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@jtprattmedia. Appreciate the feedback and your resonance with what I stated in my post is my fault. I have been building websites for 12 years now and with that said, I have been using WordPress and Joomla for a few years now. I build and maintain numerous sites/domains using both programs. Straight to the point though. Because I thought that it may have been the install that was causing the problem, I installed WordPress under an new domain. No custom templates, no packaged plugin/themes. Completely bare bones install with only WordPress Text Message. When I say that I have installed hundreds of plugins, I have done this over time using different domains and installs. I am not using the same databases/tables etc. I also have a domain that I use strictly for testing in the event something doesn’t work on one of my sites. The whole background behind this thread was not to say anything bad about the plugin. The issue may be between Dreamhost and the plugin. I just don’t know. But I did find a plugin that sends SMS messages immediately with absolutely no issues. I understand that not everything will work with every single host.

@totalbounty. Again, Thanks for the feedback. I am currently using Dreamhost, and have been with them for the last 12 years. SMS is critical to the WordPress install (3.3.1) that I am using and the only one that requires it. I unfortunately cannot provide the site name or link as it is a privacy issue. In any case I am glad that it is working for others and appreciate your help. That said, I have attempted hundreds of plugin installs, and 9 times out of 10, they simply don’t work. I will usually not respond to the makers of the plugin. I don’t expect “free” to work all the time. The only reason why I am providing feedback, is because I have been using this plugin for such a long time and it went from working to not.

Again thanks!

@Totalbouty…. Thank you for the response, but here is my issue. I have modified and added cron jobs on both WordPress and on my server. The plugin is still not sending any messages. Yes, now it will not send at all (both before and after creating cron jobs). To ensure that it wasn’t my site, I recreated another wordpress site using only what was provided with the install. The only Plugin that I added was the WordPress Text Message from Total Bounty. Again completely clean install. Everytime I attempted to send a message, it just gets stuck in the Queue. You are now thinking that this has to be a server issue on my side……. Well I downloaded and installed another SMS plugin from another provided via WordPress and it works every single time, instantainiously. I have used WordPress Text Message for over 2 years (started with Semper-Fi). The first year it worke great everytime. The second year when it was re-written, it was sporatic. And now it won’t work at all with the latest release. Not sure what the issue is but I just sent myself 4 messages and all came through immediatly with the other SMS plugin.

Using this plugin for a while now and it was hit or miss as to whether or not it wanted to send out messages. Now after a clean install of both wordpress and the new WordPress Text Message plugin (2.06), I am confused. When I attempt to send out a text message, the message remains in the queue either “forever” or 10 minutes. When I say “Forever”, it either won’t send and just remain in the queue or take upwards of an hour to send. Other time it will send immediately or 5, 10, or 20 minutes. Is there something that I am missing as to how this thing is supposed to work? NOTE: I am simply sending the message to my own phone to test this.