Easy way to change phone number on Contact page

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I want to be able to change my phone number on my website easily so that I can route incoming calls to me or another worker or answering service, etc. but I have a bunch of websites. So, I'm thinking of having my Contact Me page on all of my sites point to one certain page on one of my sites. So I have to only update one page to change my phone number. And I'd like to be able to easily change the phone number. I always have a smartphone in my pocket. So, what would be easiest?

I posted this request a couple of years ago (http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...via-email.html) and people said use Wordpress. But I want something simple. A text is probably simplest. An email would be simple. Using Wordpress, I don't know. And I would rather not have to manually type a new phone number. I'd rather it just be something like if I text "1" or "2" to a certain phone number, it would automatically populate my web page with the appropriate phone numbers which I have programmed into the script for "1" and "2." And the old (defunct) flexwindow.com service mentioned in the above old thread worked great... via email.

OTOH, if you think Wordpress would be simple, advise.

EDIT P.S. This needs to be something as easy as sending a text or an email. To have to login to a host is not ideal, but I'm open to considering it.
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  • Profile picture of the author LiveChatSoftware
    Two easy ish ways of doing it.

    1) Have all your websites query a single database somewhere and print the current number in the database.

    2) Have a "iframe" and point the Iframe to a single html document that only contains the number..
    Ie:
    <iframe src="number.html" width="200px" height="50px" frameBorder="0"></iframe>

    Then on number.html have something simple like.
    <html>
    <body>
    Contact me on : 1234567890
    </body>
    </html>

    reference this number.html on all your websites and then only update that one file to update all sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author livemusic
    Thanks.

    I don't care to login and edit a page from a smartphone. Anyone have any other ideas that are about as simple as sending a text or an email? If not, the easiest way to login to a host and make an edit.

    My situation is further complicated by the fact that these multiple websites are on various hosts. Some I wrote the code by hand, others are WYSIWYG sites from godaddy, weebly, blogspot, etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author rhinocl
      What about placing a google voice number on all the sites (I recommend an image to prevent harvesting)?Then just call in and change the forwarding as needed.
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      • Profile picture of the author livemusic
        Originally Posted by rhinocl View Post

        What about placing a google voice number on all the sites (I recommend an image to prevent harvesting)?Then just call in and change the forwarding as needed.
        That is a good idea, hmmm. Also, makes me think that I could just post my landline number on my websites and forward that to wherever!

        Now, I am investigating google voice.
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