Hookbird

Hook your WordPress and WooCommerce site to the tools your team already uses. A new order, a failed login, a plugin update or a new comment can show up in a Slack channel, a Discord server, a Telegram group, Microsoft Teams or Google Chat within seconds, or start an automation in n8n, Make or Zapier.

Most webhook plugins fire a request once and forget about it. Hookbird treats every event as a delivery that has to arrive:

• Background queue. Events are queued and sent in the background, so your pages and checkout never wait for a slow webhook.
• Automatic retries. Failed deliveries are retried with growing gaps (30 seconds, 2 minutes, 10 minutes and so on). Rate limits and Retry-After headers are respected.
• Delivery log. See every request, the payload, the response code and body, and resend any delivery with one click.
• Circuit breaker. If an endpoint keeps failing, Hookbird pauses it and emails you. Events keep queueing and are delivered once you resume it.
• Signed requests. Every request is signed with the open Standard Webhooks scheme, so receivers can verify it really came from your site.

Ready-made destinations

Pick a destination, paste the webhook URL and you are done. Messages are formatted natively for each one:

• Slack (Block Kit message)
• Discord (embed, with mentions disabled so user content cannot ping @everyone)
• Telegram (bot message)
• Microsoft Teams (Adaptive Card through a Teams workflow)
• Google Chat
• n8n, Make, Zapier and any custom URL (clean JSON)

Events

• Posts and pages: published, updated, moved to trash (any public post type)
• Users: registered, profile updated, role changed, deleted, logged in, failed login, password reset
• Comments: new comment, comment approved
• Site: plugin activated, deactivated, updated or deleted, theme switched or updated, WordPress updated
• WooCommerce: order created, paid, status changed, completed, refunded, product low in stock, product out of stock
• Custom events from your own code

Conditions

Send only what matters. Each endpoint can have conditions such as “order total is greater than 100”, “post categories contain News” or “user roles contain administrator”, matched with all or any.

Test without waiting for real traffic

“Send test event” sends realistic sample data for any event, so you can build your Slack message or your n8n workflow without placing a real order.

Built for developers and agencies

• REST API at /wp-json/hookbird/v1/ for endpoints, deliveries and tests
• WP-CLI: wp hookbird endpoints, create, test, deliveries, retry, run, status, export, import
• Import and export endpoints as JSON to set up many client sites in seconds
• Send your own events with one line: hookbird_dispatch( 'lead.created', array( 'email' => $email ) );
• Filters for payloads, request arguments, message formatting, retry schedule and more

Lightweight and private

No tracking, no ads, no account and nothing locked behind an upgrade. Hookbird only sends data to the URLs you add.

External services

Hookbird does not contact any service on its own. It sends HTTP requests only to the endpoint URLs that a site administrator adds in Hookbird, and only for the events selected for that endpoint.

Each request contains the event data described above, which, depending on the events you choose, can include names, email addresses, IP addresses, order details, comment text and post content. Requests are sent when the event happens (or when a delivery is retried or resent, or when you send a test).

Where the data goes depends on the URL you enter. If you use one of the presets, the request goes to that provider, which handles it under its own terms:

• Slack: Terms of service, Privacy policy
• Discord: Terms of service, Privacy policy
• Telegram (api.telegram.org): Terms of service, Privacy policy
• Microsoft Teams workflows (Power Automate / Azure Logic Apps): Microsoft Services Agreement, Privacy statement
• Google Chat: Terms of service, Privacy policy
• n8n Cloud: Terms, Privacy policy
• Make: Terms, Privacy policy
• Zapier: Terms, Privacy policy

Optional support form

Help & Setup has a form for asking the developer a question. Nothing is sent until you fill it in and click “Send message”. The email is sent from your site with its own mail setup (wp_mail) to the plugin developer, and contains the name, email address and question you typed, your site address, and the Hookbird, WordPress and PHP versions. The system report (versions, settings and recent errors, with no URLs, secrets or personal data) is attached only if you tick “Attach the system report”. No other service is involved.

Optional deactivation feedback

When you deactivate Hookbird, a short form asks why. Nothing is sent if you click “Skip & deactivate” or close the form. Only if you pick a reason and click “Submit & deactivate” is an email sent from your site to the plugin developer, containing the reason you chose, any text you typed, and the Hookbird, WordPress and PHP versions and site language. Your admin email address and site address are included only if you tick “You may reply to me”. The email is sent with your site’s own mail setup (wp_mail); no other service is involved.