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Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder Plugin

Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder Plugin

By Uncanny Owl
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Description

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.

If you’ve used Zapier, setting things up will be intuitive. And if not, that’s okay too!

E-commerce Automation

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 with our native integrations. It all happens automatically!

Google Sheets Automation

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.

Webhook Automation

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.

LearnDash and E-Learning Automation

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.

Social Media Automation

Spend less time sharing your posts and announcements on social media with automatic posting. Automatically post anything you want to Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups, X/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.

OpenAI Automation

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.

Marketing Automation

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.

Free doesn’t mean limited

The free version of Automator is incredibly powerful and comes with built-in automation and integration support for all of these popular apps and WordPress plugins:

Supported apps

WordPress Plugins Integrations

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, X/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

Take automation to the next level

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 X/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:

Plus licenses and higher get access to our Custom User Fields, Restrict Content, and User Lists addons 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:

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  • Set up your first recipe in 5 minutes
  • Add one or more triggers from dozens of plugins and thousands of apps
  • Identify what starts the recipe, like a purchase or form submission
  • Set conditions and options for the trigger(s)
  • Add one or more actions from any of the available integrations
  • When the triggers are completed, actions run automatically
  • Customize your actions to do exactly what you need
  • Create powerful recipes that just work, all with one plugin

FAQ

Where can I find Automator documentation and more info?

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/

How do I get started with my first automation?

Have a look at https://automatorplugin.com/knowledge-base/creating-a-recipe/. There’s also an onboarding wizard inside the plugin to help you build your first recipe. Hopefully it will be the first of many!

Will Uncanny Automator slow down my website?

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.

What are the limits of your free version?

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 X/Twitter and Facebook, you can create a free account to unlock 250 credits to try out these integrations.

Is Automator translation friendly?

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.

How can I request an integration for a plugin?

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.

How can I add an integration for my plugin?

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!

Can I automatically share posts & updates on social media?

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 X/Twitter by creating a free account to unlock 250 free credits.

Do I need coding skills or help from a developer?

No coding skills are required. Uncanny Automator is built for non-developers to build automations using our intuitive recipe builder.

Does Automator work with LearnDash?

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.

How does Automator use OpenAI?

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.

Does Uncanny Automator allow me to customize the look and design of the emails it sends?

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.

Why should I consider upgrading to Uncanny Automator Pro?

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.

Who is Uncanny Owl?

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.

Reviews

Simple but powerful

August 30, 2025 1 reply
I really like using uncanny automator! Plays nice with PMPro, WooCommerce, and FluentCRM! Hopefully I can afford the basic paid version since the whatsapp cloud API is… wow.. a really really nice addition to have.

could still be the best with bit of changes

July 23, 2025 1 reply
🙂 so many modules, nice logic, nice text, very very few bugs (compared to others and to complexity) 🙂 not tons of plugins to bloat wordpress = all included and reasonable price (for all what is does, both free and paid) 🙁 but no visual graph builder of flow between modules. This is a must-have now to stop never-ending wordpress pages full of options … Not only is ergonomics better, but workflow would have much more possibilities. Uncanny guys, the train is leaving without you and we want to stay onboard, with this self-hosted solution. Help us to help you.

Outstanding Support!

July 3, 2025
I needed some support and if I am honest I thought it would take a couple of days for the reply. I was very pleased and surprised when Kimberly replied within an hour or so. Her response was great and extremely helpful. I woulld definitelty recommed Uncanny Automater. Thank you!

Amazing value and works great

June 15, 2025
I run multiple publishing businesses at Craftled and without Uncanny Automator wouldn’t be able to achieve so much. Highly recommended, it’s like having your own unlimited Zapier.

Best Automation Plugin + Superhero Support!

May 24, 2025
I’ve tried multiple automation plugins like Bit Integrations and WP Automator, but nothing comes close to Uncanny Automator! đŸ”„ It’s hands-down the best – super easy to use with a clean, no-code UI that makes complex workflows feel like a breeze. 🧠✹ And a big shoutout to the support team – especially Rohan – for fixing a MemberPress trigger issue I faced. They not only responded quickly, but actually rolled out a new update on the same day! đŸ’Ș That’s next-level customer service. 👏 If you’re serious about automation on WordPress, stop looking. Just go with Uncanny – you won’t regret it! 🚀RegardsZeeshan

Opens so many doors –

May 12, 2025 1 reply
I use a lot of tech and Uncanny is right at the top of “required and amazing.” What you can do with this tool is well, to be obvious – uncanny. Want to send a post to chatGPT and revise it for Linked in then post it when a new podcast issued by RSS? No problem. Want automatically add a member to Memberpress when when the buy a subscription somewhere else? No problem. Add a user to your CRM when they signup for you lead magnet? Ezpz.
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Changelog

6.10.0.2 [2025-11-18]

Fixed:

