Instagram Feed Plugin for WordPress

Spotlight embeds your Instagram feed anywhere on your WordPress site. Pick a layout, connect your Instagram account, and customize the design in a live preview, and your site will update itself every time you post to Instagram.

It’s used on 60,000+ websites and holds a 4.7-star rating from more than 170 reviews.

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New: The unique Polaroid Sticker and Thumbnail Gallery templates are now available in Spotlight Essentials. See them on the demo page.

Free Features

The free version gives you everything you need to run a good-looking Instagram feed, and every feed picks up your theme’s fonts so it fits in with the rest of your site.

• Connect unlimited Instagram accounts and create unlimited Instagram feeds
• Combine posts from several Instagram accounts in a single feed
• Show photos, videos, reels, and carousel (gallery) posts in your feed
• Start from a pre-designed template or build your own design
• 20+ design options, including columns, number of posts and image ratio
• Customize each feed per device for desktop, tablet and phone
• Order posts by date, popularity or at random
• A popup lightbox that shows photos at full size without sending visitors to Instagram
• A feed header with your profile photo and bio
• “Follow” and “Load more” buttons you can restyle and translate
• Embed singular Instagram posts with Instagram oEmbed support
• Add Instagram feeds using a block, shortcode, or widget

Agencies and freelancers: send clients the Spotlight Access Token Generator so they can give you access to their Instagram account without sharing their Instagram password.

Who Uses Spotlight

Spotlight works best for businesses whose Instagram already does a lot of the selling, and where a fresh feed on the website helps visitors decide to book, visit or buy.

Hotels, tours and holiday rentals: Show recent guest photos and destination shots on your booking pages, so people see what the experience actually looks like before they commit.

Restaurants, cafés and bars: Put today’s specials, new menu items, and events on your homepage without logging in to WordPress every time something changes.

Online shops: Link Instagram posts to the products in them and turn your feed into a shoppable gallery with Spotlight PRO and WooCommerce.

Photographers, artists and creatives: Use your Instagram as a portfolio that keeps itself up to date, with a lightbox that shows your work at full size.

Venues and event organizers: Use a hashtag feed with Spotlight PRO to pull in what attendees are posting, then hand-pick the posts you want to show.

Agencies: Connect as many client accounts as you need, create a separate feed for each site and manage everything from one screen.

Why Spotlight

Your site stays up to date on its own. Post to Instagram as you normally would and Spotlight adds the new posts to your website automatically.

It looks like part of your site. Feeds inherit your theme’s fonts, and you can adjust spacing, colors and layouts until the feed matches your design. If you know CSS, you can add your own styles to each feed.

It’s built with performance in mind. Spotlight downloads optimized thumbnails to your own server, caches your feeds and works alongside WP Rocket and LiteSpeed Cache. If Instagram has an outage, your feed keeps showing the last posts it imported.

It’s good for SEO. Feeds are part of your page HTML rather than sitting in an iframe, so search engines can crawl them, and every image gets alt text based on its Instagram caption.

It’s accessible. Visitors can navigate feeds, the lightbox, and the buttons with a keyboard, and screen readers get clear labels and alt text.

Works With Your Favorite Tools

Spotlight fits into the tools you already use.

• Block editor: add the Spotlight Instagram Feed block to any post, page or template
• Classic themes: use the Spotlight widget in any widget area
• Elementor: a dedicated Spotlight widget in Essentials and above
• Divi, Beaver Builder and other page builders: drop in the shortcode anywhere they accept one
• WooCommerce: link Instagram posts to your products with Spotlight PRO
• WP Rocket and LiteSpeed Cache: Spotlight works alongside both to keep your pages fast

Spotlight PRO

Spotlight PRO is our most popular premium plan, and it’s the one to look at if you want your feed to do more than display your own posts.

• Everything in Essentials, including every premium template, customization option, and Instagram stories.
• Hashtag feeds: Display public posts from across Instagram that use a hashtag, which is ideal for campaigns, events and user-generated content.
• Tagged posts: Show the posts your customers have tagged you in.
• Shoppable feeds: Link posts to WooCommerce products, pages or any URL.
• Link in bio pages: Send your Instagram traffic to a page on your own site rather than a third-party link tool.
• Moderation and filtering: Hand-pick the posts to show or hide, or filter them by caption keywords and hashtags.

