Offline Blogging on Gutenberg

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  brianharring · Member · Mar 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm

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  Hi

  I keep a travel blog for trips to Asia and Africa. I recently completed a 3 month expedition through the bush in Eastern and Southern Africa where there was little or no wifi and what there was, was very slow. I had mobile data but that was 2G or 3G and glacially slow.

  I couldn’t access wordpress when on the road and the android app, on my chromebook, wouldn’t let me load videos or galleries. I wanted to load several photo galleries of 10 to 15 photos in each post.

  My intention was to publish everything when I hit a city or somewhere with a good wifi connection.

  I tried this on both wordpress.com and .org

  I really like Gutenberg and wondering if there is any workabout where I can write a blog offline and publish online and maintain layout of text, photos, photo galleries and videos on Chromebook

  Thanks

  Brian

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 16, 2020 at 9:47 am

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  Hi Brian,

  I assume you’re working on your Jetpack-connected site, http://bharr.com/?

  The WordPress mobile apps are the only way to compose content offline on a WordPress site that I know of. The app saves content locally on the phone/tablet, and can queue images you add to your posts to upload once you have a connection. But uploading video and galleries don’t work that way, as those rely on your site’s connection to our servers via Jetpack to work, and that connection requires that you’re online.

  On a Chromebook the closest alternative I can offer is to use our Google Docs extension – you install that in Google Docs and link it to your WordPress.com or Jetpack-connected site. You draft your content in Google Docs, and then sync it to your site when you’re ready to publish.

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  In that case you wouldn’t be using the block editor. However, upon syncing the content to your site should automatically be converted to blocks, though you’ll probably need to review the layout and formatting online before actually publishing.