Set a post format or post type for your IFTTT-created posts via a post format or post type category.
IFTTT (if this, then that) is one of the coolest web services available, and allows you to connect your different web service accounts to create ‘recipes’. An example of a recipe that I have is to create a new WordPress post on my blog whenever I favorite a YouTube video.
Unfortunately IFTTT doesn’t have a way to specify a post format or a custom post type, so this plugin provides a couple ways to update them.
To set the post format, you need to set the category in IFTTT to one of the following categories:
ifttt-aside
ifttt-gallery
ifttt-link
ifttt-image
ifttt-quote
ifttt-status
ifttt-video
ifttt-audio
ifttt-chat
So for my YouTube -> WordPress recipe, I have it adding the ‘ifttt-video’ category in IFTTT (IFTTT allows you to specify the category for the posts it creates), and voilĂ , when it’s published, the format has been set.
If you want to instead set the new post to a custom post type, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: ifttt-posttype-{post_type_slug}
. So if you wanted to create new WordPress pages with IFTTT, you would add the ifttt-posttype-page
category.
And finally, if you want the IFTTT categories to be stored as a different taxonomy, you can do so by setting the category in IFTTT to one that matches this pattern: ifttt-taxonomy-{taxonomy_slug}
.
Note: These speciall ifttt-*
categories will not actually be set on the post/page/object. These are ‘special’ categories which simply serve as flags for which post format, post-type or taxonomy to send the data to, and they are removed from the list of categories which are actually stored to the post.
Hope you find this useful!
Feel free to contribute to or fork this plugin on github.
ifttt-post-formats
directory to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory.ifttt-posttype-{post_type_slug}
. So if you wanted to create new WordPress pages with IFTTT, you would add the ifttt-posttype-page
category.ifttt-taxonomy-{taxonomy_slug}
category in the IFTTT category field. Will only work if the taxonomy_slug
is a valid registered taxonomy. You can also hook into the ifttt_pfpt_taxonomy_to_save_as
filter like so:You can delete them by adding the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or as an mu-plugin:
php
add_filter( 'ifttt_pfpt_delete_ifttt_cats', '__return_true' );
ifttt-taxonomy-{taxonomy_slug}
category.ifttt-*
terms with the ifttt_pfpt_delete_ifttt_cats
filter.ifttt_pfpt_taxonomy_to_save_as
, to override which taxonomy the terms should be saved to (if not category).ifttt_pfpt_set_post_format
, called when a ifttt post format has been found and set.ifttt_pfpt_set_post_type
, called when a ifttt post type has been found and set.ifttt_pfpt_handle_format_post_type
, called when either a ifttt post format or ifttt post type has been found and set.