Follow the instructions below to get started with the Joy Of Text Pro plugin.
- Step 1 – Get your account from Twilio.com
- To use this plugin you’ll need a Twilio account.
- Register an account at Twilio.com, purchase a phone number and get your unique ‘Twilio Account SID’ and ‘Twilio Auth Token’
- Go to Messaging-Settings-Twilio Settings and enter your ‘Twilio Account SID’ and ‘Twilio Auth Token’ and press the ‘Save Settings’ button.
- Your Twilio number(s) should then be displayed, so select the number you want to send your messages from.
- Select the country you are in. The plugin and Twilio need to know this, to check that the member phone numbers you’ve entered are valid.
- Press the ‘Save Settings’ button and move to Step 2.
- Note: It’s recommended that you setup a Messaging Service from the Twilio dashboard, which will send the messages from the plugin to Twilio quicker and offers advanced features like a number pool.
- Step 2 – Activate your licence keys
- Go to Messaging-Settings-Licence Keys to activate your licence key. This will enable automatic plugin updates through the WordPress dashboard.
- To activate the licences, enter your key(s) and press the ‘Activate Licence’ key.
- Press the ‘Save Settings’ button and move to Step 3.
- Step 3 – Add some members to a group
- To add members, go to the Group Manager tab, click on a group name, then select the ‘Member List’ tab. Enter the new member’s details and press the ‘floppy disk’ icon to save.
- For example, click Group Manager-Member List and add members to the group.
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- Step 4 – Send some messages
- Go to the Messages tab, select one or more members, enter the message text and press ‘Send your messages’.
- Click on the Message History tab, to see the history of your successful messages.
- From the Message History tab, click on one of the history items to open the ‘virtual phone’, allowing you to send messages to the same recipient.
- Step 5 – Create a form.
- Go to the Group Manager-Group Invite tab to tailor your member subscription form.
- You can create a subscription form for each group you add.
- In the Group Invite tab, you’ll see the HTML to create the form or you can use the provided shortcode.
- Add the HTML or shortcode to the appropriate page on your website.
- Step 6 – Receive SMS messages (including Opt-outs).
- To receive SMS messages and group subscription opt-outs into the plugin, you need to configure the ‘A MESSAGE COMES IN’ field in your Twilio account.
- You can do this manually, or you can use the ‘Configure’ button or the Messaging-Settings-Twilio Settings page
- To configure manually, following the steps below.
- Login to your Twilio account, select your numbers and configure the ‘Messaging’ section.
- Configure the ‘A MESSAGE COMES IN’ field, to use Webhooks and enter the URL:
http://www.yoursite.com?inbound - Once the ‘A MESSAGE COMES IN’ is configured, Twilio will route SMS messages sent to your Twilio number, to the JOT plugin.
- You can see received SMS messages in the Message History tab.
- Can you choose to be notified when an SMS is received, in the Messaging-Settings-Notification tab.