I try adding the Instagram widget to my page I’m creating (using page builder) and it asks me to allow WordPress to have access to our Instagram account. As soon as I click allow, it transfers the page to the widget section in appearances which is not where I’m trying to add it. Any insight on why it’s doing this and how to add it to a normal widget on the page I’m creating? I have uninstalled the widget, logged out of my Instagram account logged back in, cleared all cookies, un-allowed WordPress from my Instagram account and none of this has worked.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by sboerger.

Hi,
Unfortunately, I see the follow message: “Instagram has returned invalid data” and no instagram images appear.
I tried to install the plugin manually and cleared the cache, but it doesn’t work.

How can I fix it?

Thanks

hello, even with the correct instagrame name, my publications do not appear.

Hi Scott

I love the widget, I’ve used it for years and it’s great to have a simple bare bones instagram feed that can be easily styled.

I’m not sure if your still supporting this widget, but all my sites have started experiencing issues with the plugin

but when I use the @profile parameter in the widget, it’s returning “Instagram has returned invalid data”.

A few extra points about this issue

I see the issue when viewing live site on chrome browser
I’m seeing the issues in the UK
The #profile parameter works for me on both local live environments
@profile works when I view on a local server such as MAMP

You can see a live version of the issue just above the footer (next to the facebook feed) on this website https://brittanyjae.com/

Thanks

Cheer

Hi bro, i like your plugin and i use it, but when i test my site on gtmetrix, i took lots of serve scale images problem. Forexample like this…
https://scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/1c29aa5a1c26b8a9ed9584f869a9ce24/5E60D4CF/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/72405635_2738878223011087_1349354192267006580_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107 is resized in HTML or CSS from 640×640 to 124×124. Serving a scaled image could save 107.8KiB (96% reduction).

How can i solve this problem. This is important for me. Thanks…

Looking for a lightweight IG plugin and would love to try this!

Hey!

Great plugin, thank you.

Everything was working well until we changed our domain name and enabled an SSL. Now, all of the images have vanished and all we see is the post’s text in place of images. We see hashtags and the post description, but no images.

Thank you,

Edit: Appeared to be a local issue.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by imaginemonkey.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by imaginemonkey.

Everything was fine until recently, now no content is showing, but an error “Instagram has returned invalid data.”. I saw this error in a few other posts and tried with and without the “@” before the username, but no change. Any ideas?

This instagram widget looks amazing, but it looks like it slows down my site.

Every speed test shows that the images are not scaled and looks also like the jetpack lazy load functionality is not working for this widget.

Do you have any code suggestion to enable lazy load for this gallery or solve any of the issues listed in this test:

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.geckoroutes.com/AVrILd4l

I found custom css on here to get photos to display laterally. But I would like them to fill the full width of footer instead of just in center of page.
Following is code I got to make them lateral.
.instagram-pics li {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
width: 16.6%;
}

@media ( max-width: 480px ) {
.instagram-pics li {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
width: 49.5%;
padding: 0!important;
margin-bottom: -6px !important;
}
}

I’m getting an error on one of my client’s website. Meanwhile it works fine on my own website. I tried to add print_r( $remote ) and here is what I got:

Array ( [headers] => Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary Object ( [data:protected] => Array ( [content-type] => text/html; charset=utf-8 [vary] => Accept-Language, Cookie [content-language] => en [date] => Fri, 19 Jul 2019 03:44:35 GMT [strict-transport-security] => max-age=31536000 [cache-control] => private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate [pragma] => no-cache [expires] => Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT [x-frame-options] => SAMEORIGIN [content-security-policy] => report-uri https://www.instagram.com/security/csp_report/; default-src 'self' https://www.instagram.com; img-src https: data: blob:; font-src https: data:; media-src 'self' blob: https://www.instagram.com https://*.cdninstagram.com https://*.fbcdn.net; manifest-src 'self' https://www.instagram.com; script-src 'self' https://instagram.com https://www.instagram.com https://*.www.instagram.com https://*.cdninstagram.com wss://www.instagram.com https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.facebook.net 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' blob:; style-src 'self' https://*.www.instagram.com https://www.instagram.com 'unsafe-inline'; connect-src 'self' https://instagram.com https://www.instagram.com https://*.www.instagram.com https://graph.instagram.com https://*.graph.instagram.com https://*.cdninstagram.com https://api.instagram.com wss://www.instagram.com wss://edge-chat.instagram.com https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.facebook.net chrome-extension://boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd blob:; worker-src 'self' blob: https://www.instagram.com; frame-src 'self' https://instagram.com https://www.instagram.com https://staticxx.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com https://web.facebook.com https://connect.facebook.net https://m.facebook.com; object-src 'none'; upgrade-insecure-requests [x-content-type-options] => nosniff [x-xss-protection] => 0 [x-aed] => 8 [x-fb-trip-id] => 1679558926 [content-length] => 20605 ) ) [body] =>
Instagram
Log in
Error
Please wait a few minutes before you try again.

Hi,

Can you please add rel=”noopener” attribute too for the target=”_blank” links, this is now required and also makes your plugin more secure.

If you go to Google Chrome > Inspect Element > Audit, and start the site scan then you can see that it recommends you to add rel=”noopener attribute.

So this happen only when this option is already selected https://d.pr/i/ihQmkB

More Info: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-relnoopener-in-wordpress-explained/

• This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Ylli Pylla.

