Drafts and publishing
Alerts in email and chat
An email as soon as a big story is drafted, new drafts in Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams or Google Chat, and a ready-made social post with every draft.
Big stories are the ones scored 8 or more out of 10: major news for your area, like serious accidents, severe weather warnings or big decisions. Set them up in your site's Settings, under Alerts.
Big-story emails
- An email goes to the account owner as soon as a big story is drafted, with its headline, summary, source, what to check before publishing and a ready-made social post.
- At most 5 a day for each site. Every other draft is in the daily drafts email (see Emails we send).
- They're on for every new site. Untick Email me about big stories straight away to stop them.
Your team's chat
New drafts can appear in a channel your whole team reads, each with a link to the draft.
- In your chat app, make an incoming webhook for the channel (steps below) and copy its address.
- In Sudwire, open the site's Settings, paste it under Alerts and press Connect and send a test. A test message appears in the channel.
- Choose Every draft or Big stories only.
| App | Where to get the address |
|---|---|
| Slack | Make a Slack app at api.slack.com/apps, turn on Incoming Webhooks, press Add New Webhook and pick the channel. The address starts with https://hooks.slack.com/services/. |
| Discord | Server Settings, Integrations, Webhooks, New Webhook. Pick the channel and press Copy Webhook URL. |
| Microsoft Teams | In the channel, open Workflows and choose Post to a channel when a webhook request is received. Copy the address it gives you. |
| Google Chat | Open the space, then Apps & integrations, Webhooks, Add webhook. Copy the address. |
- Anyone with the address can post in your channel, so Sudwire keeps it encrypted and only ever shows its last characters.
- If the app stops taking messages, Settings says why. After 5 failed messages in a row they stop until you connect it again.
- Editors and the account owner can connect or disconnect it. Viewers see whether one is connected.
Ready-made social posts
Every draft comes with a short post for your Facebook page or X account: the key fact in plain words, in your site's language, without hashtags or emojis. It's on the draft's page in your dashboard with a Copy button, and in alert emails and chat messages. The draft's page also has Open in WordPress once the draft is there.