Mostafa Soufi

Navid Kashani

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Mehrshad Darzi

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<p>Improve your WordPress Website: Communicate with SMS using the WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to plugin.</p>
<h3>Who We Are</h3>
<p>SMS.to is a complete SMS Marketing & SMS API gateway platform offering Enterprise grade Omni-Channel digital communication services to businesses.<br />
That includes a sophisticated SMS Marketing platform, OTP (One time passwords), 2 Way SMS, 2FA ( 2 Factor Authentication), notifications and Viber Messaging.</p>
<h3>Our Mission</h3>
<p>SMS.to Mission is to simplify business communications by disrupting the aged telecom model of lengthy negotiations and processes and allow a quick and efficient go to market strategy through our Robust API’s and intuitive Web Platforms.<br />
Businesses can integrate and reach their customers in hours not months from the day of setup, achieving cost and time efficiency and most importantly competitiveness through all the value added features SMS.to provides.</p>
<h3>Plugin Description</h3>
<h3>WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to: A WordPress plugin for Bulk SMS Messaging/Texting</h3>
<p>This plugin is a fork from https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sms/ developed by VeronaLabs.<br />
It is completely free to download and use. You just need to have an account in https://sms.to/</p>
<p>Using WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to plugin you can enjoy many features</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Send SMS to WordPress users</li>
<li>Send SMS to WordPress roles</li>
<li>Send SMS to a mobile phone number </li>
<li>Send SMS to more than one mobile phone number</li>
</ul>
<p>Send SMS automatically to users and operator in different situations<br />
* Send SMS to WordPress subscribers When publish new post.<br />
* Send SMS to the author of the post when that post is published.<br />
* Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number when a new release of WordPress.<br />
* Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number and to the user when registers on wordpress.<br />
* Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number when get a new comment.<br />
* Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number when user is login.</p>
<h4>Send SMS to WordPress users</h4>
<p>Select WP users as the recipients of your message. This will automatically be sent to all WP users mobile phones.</p>
<h4>Send SMS to WordPress roles</h4>
<p>Select Role as the recipient of your message. This will open a new drop down list to select one of WordPress existing Roles. Your message will me sent to the user belonging to the selected role.</p>
<h4>Send SMS to a mobile phone number</h4>
<p>Select Single number as the recipient of your message. This will display a new field to enter the mobile phone number.<br />
The country code must be used if the prefix is not activated. i.e +357 or +44</p>
<h4>Send SMS to more than one mobile phone number</h4>
<p>Select Paste Number(s) as the recipient of your message. This will display a new area field to enter the mobile phone numbers separated by a comma.<br />
The country code must be used i.e +357 or +44</p>
<h4>Send SMS to WordPress subscribers When publish new post</h4>
<p>By enabling this option, WordPress subscribers will receive SMS when a new post is published.<br />
The following variables can be set in the message content in the Notifications settings<br />
Post title: %post_title%, Post content: %post_content%, Post url: %post_url%, Post date: %post_date%</p>
<h4>Send SMS to the author of the post when that post is published</h4>
<p>By enabling this option, the author of a post will receive SMS when the post is published.<br />
The following variables can be set in the message content in the Notifications settings<br />
Post title: %post_title%, Post content: %post_content%, Post url: %post_url%, Post date: %post_date%</p>
<h4>Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number when a new release of WordPress</h4>
<p>By enabling this option, the administrator will receive SMS when there is a new release of WordPress</p>
<h4>Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number and to the user when registers on wordpress</h4>
<p>By enabling this option, the administrator and the user will receive SMS when the user registers in wordpress.<br />
The following variables can be set in the message content in the Notifications settings<br />
User login: %user_login%, User email: %user_email%, Register date: %date_register%</p>
<h4>Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number when get a new comment</h4>
<p>By enabling this option, the administrator will receive SMS when there is a new comment on a post.<br />
The following variables can be set in the message content in the Notifications settings<br />
Comment author: %comment_author%, Author email: %comment_author_email%, Author url: %comment_author_url%, Author IP: %comment_author_IP%, Comment date: %comment_date%, Comment content: %comment_content%</p>
<h4>Send SMS to Operator mobile phone number when user is login</h4>
<p>By enabling this option, the administrator will receive SMS when the user is login in wordpress.<br />
The following variables can be set in the message content in the Notifications settings<br />
Username: %username_login%, Nickname: %display_name%</p>
<h3>WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to plugin Installation</h3>
<ul>
<li>Prerequisites</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Installation of WordPress</li>
<li>Active sms.to account</li>
<li>Set users profile mobile phones</li>
</ol>
<h3>INSTALL WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’;</li>
<li>Search for ‘WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to’;</li>
<li>Activate WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to from your Plugins page;</li>
</ol>
<h3>UNINSTALL WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to</h3>
<ol>
<li>De-activate WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to from your Plugins page;</li>
<li>Delete Plugin</li>
</ol>
<h3>AFTER ACTIVATION</h3>
<ol>
<li>Sign in with your sms.to account <a href="https://sms.to/login#/" rel="nofollow ugc">SMSto login</a> or Sign Up <a href="https://sms.to/register#/" rel="nofollow ugc">SMSto Sign Up</a></li>
<li>Visit <a href="https://sms.to/app#/api/client" rel="nofollow ugc">SMSto api</a>  </li>
<li>Add funds to your account </li>
<li>Go to API Clients, API Key Authentication, enter a Title and generate an API Key</li>
<li>Copy the generated sms.to API Key into the WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to plugin – Settings – Gateway – API Key</li>
<li>
<p>Save</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Visit Settings – Features – Add Mobile number field – and select it. So, now you can get the mobile phone of new subscribers and<br />
also update existing subscribers/users with their mobile phone.</p>
</li>
<li>Enable WP User registration to allow get the mobile phone of new subscribers at the time of registration.</li>
</ol>
<p>You’re done! You can now SMS the world!!</p>