The Essentials plan unlocks every layout and design option, including premium templates such as the new Polaroid Sticker, which frames each post like a polaroid photo stuck to a wall, and the Thumbnail Gallery, which shows one large featured post with a row of thumbnails to browse the rest. You can try both on the demo page. Essentials also plays videos and reels in the lightbox, and adds Instagram stories and a dedicated Elementor widget. The Agency plan adds Instagram and feed analytics, media management, and licenses for up to 20 sites.

All plans come with email support and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Compare the plans or try the premium demos.

What Users Say

Great extension, highly recommended
“Not only is the plugin extremely easy to use with its sleek interface, but it’s also worth noting that the free version is generous compared to other extensions. […]” – @fairycookies

My new go-to for Instagram feeds
“The key feature for me was the image lightbox popup, so your site visitor remains on the page and doesn’t jump over to Instagram to get distracted. I’m pleased to report that this feature works perfectly in the free version. […]” – @photomaldives

A plugin that just works, plain and simple
“[…] this is a plugin I’ve been using for years to display Instagram photos on different WordPress websites. And the few times I’ve had an issue (usually on the Instagram API side), the support team has always responded quickly and kindly.” – @olimate

As Featured In

• Kinsta: WordPress Instagram Plugins for Displaying Interactive Feeds
• HubSpot: The Top Instagram Plugins for WordPress
• Elegant Themes: Best WordPress Instagram Plugins
• aThemes: Best WordPress Instagram Plugins
• WPExplorer: How to Add Instagram Photos to WordPress
• Elementor: Best Instagram Plugins for WordPress
• WP Mayor: How to Import Instagram Photos to WordPress

Support

We support both the free and premium versions of Spotlight.

• Documentation
• Free support on the WordPress.org forum
• Premium and pre-sales support by email

Disclaimer

Spotlight Social Photo Feed is a RebelCode product that uses the official Instagram(tm) API. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Instagram, Facebook, or Meta.

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Go to Plugins > Add Plugin.
2. Search for “Spotlight Social Photo Feed”.
3. Click “Install Now”, then “Activate”.
4. Go to the “Instagram Feeds” menu item to create your first feed.

By uploading the zip file

1. Click the “Download” button on this page.
2. Go to Plugins > Add Plugin > Upload Plugin and upload the zip file.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Go to the “Instagram Feeds” menu item to create your first feed.

Step 1: Choose a layout

Every new feed starts with a choice of layout. Pick the one closest to what you want, since you can change every detail later. You can also import a feed you’ve exported from another site at this step.

Step 2: Connect your Instagram account

If you haven’t connected an account yet, Spotlight walks you through it next. You’ll need an Instagram Business or Creator account, which is free to switch to in the Instagram app. You can connect as many accounts as you like and manage them from the Accounts settings page. See the guide to connecting accounts for more detail.

Step 3: Customize your feed

Adjust the design in the live preview and switch between desktop, tablet and phone to fine-tune each one.

Step 4: Embed your feed

Add your feed anywhere on your site using one of these methods:

• Block: “Spotlight Instagram Feed”
• Widget: “Spotlight Instagram Feed Widget”
• Shortcode: [instagram feed=”456″], replacing 456 with your feed’s ID

1. 

   Display your Instagram feed on your WordPress website, updated automatically every time you post.

2. 

   Choose from free Instagram feed templates like Tall Grid, Squircle Grid, Gallery and Wave, or design your own.

3. 

   Customize your Instagram gallery’s columns, spacing, image ratio and hover details to match your brand.

4. 

   Responsive Instagram feeds that look great on desktop, tablet and mobile, with separate settings for each screen size.

5. 

   Accessible, SEO-friendly Instagram feeds with alt text generated automatically from each post’s caption.

6. 

   A popup lightbox lets visitors browse your Instagram photos without leaving your site, with a caption and comments sidebar in Essentials.

7. 

