Daily WordPress Plugin Stats to Slack, Telegram & Email (n8n)

Daily WordPress Plugin Stats Updates to Slack, Telegram & Email (n8n)

Keep tabs on your WordPress.org plugin performance automatically: this n8n workflow checks daily for plugin stats changes and sends a concise digest to Slack, Telegram, or email—so you never miss important movement in installs, downloads, ratings, or support activity.

What this workflow does

• Runs daily on a schedule (or manually for testing).
• Fetches public plugin details from the WordPress.org Plugins API using the plugin slug, including figures such as installs, downloads, ratings, and support thread counts.
• Creates a baseline on the first run, then stores the previously seen values.
• Compares each new run against the stored prior results to detect what changed.
• Generates a plain-text digest showing what changed and the current values.
• Sends the digest only when changes are detected to your chosen destination (Telegram, Slack, or email).

Use cases

• Plugin maintainers want daily visibility into real-world WordPress.org performance without manual checks.
• SaaS operators tracking partner or product-related WordPress plugins can monitor support thread activity and rating shifts.
• Automation engineers need a practical example of scheduled API polling with change detection and notifications in n8n.

Setup

• In the Configure workflow step, set the plugin slug and optionally a User-Agent contact value.
• Enable one notification option: Telegram, Slack, or email, and add the required credentials.
• Provide destination details (Telegram chat ID, Slack channel ID, or from/to email addresses) and adjust the daily schedule time if needed.

Technical details

• Implemented with n8n nodes including if, set, code, no op, Slack, and Telegram.
• Uses the WordPress.org Plugins API as the data source and performs previous-run vs current-run comparison to determine whether to notify.