If you are using Wordpress to power your website, just like 25% of all websites, then you may want to consider using it to send traffic to your Instagram account. There are many Instagram WordPress plugins for various purposes. Some offer follow buttons while others show your Instagram feed. You can even customize them to show feeds of specific hashtags.
We put together our favourite 10 Instagram WordPress plugins which are free.
10 Instagram WordPress Plugins
Instagram WordPress Plugin #1: Instagram Slider Widget
Instagram Slider Widget is a responsive slider widget that shows 12 latest images from a public Instagram user or up to 18 images from a hashtag.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #2: WP Instagram Widget
WP Instagram widget is a no fuss WordPress widget to showcase your latest Instagram pics. It does not require you to provide your login details or sign in via oAuth.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #3: Enjoy Plugin for Instagram
Display Instagram on your website with shortcodes and widgets! Images of Instagram profiles and hashtags on posts, pages, sidebars with Carousel and Grid view
Instagram WordPress Plugin #4: Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram
Retrieve photos from a particular Instagram user or tag and display them on your WordPress site using the Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram. The photos can be linked to the your Instagram page, a specific URL, or to a Lightbox slideshow. Also, the Shortcode Generator makes it easy to insert the widget into posts without learning any of the code.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #5: Instagram Followers Shortcode
Produces output that is very similar in look and feel to the traditional Facebook fans widget. Specify the instagram id and the number of followers to showcase.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #6: Instagram Badges
Adds Instagram badges to your WordPress blog that will help you link to and promote your Instagram profile. A must-have plugin if you’re a photo lover.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #7: Social Count Plus
This plugin allows you to output a list of icons and followers for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Steam and SoundCloud. Just enter your account details for the social media accounts you want to list. Also provides a shortcode to allow the output of the number of followers for a specific social media account.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #8: DsgnWrks Instagram Importer
Backup your instagram photos & display your instagram archive. Supports importing to custom post-types & adding custom taxonomies.
Instagram WordPress Plugin #9: Simple Instagram Embedd
Paste any link to a Instagram picture or video in your post and the plugin replace your Instagram link with the Instagram Embed directly in your posts
Instagram WordPress Plugin #10: Instapress
Highly customizable plugin to display Instagram photos in a sidebar widget, a post or on a page. Also an image gallery with paging functionality.
Instagram changes its API terms and conditions, making it quite difficult for third-party developers to create an app or plugin that will last a long time. So make sure to keep an eye out in case they are no longer supported.
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