Automation is essential when dealing with content across digital delivery pipelines, especially to help content creators and developers work together harmoniously with the tools they prefer. We are thrilled to announce the release of the new Slack app and improved Netlify app!

To date, we’ve made webhook templates available, which could be configured by any developer to trigger a notification with Slack or a build with Netlify. We now want to make this capability available for content creators too — with improved apps that are easy to install from our marketplace, rather than having to ask your developer to set it up.

With the new Slack app you can configure alerts via a message in Slack when an entry is created, deleted, published or unpublished. The messages can be customized to be richer and provide additional context.

The Netlify app is now able to trigger builds automatically, rather than manually, when content is published or unpublished.

You can install the Slack and Netlify apps via our Marketplace today! Existing installations of the Netlify app have been automatically updated.