DFX Feed for Telegram Channels connects your Telegram bot to WordPress and mirrors messages from one or more channels —public or private— inside your own site. Each message is stored locally as a custom post type and displayed through a block, shortcode or widget, with full media support and without ever exposing your bot token to visitors.
How it works
- Create a Telegram bot via @BotFather and paste the token into Settings → Telegram Feed.
- Add the bot as an admin to every channel you want to mirror.
- Insert a block, shortcode or widget on any page or post.
- The plugin syncs automatically every 2 minutes via WP-cron. Edits in Telegram are reflected with an “(edited)” marker.
Three ways to display messages
- Gutenberg block with per-instance styling controls: border, background, padding and typography per element.
- Shortcode:
[dfxfftc_channel_feed channel="@yourchannel" count="5"]for the latest N messages, or[dfxfftc_channel_browser channel="@yourchannel"]for the full history. - Elementor widget for those using that page builder.
Full media support
- Photos at the highest resolution available.
- Video and animation thumbnails.
- Static stickers, animated TGS stickers (via Lottie) and WEBM video stickers.
- Media is served through a local proxy that caches to disk: the bot token never reaches the visitor’s browser.
Admin controls
- Hide: suppresses a message from the frontend without deleting it from the database. Reversible via “Unhide”.
- Trash: permanently removes the message locally — it won’t come back on the next sync.
- Theme customisation: drop
dfxfftc/feed.phpordfxfftc/browser.phpinto your theme to fully override the output HTML.