Engineering
Trigger and Shoot – Slim WordPress plugin
Trigger and Shoot: a slim, lightweight WordPress plugin for triggering actions on post events.
1 min read
By Yoosuf Mohamed, Systems
Architect
Whenever a WordPress post is created, I wanted to send that information to a separate service running on a different server. I tried several approaches and landed on this simple solution. Try it out and play around with it, and if you run into any issues, please let me know.
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