Posted: Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 4:30 pm. Filed in Uncategorized.
Now share Google Docs and Google Calendars
For many of you, your WordPress.com site isn’t just about communication, it’s about collaboration, too.
We’re taking collaboration and sharing one step further today at WordPress.com by enabling you to embed presentations, documents, forms, spreadsheets, and calendars created with Google Docs and Google Calendar.
We’ve had a lot of users request this functionality from our awesome Happiness Engineers, and we are listening.
To get started sharing Google Docs and Google Calendars, just copy/paste the code provided by Google into a post, page, or text widget, and you’re done!
We’ve created two new Support documents to guide you through this step by step:
Note: if you’re sharing a private (not public) document, the viewer will have to be logged into Google and have permission to access the document.
Get sharing!
May 9th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
This is great news!
May 9th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Thank you!
Is it possible to do it with jetpack in selfhosted wp sites?
Best regards
May 9th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
This isn’t in Jetpack currently. For now, you can always just copy and paste the embed codes from Google into your WordPress.org blog.
May 9th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Great feature. Do you know whether there will be any support for Windows Live Office and Windows Live Hotmail Calendar in the future? I don’t use Google.
May 9th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
We don’t have any plans for Live or Hotmail just yet, but if Google Docs and Calendar are popular we might look into doing more embeds like this.
May 9th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
i like this.. i wanna try
May 9th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
like it
May 9th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Nice Invention. This thing with log in to google, if the post is private…
Seems to be a nice function.
We’ll se, if it’s that great, how it seems to be!
I am going to check this out. Those things are the reasons for blogging with WordPress!
THANKS!
May 9th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Nice! Have to try that soon.
May 9th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
unexpected good news
May 9th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Good job!
May 9th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Does this mean we can now use Google Friend Connect as well?
May 9th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
This is just for Google Docs and Calendar embeds, not Friend Connect.
May 9th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Not crazy about this feature. Just tried it. Copied the iframe code to my post, and it embeds my doc as a small window with scroll bars? Very unappealing. It may be ok for some applications, but not for my blog.
May 9th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Hi there, the embeds should be automatically resized to fit in whatever area they’re embedded into. If you embedded something like a wide spreadsheet we may not be able to shrink it enough to fit, so in that case we need to use scrollbars.
May 9th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
gr8!
you are the best!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Interesting!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Great update this, sorely needed. This takes our wordpress experience one step closer. And especially for doc-ey people like me, this is a wonderful, wonderful update. I am so going to love this one!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Fantastic! I have been waiting for the ability to display my Google calendar! Thanks WP, team!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Thanks a lot, I’ve been waiting for this feature!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
This just made my day (even though I noticed it a few days ago). And with Gmail announcing today that users can color code their Google Calendar, it made it even better! Thank you!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Wonderfull. Will this functionality also be coming to wordpress.org sites? (Or is it already there and I just have not discovered it?)
May 9th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
You can already embed whatever you like in your WordPress.org sites by just copying and pasting the embed code into the editor. On WordPress.com we don’t allow flash or many other embeds for security reasons, but for popular services like YouTube, Slideshare, and now Google Docs and Calendar, we make special exceptions. So if you’re using WordPress.org you can already do this with no changes needed.
May 9th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Awesome new feature!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Thank you for informing us
May 9th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
That’s great news!
May 9th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Hot damn! Thank you! I was just talking the other day with another designer (whom I’m trying to make a wordpress convert) about all the things I love about designing our website with WordPress, but that one of the few things I didn’t like was that I couldn’t use google calendars. You’ve made me eat my words! She, in particular, works with a website that is heavily focussed on events and thus needed a site where she could pull in her google calendar.
May 9th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Pretty convenient! Oh please please allow google analytics integration some day…
May 9th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
these could turn out to be quite usefull
May 9th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
That would be pretty cool!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Google Calendar is only showing up as a calendar (no different than the WordPress Calendar widget). It would be helpful if an individual calendar events could be shown in a list format. is there a short code to show only the future and individual calendar events?
May 9th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
I’m not sure if Google offers a list style embed. If they do, it should work if you copy the embed code. If not, unfortunately we’ll need to wait for Google to support that feature.
May 9th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
awesome!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
This is a great new feature! Maybe the ability to embed Google Maps is in the horizon?
May 9th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
The horizon is here! You can embed Google Maps on WordPress.com already
May 9th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Awesome! I’m sure this will come in handy!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
this is AMAZING!!!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Great add-on! I’m sure it’ll come in handy once I get into the Google tools too
But I can’t wait to give it try
May 9th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
super news! well done WP!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Sounds terrific. I haven’t needed those specific functions yet but I love the idea of being more cooperative with google.
I would really like to see wordpress blogs show up in my google reader feature like blogger. That would be awesome!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Wait a sec! Ain’t bartenders happiness engineers?” Hey, photomatt, pour me a scotch on the rocks!
It’s high time the winter of our discontent
become the not so silent spring of ACTION!
May 9th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
I’ll no longer use anything, any phase, any promotion that deals with Google or Verizon. Those entities have joined forces in an attempt to “own” the internet. The internet needs to remain “free”.
May 9th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Your happiness engineers have a degree in awesomeness!
May 9th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
This is great! I do wish that Google Friend Connect would be added. That would be awesome!
May 9th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Great news, I’m waiting to try it…
May 9th, 2011 at 8:12 pm
By chance, just decided to create a calendar page TODAY. moment of clarity/technological breakthrough in uploading a calendar was definitely fueled by this becoming available. No wonder I was having trouble just a few hours before!
May 9th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
p.s. so thank you so much!!! huge time saver!
May 9th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Simply wonderful!
May 9th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Thanks a lot. This will be pretty useful, I’m sure!
