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Show your Instagram posts on your site, and pick the favorites a section shows. Every Instagram Feed section draws from one list, Instagram Posts. Once Instagram is connected, your latest posts arrive on their own. You can also add posts by hand. Who can do this: Contributors, Editors, Admins and Owners can add and change posts. Publishing them needs an Editor, an Admin or an Owner. Sample posts and connecting Instagram are for Admins and Owners.

Before you start

  • To bring posts in from Instagram, an Admin or Owner connects your account once. See Instagram.
  • To show posts on a page, add an Instagram Feed section. See Instagram Feed.

Open the list

Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) and choose Instagram Posts under Manage. You can also press G, then G. The list shows your posts newest first. For each one you see its Post (its title), Type, Date and whether it’s Featured. A post from Instagram takes the first line of its caption as its title.
The Manage Instagram Posts window with 12 synced posts (photos, a reel and a carousel), the Post, Type, Date and Featured columns.The Manage Instagram Posts window with 12 synced posts (photos, a reel and a carousel), the Post, Type, Date and Featured columns.

Your latest Instagram posts, ready for your sections.

How posts arrive from Instagram

Once an Admin or Owner connects Instagram and saves the Instagram card, Attract brings your posts in right away. After that, it checks Instagram for new posts on a schedule. This scheduled update from Instagram is called a sync on screen. A notice says “Instagram connected — imported N post(s).” The Instagram card sets how often the sync runs.
  • Your latest posts come in. Each sync brings in your most recent posts, up to the card’s Posts to sync (12 to start). They’re published on their own.
  • Older posts stay. A post that’s no longer among your latest isn’t removed. It stays in the list until you archive it.
  • Instagram’s version wins. The next sync replaces the caption, link, date, picture, likes and comments of a post from Instagram with Instagram’s. Your Featured choice stays.
  • Archive a post to keep it off your site. A post you archive stays archived: syncs leave it alone. A post you delete forever comes back on the next sync while it’s still among your latest posts, so archive rather than delete. To keep posts off one page only, use Featured posts only in the section.

Feature your favorites

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Open the post and turn on Featured on the Basics tab

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Choose Update (or Publish)

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In the Instagram Feed section on your page, turn on Featured posts only on the Feed tab

Posts from Instagram are never featured on their own. Featuring stays your choice.

Add a post by hand

You can show posts without connecting Instagram, such as a few favorites you pick yourself. A post you add here is an entry for your website only. It doesn’t post anything to Instagram or change your Instagram account.
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Start a new post

In the list, choose New Instagram Post. The editor opens on the Basics tab.
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Fill in the basics

  • Title: a name for the list.
  • Caption: the post’s text. Sections can show it under the picture.
  • Media type: Image, Video or Carousel (album). It sets the small badge in the tile’s corner. A post you add by hand shows one picture. Carousel (album) adds the album badge, but you can’t add the album’s other pictures.
  • Reel: turn on for a reel, to show a reel badge.
  • Featured: see above.
The Instagram post editor on the Basics tab: Title "Puppy class graduation", Caption "Six new graduates this week!", Media type Image, Reel off, Featured on; the tabs Basics.The Instagram post editor on the Basics tab: Title "Puppy class graduation", Caption "Six new graduates this week!", Media type Image, Reel off, Featured on; the tabs Basics.

A post added by hand.

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Add the picture and link

On the Media tab:
  • Image: choose the post’s picture from your media library.
  • Video: for a video post, choose the clip from your Videos library. The image is its cover.
  • Post link: the post’s web address on Instagram, for visitors who want to see it there.
  • Posted date: when you posted it. The list and sections sort by this date.
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Save it

To finish later, open More save options (the arrow next to the main button) and choose Save Draft. When it’s ready, choose Publish. Contributors choose Submit instead, and an Editor publishes it.

Likes and comments

The Likes & Comments tab shows the likes and comments of a post from Instagram. Attract fills these in, so you can’t edit them. Comments come in only when Fetch post comments is on in the Instagram card. Comments you’ve hidden on Instagram are listed under Hidden comments. They’re kept for your reference and never shown on your site.

Try it with sample posts

Admins and Owners can fill a new site with 8 sample posts, to see the Instagram Feed section before Instagram is connected.
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Open Instagram Posts in the command palette

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Choose Seed Demo Posts

You’ll see “Seeded 8 demo posts.”
The samples are published straight away, so any Instagram Feed section already on a live page shows them to visitors at once. Every sample’s caption starts with “DEMO POST:”, so no one mistakes it for a real one. They’re deleted on their own the first time a real post is published, by hand or by a sync. To remove them sooner, archive them. See Archive, restore and delete.

Good to know

  • Videos and cookie consent. A video from Instagram can play from Instagram itself or from your own media library, depending on the Instagram card’s settings. Videos that play from Instagram wait until a visitor accepts functional cookies. Until then they show the still picture. See Instagram.
  • Why is a video still playing from Instagram? Attract can copy a video from Instagram into your own Videos library, so it plays from your site. Video re-host on the post’s Media tab says whether that worked. “Too large for the size cap — still hot-linked” means the video was too big to copy, so it still plays from Instagram. An Admin can raise Largest video to re-host on the Instagram card.

What happens next

A published post appears in every Instagram Feed section whose settings it matches, newest first, up to the section’s Maximum posts (8 to start). Visitors never see drafts.

Troubleshooting

  • Is it published? Drafts show only while you edit.
  • Is Featured posts only on in the section? Then only featured posts show.
  • The section shows the newest posts first, up to Maximum posts. Raise it to show more.
  • A post added by hand needs an Image.
The post came from Instagram, and each sync puts Instagram’s caption, link and picture back. Change the post on Instagram itself. Only Featured is yours to change here.
The sync couldn’t bring in your posts. The message gives Instagram’s reason.Often your site’s permission to read your Instagram account has run out: this happens when nothing syncs for about 60 days. An Admin or Owner fixes it by creating a fresh access token in your Meta app and using Replace on Long-lived access token in the Instagram card. See Instagram.
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Instagram Feed

show your posts on a page as a carousel, grid or photo wall.

Instagram

connect your account and choose how often posts arrive.

Archive, restore and delete

retire posts you no longer want.

Content you reuse

how lists and sections work together.