Writing posts
You write in Telegram the way you always do. This page explains what Bloggram does with it.
The title
Bloggram takes the title from the text of the post. It looks at the first line that has words other than hashtags and uses the first sentence of that line, up to 70 characters. A long sentence is cut at a word and ends with an ellipsis. A final period is dropped. A question mark, an exclamation mark or an ellipsis is kept.
In practice, the first line of your post is its title, so keep it short. If that line holds only the title, the post page doesn't repeat it in the body.
A post with no text, such as a lone photo, is titled "Post from" followed by its date.
The post address looks like /p/123-your-title, where 123 is the Telegram message number. The page description is the start of the text, up to 155 characters.
Formatting that is kept
- Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough.
- Inline code and code blocks.
- Quotes.
- Links, both words that carry a link and plain addresses.
- Spoilers. They stay hidden until the reader hovers over them or focuses them with the keyboard.
- Line breaks.
Any other formatting is dropped and the text is shown plain. That includes @mentions, which appear as plain text without a link.
Links
Links to other websites are marked nofollow ugc, so they do not pass search ranking. A link to another post of your own public channel, for example t.me/yourchannel/45, points to the matching page on your blog once that post is on the blog. If the post is not on the blog, the link still goes to Telegram.
Hashtags and tag pages
A hashtag such as #travel becomes a link to a tag page at /tag/travel. The tag page lists every post that uses it, newest first. Tags are lower case. They can hold letters, digits and underscores in any script, up to 64 characters.
A tag page with a single post is kept out of search engines, since there isn't much on it. Once a second post uses the tag, the page is indexed like the others. A line that holds only hashtags is not used as a title.
What stays on Telegram
Bloggram saves photos. It does not save these:
- Video, GIFs and round video messages.
- Audio and voice messages.
- Files sent as documents. A photo sent as a file is a document too.
The text of such a post is published. The page gets a short line saying the post has media that is only on Telegram. A post that has nothing but such media still gets a page with that line.
Stickers, polls and service messages such as "Channel created" are skipped, since there is nothing to publish.
For photos, see Photos and albums.
Every post is public
The blog shows everything you publish in the channel. To keep a post off the blog, hide it in the dashboard. See Edits and deletions.