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Actively maintained Tested up to 7.0.6

TextMe SMS

Send custom SMS messages from your WordPress site to your customers using the TextMe SMS gateway.

Active installs500+100+ tier
Downloads · 30d1.1K▲ +47% vs prev. 30d
Rating4/54 reviews
Health score58/100Fair
All-time downloads20.6KSince Jun 2016
Support resolved0 / 10% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 6.1PHP 7.4+
Downloads · 7d282▲ +45.4% week over week
Our verdict

Use with caution

TextMe SMS works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 500+ sites, is rated 4/5 and was last updated 15 hours ago, and scores 58/100 on our health check.

  • Actively developed — last update 15 hours ago
  • Momentum — downloads up 47% vs the previous 30 days
  • Small user base (500+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

306192Jul 4Aug 17Oct 1
Yesterday101
Daily average (1y)14
Peak day161Mar 10, 2026
Last 12 months5K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where TextMe SMS stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
contact form 7 >100 3,479 Best contact form 7 plugins →
Notifications >100 8,702 Best Notifications plugins →
sms #8 1,481 Best sms plugins →
text message #56 8,616 Best text message plugins →
woocommerce >100 10,000 Best woocommerce plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.943.6%
  • 2.126.5%
  • 2.214.8%
  • 2.012.7%
  • 1.82.3%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4 from 4 reviews

  • 5★75.0%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★25.0%

About TextMe SMS

From the official readme · v2.2.1

Description

TextMe SMS Integration allows you to send SMS messages from your WordPress site using the TextMe SMS gateway service.

Features:

  • Send SMS notifications for WooCommerce orders
  • Contact Form 7 integration
  • Elementor Forms integration
  • User registration SMS notifications
  • Admin OTP/2FA for secure logins
  • Phone number login shortcodes
  • Out of stock notifications
  • Balance monitoring with email alerts

WooCommerce Integration:

  • New order notifications (customer and admin)
  • Order complete notifications
  • Order cancelled notifications
  • Pending payment reminders
  • Custom order status notifications
  • Customer notes via SMS

Login Security:

  • Two-factor authentication via SMS OTP
  • Phone number login support
  • International phone number support

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/textme-sms-integration directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  3. Go to Settings > TextMe SMS to configure the plugin.
  4. Enter your TextMe SMS API credentials.

Frequently asked questions

What is TextMe SMS?

TextMe SMS is an SMS gateway service that allows you to send text messages from your applications.

Do I need a TextMe account?

Yes, you need an active TextMe SMS account with API credentials to use this plugin.

Does this work with WooCommerce?

Yes, the plugin includes full WooCommerce integration for order notifications.

Changelog

2.2.1

  • Fix: The OTP / phone-login flows now release PHP’s session lock before each outbound SMS to the gateway, so a slow gateway response no longer blocks the same visitor’s other requests (page loads, AJAX) while they wait. The session is reopened immediately afterwards — using session_status() rather than session_id(), so no verification data is lost — keeping the OTP round-trip intact.

2.2.0

  • Fix: The built-in Admin order notifications (e.g. “New Order – Admin SMS”) now also send when a matching Shipping Rule handles the order. Previously a matching shipping rule replaced the default notifications entirely, so the admin SMS was silently skipped for orders that hit a rule. The shipping rule still owns the customer message; the rule’s own “Admin” copy and the built-in Admin notification are independent toggles, so if both are enabled the admin receives both.
  • Feat: The API Logs tab now has a “Details” column with a per-row “View” toggle that shows the full request and response JSON (pretty-printed; passwords and gateway tokens remain masked) — so gateway errors can be diagnosed directly in the admin without a database query.

2.1.9

  • Fix: Sending a back-in-stock SMS from the Restock SMS page no longer fails with “No valid phone numbers found” when the product’s stored request list has gaps in its keys (left behind by earlier saves that filtered out empty entries without reindexing). The page renders requests by position, so the send and delete actions now map the selected position back to the stored entry instead of treating the position as a storage key — which also means the correct request is moved to the sent log or deleted when a list has gaps.
  • Fix: New stock-notification signups are stored with sequential keys, so no new gaps are created.

2.1.8

  • Fix: SMS recipient phone is now sent to the gateway as a plain string (per the TextMe API spec) instead of a nested object, which the gateway could not read — it had been recording a null recipient and returning “api failure” for regular order/customer SMS. OTP was unaffected. The v1 XML path and the API log reader were updated to match.
  • Feat: The Sender Name field is now validated on save — a text sender may be at most 11 characters (a numeric sender up to 15), matching the gateway limit — so an over-long sender is rejected with a clear message at configuration time instead of failing silently on every send (gateway error 992). Counted by characters, so Hebrew is measured correctly.
  • Fix: SMS is no longer dispatched to the gateway with an empty recipient phone (e.g. an order with no phone on file); the attempt is skipped and logged with its originating hook for traceability.
  • UI: New shipping-rule rows now start with their “On” and “Admin” toggles unchecked, consistent with the rest of the plugin’s default-off toggles. Saved rules are unaffected.

2.1.7

  • Fix: The “Send Stock Notification” dialog on the product edit screen now displays correctly in right-to-left (Hebrew) admins — it opens centered and stays draggable instead of being pinned off-screen to the right. Also: the dialog title is now translated, the close button shows a clean icon (no stray “Close” text or focus outline), the dialog sits above the editor toolbar, and the action buttons are a uniform size.

2.1.6

  • Fix: Admin OTP no longer blocks REST API / Application Password authentication for administrators. Enforcing an interactive SMS challenge on machine credentials (WooCommerce REST API keys, WP Application Passwords) broke legitimate server-to-server integrations — e.g. a POS polling /wc/v3/orders — that have no way to complete an OTP prompt. Interactive admin logins (wp-login.php) remain fully OTP-gated, and the XML-RPC guard is unchanged.

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FAQ

TextMe SMS: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 2, 2026

Is TextMe SMS free?

Yes. TextMe SMS is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is TextMe SMS safe to use in 2026?

TextMe SMS works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 500+ sites, is rated 4/5 and was last updated 15 hours ago, and scores 58/100 on our health check.

How many websites use TextMe SMS?

TextMe SMS is active on 500+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 20,606 times since it launched in June 2016. It was downloaded 1,073 times in the last 30 days.

Does TextMe SMS work with WordPress 7.1?

TextMe SMS is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does TextMe SMS need?

TextMe SMS requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was TextMe SMS last updated?

The latest version, 2.2.1, was released on October 1, 2026 (15 hours ago).

Who makes TextMe SMS?

TextMe SMS is developed and maintained by Matat Technologies.

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