Contributors: uncannyautomator, uncannyowl, smub
Tags: automation, google sheets, openai, learndash, webhooks
Requires at least: 5.4
Tested up to: 6.5.5
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 5.9
License: GPLv3
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Uncanny Automator is the easiest and most powerful way to connect your WordPress plugins, sites and apps together with powerful automations.
Uncanny Automator is the easiest and most powerful way to automate your WordPress site with no code. Build automations in minutes that connect your WordPress plugins, sites and apps together using billions of recipe combinations.
Here's how Uncanny Automator works:
When something happens, Automator can make other things happen.
When a user buys a product, add them to a membership level, enroll them in a course and pass their information to Google Sheets.
It's that simple! Here's a video outlining how it all works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMR5YIPu2Kk
If you've used Zapier, setting things up will be intuitive. And if not, that's okay too!
Improve customer engagement by having your purchases trigger marketing automation campaigns, award store credit, promote 5-star reviews, schedule time-limited bonus offers and offer profile-driven discounts. Or for advanced reporting and customer service, create WooCommerce automations that send purchase details to Google Sheets, Slack and ActiveCampaign. It all happens automatically!
Build powerful reports and dashboards based on almost any WordPress activity or data with 1-click Google Sheets integration. Track purchases, course completions, blog post updates, forum posts and more. Not only can you create new rows for reports with Uncanny Automator, but you can update existing records, making it perfect for dashboard reporting.
Looking for the most powerful and comprehensive webhook support to connect your WordPress site to other apps? Uncanny Automator has support for security headers, any request method and any data format (including nesting support, JSON, XML, arrays and more). Use our 1-click sample generation and debug records to simplify connecting to other sites and systems, and send unlimited outgoing webhooks with the free version.
Personalize student experiences and deliver better learning outcomes with no-code automations. Notify an instructor when users fail a quiz and enroll them in a remedial course–automatically. Add users to groups based on performance to allow easy collaboration. Automate student outreach when users fall behind in their coursework and offer easy learning interventions.
Spend less time sharing your posts and announcements on social media with automatic posting. Automatically post anything you want to Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, including with images and links. Sign up for a free account to get 250 credits for social posting; Pro plugin users get unlimited posting.
Connect your new posts and site activity to OpenAI, with full support for ChatGPT and Dall-E models. Use Automator and the OpenAI to generate article summaries, social media posts, SEO descriptions, translations, email campaigns, featured images and more.
Integrate your favourite CRM with your WordPress plugins for full marketing automation. Add or remove tags based on course activity, purchases and more, and keep your email lists updated automatically. Or, with Automator Pro and Loops, send emails out in bulk and use Automator as your own CRM.
The free version of Automator is incredibly powerful and comes with built-in automation support for all of these popular apps and WordPress plugins:
- ActiveCampaign
- AWeber
- Bitly
- Brevo
- Campaign Monitor
- ClickUp
- Constant Contact
- ConvertKit
- Drip
- Facebook Groups
- Facebook Pages
- GetResponse
- Google Calendar
- Google Contacts
- Google Sheets
- Google Sheets Web App (Pro)
- GoTo Training
- GoTo Webinar
- Help Scout
- HubSpot
- LinkedIn Pages
- Mailchimp
- MailerLite (Pro)
- Mautic
- Microsoft Teams
- Notion
- OpenAI and GPT
- Sendy
- Slack
- Telegram
- Trello
- Twilio
- Zoho Campaigns
- Zoom Meetings