Is there a shortcode to add the widget?

I changed the value on input Number of photos (i.e 20), but the maximum photos showed is 12.

Any suggestion?

thanks

Does anyone help with a CSS code to hide the image title/caption that appears when hovering over the Instagram image?

Hi, how are you?

First, congratulations on this amazing plugin.

Is there any way the images are always square?

Here’s how it goes:
https://d.pr/free/i/titpor

Thank you very much!

• This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by mrimpact.

The plugin has stopped working for me in Firefox. Has it for anyone else? Every other major browser is fine. But in Firefox it just displays the captions that are hyperlinked to the actual post. No images are being shown even with a fresh install of Firefox with zero addons.

The pictures for my latest Instagram posts are not showing when I put my username only, but it shows when I insert a hashtag or other accounts. I double checked that my account isn’t private, so not sure why this is happening. Any fix?

Hello,
i have your plugin installed, but it doesn’t show me a video (i see a preview image error) and it not display at all a multiple post..
I read that is possible to filter videos, but I need more help to do this.. It’s possible to do something with multiple post too?
Thanks

Hello,
i have bought theme Redwood 1.6 and I have installed your plugin.
In demo site, there are images in footer section:
https://preview.themeforest.net/item/redwood-a-responsive-wordpress-blog-theme/full_screen_preview/11811123.
On my page Instagram Widget is located in the middle of the page in footer section but in vertical position not horizontally. And thumbs are smaller that in demo site.

It’s been weeks now that the plugin doesn’t load the images, and when I click on inspect > console, this is the error I see: “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()”
Any idea what it might be? I’ve tried deactivating my plugins one by one to see if it’s a conflict but it didn’t work. Everything on my wordpress and hosting is updated.
Please help if you can as this plugin hasn’t worked on my website for months….!

Hello,

the plugin does not load new Instagram images into the feed.

What can I do?

I use 5.1.1

Thank you!

Eva

Hi there,

The plugin worked great for us until recently. We started receiving “Unable to communicate with Instagram.” message sporadically. Refreshing the page does not solve the problem (not sure if caching is involved). Hosting is the same, there weren’t any changes to the site. Were there any changes to instagram API that would affect this plugin?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Dmitriy.

Hello,
I am using the Instagram Widget with the Theme Ashe Pro by Royal Flush and it only works with the option of connecting with a hashtag and not the username. So, when using the hashtag option, even pictures that were not tagged by me will be showing at my page, which I do not want.

Can you please help me of fixing this issue?

Thanks

After my first post, Instagram sent me an email warning saying

“We noticed a login from a device you don’t usually use.
Samsung SM-G930F · Instagram app ·
Ashburn, VA, United States”

The WordPress Server is in Virginia, so that makes sense, however, is it possible that the site is emulating a Samsung SM-G930F?

Thank you in advance.

I really like the approach of the developer Scott Evans and I’d like politely to ask him to keep this plugin updated only in matter of security issues.
Thank You in advance,Mr Scott Evans!

Hi,

I’ve been running page speed tests on my site, and this message continues to appear and bring my score down:

The following images are resized in HTML or CSS. Serving scaled images could provide 81% reduction in size.

Here is an example of one of the images:
https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/e9b19bb0b559fa447ac74f7d11117bc7/5D1C77DA/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/52769902_2346852645551760_6752069077945723502_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com is resized in HTML or CSS from 640x640 to 273x273. Serving a scaled image could save 81.4KiB (81% reduction).

Is there a way to scale these images or somehow optimize them better so I can improve my site?

Thanks for the help.

Hello,

I have been using a php script I made with access token that displays the latest instagram pics on my site.

However starting a week ago, instagram is either crashing or servers are having issues, and now my website “hangs” for 10 seconds before it loads up trying to retrieve the data… it works but the website takes way to long to load up.

here is the code..

<?php

function linkify_instagram($status_text){

$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(https?:\/\/\S+)/’,
‘\1‘,
$status_text
);

$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(^|\s)@(\w+)/’,
‘\1@\2‘,
$status_text
);

return $status_text;
}

$url = “https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/XXXXXXXX/media/recent?count=8&access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXX&#8221;;

if ( isset($_GET[“next_max_id”]) ) {
$url .= “&max_id=” . $_GET[“next_max_id”];
}

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));

$arr = (array)$data->data;

for ( $i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++ ) {

if($i<12){
$post = $arr[$i];

$postEdited = $post->images->standard_resolution->url;
?>

<div class=”insta-square” >
<div class=”insta-post” style=”background-image: url(<?= $postEdited ?>)”>link; ?>” target=”_blank”>/img/instagram-clear.png”></div><div class=”clr”></div>
</div>

<?php }} ?>

Another website I have uses your plugin, and it pops right up, even without the access token!

I was trying to look at the plugin raw code but was unable to decipher it…. do you have any examples or documentation of just the raw code working by just changing out the username? ( not wordpress site )

I would appreciate it!

Thanks
-O

• This topic was modified 6 years ago by owenpiccirillo.

So, what’s the deal then?

Hello,

I came upon this issue after deleting the transient related. I don’t know if what I did was super wrong, but the widget hadn’t updated in weeks and I thought deleting the transient would force it to “refresh”.
Now I get this error message but only for @usernames, I tried it with #tags and it works fine.

Any update on this?