Many WordPress users have been waiting to hear this – the option of sharing content like blogs to Telegram automatically through the WordPress bot. In the first week of July 2022 this upgrade became official and since then it became a major cause of excitement among content creators and marketers. Telegram has been growing steadily as a preferred social messaging platform by users across the world and has already crossed the 100 million mark in terms of users.
The best part of this upgrade is that it operates through the WordPress bot that makes it way more efficient than if you were to operate it through a regular plug-in feature. Receive real time updates about blogs posted by your favorite writers on your chosen channels, group chats or direct messages, you can get the updates.
Similarly, you can also share your own WordPress blog or visual posts on Telegram using the WP bot. If it’s a new channel that you want to start the scope of traction is pretty good. Your readers have the option to follow you on your existing channel or if you choose to start a new one, you can easily automate sharing of your content. It’s really easy to use the WordPress bot. Just visit the bot page on the site and click on the ‘Send Message’ button to begin the process of sharing your content on Telegram.
Alternately, you could also invite the bot to be your chosen channel or to be one of your groups. Thereafter, the bot takes over automatically and makes sure that all your posts are shared on the channel or group in real time. Of course, group rules have to be complied with while sharing your content and it will be accepted only if you agree to comply with the channel or group rules.
What makes WordPress and Telegram compatible to each other?
Telegram is a cloud-based social messaging app like WhatsApp with slight differences in their respective user interfaces. It is relatively easy to integrate Telegram with any other app or website as its API is specifically designed to enable such integration seamlessly. In any case Telegram offers hundreds of integrations for other websites and applications while there is a steady growth of third-party apps for it.
Telegram is essentially a communication app which is growing in popularity especially among remote workers who are dependent on stable and reliable communication apps.
It makes sense to integrate your WordPress site with Telegram
Benefits of integrating WordPress with Telegram are tried and tested and is getting simpler, faster and better overall with steady updates. The process of integrating Telegram with WordPress begins with the installation and activation of Telegram for WP plugin. You can easily find WordPress plugin installation guide with a simple web search. Once the Telegram for WP plugin is installed and activated, it will create a new item in the menu called ‘TWP Settings’ in the admin bar of your WordPress website.
You will have the option to choose where in Telegram you want send notifications. You will need to generate API tokens to send your messages which could be for personal chats, groups or channels.
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