  • X/Twitter – Post {{a tweet}} to X/Twitter – Fixed an issue where the existing action wasn’t initialized, causing it to disappear and break older recipes; it has now been restored and deprecated for backwards compatibility. #6427

6.10.0.1 [2025-11-15]

Fixed:

  • Fixed a rare issue where some recipes could run more than once unexpectedly #6405

6.10.0 [2025-11-13]

New Feature:

  • Recipe UI – Custom x label field to triggers and actions – Now you can label your triggers/actions like a proud parent. #6259

New Actions:

  • ActiveCampaign – Delete a contact that matches an email #3478
  • Help Scout – Add a note to a conversation #6362

New Token:

  • Woo Bookings – Booking order item ID #6394

Updated:

  • Constant Contact – Create or update a contact – Rebuilt this action from the studs up, now with smarter address handling and custom fields that actually listen. #6287
  • Woo – Order Summary Token – You can now tweak the width and colours like it’s your personal style guide. #6276

Fixed:

  • Event Manager – Fixed a rogue namespace issue for the Em_Tokens class—it now knows where it belongs. #6331
  • Fluent Forms – Form ID token was showing up empty-handed—we’ve filled its pockets. #6240
  • Fluent Forms AI – default_api_timeout() was feeling shy with its arguments. We gave it what it needed. #6345
  • Notion – Add / Update Database – Our date token was having an existential crisis. Now it knows what time it is. #6347
  • Notion – str_contains error when attempting to parse text on array values – It tried to read too much into arrays—now it’s been taught better boundaries. #6261
  • Populate from Query – JS Error – getintegrationCode has now been defined and won’t ghost us anymore. #6385
  • SureCart – A user purchases a product – This trigger was overexcited and firing twice. It’s calmed down now. #6141
  • Slack – Cleanse text content of HTML before posting – Slack messages got a digital spa treatment—now scrubbed clean of unwanted HTML. #6257
  • WordPress 6.7+ translation warnings – Translation warnings were getting loud. We’ve hushed them up for WordPress 6.7+. #5783

Security Fix:

  • Notion – Tightened security for wp_ajax_automator_notion_list_users endpoint due to missing nonce check. #6383

Under the hood:

  • App Integration OAuth Callback race condition resolved in a rare situation – We caught and calmed down a rare race condition so OAuth doesn’t run off without you. #6379
  • Consolidate Copy to clipboard functionality – All clipboard functions are now singing from the same playbook—click, copy, done. #6236
  • EDD-Recurring Payment items moved from EDD to their own integration – Recurring Payments packed their bags and moved out—independent and loving it. #6370
  • Inconsistent esc_html usage in core – Some parts of the code weren’t playing by the HTML-escaping rules. We’ve brought them in line—safely sanitized and secure. #6334
  • Replace Duplicator icon – Gave Duplicator a fresh new icon because even integrations like a glow-up. #6275
  • Trigger Engine – More robust trigger engine – Beefed it up so it won’t flinch, even under pressure. #6376
  • TinyMCE configuration options at the field level – Editors now get more say in their setup. #6354
  • Triggers – Setting default value of is_login_required to false – We’re assuming users don’t need to be logged in—unless told otherwise. #6393
  • UI doesn’t render — t.trim is not a function in a rare situation – Squashed this rare bug before it could confuse more letters with undefined functions. #6358
  • Plain permalink REST endpoints are now supported – No pretty permalinks? No problem. REST endpoints now work even when things get… plain. #6398
  • Automator now loads even on minimalist, plugin-bare sites—because everyone deserves a little automation magic. #6399
  • Integration framework upgrades:
    • ActiveCampaign #6241
    • Bluesky #6169
    • Brevo #6170
    • Campaign Monitor #6217
    • Claude, Cohere, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Mistral, and Perplexity #6252
    • Constant Contact #6267
    • EDD – Recurring Payments #6370
    • GetResponse #6232
    • Google Calendar #6244
    • Google Contacts #6233
    • Help Scout #6218
    • Notion #6165
    • Presto #6189
    • Sendy #6327
    • SureCart #6141
    • Threads #6249
    • Thrive Leads #5951
    • Twilio #6219
    • Twitter #6167

Developers:

  • Available filters for Woo Order Summary customization – You’re now the fashion designer of Woo Order Summary emails. Pick the colours, tailor the widths, and strut your styles down the inbox runway:
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_max_width — Set max width (default: '640px')
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_container_class — Container CSS class (default: 'automator-order-summary-container')
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_container_id — Container ID (default: 'automator-order-summary-{order_id}')
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_table_class — Table CSS class (default: 'automator-order-summary-table')
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_tr_text_color — Table row text color (default: '#636363')
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_td_border_color — Table cell border color (default: '#e5e5e5')
    • automator_woocommerce_order_summary_td_text_color — Table cell text color (default: '#636363')
    • automator_order_summary_html_raw — Filter the raw HTML array before output (receives $html and $order)

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