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.

Irshad Ahmad

WP Socio

<p>Integrate your WordPress site perfectly with Telegram with full control.</p>
<h3>Modules</h3>
<p><strong>1. Post to Telegram</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>📝 Send posts automatically to Telegram when published or updated</li>
<li>📢 You can send to a Telegram Channel, Group, Supergroup or private chat</li>
<li>👥 Supports multiple Channels/chats</li>
<li>🙂 Has Message Template composer with Emojis</li>
<li>⏳ Supports Conditional logic inside Message Template</li>
<li>🖼 Supports sending featured image along with the text</li>
<li>🏞 You can choose to send only the Featured Image</li>
<li>⏱ Supports scheduled (future) posts</li>
<li>🕰 Messages can be delayed by a specific interval</li>
<li>⬜️ You can add an Inline button for the post URL</li>
<li>🛒 Supports WooCommerce products and other Custom Post Types</li>
<li>✒️ Direct Support for sending Custom Fields</li>
<li>🗃 You can send Custom Taxonomy Terms</li>
<li>📋 You can select the post types to be sent</li>
<li>⏲ You can choose when to send (New and/or existing posts)</li>
<li>🎛 Make use of Custom Rules to filter posts by authors, categories, tags, post formats or custom taxonomy terms</li>
<li>🎚 You can override the default settings on post edit page</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://wptelegram.pro" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Telegram Pro</a> supports multiple channels based upon category/tag/author/post type etc. and also supports unlimited Reaction buttons.</p>
<p><strong>2. Private Notifications</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>📧 Get your email notifications on Telegram</li>
<li>🔔 Supports <strong>WooCommerce</strong> order notifications, <strong>Contact Form 7</strong> and other plugin notifications</li>
<li>🔕 Allow users to receive their email notifications on Telegram</li>
<li>🔐 Integrated with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wptelegram-login" rel="ugc">WP Telegram Login</a> to let users connect their Telegram.</li>
<li>🖊 Users can also enter their Telegram Chat ID manually on page</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>3. Proxy</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>🚫 If your host blocks Telegram, you can use this module</li>
<li>✅ Bypass the ban on Telegram by making use of proxy</li>
<li>🚀 Supports <strong>Cloudflare worker as proxy</strong> which supports file upload</li>
<li>😍 Option to use custom <strong>Google Script as proxy</strong></li>
<li>❇️ Supports all proxies supported by PHP</li>
<li>🔛 You can select Proxy type – HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, SOCKS5, SOCKS5_HOSTNAME</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Excellent LIVE Support on Telegram</strong></li>
<li>Easy to install and set up for the admin</li>
<li>Fully customizable with actions and filters</li>
<li>Can be extended with custom code</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
</ul>
<h4>Getting Started | Post to Telegram</h4>
<p><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/m48V-gWz9-o?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></p>
<h4>WooCommerce, CF7 etc. Notifications</h4>
<p><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/gVJCtwkorMA?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></p>
<h3>Contribution</h3>
<p>Development takes place in our <a href="https://github.com/wpsocio/wp-projects" rel="nofollow ugc">Github monorepo</a>, and all contributions welcome.</p>
<h3>Excellent LIVE Support on Telegram</h3>
<h4>Join the Chat</h4>
<p>We have a public group on Telegram to provide help setting up the plugin, discuss issues, features, translations etc. Join <a href="https://t.me/WPTelegramChat" rel="nofollow ugc">@WPTelegramChat</a><br />
For rules, see the pinned message. No spam please.</p>
<h4>Get in touch</h4>
<ul>
<li>Website <a href="https://wpsocio.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wpsocio.com</a></li>
<li>Telegram <a href="https://t.me/WPTelegram" rel="nofollow ugc">@WPTelegram</a></li>
<li>Facebook <a href="https://fb.com/WPTelegram" rel="nofollow ugc">@WPTelegram</a></li>
<li>Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/WPTelegram" rel="nofollow ugc">@WPTelegram</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade to Pro</h4>
<p>WP Telegram Pro comes with more powerful features to give you more control. <a href="https://wptelegram.pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade NOW</a></p>


WP Telegram (Auto Post and Notifications)

I've been using WP Telegram for posting blog posts to Telegram. It has served me well. I recently added the plugin to a site where the posts are not published directly but go through a publishing queue. This caused some problems, but the WP Telegram support helped me solve the problem. I only needed to check the "Plugin generated posts" setting. Now everything works smoothly!

Good plugin, great support


This works wonders, to notify customers about their orders through Telegram, thank you.



Is there a way to  notify them without using wp_mail hook? So I don't need to email them aswell?



Thanks!


Reliable way of notifying customers


I'll start off with the level of support. Superior! My initial introduction to this plugin was that the settings page would not display. I reached out to the publisher and within a few short hours the issue was diagnosed and a solution provided. That's fast!



Setting up the Telegram settings was quite straightforward and worked the first time. I love that they have test buttons right in the Admin to ensure it will work as I tried another plugin and it wasn't working at all.



Future asks would be to set up a schedule for when to post and how many. For now one simply can schedule the publishing of the WP Post and it will then push to Telegram when it publishes.



So far I'm quite happy and kudos to Irshad (@irshadahmad21) for a wonderful plugin and excellent support!


Great Plugin for Posting to Telegram


Easy to set up and works perfectly!



A must-have for connecting WordPress with Telegram.



Highly recommend!


Great Plugin for Telegram Integration


I've been using it for over a year. Completely noiseless and does exactly what it's supposed to do.


Noiseless plugin

Integrate your WordPress site perfectly with Telegram with full control.

DFX Feed for Telegram Channels vs WP Telegram (Auto Post and Notifications)