If you’re going out travelling and won’t have a chance to go online often, but you want to keep track of the comments you’re getting in your blog, the Quick SMS widget from mutube might just be the one you’re looking for. It lets your blog visitors to send an SMS message from your service provider.

Installation

1. Download the zip from the Quick SMS development page.
   


2. Unzip the quick sms package and drop the resulting folder into your WordPress plugins folder.
   


3. Log in as your WordPress admin and activate the plug-in.


4. Go to Sidebar Widgets on the Presentation Tab and drag the Quick SMS widget to the sidebar.
   


5. Go to Options and select the Quick SMS tab. This is where you’ll configure it to your mobile number.


6. Select your network and enter your 10-digit mobile number.
   


7. Now go to your blog and send a message to see if it’s working.

Important: For this to work on most networks, you have to activate the “Email to SMS” capability.

What shows up is a tiny fieldbox where you can type your message. Charging rates for each message received depends on your service provider. The latest release comes with the ability to restrict the length of the messages you can send, perfect to prevent flooding.

Other features:

• To prevent spam comments : confirmation message on sending SMS and block messages sent in quick succession.
  


• You can configure the header informationsent with SMS messages.

Check out the developer’s page to see what countries and service providers lets you use this. So far it’s available to the United States, certain parts of Europe, Japan, and Australia to a total of more than thirty different providers.

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