Title: Need help with Webhook functionality
Last modified: March 15, 2019

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# Need help with Webhook functionality

 *  Resolved [gilpalma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gilpalma/)
 * (@gilpalma)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-webhook-functionality/)
 * Hello and thanks in advance for your time.
 * I’ve been trying to use this plugin to send some data to a user’s browser when
   a new post is created. I’m not entirely sure this is within the plugin’s capabilities
   but it certainly does seem like it would be.
 * The email functionality works well, after installing an SMTP plugin, but I can’t
   get any results from the webhook portion. After creating a notification using
   the ‘New Post’ trigger and linking it to my new website’s URL, I get no new data
   in the devtools of my browser. As I understand it, a request should be showing
   there but maybe I’m missing some information or maybe I’m just misinformed. I’ve
   tried using a custom trigger and some HTTP requests but still haven’t had any
   success. The custom trigger *does* execute, since error_log()’s do print out 
   some results, but no information seems to be passed along during all my attempts
   with POST requests.
 * The issue may not even be with the plugin itself but your documentation does 
   not help me understand what may be missing.
 * I should add that my website only exists in my own Windows dev machine right 
   now being served by IIS. It’s barebones, having only installed ACF Pro, Classic
   Editor, WP Mail SMTP, WPML (and string translation) alongside this plugin and
   only a single, mostly empty page on my custom theme based on the default 2017
   WP theme.
 * This problem may sound very silly but I’ve never done this before and may be 
   looking in the wrong direction. If this isn’t the right way, I may have to look
   into some sort of subscribe/publish tech to accomplish this notification system
   I need. Hopefully you can point me in the right direction!

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 *  Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/)
 * (@kubitomakita)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-webhook-functionality/#post-11317554)
 * Hi,
 * you are missing the most crucial part of the system. Something which will catch
   your webhook.
 * Right now if you send a webhook to your website it probably responds with 200
   and some content, that’s it. You have to have a listener for such requests which
   will handle them and display for the user.
 * You could cut this down and develop custom notification type which will just 
   display the data to the user. Best to use sockets but simple WordPress Heartbeat
   API should do fine as well. But it will probably kill your server if you have
   a high traffic website.
 * In other words – it’s not possible with the core plugin to do what you want. 
   You are missing a lot of code.
 *  Thread Starter [gilpalma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gilpalma/)
 * (@gilpalma)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-webhook-functionality/#post-11317841)
 * Alright, that’s mostly what I needed to know. I’ll look into using websockets
   and combining them with the custom trigger I made. At least now I’m sure I’m 
   not going in the completely wrong direction.
    Thanks again!

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-webhook-functionality/#post-11317841)
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