David Marín Carreño

<p>DFX Feed for Telegram Channels mirrors messages from one or more Telegram channels onto your WordPress site. Messages are fetched via a Telegram bot you control, stored locally as a custom post type, and rendered through a shortcode, Gutenberg block, or Elementor widget. Both public and private channels are supported.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Three rendering surfaces</strong> — shortcode, Gutenberg block, or Elementor widget. The block exposes per-instance styling controls (border, background, padding, typography per element).</li>
<li><strong>Full media support</strong> — photos at the highest resolution available, video and animation thumbnails, static stickers, animated TGS stickers via Lottie, and WEBM video stickers.</li>
<li><strong>Bot token never reaches the client</strong> — Telegram file URLs (which embed your bot token) are resolved server-side; the frontend only receives a token-less proxy URL. Media is cached on disk for performance.</li>
<li><strong>Edits sync automatically</strong> with a small “(edited)” marker carrying the edit timestamp.</li>
<li><strong>Background refresh every 2 minutes</strong> via WP-cron, plus on-demand refresh on frontend visits as a fallback for low-traffic sites.</li>
<li><strong>Per-message admin controls</strong> — Hide (reversible, suppresses on frontend) and Move to Trash (sticky against refresh) row actions.</li>
<li><strong>Theme template overrides</strong> — drop <code>dfxfftc/feed.php</code> or <code>dfxfftc/browser.php</code> into your theme to fully customize the output.</li>
<li><strong>Works with private channels</strong> if your bot is admin in them.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use <code>[dfxfftc_channel_feed channel="yourchannel" count="5"]</code> to show the N latest messages.</li>
<li>Use <code>[dfxfftc_channel_browser channel="yourchannel"]</code> to show the full channel history.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Behaviour and known limitations</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bot-only access.</strong> Messages are fetched via the Telegram Bot API, which only sees posts that arrived in the channel after the bot was added. There is no access to historical messages from before that point.</li>
<li><strong>Background refresh every 2 minutes.</strong> The plugin schedules a WP-cron task that pulls fresh updates from Telegram for every channel you have stored data for. This keeps the local feed within ~2 minutes of the live channel without any manual action. Note that WP-cron only fires when traffic hits your site — on low-traffic installations you may want to disable WP-cron and trigger <code>wp-cron.php</code> from a real system cron job for reliable execution. The on-demand refresh on frontend visits is also kept as a fallback.</li>
<li><strong>Edits sync automatically.</strong> When a message is edited in Telegram, the local copy is updated on the next refresh and a small “(edited)” marker is shown next to the date.</li>
<li><strong>Deletions are not syncable automatically.</strong> The Telegram Bot API does not notify bots about channel message deletions — there is no <code>deleted_channel_post</code> update type. To remove a message that has been deleted in Telegram from the local feed, use the per-message <strong>“Move to Trash”</strong> admin row action. Trashed messages are sticky: refresh will not bring them back.</li>
<li><strong>Hide vs. Trash.</strong> Use <strong>Hide</strong> to keep a message in the database but suppress it on the frontend (reversible via “Unhide”). Use <strong>Move to Trash</strong> for a permanent local removal.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the <strong>Telegram Bot API</strong> to fetch channel messages, resolve media file URLs, and verify bot credentials.</p>
<h4>What data is sent</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bot token</strong> (configured in Settings) — sent with every API call to authenticate your bot.</li>
<li><strong>Channel username or ID</strong> — sent when fetching messages via <code>getUpdates</code> and when testing the bot configuration via <code>getChatMember</code>.</li>
<li><strong>File IDs</strong> — sent when resolving media URLs via <code>getFile</code> so the plugin can proxy photos, stickers, and video thumbnails to the frontend without exposing the bot token.</li>
</ul>
<h4>When data is sent</h4>
<ul>
<li>On every WP-cron background refresh cycle (every ~2 minutes when site traffic is present).</li>
<li>On frontend page loads when the on-demand refresh fallback fires (at most once per 10 minutes per channel).</li>
<li>When an admin clicks “Refresh Messages” in the admin list page.</li>
<li>When an admin clicks “Test Connection” on the Settings page.</li>
<li>When a visitor views a page containing a message with media (the media proxy fetches the file from Telegram on first access and caches it locally).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Service provider</h4>
<p>Telegram Bot API, provided by Telegram FZ-LLC.</p>
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service: https://telegram.org/tos</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://telegram.org/privacy</li>
<li>Bot API documentation: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>GPL v3 or later</p>


DFX Feed for Telegram Channels

Display messages from Telegram channels on your WordPress site, with full media support, via shortcode, Gutenberg block, or Elementor widget.