   [Essentials] Unlock every Instagram feed layout and template, including the new Polaroid Sticker and Thumbnail Gallery.

8. 

   [PRO] Display Instagram hashtag feeds and posts you’ve been tagged in.

9. 

   [PRO] Filter and moderate your Instagram feed by hashtag, caption keyword or hand-picked posts.

1.8.1 (2026-10-21)

Added
– Added a “Recommended plugins” page to the Instagram Feeds menu, listing other plugins from the Spotlight team.
– Added a dismissible banner on the Feeds screen that recommends Vireo Analytics, a free analytics plugin with a report for Spotlight feeds.

Changed
– The Help page now opens inside the WordPress admin on the free version too, instead of in a new tab.
– On the free version, the account menu item is now called “Account” instead of “License”.
– Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.

Fixed
– Upgrade and PRO badges showed on top of the feed editor’s sidebar section headers when scrolling.

Removed
– Removed the survey banner from the Feeds screen.

1.8.0 (2026-10-07)

Added
– New feeds now start with a layout choice. Users with a connected account go straight to the customizer; users without one are guided through connecting first.
– Feeds can be imported from the new feed layout step.

Changed
– The Spotlight block is now registered from block.json (Block API v3), so it works in the iframed block editor.
– The Follow button is now a single link, so keyboard and screen reader users get one clear control.
– Updated the UI build tools and dependencies to fix known security vulnerabilities.
– Spotlight now requires WordPress 6.3 or later.

Fixed
– The profile photo was slightly off-centre in the Centered header style.
– Spacing issues in the new feed screens on mobile.
– The selected preview device button in the feed editor could show its icon blue on blue.
– The feed editor preview flashed when switching to tablet or phone.
– The plugin menu showed a “License” item that led to a “not allowed” page on sites not connected to Freemius.
– The “Help” menu item on free sites left the WordPress admin instead of opening in a new tab.

Removed
– Removed an unused survey endpoint that contained a hardcoded external webhook URL.

1.7.5 (2026-03-10)

Changed
– Updated Analytics date handling to use WordPress date/time functions for improved timezone consistency.
– Improved null validation before calling version_compare() to prevent PHP 8.x deprecated warnings.
– Modernized internal function signatures for better PHP 8.3 compatibility.

Fixed
– Fixed long-standing PHP 8.x deprecated warning caused by version_compare() being called with a null value.
– Fixed multiple PHP 8.3 deprecated warnings and notices across Free and Premium versions.

1.7.4 (2025-11-11)

Added
– Added a 4:5 image ratio option to the Grid layout.
– Added 3:4 and 4:5 image ratio options to the Highlight and Slider layouts.

Fixed
– Fixed misaligned arrows in Slider layouts.

1.7.3 (2025-09-02)

Changed
– Spotlight now supports Meta’s oEmbed API v22.0.
– This ensures continued compatibility after Meta’s removal of certain oEmbed fields and the deprecation of the Facebook Page Post oEmbed endpoint (effective October 1, 2025).

1.7.2 (2025-02-11)

Added
– Added a Tall Grid template with a 3:4 ratio and a new Ratio option in Appearance Settings.

Changed
– Removed local error log and redirected errors to the WordPress debug log.

1.7.1 (2025-01-27)

Changed
– Updated PHP deprecations related to filtering.
– Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.

1.7.0 (2024-12-10)

Added
– Implemented Instagram Business Basic API to replace the deprecated Personal API for enhanced functionality and compliance with platform requirements.

1.6.16 (2024-11-04)

Fixed
– Release issues.

1.6.15 (2024-11-01)

Added
– Notices for changes to Meta API for personal and business accounts.

1.6.13 (2024-06-03)

Changed
– Renamed the “All Access” plan to “Agency”.
– Updated the pricing page to use the new beta Freemius pricing app.

1.6.12 (2024-05-13)

Changed
– Changed upgrade button text.

1.6.11 (2024-02-12)

Fixed
– CSRF vulnerability when connecting accounts.
– The plugin now allows either the imagick or gd extension to be used for image processing, not just the gd extension.

1.6.10 (2024-02-01)

Fixed
– Fixed the heading for the “Performance” settings section.