- Zoom Webinars
- Advanced Ads
- Advanced Coupons
- Advanced Custom Fields (Pro)
- AffiliateWP
- Airtable
- Amelia
- ARMember
- Automator Core
- Autonami
- BadgeOS
- bbPress
- BuddyBoss
- BuddyPress
- Caldera Forms
- Charitable
- Code Snippets
- Contact Form 7
- Date and Time (Pro)
- Divi
- Easy Affiliate
- Easy Digital Downloads
- Easy Digital Downloads - Recurring Payments
- Easy Digital Downloads - Software Licensing
- Elementor Pro
- Emails
- Events Manager
- Fluent Forms
- Fluent Support
- FluentCRM
- Formidable Forms
- Forminator
- GamiPress
- Generator (Pro)
- GiveWP
- Gravity Forms
- GravityKit (Pro)
- Groundhogg
- H5P (Pro)
- HappyForms
- Heroic Knowledge Base
- IFTTT
- Integrately
- Integromat
- JetEngine (Pro)
- JetFormBuilder
- Jetpack CRM
- Kadence
- KonnectzIT
- LearnDash
- LearnDash Achievements
- LearnPress
- LifterLMS
- Magic Button (Pro)
- MailPoet
- Make
- MasterStudy LMS
- Memberium For Keap
- MemberPress
- MemberPress Courses
- Meta Box (Pro)
- Modern Events Calendar
- myCred
- Newsletter (Pro)
- Ninja Forms
- OptinMonster (Pro)
- Pabbly Connect
- Paid Memberships Pro
- PeepSo
- Popup Maker
- Presto Player
- Pretty Links
- QR Code (Pro)
- RafflePress
- Restrict Content Pro
- Run Code (Pro)
- Schedule (Pro)
- SliceWP
- SeedProd
- Studiocart
- SureCart
- SureMembers
- The Events Calendar
- Thrive Apprentice
- Thrive Architect
- Thrive Leads
- Thrive Ovation
- Thrive Quiz Builder
- Thrive Ultimatum
- Tin Canny Reporting
- Tutor LMS
- Ultimate Member
- Uncanny Codes
- Uncanny Continuing Education Credits
- Uncanny Groups
- Uncanny Toolkit
- Upsell Plugin
- UserFeedback
- Webhooks
- Wholesale Suite
- Wishlist Member
- WooCommerce
- WooCommerce Bookings
- WooCommerce Memberships
- WooCommerce ShipStation
- WooCommerce Subscriptions
- WordPress
- WordPress Multisite (Pro)
- WordPress Download Manager
- WP All Import
- WP Bitly (Pro) (Deprecated)
- WP Courseware
- WP Fusion
- WP Fusion Lite
- WP Job Manager
- WP LMS
- WP Mail SMTP Pro
- WP Simple Pay
- WP User Manager
- WP Webhooks
- WP-Polls
- WPCode
- WPForms
- WS Form LITE
- wpDiscuz
- wpForo
- Zapier
Over 350 automation triggers and actions are available for the plugins and apps listed above in the free version. There's straightforward documentation in our Knowledge Base, including some quick and straightforward instructional videos. Developers, there's robust documentation and code samples for you too!
Beyond the plugin and app integrations, this free version of Uncanny Automator also supports common WP triggers and actions in automations:
- A user views a page
- A user submits a comment
- A user logs in
- A user publishes a post
- Send an email
- Create a post
- Add a WP role
All WP plugin triggers and actions included in Uncanny Automator come with a forever free license, which allows unlimited usage on your WordPress site. By creating a free, optional Automator account, you can unlock 250 credits to try out app integrations. You can use credits on your site to:
- Post new content to Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages, Twitter and Instagram
- Pass records to Google Sheets (to generate charts or reports or manipulate data outside of WordPress)
- Notify staff of key events in Slack
- Register customers in Zoom events on product purchase
- Send Mailchimp campaigns when new blog posts are published
- Generate, proofread or translate text with OpenAI and GPT
- and more
Uncanny Automator Pro, our premium plugin, adds even more features and integrations, including the ability to create users and posts, delay and schedule actions, connect multiple sites together, add conditions to actions, and unlock unlimited use of app integrations like Google Sheets and Twitter. It also triples the number of available triggers and actions.
Pro also adds features like Run Now and Loops, which allow you to do things like send emails to all users matching certain criteria, tagging users based on site activity, or even generating instant reports in Google Sheets of all users that completed a specific course, purchased a certain product, or anything else you can imagine.
