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Why integrate Instagram into WordPress?
Promote your Instagram account and increase its visibility.
Increase your number of followers, increase your brand reputation.
Increase audience engagement and make them stay longer on your WordPress site.
Here are 3 plugins to integrate instagram and WordPress in the most effective and simple way.
Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
With over a million installs, Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed is the most popular Instagram plugin for WordPress.
This plugin also has a high reputation when it is rated well by users (4.9 out of 5 stars).
It is very easy to set up, allowing you to display on your WordPress site the photos of several Instagram feeds at once.
In addition, this plugin is easily customizable (width, height, number of images to display, number of columns, button text color, etc.) and even allows you to add a button to encourage people to follow friends on Instagram.
It’s not difficult to integrate it into your content: select “Instagram Feed” on the content editor. It will automatically load the photo feed associated with your account.
Want to push customization even further? Several options to integrate into the shortcode allow you to customize your photo by experimenting with its background, color, or even its resolution. You can even add a CSS class to customize the look and feel of the feed through code.
Gallery for Social Photo
Gallery for Social Photo (e.g. Instagram Feed Plugin) is still very effective, free and easy to use.
Once activated, you can automatically generate a Token access key to be able to display your Instagram content (photos or videos).
To add a photo gallery, click “Add new feed”. You can then give it a name (e.g. Instagram Showcase) and add your hashtag/user profile or that of the account you want to display.
To add more than one, simply use multiple usernames and/or comma-separated hashtags.
And that’s it! In fact, almost all the features are only available with the Pro version.
This plugin is a bit clunky to use, but say Social Photo Gallery might be right for you if you want to embed your Instagram photo feed quickly and easily.
Once you’ve posted, go to a post or page and select Gutenberg “Instagram Lite” to choose your gallery (Instagram Showcase).
Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget
As its detailed description, this plugin will help you “display beautiful Instagram photos with just a few clicks”. Based on user reviews, this plugin is quite useful.
Users especially appreciate its “simpleness” and “ease of use”.
It’s worth mentioning that all its settings are in one widget (under Appearance > Widgets).
To integrate your Instagram feed on the page, there are two options: go to the widget area provided by your theme (sidebar, footer, etc.) or use a shortcode to add to the content.
Epilogue
With these 3 plugins, I hope to help you integrate Instagram and WordPress in the most effective way.
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