Adding Voice and Text Capabilities to WordPress

With RingCentral’s APIs, you can integrate many of its features into other platforms. Come to this webinar to see how it was successfully woven into the WordPress platform as a custom-built plugin. You will see the embedded phone tool, the SMS tool, and the RingOut® feature incorporated into both the WordPress admin area and on the WordPress public side as well.

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1. paladin-bs.com www.paladin-bs.com Peter B. MacIntyre, ZCE Paladin Business Solutions
2. paladin-bs.com Thank you for the invitation! www.paladin-bs.com
3. paladin-bs.com  Over 30 years experience in IT  Twice Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) ◦ 4.0 ◦ 5.3  Co-Founder & past Chair of Northeast PHP conference ◦ northeastphp.org  Author / Co-Author of 5 PHP & related books  Travel Blogger at: milesinmyshoes.com
4. paladin-bs.com  Spoken at Conferences around the world ◦ New Orleans, LA ◦ Köln, Germany ◦ Melbourne, Australia ◦ Winnipeg, Manitoba ◦ Boston, MA ◦ Washington, DC ◦ Las Vegas, NV ◦ Warsaw, Poland ◦ Verona, Italy  Live and Work in P.E.I. Canada
5. paladin-bs.com Two Updates are coming in the Spring
6. paladin-bs.com  Review the Plugin ◦ Embedded Phone ◦ SMS ◦ Call Me  Look at the code ◦ How to bring in & authenticate the API ◦ Show SMS Widget Class  RingCentral SDK  Resources
7. paladin-bs.com  What does this plugin do ? ◦ Admin area  Control page  Embedded RingCentral Phone  Add / List contacts pages  List Call Me requests  Widget area ◦ Front End  Join Newsletter Widget  Call Me Widget
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10. paladin-bs.com  What does this plugin do ? ◦ Admin area  Control page – Embedded phone  Simple line of JavaScript  Called with:  add_action('admin_footer', 'ringcentral_embed_phone');  allows for phone to be used on any page in the admin area  Functions file - highlights  Call the SDK code - authenticate  Send the SMS message through the SDK
11. paladin-bs.com  What does this plugin do ? ◦ Widget Class  Join Newsletter Widget – public_save() method  Edit checks, then send emai or SMS or both
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13. paladin-bs.com  WordPress code for plugin management  Activation code ◦ Builds tables ◦ Seeds the tables ◦ Builds needed pages  Opt in code / page  Opt out code / page
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15. paladin-bs.com  When a new Post is published we want to send out email and SMS announcements to those who have opted in on their respective access points.  add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'ringcentral_new_post_set_queue');  add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'ringcentral_new_post_set_queue'); In case there are many notices to send (thousands of subscribers?) we save the output to a table and “trickle” the output through a CRON, so as not to look like a spam site.
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17. paladin-bs.com  This is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.  The SDK has so many other features:  Meetings  Fax, yes fax !  Voice message management  Call Log  Ring Out / VOIP Calling  Glip (Group chat)
18. paladin-bs.com https://developers.ringcentral.com/guide/sdks SDKs for many languages: PHP, .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby Gem, iOS Swift Client, and JavaScript WebRTC library
19. paladin-bs.com  RingCentral Developers Site ◦ https://developers.ringcentral.com/  Get the Plugin and play with it! ◦ https://wordpress.org/plugins/rccp-free/  WordPress Developer Resources ◦ https://developer.wordpress.org/  Basic Guide to writing a plugin ◦ https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
20. paladin-bs.com Any Questions ? www.paladin-bs.com