Here are some of the other really cool automations you can create with Automator Pro:
- When a user makes a purchase using WooCommerce on one site, create a user on another WP site, send the user a link to set a new password, enroll the user in a course and add a membership level.
- When a user submits a form, add the user to a mailing list if their email address matches a certain domain, add them to a social group and schedule their trial access to expire in 7 days if they don't make a purchase.
- When a new course is published, send an email campaign, post to X/Twitter and Facebook with GPT-generated content, post to the BuddyBoss sitewide activity stream and notify instructors in a Slack channel.
- Whenever you want, generate a list of all users in a group that haven't yet completed a course.
And here are some of the key features in the Pro version that allow incredibly flexible and powerful automations for WP:
- Run recipes for logged out users with Everyone recipes; you can even create and update existing users.
- Have external apps trigger recipes and vice versa.
- Set up buttons and links that can trigger any recipe on click.
- Set custom user and post meta, both individually and in bulk via loops.
- Delay or Schedule an action
- Filter actions so they only run when conditions are met, like a matching user email domain or WordPress role.
- Run any WordPress hook or call custom functions in your recipes.
- Automatic log pruning to keep log size down.
Business licenses and higher get access to our Custom User Fields Addon addon, which makes it really easy to create and manage user profile fields in WordPress. Automatically add new fields to user edit pages and connect fields to your recipes and plugins like Advanced Custom Fields.
An Automator Pro license also includes access to our world-class premium support.
For the full list of triggers and actions, make sure to check out this list.
Here's what other people are saying about Uncanny Automator:
- Automate Your Workflows Like a Pro
- Uncanny Automator - Zapier for WordPress
- It's Like Zapier For Your WordPress Site
- Automate WordPress Like Zapier (Or With Zapier!)
- E-Learning Automation with Uncanny Automator
You can learn more about Uncanny Automator on our website at https://automatorplugin.com/ and our Knowledge Base is here: https://automatorplugin.com/knowledge-base/
Have a look at https://automatorplugin.com/knowledge-base/creating-a-recipe/. Don't forget to watch the video there. Hopefully it will be the first recipe of many!
Uncanny Automator is built from the ground up for efficiency and performance. Automator adds negligible overhead to WordPress sites and has been rigorously tested across dozens of hosting environments.
All integrations, triggers, actions and tokens listed here that don't have a "Pro" label are available in our free version. For the WordPress plugins listed, we include a forever-free license that allows you to run recipes with these triggers and actions an unlimited number of times. There are also no limits on the number of recipes you can set up or what you can include in each. For recipes that include apps, like Twitter and Facebook, you can create a free account to unlock 250 credits to try out these integrations.
Absolutely! The plugin was created with translation in mind and tested with a variety of translation plugins. We will support any translation issues you run into.
The best thing you can do is reach out to the creator of the plugin that you want an integration for. Let them know you're using Uncanny Automator and that they could greatly extend the capabilities of their plugin by helping us develop an integration for it. As more plugin authors become aware of Uncanny Automator and realize its potential for their users, we'll be able to continue to invest in expanding Uncanny Automator's capabilities! Also, fill out this form on our site to let us know what you're looking for.
Check out our developer documentation over at https://developer.automatorplugin.com/. Also consider reaching out to our team, maybe we can help or even turn it into an official integration!
Yes. It is easy to set up automation and share content on Social Media platforms. Set up integrations with Instagram, Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Pages and Twitter by creating a free account to unlock 250 free credits.
No coding skills are required. Uncanny Automator is built for non-developers to build automations using our intuitive recipe builder.
Absolutely! LearnDash is our most popular integration. Automator provides an easy way to build powerful LearnDash activity reports, personalize learning paths, connect LearnDash to live events and more.
By connecting your recipes to an OpenAI API account, you can send prompts to OpenAI and use the responses in other actions. Generate titles and descriptions, excerpts for social media, translations, new blog posts and more; you can even perform sentiment analysis on submitted text. Automator supports GPT-3.5, GPT-4 and other OpenAI models.
Yes, with WordPress's "Send Email" action, send rich text, plain text and raw HTML emails. Create follow-up emails with your own custom HTML templates.
