What’s the most efficient way to move content from Google Documents into WordPress? Our team has writers who create all their content in Google Docs before sending it to our editorial team. The problem comes after that step. We can’t just copy and paste because it creates a mess with the formatting. We end up with weird HTML classes, broken styles, and images that still link back to Google’s servers instead of our own media library. Has anyone found a good workflow for this? We need something that preserves the basic formatting like headings and lists but strips out all the Google-specific code. Right now we’re spending way too much time cleaning up posts manually after importing them.
For transferring Google Docs content into WordPress, I’ve experienced a similar struggle. An effective solution I’ve found involves using a tool like Mammoth.js alongside a custom PHP script. This combination effectively strips out unnecessary Google Docs formatting and converts it to clean HTML. Encouraging writers to download their documents as Word files rather than copying directly from the browser significantly reduces styling issues. We created a simple checklist to remind writers to utilize proper heading styles instead of just bolding text. This approach reduced our cleanup time from around 30 minutes to just 5 minutes per article. While setting this up was challenging, the results were certainly worth it.
just paste it into notepad first, then copy from there into wordpress. it’ll strip all the google formatting automaticly and give you clean text. you’ll lose some formatting, but it’s way easier than dealing with messy html code.
We switched to the WordPress.com for Google Docs add-on six months ago - total game changer. You can publish straight from Google Docs to WordPress without formatting nightmares. Images upload automatically to your media library instead of staying linked to Google’s servers, which was our exact problem. Formatting stays clean - headings remain proper H2s and H3s, no annoying span tags everywhere. Writers need to learn the initial setup, but after that it’s just one click to publish. Only catch is you need WordPress.com Business plan or higher, but it paid for itself fast considering all the time we saved on manual cleanup.