Bisaya Bloggers

Overview

Based on the original plugin created by Emmanuel Pays, this plugin allows users to receive SMS notifications, through twitter, when someone posts a comment on your blog. The comment notification uses Twitter’s direct messaging feature. It also employs a spam filtering feature so blog owners won’t get bugged with spam comments.

Download

Download “BY SMS-Twitter Comment Notifier” Plugin

Installation

Download the plugin file and unzip TwitterSMSNotifier.php to your wp-content/plugins/ directory. After uploading, click on your Plugins page from your blog dashboard and browse for BY SMS-Twitter Comment Notifier. Click on Activate to activate the plugin.

Configuration and Usage

We at least two twitter accounts for us to use Twitter’s direct messaging feature, one for the notifier and another one for the recipient account. If you don’t have an account yet, you may proceed to the step on creating twitter accounts.

The notifier account will be used in sending DMs (direct messages) to the recipient account.

To configure your plugin, go to Settings > BY SMS-Twitter Comment Notifier from your blog’s Dashboard.

1. On the Notifier Twitter Account field, enter your notifier account username/email.
2. On the Notifier Twitter Account password field, enter the password of your notifier account.
3. On the Recipient Twitter Account field, enter you personal twitter username or the username of your desired recepient.
4. Click on the Save button to save the changes made.
5. To test if the plugin is working, click on the Test button after completing the steps above.

Issues

Please feel free to report bugs and suggestions. Thanks.

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