How To Share Content Across Infinite Platforms using WriterGate?
Using WriterGate Markdown To Improve Content Sharing
As a professional writer, or a content manager, there comes a time when you have to send a copy of your content to your client for additional review, or for publishing. However, many people face the issue of sharing content that cannot be used in many locations.
For example, if you were working on a Google Doc, and you had to push your content on a Headless CMS, or even Wordpress, it would be difficult to copy and paste as all your formatting will get lost during the process. and ultimately, decreases your efficiency.
One approach to solving this is to manually convert your content to markdown and then porting the markdown content onto your blog. However, markdown is not something that everyone knows.
But, WriterGate is equipped with a CommonMark compliant editor that helps create content that guarantees portability and share-ability!
Enter, WriterGate Content Sharing
WriterGate allows its users to compile a markdown file that comprises of:
- The content only: This ensures that only the content located in the editor is compiled into a single markdown file.
- The content + meta: This form of sharing ensures that WriterGate compiles a markdown file that contains the content you’ve written along with the information of the author! This is extremely useful in cases where you wish to share the author information on a blog!
Pre-requisites
Well…There are none! WriterGate Content Sharing is available to any user having workspaces on either the free, content team or enterprise plan! Although, you will have to navigate to the WriterGate editor to use this feature
Note: WriterGate content sharing can be accessed using the editor menubar as shown below.
The “Download” menu allows you to take advantage of WriterGate Content Sharing and compile plug-and-play markdown files in under two seconds!
Content Only Sharing
To grab a portable copy of your content (only), simply:
- Open the Download menu
- Click “Markdown”
WriterGate will immediately compile a markdown file of your content, while preserving your formatting styles! Later on, you can import this file into third party tools and ensure that your formatting is preserved!
Trust us, it’s as simple as we’ve shown below.
This will create a zip file containing the content + any images you’ve used in the content. You can then import this onto a headless CMS like Strapi and ship it off to your blog in a matter of few clicks!
As illustrated above, it really is that simple! With just one button, WriterGate compiled a file that is universally supported (even in VSCode).
Content + Meta Sharing
Secondly, you can choose to export a copy of the content along with the Meta information. This can cover various aspects such as Author Name, Author Picture and Keywords! You can generate a copy of your content using this method and hand it over to your client so they can easily upload it onto their blog!
After opening the file, you’ll see the meta for your document!
Your client can then use this information to manage your writer profile on their blog!
One Last Thing…
WriterGate, additionally, allows users to generate a zip file of all the images included in your content! This is helpful incases where your client wants a copy of only your assets!
To do so,
- Click “Download” in the editor menu
- Click “Images”
WriterGate will generate a list of all the assets you’ve added into your content (including GIFs, and images).
And that’s it! With just one click, your content is now share-able to endless platforms across the internet!
Sharing content really does get easier! WriterGate enables you to compile 100% share-able and portable content in under two seconds! To make your content more share-able, and portable, get started with WriterGate, for free, today, or reach out to use at support@writergate.com
