Discussion on Instagram feed - photo & video gallery for WordPress

Hi. Yes i know this situation, but i still didn’t figured out how to improve this.
The problem is when you have quite old items in one or more albums. And the items are sorted by the created date. So you need to load enough amount of items to have them in all the albums.
So, i am opened to discuss how to improve this situation.

I tried to fake the tabs by creating my own tabs out side of the plugin and then add the WordPress include for each Instagram category in a tab, but that didn’t work either.

One solution would be to split the amount of total images equally among the total feed size.

For example if I have 4 categories, and my initial feed size is 20 images, then you limit the feed of each category to 5 images that should be the case also when you click on load more, to fetch more images. Does that makes sense?

But in this situation you there will be much items missing in the feed.
There can be other solution: to spread the items equally (at least for the first few loads) among the albums – so you will get equal amount of items for every album in each load. But in this case you can get very old items (from one album) mixed with fresh ones (from other album) – when you will see the items from all albums.

Hey. I don’t really mind old items as long as they belong to an album, so in this case they will be the latest/newest items in that album.

It’s important to get equal amount of items in the initial load as well, other wise some tabs won’t have any items and that’s what I’m facing at the moment.

Any way I’m open to try any solution as I’m sure it’s going to be better than what I’m having now.

How can we move forward from here?

This week i will update the plugin witch will include ordering method “albums load items equal amount”.

Uploaded an update. Items are usually reviewed within 48 hours, but it can take up to 5 days.

When you install v.1.16 you will see an ordering option in the “Display” section of the gallery builder.

Awesome! Thanks so much. I’ll let you know how it goes

Update is available for download. Hope that you like it.

Thanks so much, I’ll update and feedback.

Updated the plugin, that’s better than what I had, thanks so much. One more minor thing, some of the images seems to be stretched even though I select the “use image size” option, any idea about that?

Thank you for your observations. Fixed this and updated the plugin.
Please wait for another update to be approved

Thanks so much.

It would be great if you would rate the plugin. Good rating stimulates me to evolve it.

I updated the plugin again but now it’s totally broken this is what I get now on the admin side :Unfortunately, an error occurred Sytem error. Please refresh the page and try again” and on the website the loader keeps loading, any idea what of might happened?!

I had to revert back to an older version. Please let me know if you were able to figure out what was wrong with that last update. Thanks.

Hi. Thanks.

1. Plugin can handle unlimited number of accounts. But you need to check the admin demo here if it fits your needs. Because you can’t control the options via shortcode. You create a gallery using integrated visual builder and receive the shortcode of this gallery, that you can paste to any post/page.

2. The plugin does not affect the page load because it loads with the AJAX. So it doesn’t meter how many galleries you have.

3. The plugin doesn’t use Instagram API because Instagram restricts to use their API for such kind of plugins. Instead of API the plugin uses Instagram public data. So there is no such limit for public data.
But there is too much data plugin must gather when creating a gallery. So the plugin uses caching mechanism to increase the speed. However the first load of the gallery can be slow (but it will not affect the page loading time). After the data is cached the gallery will be loading fast.