Frequently Asked Questions

Create an account, log in to your dashboard, and open the Flow Designer. Drag a trigger onto the canvas — a webhook, CMS event (Joomla or WordPress), or scheduled cron — connect action nodes, configure each step in the properties panel, and save. Most users have a first workflow running in under five minutes. Visit the Node Reference page to explore all available nodes before you build.

Yes. Starter is free and includes one flow and one domain so you can build right away. AI-assisted setup for integration triggers, cron, and action nodes is included on Pro, Designer, and Agency — see Billing for plan limits and features.

JOrchestrator is a visual workflow automation platform built for Joomla and WordPress. It lets you design, deploy, and monitor automation flows using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface — no coding required. You can connect webhooks, schedule tasks, trigger actions based on CMS events, and integrate with AI services like OpenAI.

JOrchestrator supports Joomla 4, 5, and 6 and WordPress 5 and 6. For Joomla, it hooks into the event system, content lifecycle, and admin workflows. For WordPress, it registers native hooks for posts, users, comments, media, taxonomies, plugins, and themes.

Not at all. JOrchestrator is designed for web designers, agencies, and site administrators. The visual flow designer lets you build complex automations by dragging nodes onto a canvas and connecting them. Everything is configured through a simple point-and-click interface.

Yes. JOrchestrator supports multi-domain management, allowing you to create, organize, and monitor workflows across Joomla and WordPress installations from a single unified dashboard.

The flow designer provides a canvas where you drag nodes from a sidebar and connect them to build workflows. Nodes represent triggers (like webhooks or CMS events), actions (like creating posts or articles), and AI integrations (like OpenAI). You connect nodes by dragging between their input and output ports, then configure each node's settings through a properties panel.

JOrchestrator includes 288 nodes in the flow designer palette: webhook and payment triggers (Stripe, PayPal, Zapier), Joomla and WordPress CMS event triggers, AI/LLM steps (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Mistral, Cohere), Generative Video (Google Veo, Amazon Nova Reel), CMS action nodes (Joomla articles, media, users, categories, modules, banners; WordPress posts, pages, comments, media, users, tags, menus), database operations, cloud storage and transcoding (AWS S3, MediaConvert, CloudWatch; Google GCS upload/retrieve, Sheets, Transcoder), connectors (HTTP API GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE, FTP and SFTP upload/download/list/delete), email and messaging, and logic steps (conditions, loops, merge, and logger). Browse the full Node Reference for descriptions of every node.

No. You can create unlimited workflows with unlimited nodes. There are no artificial restrictions on the number of flows, nodes, or connections you can build.

Each webhook node in your flow generates a unique URL. When an external service sends an HTTP request to that URL, it triggers the flow and passes along any data from the request. This allows you to connect your CMS site with services like Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, or any system that supports webhooks.

On Pro, Designer, and Agency plans, open the AI tab on a Webhook, Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, or Custom Event trigger — or on a JOrchestrator Cron node — and describe your setup in plain language. The assistant proposes auth settings, payload fields, and input schema (for integration triggers) or schedule and cron settings. It does not apply to native CMS event triggers (Joomla event-on* or WordPress event-wp-*), which you configure in the Design tab. LLM action nodes are separate steps for generation inside a flow.

JOrchestrator supports OpenAI (GPT models), Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Mistral AI, and Cohere. You can use these to generate content, summarize text, translate articles, moderate content, and much more — all within your visual workflows.

Absolutely. For Joomla, JOrchestrator includes 100+ event triggers covering content, users, categories, menus, modules, extensions, media, and workflow. For WordPress, hook triggers cover posts, users, comments, taxonomies, media, plugins, and themes. Any supported CMS event can kick off an automated workflow.

LAN tunnels let JOrchestrator reach a Joomla or WordPress site on localhost, a private LAN IP, or production behind a firewall. Install j-orchestrator-proxy and run connect as a pure CLI from the terminal, or use console / connect --console for the built-in web dashboard (throughput, tunnel status, autoconnect). Deploy on a LAN machine or in Docker with a mounted config volume. Domain Setup gives you a virtual tunnel hostname for webhooks and cron; the CLI supports corporate HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 proxies for login and tunnel traffic. Tunnels are included on Pro, Designer, and Agency plans (£14.99/month and above).

Web Scheduler Jobs allow you to schedule automated HTTP requests to your linked Joomla or WordPress sites at regular intervals. This is useful for running scheduled tasks like content publishing, cache clearing, database maintenance, or any URL-based automation. You can set custom intervals from every five minutes to once a month.

To ensure optimal performance and prevent conflicts, JOrchestrator enforces a one Web Scheduler job per domain policy. This prevents duplicate cron executions that could cause issues on your site. You can still set up multiple standard web scheduler jobs for different endpoints on the same domain.

Yes. The dashboard provides real-time charts showing Web Scheduler execution statistics, success/failure rates, and execution history. You can see detailed logs for each cron job to diagnose any issues.

JOrchestrator uses token-based authentication with Firebase, encrypted communications over HTTPS, and secure session management. Your API keys and credentials are stored securely and never exposed in the browser. All webhook URLs are unique and unguessable.

Failed flow executions are logged with detailed error information so you can quickly diagnose and fix issues. Web Scheduler jobs support configurable retry policies for automatic retry on failure. The real-time analytics dashboard lets you spot problems before they impact your sites.