1.6.9 (2024-02-01)

Changed
– Replaced all mentions of the “Performance” plan with “All access”.

1.6.8 (2024-01-10)

Changed
– The photo/video URLs for imported posts are now forcefully updated on every fetch.

Fixed
– A common conflict with other plugins that use a newer version of the psr/simple-cache package.

1.6.7 (2023-11-17)

Added
– Links for the Black Friday 2023 offer.
– A new filter that disables searching for feed instances.

Changed
– Optimized the queries that search for feed instances.

Fixed
– Removed use of deprecated onkeypress DOM event.

1.6.6 (2023-10-23)

Changed
– The feed now prioritizes thumbnails that are locally downloaded.

1.6.5 (2023-09-12)

1.6.4 (2023-09-12)

Changed
– Updated Freemius SDK to v2.5.12.

Fixed
– The error log contents were overflowing and not staying within the screen.
– Some links in the feed did not have the necessary SEO rel attributes.
– Removed a deprecated field from some Instagram API requests.

1.6.3 (2023-08-14)

Fixed
– IG posts with emojis or certain characters could not be imported.

1.6.2 (2023-08-08)

Changed
– Improved logging when importing posts from Instagram.
– Improved logging when downloading remote files.

Fixed
– String interpolation is now compatible with PHP 8 without warnings.

1.6.1 (2023-07-06)

Changed
– Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version

Fixed
– Fixed a missing import for RuntimeException that triggered an error during a feed update.

1.6 (2023-06-22)

Added
– Reels playback is now enabled in the popup box, if the API provides the video URL.

1.5.3 (2023-06-12)

Changed
– Optimized some JavaScript code to be slightly smaller.

Fixed
– Like and comment counts were not imported for Business accounts after the v1.5.2 update.

1.5.2 (2023-05-29)

Changed
– The use cases and templates in the feed creation wizard can now be double-clicked for faster wizard completion.
– Improved styling in news notifications.

Fixed
– Personal accounts could not fetch posts after a recent unannounced change to Instagram’s APIs.
– News notifications were not being displayed in the admin UI.

1.5.1 (2023-05-22)

Changed
– The cron job that updates feeds is now compatible with Action Scheduler.

Fixed
– Temporary file deletion fails safely without triggering warnings.
– The “Dev Tools” are no longer unnecessarily shown in the menu.

1.5 (2023-03-28)

Added
– An error log that records any errors that occur during background tasks.

Changed
– Updated the admin UI to support WordPress 6.2 and React 18
– Improved page routing in the admin UI
– Updated the Freemius SDK to v2.5.5

Fixed
– An error when a gallery post has an image with no permalink
– Non-square profile images did not maintain a 1:1 aspect ratio

1.4.4 (2023-02-09)

Changed
– The feed now uses a smoother fade-in animation when loading Instagram posts
– Replaced the review banner with a feature survey prompt

Fixed
– Feeds no longer appear to be stuck in a loading state when the feed cannot be loaded

1.4.3 (2023-01-18)

Changed
– The “Upgrade” buttons in the UI have been replaced with “Free trial” buttons
– Thumbnails use the file path returned by WordPress, potentially fixing conflicts with image optimization plugins

Fixed
– The “Additional CSS class(es)” field for the block was susceptible to an XSS exploit
– The incompatibility with “Say What? Pro” plugin was not entirely fixed in the previous version

1.4.2 (2023-01-11)

Fixed
– Incompatibility with “Say What? Pro” plugin
– The auto-integration with WP Rocket now excludes non-minified WordPress assets from optimizations

1.4.1 (2022-11-22)

Added
– Black Friday and Cyber Monday discount offers

1.4 (2022-11-14)

Added
– New “Custom CSS” option for feeds
– New “Wave” template
– New “Squircle Grid” template

Changed
– The images and icons in the feed creation wizard are now more distinct from each other

1.3 (2022-08-29)

Added
– Added support for Instagram embeds to WordPress

1.2 (2022-08-09)

Changed
– Using SVGs for better quality media type icons in feeds
– Reels now show a link to Instagram when they are opened in the popup box

