Connect your WordPress website with Airtable

Introduction#

Hey!

Thank you for checking out Sawfish Wordress Plugin for Airtable.

Here are the steps to quickly set up the connection between your WordPress website and Airtable databases.

This will let you both send and receive information between the two systems.

This means you can:

Show Records on your WordPress website from your Airtable databases and tables real-time (without the need for additonal platforms like Zapier and Make).

AND

Create records in Airtable through a form in your WordPress site.

AND

more..

Make sure you have the Sawfish plugin installed before these steps.

Here’s the steps to get started Sawfish. There’s zero coding involved, you will be ready in a few clicks.

1. Create an integration item on Airtable Builder Hub

2. Enter the connection info on WordPress

3. Connect!

Let’s begin!

Create a connection on Airtable Builder Hub#

This step will create the credentials you set up a secure connection between Airtable database and your WordPress website.

Log in to your Airtable instance, click on the icon on the top-right of the page (same menu where you have Account, Manage groups etc.) and select Builder hub.

From the Developers menu on the left, Click on oAuth integrations

Click on the Register new OAuth integration button

Enter a name from your app eg: Sawfish Website Connection

In the OAuth redirect URL field enter the link as it appears from the SWFSH Airtable Plugin page on your WordPress dashboard. You will need to have the plugin installed to view this menu.

Click Register integration

You will be directed to the Edit an integration page with the details you entered.

Scroll down to the select the Scopes or level of access you would like to set up.

Enter the connection details on your WordPress website#

In the Edit an integration section scroll dwon to view the Client ID and Client secret (click Generate client secret to view).

Copy these values and enter them in the SWFSH Airtable plugin page on WordPress.

Connect WordPress and Airtable#

From the SWFSH Airtable page on your WordPress Page Click Connect

You will be redirected to your Airtable Login page.

Authorize the connection

All Set!

You can now setup pages on your website using Airtable records, set up forms and more!