Title: Simple Slack webhook Last modified: May 9, 2019 --- # Simple Slack webhook * Resolved [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/) * (@webdevmattcrom) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/) * I really love the idea of this plugin, but I can’t seem to get a simple webhook to be sent successfully to Slack (I know you have an addon for Slack, but the webhooks in Slack are dead simple). * Here’s my configuration: * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/o28VWrk) * * I’ve tested this webhook in Postman and it’s worked perfectly every time. See here: * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/DTjomq1) * * I’ve tested triggering it with “Post Added” or “post Published”. I’ve tried with CPTs as well. I’ve tried changing the “key” to “body” or “payload” or “text”. * The simplest example Slack provides is simply this: `payload={"text": "This is a line of text in a channel.\nAnd this is another line of text."}` * Any insight you can provide would be helpful. Thanks! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Thread Starter [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/) * (@webdevmattcrom) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11511753) * I think this might be my issue here: [https://github.com/BracketSpace/Notification/issues/129](https://github.com/BracketSpace/Notification/issues/129) * Digging into that a bit now. * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11511803) * Hi Matt, this is exactly the problem 🙁 * We are going to release a new version this or the next week but unfortunately we hadn’t a chance to deal with the JSON in webhook. The freetype JSON input is indeed planned but no ETA. * I’ll take a look into this today and see if the new resolved API helps to fix this. Maybe there will be a way to easily escape the `{` and `}` characters. * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11512410) * Matt, good news, I managed to allow to escape the merge tags and make them unresolvable, which means you can now pass JSON in webhook field. * It should look like this: [http://brkts.com/qdG9A1](http://brkts.com/qdG9A1) ( please note it’s *not* encoded as a JSON anymore) * If you want to give it a try here’s a [development version of the plugin](http://brkts.com/notification-dev). - This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/). - This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/). Reason: working download link * Thread Starter [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/) * (@webdevmattcrom) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11515164) * Dev version is doing all kinds of strange things. AFter I saved the new notification, it loads the CPT in Gutenberg. * See here: * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/mxLNUS2) * * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11515980) * Oh wow! Is this a standard WP instance? * Thread Starter [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/) * (@webdevmattcrom) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11518917) * Yes. WP 5.1.4 with only a couple other plugins installed. The current live version of Notifications works just fine, but the dev version you provided above is what triggered that problem. * Here’s a screencast of it: [http://somup.com/cqh6Fdnz5o](http://somup.com/cqh6Fdnz5o) * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11519048) * Grrr, I introduced this bug when I did the last update 🙁 sorry for that and thank you a ton for the video! It immediately showed me where the error sits. * I’ll update the plugin tomorrow (bed time here 🙂 ) and update the dev package. Will let you know * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11519504) * Ok, not it should be good. You can [download the dev version from the same place](http://brkts.com/notification-dev). * Thread Starter [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/) * (@webdevmattcrom) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11535075) * Latest ZIP resolved the Gutenberg issue; but I’m back to not getting any webhooks to be triggered. Neither CPT nor standard Posts. Also enabled Debugging and nothing shows up there at all (with WP_DEBUG, and WP_DEBUG_LOG both set to true). * I pinged you in WP Slack if that’s quicker/easier. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Simple Slack webhook’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/notification/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3476901) * [Notification - Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/notification/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/notification/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/reviews/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Matt Cromwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdevmattcrom/) * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-slack-webhook/#post-11535075) * Status: resolved