The latest version of the Joy Of Text pro is now available for download.

The latest version, V2.0.11 includes the following new features:

• Automatic updates from the WordPress dashboard and a licence key.
• Allows a subscription keyword to be specified for each group. People can text the keyword to your Twilio number to be subscribed to the group.
• Added extended member information, such as email address, address, state, zipcode
• Made it easier to select your message recipients, by adding a new “message recipients” dialog.
• Allowing either a mobile phone number or an email address to be used for routing of inbound SMS messages.
• Option to simplify message history, showing only the latest message in each conversation thread.
• Added member name (if known) on message history.
• Included default sender ID used for welcome and opt-out messages
• Changed the database layout, so there is only one record for each phone number.
• Twilio number verification and country codes – new numbers entered will be verified by Twilio, to ensure the number is valid.
• Implementing auto-add groups. Allowing the numbers from inbound SMS messages to be automatically added to chosen groups.
• Adding a welcome message for new inbound SMS numbers.
• Made the routed SMS notication message configurable by an admin.
• Added new commands for sending an SMS messages remotely.
• Updated remote command syntax to allow forward slashes “/” or square brackets “[]” to be used for commands
• Added a link to sent media in Message History.
• Added field reset button on Messages tab.
• Changed the character set and collation on the JOT database tables to support unicode characters.

Please try out the demo here

The next item on the development roadmap, is a new extension to the Pro version, that will allow SMS, voice and MMS messages to be scheduled. The scheduling plugin will be a separate downloadable plugin.

Thank you again for all of your suggestions and great comments. It’s really appreciated.

Stuart