May 9th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
That’s why WP is the best blog server! Realy a awesome new! Thx n congrats!
May 9th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Utterly fantastic! I recently had a couple friends convince me of the value of google docs. Imbedding them into wordpress posts doubles their value and uses for me. I am a science fiction/fantasy writer, and love google doc’s method of sharing progress. Thank you so much, WordPress team, for all the new treats!
May 9th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
This is a great idea. Whilst I am not sure I have much use for this feature yet, it is nice to have the option. On that note, could people please suggest reasons why I would want to share Google calendar (or docs) on my blog (and not just give them the link to my Google calendar/docs)?
May 9th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Oww yeahhhh… i reallllllyyy like this.
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May 9th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
seriously, seriously? that’s AMAZING NEWS!
May 9th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Great ……
You guys are Rocking……….. after Jet pack it is a another useful application here…………
I will try soon,
May 9th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Awesome add!
May 9th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Really good. WordPress.com rocks
May 10th, 2011 at 12:36 am
Great! Would it be possible to do the same with the Facebook “Like box”? (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/) It is much better than the “Page badge”, which is the only one that works with wordpress.com…
June 17th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
See this comment.
May 10th, 2011 at 12:59 am
Thanks, this will be very handy.
May 10th, 2011 at 1:07 am
THANK YOU! Just the feature I have been waiting for!
May 10th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Cool! Thank you so much, WP!
May 10th, 2011 at 2:08 am
Yes, WP! Get it easy, easy, and easy!
May 10th, 2011 at 2:33 am
Can we share ‘Scribd’ docs too?
May 12th, 2011 at 8:05 am
You can already do that
May 10th, 2011 at 2:40 am
Thank you! This will be so nice when sharing longer documents! I love WordPress!
May 10th, 2011 at 2:50 am
Yet another surprise. Should move to Google Docs soon. Many many thanks..
May 10th, 2011 at 2:52 am
Hello!
What about Google Polls?
Incredible the new feature!!!
Greetings from Mexico!!!
May 10th, 2011 at 3:08 am
great news^-^
May 10th, 2011 at 3:43 am
Very Nice one. Thank you. I will share this article with my friends.
May 10th, 2011 at 3:53 am
Can’t wait to try it out!
May 10th, 2011 at 3:55 am
Thank you.
May 10th, 2011 at 4:06 am
Things just get better. A great addition!
May 10th, 2011 at 6:14 am
Very good information. You the people suggest us so we are growing. Thanks!
May 10th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Awesome, thank you!
May 10th, 2011 at 8:28 am
wow That would be pretty cool!
May 10th, 2011 at 9:55 am
Got started and having fun so far!
May 10th, 2011 at 10:04 am
A great enhancement. Looking forward to trying it out.
May 10th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Nice feature. Not as good as the EME-Plugin, but already useful. THX
May 10th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Brilliant idea. Thanks.
May 10th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Nice. Can you add funcionality to I can embed Facebook Like Box in my site?
June 17th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
The Facebook Like button is part of our sharing feature already.
May 10th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I love you guys! You are always striving to give the the customer needs and wants. I’ve been waiting for this. Thanks again!
May 10th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I’m so excited I think i just had a baby and didn’t know it… oh no… it was just excitement, but if it was I’d call him WordPress ! thank you thank you for this! I’ve been so waiting for this feature.
May 10th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Interesting also for our german users!tnx
May 10th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Brilliant!
May 10th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Very cool – another new feature I didn’t know I needed! Great Job WP!
May 10th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Have you WordPress “Happiness Engineers” – or whatever you call yourselves – been eavesdropping in my study? Are you blog spies too or something? I cannot, for the life of me, imagine how I could have slaved over the weekend to post my Google Calendar on one of my blogs, had to settle for an RSS feed in the Sidebar and by Tuesday I can in fact post my Calendar of events in all its grandeur. You guys can bug my mind anytime.
May 10th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
YAY! Thank you so much… this is awesome!
May 10th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
This has made me very happy
May 10th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Always trying hard to please Worldpress, Thanks!
May 10th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
thank you….this makes life easier for sure ! already added calendar….cheers !
May 11th, 2011 at 4:06 am
Thanks a lot. I have been looking forward to this development for a long time. When is WP allowing Picasa slideshows on its blogs?
May 11th, 2011 at 4:18 am
Excellent! Thank you!
May 11th, 2011 at 7:01 am
This is great. I go to 3-5 fashion events a week and now that I can post them to my blog. It will prevent me from having to send one mass emails. Thank you, thank you, thank you veryyyyyyyyy much!
May 11th, 2011 at 8:39 am
This will be awesome if I can get my swf to embed. Dunno why I can’t do that.
But thanks for the work, good job.
May 11th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
You guys are just God-sent. Awesome job!
May 11th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I Like This Feature
May 11th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Great for telling me this. It is simple and easy to embed the google docs or calendars thanks a lots
May 11th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
WordPress is now PERFECT!!!
May 11th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Wow thank you wordpress! I didn’t even know this was a feature. This will literally make everything so much easier
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May 12th, 2011 at 12:37 am
A long over due feature many of us are going to benefit from, excellent work guys.
May 12th, 2011 at 4:15 am
Love it!
May 12th, 2011 at 6:20 am
great implementation….
May 12th, 2011 at 7:53 am
That is great! It means that communities using google groups internally can work well with facebook externally!
May 12th, 2011 at 8:11 am
great news !!!
May 12th, 2011 at 11:48 am
this is very useful! great for all of us !
May 12th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Now that’s what I call craetive thinking!
kthxbai!
May 12th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
This just made my day!!!! I had a link to our calendar and did not like that it couldn’t be embedded. Love the change. Thanks!
May 12th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Great news!