on list items</li>
<li><code>aria-level</code> attributes on list items (Google Docs nesting markers that WordPress doesn’t need)</li>
</ul>
What it does NOT touch:
<ul>
<li>Bold, italic, links, headings, images, or any other meaningful formatting</li>
<li>Content inside <code><code></code> or <code><pre></code> blocks (safe for tutorial sites that show HTML examples)</li>
<li>Custom fields, widgets, menus, or anything outside the post editor</li>
</ul>
No settings. No admin page. No JavaScript. Just one lightweight filter that runs on save.
Trademark notice: This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. “Google Docs” is a trademark of Google LLC and is used here only to describe the source of the formatting this plugin cleans up.

Tooltester Clean Paste for Google Docs

Removes the messy inline formatting Google Docs leaves behind when you paste into the WordPress editor.

Draft from Google Docs vs Tooltester Clean Paste for Google Docs