Fixed
– The admin UI would not show up when the URL of the page was incorrect
– No longer using the Instagram shorthand URL for thumbnails due to CORS errors

1.1.1 (2022-07-14)

Fixed
– An error during import caused by null video URLs

1.1 (2022-07-07)

Changed
– The Settings page has peen redesigned
– You can navigate away from the feed creation wizard using the browser’s “Back” function.
– Informational notifications now auto-hide faster
– The sections in the feed editor sidebar now have headers that stick to the top when scrolling
– Feed buttons no longer have hover styles and will inherit their normal colors (only affects newly created feeds)
– Downloading and updating thumbnails is now faster

Fixed
– The “Load more” button was scrolling the page to the top
– A double scroll-bar issue in the feed editor page
– Some responsive feed options did not properly default to their “Desktop” value

1.0.1 (2022-04-26)

Added
– Added HTTPS and OpenSSL recommendations in the account info modal

Fixed
– Video thumbnails remain in their loading state even after the thumbnail is loaded
– The HTTPS and OpenSSL messages were being shown when they shouldn’t, and not shown when they should have been

1.0 (2022-04-19)

Added
– A feed creation wizard with use-case selection to cater the feed editing experience
– A “Guides” page with links to useful articles and tutorials
– New option to align the “Load more” and “Follow” buttons on the same row beneath the feed
– Pages and posts with an embedded feed can be created directly from the “Embed” tab in the editor
– A warning when the update schedule used to update the feeds does not exist
– Feeds can now be exported to, and imported from, a file

Changed
– Various visual improvements and fixes for the admin interface
– Reduced the size and loading time for embedded feeds
– Reduced the loading time for the admin app
– Improved the feed editor’s styles on mobile devices
– Improved accessibility in the feed
– Any “@” and “#” symbols in image alt texts are removed to aid those with screen readers
– Focus styles in the feed only appear when focusing with a keyboard

Fixed
– Video posts did not load their thumbnail on iOS
– The album navigation arrows in the popup box were not focusable with keyboard navigation
– All of the text on the page in the feed editor gets selected when using a color picker
– The “Follow” button’s text was not the same size in the header and footer of the feed
– The padding for the “Follow” and “Load more” buttons did not adjust with text size

0.10.3 (2022-03-08)

Fixed
– An InvalidArgumentException error after reconnecting a personal account as a business account
– Posts could no longer be imported if an error occurs during importing
– Connected accounts were not being automatically selected in the feed editor

0.10.2 (2022-03-02)

Fixed
– Security fix

0.10.1 (2022-02-22)

Fixed
– The feed’s styles were not being loaded for feeds embedded on the site

0.10 (2022-02-21)

Added
– A new option to set the maximum number of imported Instagram posts per account
– Images in the feed now use the caption as “alt” text

Changed
– Videos in galleries are now paused when you navigate within the gallery
– The feed now supports better keyboard navigation
– Improved accessibility in the popup box – the focus is trapped and all controls can be selected with the keyboard
– Reordered the sections in the Embed tab
– Filters can now use the spotlight/instagram/... prefix

Fixed
– Images that fail to load could cause an infinite request loop for the same image

Removed
– The layouts.js and layouts.css files are no longer needed

0.9.9 (2022-01-27)

Fixed
– Saved thumbnails are lost when the plugin updates Instagram posts

0.9.8 (2021-11-17)

Changed
– Now requiring a minimum WordPress version of 5.7

Fixed
– “Thumbnail not available” issue for wide feeds on larger screens
– On some sites, the plugin’s cron jobs were not being properly registered

0.9.7 (2021-10-20)

Changed
– The WordPress widget has been renamed to make it clearer in Elementor which widget is which
– Captions are now synced when posts are updated

Fixed
– Posts without thumbnails caused the feed to crash when those posts are clicked or the feed is very wide
– Some posts would wrongly use the original Instagram CDN image, even if Spotlight had generated optimized thumbnails
– The feed would wrongly show “Thumbnail not available” for posts that had thumbnails available
– Some sites that had HTTPS correctly configured were still seeing the notice that recommends enabling HTTPS

0.9.6 (2021-10-06)

Changed
– Account access tokens are now encrypted in the database
– Viewing an account’s access token now requires entering your password
– Videos in the popup box now sit on top of a black background
– Now recommending HTTPS and the “openssl” PHP extension

Fixed
– Videos in the popup box were invisible when using certain themes
– The popup box now shows an error if a video cannot load
– Videos in albums did not have their URLs updated
– Album posts would sometimes show “Thumbnail not available” even when a thumbnail is available.

