Custom Triggers & Actions

Before we dive into developing a custom integration for Automator, let's explain some of the Automator's terminology. Uncanny Automator is an automation plugin for WordPress. So it all revolves around automations. We call each automation a "Recipe". For now there…

Before we dive into developing a custom integration for Automator, please check out the terminology article to get familiar with how Automator is structured and how we call its key parts. Building a custom Automator Integration In this section we…

Now that we have an integration, let's add the first Trigger to it. This trigger will fire every time a post is published on the site. We will also add a post types dropdown to it so that users can…

Now let's add an Action to our integration. This action will simply send emails to a desired address. We will have to add several options, so it can accept the email address, text and other parameters: The action file and class…

Let's add a custom Condition to our integration. We already developed an action that can send emails to users, but what if we want to only send emails to people who work at our company? To achieve this we can add…

Let's add a Settings page to our integration. This settings page will allow users to enter some value and store it, for example, an API key: The settings file and class You can view the complete code of this file here,…