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Import photos and videos from your Beeper chats and turn them into WordPress posts with gallery or individual media blocks.

Description

Chat to Blog connects to the Beeper Desktop local API to browse images and videos from your chat conversations. Select media items, arrange them as you like, and publish them directly as WordPress blog posts with gallery or individual image blocks.

Pick a chat from the horizontal chat bar, scroll or jump to a month in the timeline, and click the pictures you want. Selected media collects in a panel on the right where you can drag it into the order you want, give the post a title and some text, choose a category and a date, and then save a draft or publish. Everything you pick is imported into the WordPress Media Library along with the caption, sender and timestamp from the chat, and the post is built from standard Gutenberg image, gallery and video blocks — so the result is an ordinary WordPress post you can keep editing in the block editor.

Because Beeper Desktop's API only listens on localhost, the browser talks to it directly and hands the media to WordPress, which means the WordPress site itself never needs network access to your chats.

Features

• Browse all your Beeper chats and group conversations
• View and select images and videos from chat messages
• Support for multiple image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG
• Support for multiple video formats: MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, 3GP
• Videos display with play icon overlay and VIDEO badge for easy identification
• Drag and drop to reorder selected media
• Create posts as galleries or individual image/video blocks
• Videos are embedded as native WordPress video blocks with controls
• Mixed galleries: images grouped in gallery, videos added as separate blocks
• Automatic duplicate detection (won't re-import the same media twice)
• Set custom post dates for backdated publishing
• Import media into the Media Library without creating a post
• Choose which post types Chat to Blog appears on and can post to
• Media is imported to the WordPress Media Library with full metadata

Requirements

• Beeper Desktop running on the same machine as the browser you use for WordPress
• A Beeper API token (generated from Beeper Desktop settings)

Installation

1. Upload the chat-to-blog folder to /wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress admin
3. Go to Settings > Chat to Blog to configure your Beeper connection

Beeper API Token

1. Open Beeper Desktop on your computer
2. Go to Settings (gear icon)
3. Click Developers in the sidebar
4. Turn on the Beeper Desktop API toggle (the API starts on localhost:23373)
5. Scroll to Approved connections and click the + button to generate a token
6. Paste the token in the Chat to Blog settings page

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I create a post?

Go to Posts > Chat to Blog in the WordPress admin, select a chat from the horizontal chat list at the top, click images to select them (they appear in the right panel), drag to reorder them if needed, enter a post title and optional text, choose between the Gallery and Individual images format, and click Save Draft or Publish.

Does my WordPress site need to reach Beeper?

No. The Beeper Desktop API only listens on localhost, so the media is fetched by your browser and passed to WordPress from there. This does mean the admin page has to be open on the same machine where Beeper Desktop is running.

Will the same picture be imported twice?

No. Every imported attachment stores the chat media identifier it came from, and already-imported media is shown with a dimmed overlay so you can see at a glance what has been used before.

Can I post to a custom post type?

Yes. On the settings page you can enable any public post type. Chat to Blog then appears in that post type's menu and can create entries of that type.

How are videos handled?

Videos are marked with a play icon and a "VIDEO" badge in the browser. They are imported to the Media Library like images and embedded as native WordPress video blocks with controls. When using the Gallery format with mixed media, the images are grouped in the gallery and the videos are added below as individual blocks.

How do I load older media?

Scroll to the end of a chat's media to fetch older messages, or use the timeline above the grid to jump straight to a month.

Can I import media without creating a post?

Yes. Select the media and use Import Without Posting to add it to the Media Library only.

How can I translate the plugin?

The plugin is fully translatable. Generate a .pot file with a tool like Poedit or WP-CLI, put translations in the languages/ directory named chat-to-blog-{locale}.po and .mo, and generate the JSON file used for the JavaScript strings with wp i18n make-json languages/chat-to-blog-{locale}.po --no-purge.

Screenshots

1. Browsing chat media and composing a post from the selected images.
2. The settings screen on a phone: the Beeper connection steps and the API token field, one column deep.

Changelog

0.9.4

• Match the launcher icon to the catalog entry.
• Improved Beeper onboarding and a clearer error when Beeper Desktop cannot be reached.
• Timeline for jumping to a month within a chat.
• Import media without creating a post.
• Support for multiple post types.