You can use the free version forever without purchasing the Uncanny Automator Pro version. However, with Uncanny Automator Pro, you'll get access to more automation triggers and actions, additional features, and unlimited credits for app integrations. Visit our plans page to learn more.
We're a Toronto-based WordPress company specializing in elearning and automation solutions for WordPress. We're behind the popular Uncanny LearnDash Toolkit plugin and we also have a suite of highly-acclaimed commercial LearnDash add-ons.
New Features:
- Data management -
wp automator prune --helpWP-CLI command to prune data #4765 - Import/Export Recipes - Bulk Export/Import #4735
- Recipe UI - Recipe notes metabox #4768
- Walkthrough - Create a recipe #4302
New App Integrations:
- Campaign Monitor #4601
- Notion #3884
New Plugin Integration:
- Kadence #4445
New Triggers:
- Kadence - A form is submitted #4447
- Kadence - A user submits a form #4446
New Actions:
- Campaign Monitor - Add/Update a subscriber to a list #4578
- Campaign Monitor - Remove a subscriber from a list #4580
- Notion - Create a database item #3886
- Notion - Create a page #3885
- Notion - Update a database item #3887
New Tokens:
- Presto Player - A user completes a video - Video title, Media hub title #4786
- WP Job Manager - A user submits a resume - Resume Post URL, Resume ID #4799
- WPForms - Price field - Quantity token #4754
- WordPress - Post slug to several WP triggers #4800
Addition:
- Automator Core -
AUTOMATOR_DATABASE_VIEWS_ENABLEDto disable Database Views #4723
Updated:
- Google Sheets - File Picker now allows selecting additional files without overwriting current files #4788
- LearnDash - A user achieves a percentage greater than, less than or equal to a value on a quiz - Default value of Percentage field removed #4716
- MemberPress - A user purchases a recurring subscription product - 'Any' option added #4804
- Modern Events Calendar - Event's field label #4541
- OpenAI - Model "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301" deprecated #4784
- WordPress - Create a post - Show WP error messages in recipe log #4775
- WordPress - Update the excerpt of a post #4696
- Zoho Campaigns - Support for non-US zone accounts #4810
Fixed:
- Forminator - Formatted token values showing both raw and formatted values #4725
- Post Loops - Action tokens and Webhooks - Action tokens do not parse when used in Webhooks and App Integrations #4691
- Recipe Logs - A recipe with delay and user selection erroneously showing 'In progress with error' #4729
- Slack - Send a message to a channel - PHP Notices when Bot name and Icon are not set #4814
- Tin Canny Reporting - A Tin Can verb is recorded from a Tin Can module - Possible cache issues and variable checking #4766
- WPForms - Radio field tokens not parsing under a specific condition #4770
- WPForms - Validate trigger token data before parsing #4713
- WordPress - Change the post type of a post to a post type - Not handling "All post" selection properly #4798
Under the hood:
- Automator Dashboard refresh #4345
- Core - Action arg
$parseddoes not work as expected when the repeater field data is sent #4678 - Core - Actionify Triggers enhancement #4706
- Core - Additional third-party support to properly purge cache #4822
- Core - Elite status #4824
- Core - Removed invalid characters in some sentences #4807
- Import recipe - Imported recipes with Loops fails to recognize loop as live #4764
- Popup Maker Integration icon #4748
- Recipe UI - CSS margin issue when ACF is active #4699
- Recipe UI -
load_optionscallingcall_user_functwice #4732 - Recipe fields - Dynamic fields to support Notion #4602
- Setup Wizard - Setup flow modifications when Automator Pro is active #3600
- User Loop and Token Parser - Usermeta token not parsing in Scheduled recipe #4762
- Zoom - JWT dependancy removed #4677
- Rearrange
file_existcheck. #4779
IMPORTANT: Support for PHP 5.6 has been discontinued. If you are running PHP 5.6, you MUST upgrade PHP before installing Uncanny Automator v5.3. Failure to do that will disable Automator's core functionality.