Make.com WordPress and WooCommerce integration: connect, draft posts and route orders

What you need

• A Make account. All three flows work on the Free plan (see Plan check). If you don't have an account yet, create a free Make account (affiliate link).
• A WordPress site where you can install plugins, as an administrator. On WordPress.com, plugins can be installed on the paid plans (Personal, Premium, Business and Commerce), not on free sites.
• A site Make can reach from the internet. A copy on your own computer (localhost) or a staging site behind a password won't work.
• For WooCommerce: SSL (an https:// address) and permalinks set to anything other than Plain. Make's docs say "you need to enable SSL on your WordPress web page and use pretty permalinks", and WooCommerce's own docs ask for any permalink option other than Plain.

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Connect WordPress to Make

1. Install the plugin. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add Plugins, find Make Connector, click Install now, then Activate Plugin. A new item called Make appears in the admin menu on the left.
2. Copy the API key. Click Make in the sidebar and, on the General Settings tab, click Reveal next to the API key. Treat it like a password.
3. Create the connection in Make. Add any WordPress module, for example Create a Post, and click Create a connection. Enter the WordPress REST API base url, which is your address plus /wp-json/, paste the key into the API Key field, and click Save.
4. Test it. Run the module once. If it fails, open https://your-site.com/wp-json/wp/v2/ in a browser. If that page is a 404, see the problems table.

Good to know about the plugin:

• Old name. On WordPress.org the plugin is called Make Connector, but its address and folder still use integromat-connector, from before Integromat became Make. Searching for "Integromat Connector" finds the same plugin.
• Plugin facts. Version 1.6.6, last updated 9 February 2026, 70,000+ active installs, WordPress 5.0 or higher, PHP 7.2 or higher, tested up to WordPress 6.9.9. The plugin page says it "does not send any data to the make.com service itself"; it simplifies the connection and can add custom fields to REST API responses.
• Custom fields. To read or write custom fields (post meta), tick them under Make › Custom API Fields and click Save Settings. Otherwise they don't appear in Make.
• Security settings. On the General Settings tab you can click Regenerate for a new API key and enable granular API permissions, which tie the key to specific actions. Under Make › Security you can turn on Security Logging, Content Sanitization, Rate Limiting (a maximum number of API requests per minute), Request Size Limits and File Upload Security. If you regenerate the key, update the connection in Make too. If you turn on rate limiting, leave enough room for your scenarios.
• Large sites. Make's docs say the plugin "is not optimized to run with large websites". If you see a memory size exhausted error, they recommend raising the PHP memory limit beyond the default 512 MB (your host can help).
• Older scenarios may use the WordPress (legacy) app, which connected through a different plugin (JSON Basic Auth). For new work, use the current WordPress app and the Make Connector.

What Make's WordPress and WooCommerce apps can do

Module lists: Make's WordPress and WooCommerce app docs and integration pages, checked 3 October 2026. Make's integration pages mark only WooCommerce's New Event as instant.

The difference matters for credits. A scheduled trigger costs 1 credit for every check, even when nothing is new. Checking every 15 minutes is 96 checks a day, about 2,900 credits a month, which is more than the Free plan's 1,000. An instant trigger only costs credits when something actually happens.

Recipe 2: New WooCommerce orders to Google Sheets and Slack

First, create the WooCommerce keys. In WordPress, go to WooCommerce › Settings › Advanced › REST API and click Add Key (or Create an API key). Enter a description, choose the user, set Permissions to Read/Write, as Make's WooCommerce docs say (a Read-only key can only fetch data, and the New Event trigger has to create a webhook in your shop), and click Generate API Key. Copy the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret right away: WooCommerce shows the secret only once. In Make, the WooCommerce connection asks for the Consumer Key, the Consumer Secret and your shop's https:// address.

1. WooCommerce › New Event (instant). Click Create a webhook, then create the connection. The trigger fires when an order, customer, coupon or product is created, updated or deleted.
2. Filter so only new orders continue. If you can choose a single event when you create the webhook, choose the one for new orders. Otherwise, filter on the event type in the output, which you'll see after a test order.
3. Google Sheets › Add a Row: order number, date, customer, email, total and status.
4. Slack › Send a Message: for example, "New order #1234, 89.00 EUR, Jane Doe", with a link to the order in WordPress admin.

Derived credits: 3 per new order (trigger, Add a Row, Send a Message); filters are free. Events that the filter stops still cost 1 credit for the trigger, so if every order update also fires the webhook, expect more than 3 credits per order in total. Check your History after a few days.

Prefer polling? Watch Orders works without a webhook but checks on a schedule, so it costs credits even on days with no orders (see the credit note above). For a shop with a few orders a day, New Event is usually cheaper.

Line items arrive as an array: one order can hold several products. To write one row per product, add an Iterator. Iterator vs Aggregator explains how. Our Shopify orders to Google Sheets recipe uses the same pattern for Shopify.

Changing order statuses from Make: Make's Update an Order Status module says it needs the Order Status Manager plugin. Without it, use Update an Order and test on a dummy order first.

Recipe 3: Announce new posts

WordPress › Watch Posts, then Slack › Send a Message with the title and link, or Google Sheets › Add a Row for a content log. Watch Posts is scheduled, so run it once or twice a day rather than every 15 minutes. That's about 30 to 60 credits a month for the checks, plus 1 per new post. When you first set it up, choose to start from now, so old posts aren't all announced at once. Check in a test run that it picks up only published posts, not drafts.

For social posts instead of Slack, see Instagram and Facebook automation with Make. If you also publish videos, YouTube automation with Make covers the YouTube side.