Friday, 12 October 2018
How to trigger a webhook with WordPress
I have a Gatsby site andrewhudson.me which is a static Server Side Rendered (SSR) site built using React and hosted on Netlify. I wanted to trigger a build when I published a new post (or updated an existing one) in WordPress and here’s how I did it.
- Get webhook url from Netlify
- In WordPress code:
function ah_webhook_netlify_post() {
$url = 'https://api.netlify.com/build_hooks/XXXXXXXXXXX';
$args = array(
'method' => 'POST',
'timeout' => 5,
'blocking' => false,
);
wp_remote_post( $url, $args );
}
add_action( 'publish_post', 'ah_webhook_netlify_post' );