WordPress Automation – A Big Picture View
Automate WordPress Video
WordPress Houston Meetup presentation about automating WordPress internally and externally. Internal processes as well as automating marketing and business process.
WordPress Automation
- Types of WordPress Automation
- Internal Vs. External
- Internal = Block spam, Backups, Schedule blogs, Compress Images
- External = Marketing, Business Processes, Data Collection
- Internal WordPress Automation
- Comment Management = Akismet
- Backups = WP Database Backup or BackupBuddy
- Schedule Blogs = Auto Post Scheduler
- Compress Images = ShortPixel Image Optimizer
- Social Sharing = NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster
- Database Management = WP-Optimize
- WordPress Updates = Companion Auto Update
- Page Management = Broken Link Checker
- Security = WordFence
- External WordPress Automation
- What Can You Do With Automation?
- Collect Gravity Forms Entries and Log into a spreadsheet or notes app like AirTable, Evernote, or Google Sheets.
- Log WordPress posts into a spreadsheet like Trello, Google Sheets, AirTable
- SMS WordPress posts so you know a post was published.
- Publish WordPress posts to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn with the right image, then repeat at an interval.
- Manage customer billing and subscriptions with Stripe
- Zap Examples
- WordPress to Social Media
- WooCommere Orders to Email to Spreadsheet
- Before You Start
- Gather logins and log in on separate tabs.
- If needed, find your API keys.
- Open all of your feeds and Social Media accounts.
- Create one sample post, calendar item, or form entry.
- Create a special user account for Zapier & IFTTT.
- Tools
- Zapier
- IFTTT
- Website URLs
- API Plugins PREPARE
Plugins and Resources that I referenced in the presentation.
Internal Automation Plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-scheduler/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha-integration/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-database-backup/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/
Automate Externally Support
https://zapier.com/help/wordpress/
https://ifttt.com/wordpress
https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-zapier/
https://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/zapier/
https://www.activecampaign.com/apps/wordpress
https://www.activecampaign.com/apps/zapier
This article was super helpful and on point, thank you so much. I’m reading all the other articles as well, you’re very insightful and encouraging. Thanks!!!
Thank you, Emily.
Hey Guys, Above all information is very helpful for us ,
But I suggest one more powerful image optimizer plugin which is enables to open the page much faster by compressing the image and reduce it drastically maintaining its high quality,its very promising,
Here it is: https://wordpress.org/plugins/way2enjoy-compress-images/
Cool, James! Thanks for the additional resource. I’ll be sure to check it out.
Hi Christina,
thank you very much for all the effort put in your video-presentation ! I like the approach to not simply listing all the different tools, but also showing the opportunities behind automation. Besides the known lists, this is finally useful information.
Another great tool I would like to recommend to you for a new review or comparsion is Blog2Social. At work we use it as plugin for the WordPress blog. The tool makes it easy to share and schedule social media posts (on 15 different networks).
Thanks and kind regards,
Bastian