WordPress Text Message free WordPress plugin
Description
WordPress Text Message Allows people to subscribe to SMS text message updates of your web site. Manually send out texts, or every time a post is published. Plugin has a widget that you can use in your sidebar or any widgitized area or your theme, also has the ability to use a shortcode if you don’t want to use the widget. That way you can add the subscriber signup form to any page or post using the shortcode [wp-text-message-register], you can also add an unsubscribe box using the shortcode [wp-text-message-unsubscribed] anywhere as well. Currently supports US based cell providers out of the box, the new version now allows you to add / edit / modify the cell phone gateways for your region. For a list of SMS gateways you can use, please visit our plugin page here: Total Bounty: WordPress Text Message When users signup for updates via SMS they enter their cell number and choose a provider from the dropdown. When SMS text messages are sent out they are sent to that number at the email to text gateway for that provider. In other words, the texts are sent out via email through the web and then the cellular providers in turn route them to the appropriate cell phone number at their email to SMS gateway. They say that email to SMS gateways carry “secondary priority” to regular SMS to SMS traffic – so there is a chance that not all the texts would be received. In our testing to date we haven’t encountered this as an issue at all – but we have received user accounts of some texts not being received. This would probably depend on your webhost and the frequency of texts you’re sending out (and if the email to SMS gateway(s) have you flagged as
Features
Cost:
Free
Provider:
Total Bounty
Popularity:
Low
WPMarket

