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Free Plugin by wundermatics v1.9.0

WunderAutomation

WordPress and WooCommerce task automation. Without code.

WunderAutomation

The facts

Rating
4★ from 8
Active installs
200+
Price
Free
Last updated
15 May 2022
Added
Nov 2019
Requires WP
5.3
Tested up to
WP 5.9.16
Requires PHP
7.0
Downloads
14,501

Our analysis

AI-assisted

WunderAutomation is a WordPress plugin that enables users to create automated workflows without coding. It allows for the automation of various tasks such as sending reminders, follow-up emails, and notifications based on specific triggers and filters.

The plugin supports WooCommerce and Advanced Custom Fields, making it suitable for users who want to streamline their online store operations or enhance their site’s functionality. It is designed for anyone looking to customise their WordPress experience through automation.

Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users looking to automate tasks on their site without needing coding knowledge.

What it does well

  • Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
  • Supports WooCommerce and Advanced Custom Fields
  • Allows for creating complex workflows with triggers and filters
  • Can handle bulk operations on users, posts, and orders
  • User-friendly for those without coding skills

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on specific features and use cases
  • Directory score of 46/100 indicates potential issues

Verdict

WunderAutomation provides a straightforward way to implement automation in WordPress, particularly for WooCommerce users. However, the limited directory score may warrant further investigation before use.

From the developer

wundermatics's own description of WunderAutomation, lightly tidied.

WunderAutomation brings automation features similar to IFTTT or Zapier to your WordPress site so that you can create simple and powerful automations without writing code. This enables anyone (not just coders) to customize WordPress to suit your needs. Human Friendly.

Overview

Among many other things, our users use WunderAutomation to:

  • Send reminders to users who created an account but never logged in
  • Send follow up emails to users who buy specific products and ask for a review or suggest similar products
  • Send emails to users 30 days after the last purchase of a specific product to remind them to restock
  • Send notifications to internal email groups, SMS or Slack channels when orders are paid, cancelled or fail
  • Send out a personalized WooCommerce coupon to users once they have placed a certain number of orders or have spent a certain amount on the site

In short, WunderAutomation lets users create workflows that automate common WordPress tasks. A workflow consists of a trigger, and one or many steps. A trigger is what kicks of the workflow can be almost anything, for example a new WooCommerce order, a user login or an incoming webhook. Each step is either a filter that determines the workflow should continue or an action that does some work.

You can filter a workflow based on almost anything like WooCommerce order total, the customers email address. Or the WordPress user login count, or a parameter in an incoming webhook. Multiple filters can be combined using logical AND/OR expressions. When all the filters pass, the actions are carried out, you can update WordPress posts or WooCommerce orders, add custom fields, create new users or posts, add or remove taxonomy terms (tags), send emails or run a REST request to an external service.

There are endless ways to combine triggers, filters and actions so you can add almost any custom functionality to your WordPress site.

WooCommerce

WunderAutomation supports WooCommerce out of the box so it can trigger on WooCommerce events such as receiving a new order and perform actions like adding an order note or changing the order status.

From version 1.9.0 we also support the popular WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips plugin so that you can use invoice numbers, date and notes into a workflow.

Advanced Custom Fields

WunderAutomation also supports Advanced Custom Fields (free and Pro versions) out of the box. ACF fields are accessible both in filters and action parameters so that you can take full advantage of the customizations you’ve made using ACF. A popular use case is to combine ACF and WunderAutomation to create customized delivery notifications.

Bulk handling

You can also handle objects (users, posts, orders and comments) in bulk using WunderAutomation, we call this Re-Triggers. A re-trigger runs periodically, ie every morning at 8AM and finds all objects that fit a certain criteria. For instance all posts with post type = “post” that was created in the past 30 days.

These objects are then sent to a workflow that where you can handle them individually, for instance to disable comments if the post is older than X days and belongs to a certain category.

Webhooks

Read the full description on the official page →

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