How to trigger a webhook with WordPress

Friday, 12 October 2018

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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' );

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