Incorporating Instagram into your content marketing plan is a hot trend this year. Utilised as a powerful tool to showcase image and video-related content, Instagram has become touted as one of the newest, fastest growing, most popular, and easy to use social media mechanisms for promoting businesses.
With less of a commercial feel than Facebook and its non-stop push of advertisements, but more visual than Twitter and its text heavy feed, Instagram is the perfect place to appeal to people’s love for photography while also being able to include enough text to get a solid point across about a certain product or service. This social media platform is a great way to help build your online brand and establish yourself as an authority through the use of images and video.
In addition, with the ability to provide links to your very own website, the core part of your online business and central place for your marketing strategies, Instagram offers the perfect mix of lightweight fun and professionalism while attracting new visitors to your website.
As large companies such as Starbucks, Levi’s, Chobani, and even Sharpie jump into promoting their products via Instagram, maybe it’s time you try doing the same.
Better yet, why don’t you take it one step further and integrate your website with Instagram so all of your loyal readers can have non-stop access to not only your Instagragwirem feed, filled with images and video related to your business, but other relevant imagery as well.
But how, you ask?
Welcome InstaShow.
InstaShow: A WordPress Instagram Feed
Brought to you by the creative team at Elfsight, InstaShow was designed as an innovative, premium WordPress widget allowing you to create unique Instagram galleries directly on your WordPress website. Boasting flexibility, ease of use, and full responsiveness, Elfsight is convinced this tool will become essential to your website in helping you wow your customers as well as inform them of what you have to offer.
InstaShow is a WordPress Instagram Feed for WordPress users. Its main function is to allow you the ability to connect to your Instagram account in order to upload any image or video you wish, as well as the ability to upload any other public Instagram user’s images or videos you see fit.
But don’t stop there.
Key Features
InstaShow not only offers a great way to upload Instagram imagery to your website, it has endless customization options to make your WP Instagram Feed match the feel of your website.
- 50+ variable parameters to customize your feed in whatever way you choose
- The ability to showcase any image via a combination of usernames (@togwire) or hashtags (#noyouareawesome)
- Limitless inclusion of sources to steer your visitors towards products or people in your industry, including your own products
- 2 distinct ways to filter your feed: “except” and “only”
- Navigate and control the direction of your gallery
- Customize which data should be included on images uploaded to your site (i.e. usernames, hashtags, additional text, comments, likes, etc.)
- Extensive post settings
- Multiple color options, mobile friendliness, and feed animation choices
Finding the best look for your Instagram gallery comes with many choices. There is a lot to choose from when it comes to customizing your website’s widget and Elfsight wants you to know the creative possibilities are endless. Let’s take a look at how you might integrate a WP Instagram Feed onto your website.
You can see the demo here: Welcome InstaShow.
