Update: You can now use our SnapWidget WP Instagram Widget to add an Instagram feed to your WordPress website. This applies to adding your widget to Left and Right sidebars as well as Footers.
Even though WordPress is known as THE blogging software to use, it has evolved a lot through the years. It is now a robust CMS (content management system). This means you can merely create a blog or you can build a fully functional website or mobile application.
Let’s not forget that it is not only free but also open source. Which means that you have the ability to tinker away at the code. Modifying it to your heart’s content.
You basically need web hosting. That’s it. Once you sort your hosting out, you will be well on your way to have access to more than 2600 themes and 31 000 plugins to do with as you please.
Let’s have a quick look at how you can add your Instagram widget to your WordPress site.
Note: This only applies to wordpress.org installations as wordpress.com does not support the use of iFrames. It also applies to WordPress installations done on self-hosted sites by means of e.g. Softaculous.
A widget can be added in different ways, i.e. pre-defined widget area (this differs from theme to theme) as well as directly in your post (applicable to all themes). In this tutorial we will look at the following themes (the most popular themes):
For this complete tutorial on the pre-defined widget area inclusion of the widget, we will be using the Make theme. At the end of this tutorial, we will indicate what widgets are available in the other mentioned themes.
Make Theme
Theme Twenty Ten
Theme Twenty Fifteen
Theme Twenty Fifteen only allows adding your widget to the sidebar. Including your widget in this area is the same as in the above Make theme example.
You can move the widget to another slot in the sidebar by using the re-order option, e.g.move it to the top just above the Search option.
Your widget will then be displayed as follows on the preview.
To save your widget and publish it to your website, click on Save & Publish.
This process is the same for any theme. It allows you to place your widget anywhere in the blog post area. This is not seen as a WordPress widget and therefore has no Title included as in the pre-defined Widget Areas. If you require a Title (or Header) for your widget, you can add this by using additional HTML tags in your snippet, e.g.
<h3>Our Products</h3>
– Use <h1>
, <h2>
, <h3>
depending on required header,<strong>Our Products</strong>
,<em>Our Products</em>
or<strong><em>Our Products</em></strong>
Remember to go check out our youtube tutorial here: https://buff.ly/2yuFYqq