# How do you handle running a Blog on a Glide App? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 1, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138 "2020-06-01T17:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maschera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maschera/32/6730_2.png) [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/1 "2020-06-01T17:30:50Z")
One of my customers wants to have a blog section. He wants to be able to publish posts every week. We know it’s possible, however it’s a bit un-user friendly managing this in a Google Sheet cell. Have you guys developed any integration (or Zap) to facilitate this flow? I’m thinking Google Doc → Google Sheet. Customer writes a post on a Google Doc, and this gets pasted into a Sheet Row. But then I’ll have to see how to deal with titles and overall formatting. ---
**Author:** ![sardamit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sardamit/32/263_2.png) [@sardamit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sardamit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/2 "2020-06-01T20:56:56Z")
Is the Google Doc the only place the blog post is going to be live in? I would say publish it on the main blog page, add a link to the page, and use web view to read the blogpost inside the app. ---
**Author:** ![maschera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maschera/32/6730_2.png) [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/3 "2020-06-01T21:26:26Z")
Thanks for the tip, however my customer doesn’t use any blogging platform and I would like the experience to be somehow native of the app. I’m currently managing this through a Text component, and I paste the post within the related cell. Works fine for me, but it won’t fly with the customer - it will look messy. That’s why I thought of Google Docs + Zapier. Might be easier for him and it would spare me the admin work. ---
**Author:** ![sardamit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sardamit/32/263_2.png) [@sardamit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sardamit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/4 "2020-06-01T21:43:35Z")
I have a similar section in my portfolio app: [https://amitsarda.glideapp.io/](https://amitsarda.glideapp.io/) I tried embedding shared content from Medium, Notion, and Evernote but none of these platforms allow embedding. However, in my app, I have published these posts on my website (managed by Wix), which allows embedding it in a Glide web view and it works really well for me. Scroll to the bottom where you see a list of blog posts I have published. All these posts open inside the app using the web view option. Totally understand the limitation around not having a publicly hosted blog. I think Google Docs allow embedding, but not without having to manually set up sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/5 "2020-06-01T22:05:00Z")
You could probably find something that converts google docs to markdown and somehow get the resulting markdown in a cell in the sheet, then use a rich text component to display it in the app. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/6 "2020-06-01T23:45:14Z")
Is your client willing to use markdown for formatting? ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/7 "2020-06-02T00:02:09Z")
This is a website that supports it: [https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/](https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/) Demo of how it works. ![ezgif-3-07b3fc2eba1b](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/2X/8/8c3bd22ac19b4582634081c8b1693df9cb3ba60c.gif) ---
**Author:** ![sardamit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sardamit/32/263_2.png) [@sardamit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sardamit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/8 "2020-06-02T00:05:21Z")
This got me thinking. I used this utility to convert a published page to markdown: [https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/](https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/) Looks pretty neat to me: [https://proofofconcept.glideapp.io/](https://proofofconcept.glideapp.io/) Check the first post in the list of articles. ---
**Author:** ![maschera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maschera/32/6730_2.png) [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/9 "2020-06-02T01:36:54Z")
Thank you all guys for your suggestions. I believe teaching my client to write in markdown (or better, using an app) is the way to go. A pity that Glide is not SEO ready yet. All that content would drive traffic. ---
**Author:** ![maschera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maschera/32/6730_2.png) [@maschera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/maschera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/10 "2020-06-02T01:37:24Z")
Will have to teach him, or better I’ll have him using an app. ---
**Author:** ![garrison](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/garrison/32/22059_2.png) [@garrison](https://community.glideapps.com/u/garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/11 "2020-06-03T11:27:10Z")
Is it possible to add markdown in Sheet cells? I tried it but it didn’t seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/12 "2020-06-03T11:31:34Z")
Sure is! You could format a cell like this: ```auto # Header Here is some text that's **important**. [Here's a link to a website](https://google.com) and an image: ![snip image](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UM-6Wh7BpCk/maxresdefault.jpg) ``` Just make sure you space twice at the end of each line before doing a return character within the cell (command-enter on a mac…shift enter I think on a windows device) ---
**Author:** ![garrison](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/garrison/32/22059_2.png) [@garrison](https://community.glideapps.com/u/garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-handle-running-a-blog-on-a-glide-app/10138/13 "2020-06-03T11:40:48Z")
@Robert_Petitto: Excellent, thank you! I wasn’t adding two spaces.