After Instagram became available for Android devices, its popularity soared and the app has recently reported 80 million registered users. Many people using Instagram also want to blog about their photos by integrating photos and feeds into WordPress. Below you will find ten different ways to hook your Instagram account up with WordPress.
Simply Instagram
Simply Instagram is a plugin that lets you display your photos using a widget or a shortcode. It includes options to display a self feed, recent media, likes and popular photos. The Instagram galleries produced by the plugin have options for setting the image width, slideshow theme, number of images to display and more. You can also display your profile in a widget and make use of the follow @username function to allow your visitors to follow you instantly.
Instagram Embed
Instagram Embed is a plugin for embedding single images in WordPress posts or pages. All you have to do is place the Instagram URL on its own line. However, if you want more control you can wrap the URL in the included embed shortcode and designate a size for the image with the size attribute.
Instagram for WordPress
This is another plugin that allows you to embed Instagram images using a shortcode. You can elect to add a link and choose from the following size options: large (612x612px), middle (306x306px) and small (150x150px). It also includes a widget with similar options.
WP Instagram Digest
WP Instagram Digest is a unique plugin that creates daily posts with a gallery of latest Instagram photos. It’s a great way for photo bloggers to automate posting. It would also work well as a decent way to backup your Instagram images on a separate WordPress installation.
oEmbed Instagram
oEmbed Instagram provides one of the easiest ways to embed images in your posts and pages. Simply paste in the URL to the Instagram photo and it will automatically appear.
Instapress
This plugin lets you display your own Instagram feed, a friend’s Instagram feed, the popular media feed, a single image from Instagram or a feed with images containing specific tags. Instapress has a ton of options for customizing the display of your Instagram photos, including image size, the number of images to display, option to show or hide the title, paging, Fancybox, and the option to display the images as a gallery. It displays your photos in a sidebar widget, or on posts and pages via an embed URL.
Instagrate to WordPress
Instagrate sends your Instagram photos to WordPress where they are automatically posted. You can configure the default post title and the post body content. You also have the option to manually set the last image in the feed, so that all later images will be posted.
WP Instaroll
WP Instaroll creates WordPress posts from Instagram photos, either from the user stream or by using a specific search tag. Posts can be set to save as a draft if you’d rather add to them or edit them, or they can be directly published.
Instagram Widget for WordPress
This is plugin that provides a simple, configurable widget. It will display up to 10 images and also includes the option to display likes, comments, different sizes and image linking.
Copygram Widget
Copygram is a service that displays all of your Instagram images in a nice grid. It requires that you sign up for the free Copygram service, which also enables you to share, print and backup your Instagram photos. This plugin pulls your images from Copygram and displays them in a nice widget.
Hey Sarah. Love your article, as always. You hit some good ones. I’ve used Instagrate on multiple sites, and I like it. Pretty reliable with good formatting options. I’ve found another one, Instagrabber, that is pretty good for # tags, and highly customizable as far as publishing.
I’m looking for a WP plugin that pulls in Instagram photos by location tag. Haver you come across any plugins that do that? I’m going to write a script to do it manually, if necessary.
I have not seen any that pull by location. Pulling photos according to hashtags is the closest I’ve seen. Let me know if you end up writing a WordPress plugin that pulls photos by location – we’d be happy to feature it on here. Thanks!
Thanks for writing back so quickly. I’ll definitely keep you posted–this seems like a no-brainer.
Just chatting with the gents that I work with, it seems like a pretty crucial plugin that’s being overlooked… I personally thought it wouldn’t be useful due to people’s privacy concerns, but just looking up a few businesses in LA, it seems they are being geotagged significantly more than they are hashtagged. I guess people aren’t as afraid of stalkers as I would have thought!
I just read through the forums for Instagrabber, and it looks like they are planning this for the next release. Hopefully it works! It’s a decent plugin. I’m including the link here (not sure you have links enabled): http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-stream-local-tags-and-custom-image-link-url
Oh yeah, and for what it’s worth, I think the Instagram plugins that create posts/save the images locally (to media) are superior to the ones that just load recent feeds via a query. If you want to keep your content around forever, the former are the natural choice… if you just need last 5 Instagram photos, just a feed SHOULD be fine, but all of the feeds-based plugins I’ve seen don’t go back further than a week or two by default… that means if your feed doesn’t have constant content, you may be stymied…
@denitto I like the geo tag idea. I have a city based blog and that would be great for more content.
@denitto I like the geo tag idea. I have a city based blog and that would be great for more content.
Which ones create posts and save locally?
Hey @jeile_marie. DeNitto here.
I like the following which save media/posts locally:
Instagrate (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/instagrate-to-wordpress/): Needs Instagram approval, so it’s good for a feed you have the username/pass for.
Instagrabber (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/instagrabber/): can be a kind of awkward to setup initially, but it has lots of publishing options. Great for pulling in #tags. Also, the publisher keeps saying he’s going to add geotagging (fingers crossed).
You should try http://downgram.com too.
Sorry for replying so late… I’ve just found this article when searching for an instagram plugin. I wanna display a 3×3 grid of pics from my feed (latest 9 pics), and have found several wordpress plugins to do that. However, no one will allow to “like” the pics from the widget. The closest to that I’ve seen is to link each pic to its instagram url from where you can like it.
Do you know of any plugin that allows to do this? I forgot to tell that I need it for a widget in the side menu, not to embed galleries in posts.
Any hint is welcome and, btw, a really good article!!!
Regards,
Fran
Hi Sarah, you mentioned that you have come across a plugin that will pull locations via hashtags. Can you please tell me what that plugin is?