0.9.5 (2021-08-16)

Fixed
– Videos in gallery posts had broken URLs and could not be played from the popup box
– Feeds only imported posts automatically from the first source

0.9.4 (2021-08-12)

Fixed
– A feed can no longer have the same account selected multiple times (how did you guys even manage that?)
– An infinite request loop if a thumbnail fails to load in the feed
– A previous solution for the “Image not available” error in the popup box was not working correctly
– JSON data in HTML attributes is now encased in single quotes to prevent escaping problems

0.9.3 (2021-08-09)

Changed
– The minimum WordPress version requirement is now version 5.3
– The popup box no longer shows images from Instagram’s CDN by default
– Photos in album posts now have their thumbnails downloaded and generated
– Optimized some database queries for better performance
– Avoiding an unnecessary image redirect when showing images in the popup box
– Thumbnails in the feed now have explicit “width” and “height” attributes

Fixed
– Fixed a JS error that caused the feed editor page to go blank
– The “Feeds” column in the “Settings > Accounts” page did not show any feeds
– The import completion notification was wrongly saying that more batches were being imported
– The styling of the navbar in the admin app was broken on Chrome
– Fixed an error that prevented the cache from being cleared

0.9.2 (2021-07-29)

Added
– Added a filter to transform Instagram post responses from the REST API

Changed
– More user-friendly error message when connecting with an invalid access token

Fixed
– Duplicate posts were being imported, causing memory exhaustion errors
– Fixed a database insertion error
– Fixed a fatal error when a response status code is invalid
– Fixed an argument type error that is triggered during the clean up cron job
– Fixed blank admin UI for mobile devices on WordPress 5.8

0.9.1 (2021-07-23)

Fixed
– Fixed an error on the “Widgets” page for WordPress version 5.8
– Fixed a PHP notice when clearing the cache if the thumbnails folder does not exist
– The original image would not be deleted after optimization if an error occurs

0.9 (2021-07-20)

Added
– Accessibility and SEO attributes to buttons and links in the feed

Changed
– Replaced the built-in import engine with an upgraded version
– Posts that have not changed on Instagram will not be updated unnecessarily
– Large numbers of Instagram posts are now imported in batches
– Minor database query optimizations

Fixed
– Timeout errors when importing large numbers of Instagram posts
– Timeout errors when clearing the cache for large numbers of Instagram posts
– A PHP notice about an undefined ‘shortcode’ index
– A conflict with pages that have the word “spotlight” in their permalink
– Expired images in the popup now fallback to a local image
– A styling incompatibility with LearnDash Advanced Quizzes
– Vertical center alignment for album images and videos
– The feeds shows the wrong number of posts when tablets and phones show more than on desktop

0.8.2 (2021-06-30)

Changed
– Replaced Guzzle with an in-house solution, resolving many plugin conflicts
– The feed is now centered in its container or block when its width is not set to “Auto”

Fixed
– The header “Account to show” option did not work
– A conflict with BuddyBoss caused a fatal error due to a typed shortcode parameter

0.8.1 (2021-06-09)

Fixed
– The Guzzle conflict detection has been disabled due to false-positives

0.8 (2021-06-08)

Added
– New feed templates to get started with a preset design
– Feeds can now be exported and imported
– Integration with WP Rocket and Litespeed Cache plugins
– You can now start designing feeds before connecting an account
– The REST API now includes an “Expires” header for proper browser caching
– A link to customer support in the navigation bar when on the Feeds page
– New dev tools page to help diagnose problems (currently hidden)

