Sending posts from WordPress site to your Telegram channel

#wordpress #php #telegram #web

Hi! I'm gonna show you how you can send a message (WordPress post) to a Telegram channel. All you need is a public Telegram channel and a bot. The last one you can create via BotFather in Telegram.

Steps:

Create a public channel and a Telegram BOT (via BotFather).
Remember the bot token.
Add the bot to administrators of previously created channel.

At the final step you should add the following code to your functions.php:


function telegram_send_message( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) {
  if( $new_status == 'publish' &&  $old_status != 'publish' && $post->post_type == 'post') {
    $apiToken = "TOKEN";
    $data = [
      'chat_id' => '@channel_name',
      'text' => "\nRead more: " . get_permalink($post->ID)
    ];
   $response = file_get_contents("https://api.telegram.org/bot$apiToken/sendMessage?" . http_build_query($data) );
  }
}
add_action( 'transition_post_status', 'telegram_send_message', 10, 3 );

Note: Do remember to replace TOKEN with your actual bot token and channel_name with the name of the channel.

Now, all the new posts will be also published in your Telegram channel.

Top comments (4)

Recht • May 7 '20 • Edited

Using the above code:

Can you add Category like below and is the hook tag correct?

function telegram_send_message( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) {
if( $new_status == 'publish' && $old_status != 'publish' && $post->post_type == 'post' && $category_id=='Category ID') {

Instead of just sending all new posts, how could we add a specific category, so that any new post with a specified category get sent?

Nadia • Aug 27 '20

I get the error file_get_contents failed to open stream: Connection timed out in ! I search a lot but i didn't find anything to solve my problem! can you help me why i am getting this error?!