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How this automation works
Automatically share Wikipedia’s featured article of the day on your WordPress blog. Each time Wikipedia updates its daily article, a new WordPress post will be created with the article’s title, link, and summary. Perfect for bloggers who want to keep their readers updated with fresh educational content every day.
If
Trigger ingredients
Title
URL
Date
Summary
Image
Then
Action fields
title
body
categories
tags
post_status
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22 triggers, queries, and actions
Any new post
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time you publish a new post on your public WordPress blog.
Article added to category
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time an article is added to a specific category.
Article of the day
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires whenever the daily featured article on Wikipedia is updated.
Article receives high number of edits
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires for any articles that are receiving an unusual level of edits.
New edit from specific user
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires each time a specified user makes a contribution to Wikipedia.
New edit to article in category
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time an article is edited within a specific category.
New edit to specific article
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires each time someone edits a specified Wikipedia article.
New edit with hashtag
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time a Wikipedia edit includes a specific hashtag.
New post with tag or category
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time you publish a new post on your public WordPress blog with a specific tag or category.
Picture of the day
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires whenever a new picture of the day is posted on Wikimedia Commons.
Word of the day
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires whenever a new Word of the day is posted on Wiktionary.
History of article added to category
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when an article was added to a specific category.
History of Article of the day
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of previous daily featured articles on Wikipedia
History of article receives high number of edits
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of for any articles that are receiving an unusual level of edits.
History of edits from specific user
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of each time a specified user makes a contribution to Wikipedia.
History of edits to article in category
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of every time an article is edited within a specific category.
History of edits to specific article
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of each time someone edits a specified Wikipedia article.
History of edits with hashtag
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of every time a Wikipedia edit includes a specific hashtag.
History of Picture of the Days
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of the previous picture of the days on Wikimedia Commons.
History of Word of the day
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of previous Word of the days.
Create a photo post
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will create a photo post on your WordPress blog from the given URL to an image.
Create a post
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will create a normal post on your WordPress blog.
Any new post
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time you publish a new post on your public WordPress blog.
Article added to category
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires every time an article is added to a specific category.
Article of the day
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This Trigger fires whenever the daily featured article on Wikipedia is updated.
Article receives high number of edits
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires for any articles that are receiving an unusual level of edits.
Create a photo post
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will create a photo post on your WordPress blog from the given URL to an image.
Create a post
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will create a normal post on your WordPress blog.
History of article added to category
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when an article was added to a specific category.
History of Article of the day
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of previous daily featured articles on Wikipedia
History of article receives high number of edits
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of for any articles that are receiving an unusual level of edits.
History of edits from specific user
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of each time a specified user makes a contribution to Wikipedia.
History of edits to article in category
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of every time an article is edited within a specific category.
History of edits to specific article
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of each time someone edits a specified Wikipedia article.
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About WordPress
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform. Automatically share posts across social media, publish quickly, bring photos into your blog, manage drafts, and more — Applets make it possible.
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform. Automatically share posts across social media, publish quickly, bring photos into your blog, manage drafts, and more — Applets make it possible.
About Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Applets can help you dig into its millions of articles: subscribe to email digests of featured articles or save them to read later, check out the picture of the day, get vocabulary words, and much more.
Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Applets can help you dig into its millions of articles: subscribe to email digests of featured articles or save them to read later, check out the picture of the day, get vocabulary words, and much more.