WordPress - Document Frontmatter

Document Frontmatter lets you define WordPress post metadata directly inside your Google Doc — no need to fill in forms each time you export. Add a simple 2-column table at the top of your document, set the values you want, and Tenwrite picks them up automatically.

This is especially useful with Drive Automation and Sheet Automation, where there’s no export form at all. Frontmatter is how you control individual posts when publishing is fully automated. It also works with manual exports.

You don’t need to create the table by hand. Open your Google Doc, go to Extensions > Tenwrite > Frontmatter > Insert WordPress Frontmatter, and a ready-to-use table is inserted at the top of your document. Fill in what you need and leave the rest blank — empty rows are ignored.

When Tenwrite processes the document, it reads the table, applies the values to the post, and removes the table from the published content. Your readers never see it.

Set status to one of: draft, publish, future, private, or pending. For scheduling, set status to future and add a publish_date.

To save as a draft while you’re still working on content:

To schedule a post, set status to future and add a publish_date:

You can also add these fields to control how Tenwrite transforms the document’s HTML during export:

• remove_inline_styles — true/false
• remove_font_family — true/false
• remove_font_size — true/false
• remove_color — true/false
• remove_text_decoration — true/false
• remove_background — true/false
• remove_padding — true/false
• remove_margin — true/false
• remove_width — true/false
• remove_height — true/false
• remove_line_height — true/false
• remove_border — true/false
• remove_letter_spacing — true/false
• remove_text_transform — true/false
• remove_max_width — true/false
• remove_max_height — true/false
• demote_headings — true/false
• add_rel_nofollow_to_links — true/false
• add_target_blank_to_links — true/false
• increase_line_height — true/false
• convert_pt_to_px — true/false
• strip_empty_elements — true/false
• responsive_images — true/false
• embed_youtube — true/false
• embed_twitter — true/false
• upload_images_to_media_library — true/false
• use_first_image_as_featured_image — true/false

• The table must be the very first element in the document — nothing before it.
• Use Extensions > Tenwrite > Frontmatter to insert a correctly formatted table.
• Don’t edit the first row (tenwrite_frontmatter : v1) — only change values in the second column.

• Set status to future and include a publish_date in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format.
• Make sure the date is in the future when you export.

• Use comma-separated format: category1, category2.
• Double-check the field names: categories and tags (not category or tag).

• Use comment and ping in frontmatter, not comment_status or ping_status.

• Export Google Docs to WordPress
• WordPress - Drive Automation
• WordPress - Sheet Automation

For help with frontmatter setup, contact support@tenwrite.com.