IFTTT Post Formats & Post Types vs WunderAutomation

IFTTT (if this, then that) is one of the coolest web services available, and allows you to connect your different web service accounts to create ‘recipes’. An example of a recipe that I have is to create a new WordPress post on my blog whenever I favorite a YouTube video. Unfortunately IFTTT doesn’t have a way to specify a post format or a custom post type, so this plugin provides a couple ways to update them. To set the post format, you need to set the category in IFTTT to one of the following categories: ifttt-aside ifttt-gallery ifttt-link ifttt-image ifttt-quote ifttt-status ifttt-video ifttt-audio ifttt-chat So for my YouTube -> WordPress recipe, I have it adding the ‘ifttt-video’ category in IFTTT (IFTTT allows you to specify the category for the posts it creates), and voilà, when it’s published, the format has been set. If you want to instead set the new post to a custom post type, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: ifttt-posttype-{post_type_slug}. So if you wanted to create new WordPress pages with IFTTT, you would add the ifttt-posttype-page category. And finally, if you want the IFTTT categories to be stored as a different taxonomy, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: ifttt-taxonomy-{taxonomy_slug}. Note: These speciall ifttt-* categories will not actually be set on the post/page/object. These are ‘special’ categories which simply serve as flags for which post format, post-type or taxonomy to send the data to, and they are removed from the list of categories which are actually stored to the post. Hope you find this useful! Feel free to contribute to or fork this plugin on github.

WunderAutomation brings automation features similar to IFTTT or Zapier to your WordPress site so that you can create simple and powerful automations without writing code. This enables anyone (not just coders) to customize WordPress to suit your needs. Human Friendly. Overview Among many other things, our users use WunderAutomation to: Send reminders to users who created an account but never logged in Send follow up emails to users who buy specific products and ask for a review or suggest similar products Send emails to users 30 days after the last purchase of a specific product to remind them to restock Send notifications to internal email groups, SMS or Slack channels when orders are paid, cancelled or fail Send out a personalized WooCommerce coupon to users once they have placed a certain number of orders or have spent a certain amount on the site In short, WunderAutomation lets users create workflows that automate common WordPress tasks. A workflow consists of a trigger, and one or many steps. A trigger is what kicks of the workflow can be almost anything, for example a new WooCommerce order, a user login or an incoming webhook. Each step is either a filter that determines the workflow should continue or an action that does some work. You can filter a workflow based on almost anything like WooCommerce order total, the customers email address. Or the WordPress user login count, or a parameter in an incoming webhook. Multiple filters can be combined using logical AND/OR expressions. When all the filters pass, the actions are carried out, you can update WordPress posts or WooCommerce orders, add custom fields, create new users or posts, add or remove taxonomy terms (tags), send emails or run a REST request to an external service. There are endless ways to combine triggers, filters and actions so you can add almost any custom functionality to your WordPress site. WooCommerce WunderAutomation supports WooCommerce out of the box so it can trigger on WooCommerce events such as receiving a new order and perform actions like adding an order note or changing the order status. From version 1.9.0 we also support the popular WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips plugin so that you can use invoice numbers, date and notes into a workflow. Advanced Custom Fields WunderAutomation also supports Advanced Custom Fields (free and Pro versions) out of the box. ACF fields are accessible both in filters and action parameters so that you can take full advantage of the customizations you’ve made using ACF. A popular use case is to combine ACF and WunderAutomation to create customized delivery notifications. Bulk handling You can also handle objects (users, posts, orders and comments) in bulk using WunderAutomation, we call this Re-Triggers. A re-trigger runs periodically, ie every morning at 8AM and finds all objects that fit a certain criteria. For instance all posts with post type = “post” that was created in the past 30 days. These objects are then sent to a workflow that where you can handle them individually, for instance to disable comments if the post is older than X days and belongs to a certain category. Webhooks WunderAutomation can handle both incoming webhooks for triggering a workflow and sending out webhooks to external services. Incoming webhooks can be authenticated using Basic Auth, HTTP header tokens or HMAC signed payload (that Github uses). Webhooks makes it easy to use WunderAutomation in combination with Zapier, you can both start a zap using a WunderAutomation workflow and you can use Zapier to start a workflow. Related objects As of version 1.7 WunderAutomation supports adding related objects to a Workflow using the new “Add object” action. This enables more even advanced workflows where you can access all properties on objects that are related to the page/post/order that triggered the workflow. This is useful in situations where you are setting up relationships between custom post types, ie “city” and “country”. Using “Add object” you can use the parent “country” object in filters and parameters when a “city” post have been updated. WunderAutomation Pro Out of the box, WunderAutomation has great support for WordPress core, WooCommerce and Advanced Custom Fields. With WunderAutomation Pro you also get access to a number of additional integrations with popular plugins and services. See https://www.wundermatics.com/wunderautomation-pro/ for more information. MailChimp MailPoet BuddyPress Slack Telegram Twilio (SMS gateway) WPForms and WPForms lite Contact Form 7 WunderAutomation Pro also comes with more advanced Re-trigger scheduling and some additional WooCommerce parameters and filters. Built in functionality Also see: built in triggers Triggers Triggers are used to start a workflow Webhook; Starts a workflow in response to an inbound webhook (i.e from Zapier). User; Created, Login, Profile updated, Role changed. Post: Created, Pending, Published, Privatized (published as private), Saved, Status changed and trashed. Order (WooCommerce): Created, OnHold, Paid, Processing, Completed, Pending, Refunded, Saved, Cancelled Comment: Submitted, Approved, Status changed, WooCommerce order note submitted Filters: Also see: built in filters Filters can be used to filter out triggered events so that only certain events actually leads to an action being performed. User: Email, Role Post: Title, Content, Tags, Categories, Owner, Status, Type Order: Billing city, Billing country, Billing state, Downloadable products, Virtual products, Payment method, Producs, Product categories, Producs tags, Shipping city, Shipping country, Shipping state, Order total Customer: Previous Order count, Previous order total Comment: Author email, Author name, Content, Status, Type Actions Also see: built in actions Actions are things a workflow can do / change / update as a result of a trigger Add / update custom field Change user role Create post Create user Change post / comment status Add / remove taxonomy term (tag or comment) Write a line to a log file Send plain text, HTML or WooCommerece email Run a http request to a remote REST API Run a webhook call (i.e to Zapier) Add WooCommerce order note Parameters Also see: built in parameters Parameters are used to customize an action with content from the object (post, order, user) that triggered it. User: Id, First name, Last name, Email, Nickname, Role, Last login date Post: Id, Title, Content, Slug, Admin url, public url, date, modified date, Comment count, custom fields Order: Id, Status, SubTotal, Total excl. tax, Total tax, Stripe fee, Paypal fee, Payment method, Customer email, Shipping and billing address fields, order key General: Siteurl, date, blogname, remote IP WunderAutomation also supports both incoming and outgoing Webhooks which is ideal for integrating your workflows with Zapier. This gives you access to thousands of integrations via their service. Logging WunderAutomation logs everything it does and in the interest of being human friendly, it also comes with a searchable log viewer. This makes it easy to keep track of what triggers that has fired, if the filters passed OK or not and if the actions was carried out or not.