Changed
– Reduced total size of JS and CSS loaded on the site by 28%
– Removed use of dashicons in the feed
– Moved the preview device selector into the preview viewport
– Icons have been added to the action menus for feeds and accounts for better clarity
– Delete options in the action menus for feeds and accounts are now red to indicate danger

Fixed
– Fixed a conflict with the WooCommerce Paypal Payments extension
– Album images of posts not owned by your account no longer request the thumbnail, which caused an API error
– Various usability and accessibility fixes in the feed editor

0.7 (2021-04-08)

Added
– Support for IGTV videos
– New link to the “Feeds” page in the Plugins page
– New link to documentation and FAQs in the Plugins page
– New options for hover colors and border radius for the “Follow” and “Load more” buttons
– New option to toggle whether the “Load more” button causes the page to scroll down
– Optimization can now be run manually from the “Configuration” settings page
– URLs in captions are now turned into links

Changed
– Reduced the total size of JS and CSS loaded on the site by 70%
– Improved updating of data during imports
– Removing use of PATCH and DELETE HTTP methods

Fixed
– Feeds had no header if another feed on the same page showed a header for the same account
– Some tagged posts could not be imported due to use of invalid request fields

0.6.1 (2021-03-04)

Changed
– Now compatible with PHP8

Fixed
– An error, caused by curly braces offset access syntax, which is not supported in PHP8.

0.6 (2021-03-03)

Added
– New option to duplicate feeds

Fixed
– The feed did not load on sites that send CORS preflight requests
– Fixed hashtags without spaces between them becoming a single link
– Undefined index errors during an import or update

0.5.4 (2021-02-11)

Changed
– Now detecting a conflict with the official “Facebook for WordPress” plugin

Fixed
– Fixed “Argument 1 passed” error when viewing/previewing a feed

0.5.3 (2021-02-04)

Added
– Added the ability to clear cache for a single feed only
– Added more tooltips in the editor and improved the wording of existing tooltips
– Added a notification if an error occurs while saving the settings

Changed
– The actions in the feeds list are now in a menu
– The feed usages in the feeds list now link to the post on the site, not the edit page
– The sources in the feeds list now link to the account info or hashtag page on Instagram
– The default click behavior on mobile devices is now set to open the popup box
– The admin interface uses the WP Admin color scheme as much as possible
– Better error messages when account connection fails
– The copied info from our access token generator can now be directly pasted into the access token field
– Unavailable images and videos now show a message in the popup box, instead of broken content
– The popup box’s size in the preview now matches the device being previewed

Fixed
– Image and video URLs were not being renewed, causing broken content when they expire
– Thumbnails are now served using HTTPS is the site is using SSL
– The popup box is no longer too large for mobile devices
– Text in the popup box was too large
– The popup box now prevents the page from scrolling, which used to result in 2 scrollbars
– Extending the execution time during imports to prevent long imports from terminating early
– Fixed incompatibility with plugins that introduced circular references in post type objects
– Fixed an SQL error that occurs when using MySQL version 8.0 or later
– All connected accounts were being included in a feed’s context, even if unused in that feed
– Scrollbars would show up in the editor preview, even when there was nothing to scroll

0.5.2 (2020-12-17)

Added
– The plugin now checks for required PHP extensions and will show a message if one is missing

Changed
– The “Cookie nonce is invalid” error has been changed to highlight that you are not logged in
– Tweaked the scaling of the hover date so that it doesn’t overlap with the Instagram icon

Fixed
– Fixed an “Invalid argument type” error that occurs during import
– When the feed loads a post with a video in an album, the feed app would crash
– On 32-bit systems, feeds would only show 1 post
– The logo in the block editor is too large when using certain themes
– The onboarding process triggered a feed load twice after connecting the account, resulting in an error
– When navigating away from the editor, the “unsaved changes” prompt did not show up

0.5.1 (2020-12-01)

Changed
– Optimized the rendering for the grid layout, resulting in smoother loading animations

Fixed
– All posts in the feed would flash when more posts are loaded using the “Load more” button
– When PHP strict_types is enabled, a type error occurred while fetching posts from Instagram

0.5 (2020-11-17)

