I have been working on a basic process to cross publish my GDE articles from Medium to dev.to.
Everyone has personal preferences - but I like the Medium editor better than the more raw markdown based editor in dev.to.
How do I import the article?
The key step is to enable the RSS feed in dev.to with your Medium account. This Medium article is a good summary of the steps:
https://medium.com/@tylerauerbeck/publishing-to-dev-to-from-medium-f5808d7240f5
Article Cleanup
Once you publish an article on Medium then use the force refresh RSS feed from your Dev.to profile to pull the latest version.
For final touchups directly on dev.to - here is a basic dev.to editor guide to get started:
Front Matter
Front Matter is almost like Metadata - dev.to uses this information to present your article.
Here is some sample Front Matter from one of my recent cross published articles:
---
title: MCP Development with COBOL, Cloud Run, and Gemini CLI
published: true
series: MCP-Cloudrun
date: 2026-01-22 20:58:15 UTC
tags: googlecloudrun,mcps,aiagent,cobol
canonical_url: https://xbill999.medium.com/mcp-development-with-cobol-cloud-run-and-gemini-cli-ed6ef84f5d48
---
Tips and Tricks
Two key considerations- when you import a story from Medium - the published: tag is set to false. You need to manually set it to true and choose the Google Developer Expert channel at the top to send your post to the GDE area on dev.to.
2nd item- if you are pushing a series of related articles you need to set the series: tag consistently for the articles. dev.to does not give you much control over the presentation at this time and will display the articles in time published order- which may not be optimal. There are some feature requests to enhance this but it is not supported at this time.
Thats all Folks!
Your first dev.to article is just a few clicks away!
Top comments (2)
Thanks for sharing these tips with the community! I believe we have plans to start improving the RSS experience soon too, so hopefully the process can really be optimized for you then.
still a work in progress.
I have a lot of older articles that I want to move over - but haven't found a
good way to move them yet. Maybe some tricks with republishing and the RSS feed.
For feedback on series- it would be good to have a way to flag an article as the series intro article and also manually order the articles other than by just by publish date.