Alex Cooper

<p><strong>Updates to Slack</strong> is a <em>WordPress plugin</em> that informs of Core, Plugin and Theme updates, that are required on your WordPress installation, to one or more Slack channels. It does so on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule at a time of your choosing.</p>
<h4>Special Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multiple Slack Channels:</strong> Allows you to send notifications to one or more Slack channels, using <a href="https://api.slack.com/block-kit" rel="nofollow ugc">Slack’s Block Kit</a></li>
<li><strong>Scheduled Updates:</strong> Alerts are triggered at a time you set, on either daily, weekly or monthly intervals</li>
<li><strong>Test Option:</strong> Check that your alerts are being sent without waiting on the schedule</li>
<li><strong>Ignore Plugins and Themes:</strong> Choose which individual plugins and themes you don’t want to know about, when an update is available</li>
<li><strong>Content Permissions:</strong> Gives you control over which users (by role) have access to post content.</li>
<li><strong>Secure:</strong> <a href="https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/115005265063-Incoming-webhooks-for-Slack" rel="nofollow ugc">Slack webhooks</a> are sent from your WordPress site, on a secure URL to your Slack channel(s)</li>
<li><strong>Reporting:</strong>  See when a notification was last triggered and what the result was</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>If you require support from me, the plugin author, you are welcome to contact me directly and place a request.</p>
<h4>Feedback</h4>
<p>If there is further functionality that would bring additional value to this plugin, please let me know.</p>
<h3>Copyright and License</h3>
<p>This project is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. 2020 – 2023 © <a href="https://www.alexpcooper.co.uk" rel="nofollow ugc">Alex Cooper</a>.</p>


Updates to Slack

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Nikki Blight

<p>The Scheduled Announcements Widget lets you add a scrolling list of site announcements, independent of normal posts and pages, to any widgetized<br />
area of your site, or to your theme files. Perfect for publicizing an event, alert, or notice that doesn’t require a full-page write-up. Announcements<br />
can be scheduled to run indefinitely or during a specific date range, and admins can chose between horizontal or vertical scrolling.</p>
<h3>Additional Details</h3>
<p>This plugin makes use of the JSColor library. The JSColor project is maintained by Jan Odv�rko and released under the GNU Lesser General Public<br />
License. See http://jscolor.com for more information.</p>


Scheduled Announcements Widget

The Scheduled Announcements Widget lets you add a scrolling list of site announcements to any widgetized area of your site.

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