How do I turn my wordpress.com blog into a Microsoft or Google document manuscript?

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The happiness engineers are telling me that there is absolutely no way to do this unless Google comes up with some sort of tool

But I have about four years of writing on WordPress. I’m just a simple blogger.

They’re telling me I have to copy and paste every single word

I have 407 entries

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  5. I would recommend looking into 4 potential paths forward:

    **The long way around, most likely to be free**

    1. Check what types of documents can be imported to Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Google Docs, for example typically accepts HTML documents, rich text format, Word documents, OpenDocument.
    2. Find a tool that can convert WordPress export files (XML files using a specific “WordPress eXtended RSS” or WXR) into one of those formats.
    3. Export your site using the built-in WordPress exporter, then convert and import.

    **The short way around**

    Hire a developer who will build that convert tool for you and run it.

    **The short way around, doing it yourself**

    1. Look for a WordPress plugin that generates custom export files (HTML or maybe even Word) instead of the default one.
    2. Install that plugin on your site. You may have to purchase a plan if you do not currently have a plan allowing you to install plugins on your site.
    3. Run it, and then import to Google Doc.

    **The different tool approach**

    Instead of looking to import posts to Word, look for services that can export your blog to a book. There are several “blog to book” services out there, check reviews and pick one that fits your needs.

  6. I’d also like to see suggestions for this. For a second I considered if making an RSS feed would give you the appropriate stream of content. No idea.

    But consider this – if you’re going to make a manuscript from all this, copying and pasting would become part of the editing process. You’ll be revisiting each post and making impressions of them as you go. That might be a good thing.

  7. Since it’s a (commercial) WordPress.com you may have to contact their support to solve this. The good news is a lot of authors use WordPress to write their novels in serial form.

    There’s a plugin for the real, open-source WordPress called Aspose that will do this, evidently pretty easily.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter/

    WordPress.com does allow a limited number of plugins and that might be on their list. Or you could upgrade your subscription to a “business” level and add any plugins you like.

    But, again, contact their support and ask what their Blog to Word solution is.

  9. They way we would go about it is writing a custom WordPress plugin that iterates through the posts post-type and then generates a very large markdown file, possibly with this structure:

    “`# Site Title Here

    # Blog Posts

    ## Post Title Here

    ### Author

    Author Here

    ### Tags

    tags,here

    ### Publish Date

    Publish Date Here

    ### Featured Image

    Markdown embedded featured image code here

    ### Post content

    Long form content here

    “`

    … continue loop until all posts have been printed into the markdown file.

    Then once all the file was completely generated, you could open it up in text editor, copy the contents, and paste it into your Google Doc, then use a markdown converter add on to convert the markdown (or you could format the export into HTML at the plugin level instead of markdown).

    Additional bells and whistles could be adding a anchor powered table of contents that helps quick navigate to each post.

    I believe a custom plugin like this would take a developer 5-15 hours to deliver. There’s some good solutions in these comments that appear to be already developed though that might work better for your use case.

    This could be even made into a theme, rather than a plugin, so the end result is a printout when the WordPress site is accessed.

 

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