Google Docs is a very powerful tool for many tasks, but it is widely misunderstood and exaggerated enough. Google Docs is free and works on Android, Chromebooks, iOS, iPad, macOS, and Windows.
Google Docs works in the cloud but supports offline use with certain browsers, including Chrome. In my Chromebooks for Bilingual Authors e-book (now available in Castilian, English, and French), I explain how Google Docs uses Book Scripts, including many hidden and unpublished features.
Today, in this short article, accompanied by two videos, I'll show you how great it is for Google Docs to create articles - along with full tables/comparison tables - for pasting into WordPress posts or pages.
As I'll explain later, Google Docs is very powerful whether you have access to the standard Gutenberg block editor now (added to WordPress in 2018) or if your circumstances limit you to using the editor. Classic WordPress.
The classic editor is less powerful (but still interesting) than Gutenberg when pasting from Google Docs, and I'll show you a comparison chart (you guessed it) pre-built in Google Docs, and two short attachments. Videos.
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Before figuring out how committed the tables (compare tables) are to WordPress (even in the classic editor), I'd like to create comparison tables in another tool, convert them to an image, and then import that image into WordPress as if it were an image.
I knew this was bad for SEO and not ideal for mobile readers, but until recently this was the only way I knew of to get comparison tables in my WordPress posts (without any plugins). Now, since some of the articles I posted here on the ProVideo Coalition, I've built the widget almost entirely in Google Docs, except for adding images and audio files.
Unique Features of Google Docs
Google Docs works in the cloud so you always have the latest version on all your computers, tablets, and smartphones wherever you go. So, wherever you are, you can continue working on an article on all your devices without worrying about file transfer between devices.
Unlike the more limited browser Microsoft Word, Google Docs already supports offline mode in some browsers (including Chrome) and then syncs automatically whenever you have an internet connection.
Google Docs is the property of collaboration by getting other people's input or consent without filling everyone's hard drive for no reason, without space and bandwidth, and 80,008 different versions of Word documents that confuse. You can give collaborators full edit access (great for co-authoring projects), comment access (my favorite for most projects I've written), or read-only access.
Automatic typing and a clickable layout on the left side of the screen (shown above, left) make Google Docs more than just a word processor: Google Docs is truly a writers' studio, almost as powerfully as Ulysses.
WordPress works great with a free and open-source Chrome extension called Read-aloud, which lets you edit out loud using speech-to-speech technology for different languages. The free Read Aloud extension is also available for Microsoft Edge and Firefox, although I haven't tested these versions.
The cool new pageless design (added in 2022) makes Google Docs better at writing things that won't print right away (or maybe never) — and it's better than ever at creating posts to be pasted into WordPress.
Administrators can provide Gutenberg on-demand access to authors with a single click
The Classic Editor is no longer included with WordPress but can be added using a free plugin called Classic Editor, as is currently the case on the ProVideo Coalition and some private and client podcast sites including CapicuaFM, and Beyond the Podcast. And he speaks Spanish.
As long as the Classic Editor plugin is still powered by WordPress and some people prefer to use the Classic Editor, it's okay for the plugin to coexist or even coexist with the Gutenberg block editor.
By clicking a single checkbox in the Classic Editor plugin settings as shown in the screenshot below, a WordPress admin can allow editors to use this classic editor for each post.
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