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Connect Google Drive to WordPress

Google Drive keeps the files behind your website, and WordPress shows them. Linking the two keeps images and FAQ drafts in a folder your team can reach, and gives you regular backups of every post without logging in to the WordPress admin.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Drive and WordPress

Blog posts, FAQ drafts and post backups moving between Google Drive and WordPress. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
WeeklyAI

Write a weekly blog post with its cover image kept in Drive

Each week the next topic on your list becomes a WordPress draft with a cover image, and the image is saved in a Google Drive folder your team can reach.

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On a scheduleAI

Add FAQ sections to your WordPress pages, with copies in Drive

Each week, pages without an FAQ get five questions and answers written from their content, and a copy of each FAQ is kept in a Google Drive document.

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Weekly

Back up your WordPress posts to Google Drive every week

Every Sunday all your published posts are exported to a CSV file in your Drive backups folder, and you get an email with the link.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Google Drive and WordPress, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Google Drive and WordPress automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Drive and WordPress in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Only convert docs with a title and at least 500 words; move others to a "needs work" folder.

Back up posts weekly and keep only the last 8 backups.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Drive and WordPress

How the two apps work together

  • A check every few minutes looks for new files in the Drive folder you choose.
  • The script converts docs to post content and uploads images to WordPress.
  • A schedule exports posts to Drive as a backup.

  • Writers drafting in Google Docs

    A doc moved to a "ready" folder becomes a WordPress draft. Writing stays in Docs.

  • Site owners backing up content

    Posts are exported to Drive regularly. There is a copy.

  • Designers supplying images

    Images in a Drive folder are uploaded to the media library. Posts have images.

  • Agencies receiving client content

    Client docs in Drive become posts. Handover is simple.

More apps

Google Drive, WordPress and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Draft ready

When a Drive doc becomes a WordPress draft, post the link to #content.

Content tracker

Log each Drive doc turned into a WordPress post to my Google Sheet.

SEO fields

When a Drive doc becomes a post, write the SEO title and excerpt with OpenAI.

Setup

Connect Google Drive and WordPress once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Google Drive

File storage

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Google Drive API.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.
  3. Create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Drive and enter the client ID and secret, then connect.
  5. Prefer a service account? Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create one and add a JSON key, share your folders or a Shared Drive with its email, and save the key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

WordPress

CMS

  1. In wp-admin, go to Users and open your profile, or the profile of the user the automation should act as.
  2. Scroll to Application Passwords, type a name such as ClickRuntime, and choose Add New Application Password.
  3. Copy the generated password straight away, along with the WordPress username it belongs to.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save the username and Application Password as a secret on Connections & secrets, together with your site address.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Google Drive and WordPress

Which Drive folder does it use?
The folder you choose, in the Google account you connect. Files are owned by that account, so they stay yours.
What is in the backup file?
A CSV with each post's title, link, date and content. It opens in Google Sheets or Excel and can be imported back into WordPress with a plugin.
Does it work with any WordPress site?
Yes, any site with the REST API turned on, which is the default. Edits need an application password for an Author or Editor.
Will backups fill up my Drive?
Each backup is a single text file, which is small for most blogs. You can delete old ones, or ask the automation to replace the previous file.
Does formatting carry over?
Headings, lists, links and bold text carry over. Complex layouts may need tidying.
Are images in the doc uploaded?
Yes. Images can be uploaded to the media library.
Can it set the author?
Yes. Map the doc owner to a WordPress user.

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