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Auto tweet new WordPress posts with categories as hashtags in Zapier

Posted on Published October 16, 2020October 15, 2020 by Johnathon Williams
Auto tweet new WordPress posts with categories as hashtags in Zapier

Automatically sending tweets for new posts on your WordPress site is a simple task with Zapier. Recently, though, I wanted to add hashtags for each category assigned to the WordPress post and include that in the tweet as well. Can Zapier accommodate this? Yes, it can, although it turned out to be a bit more […]

Three tips for testing and debugging javascript in Zapier code actions

Posted on Published October 16, 2020January 9, 2019 by Johnathon Williams
Three tips for testing and debugging javascript in Zapier code actions

Zapier is bar none the handiest utility in existence for automating online workflows and connecting different online services. This was true even before the introduction of custom code actions, which allow you to drop in blocks of javascript and python code to manipulate data in your zaps, and it’s doubly true now. Debugging and testing […]

How to use Zapier to extract all URLs from a text source

Posted on Published October 16, 2020January 9, 2019 by Johnathon Williams

Here’s a nifty trick for pulling all of the URLs out of text with a Zapier javascript code action. Using this, you can extract URLs from any Zapier text input. For instance, you could use the Zapier email trigger to pull all of the URLs from an email message, or you could use the push […]

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