Added
– New option in the feeds list to update the Instagram posts for a feed
– The “Show/hide PRO Features” selection is remembered in the browser

Changed
– Video thumbnails are generated for non-tagged and non-hashtag posts
– Added a notification when connecting an account using an access token fails
– Duplicate posts, even if fetched for different sources, will no longer be shown in feeds

Fixed
– Incompatibility with Kadence plugins caused modal popups to not appear
– Incompatibility with LiteSpeed cache when loading JS when DOM is ready
– Corrupted feed options would cause an error that prevented editing and saving feeds
– Modals no longer cover up toast notifications in the admin app
– Warnings would show up when activating the plugin on a new site
– Cron jobs would not be recreated after their schedule is changed in the settings
– Feed usage in the block editor was not detected and shown in the feeds list
– Duplicate crons would be created when run manually using WP Crontrol

0.4.2 (2020-10-30)

Changed
– Various tiny performance optimizations
– The default optimization age limit is now 7 days, down from 30 days
– Increased the quality of generated thumbnails with minimal disk space impact

Fixed
– Downloading thumbnails for videos would occasionally cause a fatal error
– Custom post types used by the plugin were not properly registered

0.4.1 (2020-10-27)

Changed
– Now using a beacon in the bottom-right of the screen for important plugin-related alerts
– Using paused videos as thumbnails, until a better solution can be found for video thumbnails

Fixed
– Thumbnails are now saved locally, after Instagram made an unannounced change to their API
– Thumbnails are resized and automatically and optimally scaled for the screen

0.4 (2020-10-26)

Changed
– Greatly improved the loading time for feeds on the site
– All pages are now much more responsive and usable on mobile devices
– Filtering fields will auto-add their typed value when they lose focus
– Improved the message shown in the shortcode when a feed does not exist
– Added redundant WordPress styles to ensure a consistent look and feel

Fixed
– Addressed the “Cache key is invalid” entries in the debug log
– Fixed thumbnails not loading due to Instagram deprecating their thumbnails API
– Fixed an error that sometimes prevented feeds from being saved

0.3.2 (2020-09-30)

Changed
– The plugin now clarifies whether errors come from Instagram’s API or the plugin itself
– Overall performance of the editor has been greatly improved

Fixed
– The text size option was showing wrong values for tablets and phones
– Videos did not load and would remain as grey tiles
– The preview did not always reflect changes made to the feed’s options

0.3.1 (2020-09-16)

Fixed
– The page would not load or crash if an account has no access token expiry date
– The top navigation bar would did not update to indicate the current tab.

0.3 (2020-09-16)

Added
– Added a block for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor
– Account information is now updated during media imports

Changed
– Now using the WordPress-bundled React, reducing JS file sizes
– Improved the responsiveness of the navbar

Fixed
– Fixed an error that caused feeds to break when not logged in

0.2.4 (2020-08-21)

Fixed
– Some fields in the Design tab would incorrectly remain disabled
– The app no longer gets stuck on the flashing logo during loading
– Feeds did not work when other plugins encounter errors or raise warnings

0.2.3 (2020-08-14)

Changed
– Videos use an Instagram-style video player
– The popup box is now responsive
– Now showing smaller thumbnails in smaller feeds

Fixed
– Front-end CSS is now correctly minimized for increased page load speeds
– Fixed app not loading correctly after an update, due to browser caching

0.2.2 (2020-07-30)

Added
– Hover info now scales with the size of the media tiles in the layout

Changed
– Added reset styles to media in the popup box to improve compatibility with themes
– Improved how media in the popup box gets scaled to better match Instagram’s own scaling

Fixed
– Media in the popup box would incorrectly have black bars
– Cancelling after clicking the Cancel button disabled the Cancel and Save buttons

0.2.1 (2020-07-13)

Fixed
– “Too many IDs” error when a Business account has more than 50 posts

0.2 (2020-07-09)

Added
– Freemius integration
– Admin notifications
– New “Tools” section in the settings and an option to clear the API cache
– The live preview shows a message when user options result in no posts being shown in a feed

0.1 (2020-06-23)

Initial version of Spotlight Instagram Feeds.