/invitations-for-slack

A WordPress plugin that allows users to self-invite to a Slack team. Great for building Slack communities.

Primary LanguagePHP

Invitations for Slack

Contributors: rheinardkorf
Tags: slack, invitations, community, join, invites
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Z5WNWM5V86D4W
Requires at least: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.4.1
Stable tag: trunk
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Build a Slack community by allowing your visitors (or registered users) to invite themselves to your Slack team.

Description

Invitations for Slack lets you use convenient shortcodes to show "Join us on Slack." buttons or Slack badges. Just add your Slack token and use the shortcodes wherever you want your visitors to be able to invite themselves from.

Features:

  • Easy to use:
    • Visit https://api.slack.com/web to generate your Slack token.
    • Add the token to the plugin settings.
    • Use the [invitations_for_slack] or [invitations_for_slack_badge] shortcodes.
  • Invitations are performed using the WP REST API which in turn communicates with the Slack API. No page reloads.

Requirements:

  • A Slack team and the team's access token.
  • A self-hosted WordPress website (Not a WordPress.com website.)

Installation

To get Invitations for Slack working, please follow these steps.

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate "Invitations for Slack" through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
  3. Once activated, click on the new "Invitations for Slack" menu item to configure your settings.
  4. Make sure you get your Slack API token from https://api.slack.com/web

Now just use the [invitations_for_slack] and/or [invitations_for_slack_badge] shortcodes where you want your users to register from.

Changelog

= 1.0.0 =

  • First public release.

= 0.1 =

  • Initial plugin release.