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
RSS Feed Setups
The RSS feed is configured from your profile / settings / extensions:
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
A few key considerations- when you import a story from Medium - the published: tag is set to false. You need to manually set it to true when you are ready to publically release the article.
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.
For publishing- once you create a dev.to account and have activated the GDE group- you have the option to publish to your personal space or the GDE group channel. To target an artcle at the GDE channel update the drop down from the top left hand corner to submit it to the GDE group.
Here is a sample screenshot:
Thats all Folks!
Your first dev.to article is just a few clicks away!