Owain Williams
Senior Umbraco Dev at Initials Labs, Umbraco MVP
2026-07-08
📰 Using Umbraco.Automate to populate content from an API
Owain.Codes discusses how to automatically populate Umbraco content using Umbraco.Automate, illustrated with a Pokémon blog example. By leveraging the PokéAPI, the process involves triggering content updates upon publication, making HTTP requests, and updating content properties with data from the API, demonstrated in a video on his YouTube channel.
2026-07-01
📰 OC.Automate Update
OC.Automate.LinkedIn has officially left beta, allowing users to post directly from Umbraco to LinkedIn after configuring an API account. Additionally, all three OC.Automate packages—LinkedIn, BlueSky, and Mastodon—are now fully compatible with Umbraco 17 and 18, available on the Umbraco Marketplace or via Nuget.
📰 Umbraco Automate
Umbraco Automate is an open-source event-driven automation engine integrated into the Umbraco backoffice, allowing users to create workflows without external platforms. Owain Williams shares his experience building social media automation workflows, highlighting a no-code approach to avoid duplicate posts. The tool offers flexibility and potential for further development.
📰 Umbraco Automate Workflows
Umbraco Automate, an open-source event-driven automation engine from Umbraco HQ, allows users to create workflows within the backoffice without external tools. Owain Williams shares his experience building connections for social media automation, highlighting a no-code approach to prevent duplicate posts by using a toggle property for content publishing.
2026-06-17
📰 OC.Automate.Mastodon released
At the Umbraco MVP Summit and Codegarden, Umbraco HQ introduced Umbraco.Automate, an event-driven automation engine. Inspired by its capabilities, Owain.Codes developed OC.Automate.Mastodon, a third-party package enabling automated blog sharing to Mastodon. The open-source project aims to expand with more connections, enhancing user workflows in Umbraco.