Aleksandar Urošević

TechWebUX

<p>Use this plugin when you wish to quick insert gallery grid composed from custom selected YouTube videos.</p>
<p>For automated latest or random videos collected from YouTube channel, favourites, liked videos or playlist check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-channel/" rel="ugc">My YouTube Channel</a></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom set of ID’s provided as shortcode attribute <code>id</code> (single of multiple ID’s separated by comma)</li>
<li>Custom additional class for targeted styling (if you need to blend gallery in your theme)</li>
<li>Custom number of columns to distribute thumbnails to (min 1, max 8)</li>
<li>Custom set video titles as shortcode content (separate by newline or pipe)</li>
<li>Responsive thumbnails</li>
<li>Autoplay with <a href="https://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Magnific PopUp</a> lightbox</li>
<li>Well marked with classes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Classes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Main container:
<ul>
<li><code>.easy_youtube_gallery</code></li>
<li><code>.col-#</code> for number of columns (default is <code>1</code>, supported up to <code>8</code>)</li>
<li><code>.ar-16_9</code> for 16:9, <code>.ar-4_3</code> for 4:3 or <code>.ar-square</code> for 1:1 aspect ratio</li>
<li>custom class provided by shortcode attribute <code>class</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Anchor:
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-item</code></li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-#</code> for order number of item</li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-first</code> for first item in gallery block</li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-mid</code> for middle items in gallery block</li>
<li><code>.eytg-item-last</code> for last item in gallery block</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Title: (new in 1.0.4)
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-title</code> for custom video title</li>
<li><code>.top</code> positioning custom video title on top of thumbnail</li>
<li><code>.bottom</code> positioning custom video title on bottom of thumbnail</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Thumbnail:
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-thumbnail</code> is class for span where we set video thumbnail as background image</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Play icon
<ul>
<li><code>.eytg-thumbnail:before</code> is pseudoclass for play icon</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>How To Use?</h4>
<p><em>Full shortcode</em></p>
<pre><code>[easy_youtube_gallery id=uMK0prafzw0,8Uee_mcxvrw,HcXNPI-IPPM,JvMXVHVr72A,AIXUgtNC4Kc,K8nrF5aXPlQ,cegdR0GiJl4,L-wpS49KN00,KbW9JqM7vho ar=16_9 cols=3 thumbnail=hqdefault controls=0 playsinline=1 privacy=1 title=top wall=1 class=mySuperClass]
Title One
Second Title
Video 3
Fourth Video
YouTube 5
Sixth YouTube
Video No. 7
Player #8
9th item
[/easy_youtube_gallery]
</code></pre>
<p><em>Basic shortcode</em></p>
<pre><code>[easy_youtube_gallery id=uMK0prafzw0,8Uee_mcxvrw,HcXNPI-IPPM cols=3]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Please note!</strong> If you doing copy&paste from code above, before you paste content to page, post or text widget content, clear all formatting by paste&copy to/from Notepad or other plain text editor!</p>
<h4>Shortcode parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>id</code> (required) single YouTube video ID or multiple ID’s separated with comma</li>
<li><code>ar</code> (optional) aspect ratio of thumbnails; default is <code>ar-16_9</code> for 16:9, but also supported <code>ar-4_3</code> for 4:3 and <code>ar-square</code> for 1:1</li>
<li><code>cols</code> (optional) for number of columns to distribute thumbnails in; devault is <code>1</code>, supported up to <code>8</code></li>
<li><code>thumbnail</code> (optional) for YouTube size of thumbnail; default is <code>hqdefault</code> but we can use:
<ul>
<li><code>0</code> have resolution 480x360px</li>
<li><code>1</code>, <code>2</code> and <code>3</code> have resolution 120x90px (first, second or third frame)</li>
<li><code>default</code> have resolution 120x90px (Default Quality)</li>
<li><code>mqdefault</code> have resolution 320x180px (Medium Quality)</li>
<li><code>hqdefault</code> have resolution 480x360px (High Quality)</li>
<li><code>sddefault</code> have resolution 640x480px (Standard Definition) and does not exists for lowres videos</li>
<li><code>maxresdefault</code> have resolution 1920x1080px (Full HD) and does not exists for lowres videos</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>controls</code> (optional) to optionally hide playback controls in lightbox player (default is <code>1</code> that means “display controls”, but you can set it to <code>0</code> to hide controls)</li>
<li><code>privacy</code> (optional) enables enhanced privacy which means that YouTube won’t store information about visitors on your web page unless they play the video. (<code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</li>
<li><code>playsinline</code> controls whether videos play inline or fullscreen in an HTML5 player on iOS. Learn more on <a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters?hl=en#playsinline" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Developers</a> (<code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</li>
<li><code>class</code> (optional) to add custom style class if you wish to target specific styling for your own needs</li>
<li><code>wall</code> (optional) render video wall with player at top and thumbnails below (<code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</li>
<li><code>title</code> (optional) set custom video titles position (<code>top</code> or <code>bottom</code>)</li>
</ul>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EbYfwzmCVJI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Replace MagnificPopUp with newer library</li>
<li>VisualComposer block</li>
<li>Inline player instead of opening in lightbox</li>
</ul>


Easy YouTube Gallery

Lightweight, easy to use, the shortcodes allow you to get some basic customizations.
Shortly put, perfect for my needs!

Works exactly as described

Quick and easy make gallery for custom set of YouTube videos provided in shortcode, and autoplay video on click in Magnific PopUp lightbox.

DFX Feed for Telegram Channels vs Easy YouTube Gallery