CUNY Academic Commons

I spent a few hours with this plugin last night.

In theory, the plugin is great, and it attempts to do something pretty awesome. But it was clearly written for v1 of the Google Docs API (from 2009); the current version of the API is 3.0. So, while I managed to hack my way around the SSL issue, I wasn't able to use the API class in the plugin to access Doc contents themselves.

I played around a bit, and was able to make a connection using the new API, but it was very much proof-of-concept (and took me about two hours). It would take me dozens more hours to refactor the whole plugin to use the proper APIs. We don't really have the resources for this kind of project at the moment. So I'm suggesting that we uninstall this plugin, and perhaps look for a simpler implementation (like one that uses iframes) for the time being.

Scott, are you aware of any other Google Docs plugins for WP?

Thanks for the research, Scott.

I do not feel comfortable putting a generic iframe/embed plugin on the Commons, for the security reasons you note.

I find it hard to believe that there's not a single plugin out there that will convert a shortcode into a GDoc embed. I've played with it for the last 15 minutes and I don't think that it would be very difficult to implement. I'm going to close this ticket (as we've strayed from the original issue) and open a new one with the feature request.