Send SMS to your customers, subscribers, followers, members and friends.
We are thrilled to unveil a new chapter in our journey. Joy of Text, the plugin you’ve come to rely on for SMS communication, has undergone a remarkable transformation, emerging as the all-new and improved Ultimate WP SMS!
What can you expect from Ultimate WP SMS?
More Power: Ultimate WP SMS is an all-in-one WordPress plugin, equipped with SMS, MMS, and Calling Functionality, designed to cater to all your communication needs seamlessly.
Enhanced Features: We’ve not just rebranded; we’ve upgraded our capabilities. Ultimate WP SMS comes with a suite of enhanced features and tools that will empower your WordPress experience like never before.
Seamless Integration: As always, Ultimate WP SMS ensures effortless integration with your WordPress website. Whether you’re using Twilio, Plivo, Clickatell, BulkSMS, or any of the 250+ SMS gateways, we’ve got you covered.
Reliability: Your trust in our plugin has driven us to make this transition. Rest assured, Ultimate WP SMS will continue to deliver the reliability and performance you expect.
What’s Next?
We’re committed to making this transition smooth for you. If you’re currently using Joy of Text, you can easily upgrade to Ultimate WP SMS without losing any of your existing data or settings.
Our support team is ready to assist you every step of the way. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need guidance on migrating to Ultimate WP SMS.
Thank you for being a part of our journey. We believe that with Ultimate WP SMS, your WordPress experience will reach new heights. Stay tuned for exciting updates, and get ready to experience the ultimate in SMS communication!
See ultimatewpsms.com for details of the Ultimate WP SMS Pro plugin
The Joy of Text (or JOT) plugin provides a great way of connecting with your customers, blog subscribers or club members. This plugin allows you to send both SMS and text-to-voice messages to a group or to individuals.
To use this plugin you will need:
This free version includes the following features:
The extensions available for the UWS Pro plugin are:
As discussed in this article, SMS messages have “open rate” of 98%, i.e. 98% of all SMS messages sent, are opened by the recipient. This compares to only 22% of emails sent, so give your marketing a boost, by sending SMS messages from the JOT plugin.
The JOT Lite Admin screens explained.
The “Settings” tab
Within this tab your Twilio authentication details are entered. Once you have entered your Twilio details, you can select the ‘from’ number from which your messages will be sent.
You can also use this screen to choose your voice and language preference, which is used when sending text-to-voice messages.
The “Message” tab
Use this tab to construct your messages. First select the recipients of your message, then enter your message. The message can contain the special tags shown below:
From this tab, you can also specify a message suffix, that will be appended to all messages.
You can also specify whether your message is sent as an SMS message or as a text-to-voice message. For text-to-voice messages, the text you enter will be converted (by Twilio) to speech, which is played to your chosen recipients when they answer their phones.
The “Group Manager” tab
The free version of the plugin provides one member group.
From this tab you can change the name and description of the group. You can add new members to the group, delete existing members from the group or update their name and number details.
From the “Group Invite” you can construct a form which you can place on your website, to invite your website visitors to subscribe to SMS or text-to-voice message updates. You can also choose whether to send a new subscriber an SMS message containing a welcome message. The HTML for your form is provided on this tab or you can choose to use the shortcode [jotform]
.
The Pro version allows an unlimited number of member groups to be created.
For requests, feedback and support please send an email to [email protected]. All feedback appreciated.
The Pro Version
A Pro version is available for sale.
Check out the comparison of the UWS Lite and UWS Pro versions.
A number of extensions are available for the Pro and Lite versions. For example, the Pro version can be integrated with
The Pro Version has the following features:
To download the pro version please visit here
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
e.g.
joy-of-text.php
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directoryThe Getting Started screen, where your Twilio details are entered. screenshot-1.jpg
The licence key section, for adding licence keys from purchased extensions. screenshot-2.jpg
General settings section. screenshot-3.jpg
The Messages tab, where you SMS messages are constructed. screenshot-4.jpg
The Group Details tab, where you can update the name and description of the group. screenshot-5.jpg
The Group Members tab, where you can add, update or delete members. screenshot-6.png
The Group Invite tab, allowing you to create a form for inviting new members (subscribers). screenshot-7.png
The [jotform] shortcode form. screenshot-12.png
Purchased Extension The group notification tab, where you can configure SMS notifications for new or updated posts and new comments. screenshot-8.png
Purchased Extension The schedule manager tab, where you can see the status of your scheduled messages. screenshot-9.png
Purchased Extension The Woocommerce integration tab, allowing you to send SMS notifications for new orders, to your customers and an admin number. You can also synchronise your Woo customers into JOT. screenshot-10.png
Purchased Extension The Buddypress integration tab, allowing you to synchronise your Woo customer into JOT. screenshot-11.png
This plugin is free, however to use it, you need a Twilio account and number. Twilio will charge you a monthly fee for a phone number and they’ll charge you for each message you send. The Twilio charges vary, depending on which country you are in.
Please refer to Twilio’s charges for more detail.
No, only the excellent Twilio service is supported.
By default the plugin expects new subscribers, to enter both their name and number into the form created either using the [jotform] shortcode or using the HTML supplied on the
“Group Invite” tab.
However, if you only want new subscribers to enter their phone number, you can alter you form as shown below, with a hidden name field or use the shortcode
[jotform id=1 name=no]
<div> <form id="jot-subscriber-form-1" action="" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="jot-group-id" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="jot_form_id" value="jot-subscriber-form"> <input type="hidden" name="jot-form-special" id="jot-form-special" class="jot-special" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="jot-verified-number" id="jot-verified-number" value=""> <input id="jot-subscribe-name" name="jot-subscribe-name" type="hidden" value="No name given"/> <fieldset class="jot-fieldset"> <h3 id="jot-confirm-header">Get SMS updates!</h3> <p> <label for="jot-subscribe-num">Enter your number:</label> <input id="jot-subscribe-num" name="jot-subscribe-num" maxlength="200" size="40" type="text"/> <p> <input type="button" id="jot-subscribegroup-button" class="button" value="Subscribe"/> </fieldset> <fieldset class="jot-fieldset"> <div id="jot-subscribemessage"></div> </fieldset> </form> </div>
Not with this free version. The pro version does allow inbound SMS messages to be accepted and forwarded onto another cell phone number. The pro version is available here.
A number of users have used the plugin to distribute links to their website, app store listing or digital media. The JOT plugin allows forms to be placed on your website, inviting visitors to subscribe to SMS updates. When visitors enter their number successfully, the JOT plugin can be configured to send a “welcome message” in an SMS.
Using this feature, you can use the “welcome message” to send new subscribers a link or links to your site or media via SMS messages.
The following hook is triggered, after someone subscribes using the subscription form, [jotform] –
do_action('jot_after_subscriber_added',$subscriber_args)
where $subscriber_args, is an array containing the member’s ID, name and phone number.
The following hooks triggered, after a new member has been added to the group, using the JOT admin screens –
do_action('jot_after_member_added',$subscriber_args)
where $subscriber_args, is an array containing the member’s ID, name and phone number.
The following hooks triggered, after a member has been removed from the group, using the JOT admin screens –
do_action('jot_after_member_deletion_from_group',$member, $group)
where $member is an array containing details of the member and $group is the group id, which will be set to 1.
To change the colors of the labels and fields of the JOTFORM shortcode, take a look at the custom CSS rules here