Rock The Slackbot is a WordPress plugin that helps you stay on top of changes by sending notifications straight to you and your team inside your Slack account.

You can also download this plugin from the WordPress.org plugin repo.

##What is Slack? Slack is a team collaboration tool that offers chat rooms organized by topic, as well as private groups and direct messaging. It's a great way to be productive with your team without clogging up your inbox.

##What is A Slackbot? Slackbot is Slack's built-in robot, which helps us send messages to you and your team inside your Slack account.

##Why Rock The Slackbot? Because it can help you manage your websites, and stay on top of changes, by sending notifications (following numerous WordPress events) to your Slackbot who will pass them along to a channel or direct message in your Slack account.

Rock the Slackbot sends customizable notifications for the following events:

• When a post is published
• When a post is unpublished
• When a post is updated
• When a post is deleted
• When a post is trashed
• When a 404 error is thrown
• When a menu item is deleted
• When media is added
• When media is edited
• When media is deleted
• When a user is added
• When a user is deleted
• When WordPress core is updated
• When a plugin is updated
• When a theme is updated

I'm working to add the following events:

• When menu item is added
• When a plugin, theme, or core update is available
• When a new comment is added or is awaiting moderation
• When a user's role is changed
• When plugins or themes are uploaded
• When plugins or themes are activated

Each event can be customized to allow you to send different event notifications to different Slack channels, e.g. you can send core, theme and plugin updates to your "wp-development" channel while all of your post changes go to your "wp-content" channel.

I'm also working to make this plugin multisite-friendly.

Please use the Issues section of this repo to suggest features, like other notification events.

A Slack account is required to use this plugin and is free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people. Visit the Slack website to learn more and sign up.

##Installation

1. Upload 'rock-the-slackbot' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Go to Tools > Rock The Slackbot