10 Handy jQuery Instagram Plugins
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Instagram is arguably one of the most popular photo sharing social networks, boasting over 30 million active users happily snapping away. With this in mind its only logical that users may want to display their photos on their own website.
In this post I wanted to focus on jQuery plugins that will enable you to pull in your own Instagram pictures, I have included a selection of jQuery Instagram plugins that you can use on WordPress, Drupal and if your not using a CMS I have also included jQuery plugins that you can use directly on your site.
jQuery Instagram Plugins
Spectragram
Spectragram.js is a jQuery plugin using the Instagram API to fetch and display user, popular or tags photo feeds inside a list or any container you define and display the results as list items or any other HTML tag you define. You can also define the size of the pictures (small, medium, large).
jquery-instagram
A simple, fluff free, bloat free jQuery plugin allows you to display a custom list of Instagram photos on your website.
Jquery Instagram Browser
This plug-in allows you to pull photos from Instagram and display them on your own website or app. Photos can be searched by user or tag. We built a demo site for the plug-in so you can see it in action. Simply click the “Live Preview” button above.
WordPress Instagram Plugins
Instagram Gallery
Instagram Gallery – WordPress Plugin is the plugin for WordPress that will enable you to display your snaps you or another account have uploaded to Instagram or images with hashtags. This includes variety of configuration to have control over the gallery.
Instagram for WordPress
Simple sidebar widget that shows Your latest instagr.am pictures and picture embedder.
Easy Instagram
Simply, quickly and easily, displays one or more Instagram images from a User ID or a from a Tag, using shortcodes or widgets – without using a third-
Simply Instagram
Simply Instagram displays your photos from Instagram either using Widget or Short Code.
Instapress
This highly customizable plugin offers the possibility to embed feeds from Instagram into your WordPress Blog. It makes use of jQuery’s fancybox plugin to display a nice slideshow for your images.
Drupal Instagram Plugins
drupagram – View Module
Drupagram is the missing Drupal + Instagram integration module.
Instagram by reynoldsalec – View Module
Drupal module using a simple Instagram PHP API to help developers integrate Instagram with their site. Note that this module is intended for developer use: unless required as a dependency by another module, no end-user functionality is provided.
Any idea how to implement these cool plugins into an eCommerce site like Opencart, instead of WordPress. We have a great following on instagram for our site, http://www.newtress.com/extensions, but no idea how to make this work within an eCommerce platform.
Yeah, it’s the era of Instagram ;) The industry of its supplementary apps and plugins growth so fast
I know, Instagram is everywhere now. It is a great marketing tool for my clients. There is also another great Instagram WordPress that I used on my last project called Social Roll (http://sroll.swscreative.com/). Their interface is sleek, sexy, and very professional. Check it out.
This is great and tremendously written to maximize the power of jquery and enhance the website design. Great job indeed ..!