WP – Bulk SMS – by SMS.to

Improve your WordPress Website: Communicate with SMS using the WP - Bulk SMS - by SMS.to plugin.

Viktor Szépe

<p>Using SMTP protocol to transfer emails ensures solid operations.<br />
It is very easy to set up SMTP. You can find the settings for this plugin at the bottom of WordPress admin menu Options / General.</p>
<p>You should get your SMTP settings from your ISP, hosting provider, webmaster, email provider etc.</p>
<p>Using every option SMTP URI formally looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT
</code></pre>
<p>Thus encryption type and <code>://</code> and user name and <code>:</code> and password and <code>@</code> and mail server name and <code>:</code> and port number.<br />
All except encryption type and mail server (host name) are optional.</p>
<p>SMTP encryption types are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>For encrypted connection (STARTTLS on submission port) start your SMTP URI with <code>smtpTLS://</code> – the default port is 587.</li>
<li>For fully SSL encrypted connection (SMTPS) start it with <code>smtps://</code> – the default port is 465.</li>
<li>For unencrypted connection (plain SMTP) start it with <code>smtp://</code> – the default port is 25. This is <strong>not recommended</strong> for non-local servers.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>WARNING!</strong> Use <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/" rel="nofollow ugc">URL-encoded</a> strings.</p>
<p>You can find the settings for this plugin at the bottom of WordPress admin Options / General.</p>
<p>You may define your SMTP URI also in <code>wp-config.php</code>:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'SMTP_URI', 'smtpTLS://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT' );
</code></pre>
<p>To set <code>From:</code> name and <code>From:</code> address use<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mailfrom-ii/" rel="ugc">WP Mail From II plugin</a>.</p>
<h4>SMTP error logging</h4>
<p>SMTP communication errors are logged in PHP error.log and – if<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/" rel="ugc">Sucuri Scanner</a><br />
plugin is available – are sent to Sucuri and can be viewed in its Alert Logs panel.</p>
<h4>Adding automatic Bcc: address</h4>
<p>An automatic Bcc: address can be set by adding path to SMTP URI: <code>/admin_email</code>.</p>
<h4>SMTP debugging</h4>
<p>Add query string to SMTP URI: <code>?debug</code>.</p>
<p>Debug level can be set by adding a value: <code>?debug=4</code>, possible values: 0,1,2,4</p>
<h4>TODO</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to skip newsletters: ALO Newsletter, Newsletter, Mailpoet.</li>
<li>Video on installing and setting up this plugin.</li>
<li>Remove <code>smtp_uri</code> option on uninstallation (I hope you won’t uninstall it)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage examples</h4>
<p>Unauthenticated local SMTP server on port 25</p>
<pre><code>smtp://localhost
</code></pre>
<p>Unauthenticated local SMTP server on submission port</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://localhost
</code></pre>
<p>Authenticated connection to localhost on port 25</p>
<pre><code>smtp://john.doe:Secretpwd1@localhost
</code></pre>
<p>“@” sign in the username, a Gmail example</p>
<pre><code>smtps://your.address%40gmail.com:Gmail_password@smtp.gmail.com
</code></pre>
<p>Sendgrid example</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://CREDENTIAL-USERNAME:PASSWORD@smtp.sendgrid.net
</code></pre>
<p>Mandrill example</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://REGISTERED%40EMAIL:API-KEY@smtp.mandrillapp.com
</code></pre>
<p>Unauthenticated SMTP server on a custom port</p>
<pre><code>smtpTLS://mail.server.net:2525
</code></pre>
<p>Development goes on on <a href="https://github.com/szepeviktor/smtp-uri" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


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