Embed Instagram feeds and photo galleries anywhere on your site. Responsive, accessible and SEO-friendly, with a block, shortcode, and widget.
| Last updated | October 21, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.3 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.1 or newer |
| First published | June 23, 2020 |
| Support, last two months | 3 of 4 threads resolved (75%) |
4.7 / 5 from 171 reviews
| 5 stars | 157 |
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| 4 stars | 1 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 3 |
| 1 star | 10 |
Instagram Feed Plugin for WordPress
Spotlight embeds your Instagram feed anywhere on your WordPress site. Pick a layout, connect your Instagram account, and customize the design in a live preview, and your site will update itself every time you post to Instagram.
It’s used on 60,000+ websites and holds a 4.7-star rating from more than 170 reviews.
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New: The unique Polaroid Sticker and Thumbnail Gallery templates are now available in Spotlight Essentials. See them on the demo page.
Free Features
The free version gives you everything you need to run a good-looking Instagram feed, and every feed picks up your theme’s fonts so it fits in with the rest of your site.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
You need an Instagram Business or Creator account. Instagram no longer lets third-party apps display posts from personal accounts, so if yours is a personal account you’ll need to switch it first. Switching is free and only takes a minute in the Instagram app’s settings, and it doesn’t affect your followers or your existing posts.
Install and activate Spotlight, go to “Instagram Feeds”, choose a layout and connect your account. Once you’re happy with the design, add the feed to any page using the Spotlight block, the widget, or the shortcode. The steps under Installation cover this in more detail.
Yes. Connect each account you want to use, then select them all in the feed editor. Spotlight combines their posts into one feed.
There’s no limit. You can connect as many accounts as you have legitimate access to and create as many feeds as you need, and you can show several different feeds on the same page.
Yes, with Spotlight Essentials or above. Free feeds include your video and reel posts, and the free lightbox shows photos at full size. Upgrading to Essentials lets visitors play videos and reels in the lightbox without leaving your site. Spotlight PRO also adds a sidebar to the lightbox with the caption, likes, comments, and date.
Yes, with Spotlight PRO. You can show public posts from across Instagram that use a hashtag, or filter your own feed to show or hide posts with certain hashtags. Our step-by-step guide shows how to embed an Instagram hashtag feed in WordPress.
Added
– Added a “Recommended plugins” page to the Instagram Feeds menu, listing other plugins from the Spotlight team.
– Added a dismissible banner on the Feeds screen that recommends Vireo Analytics, a free analytics plugin with a report for Spotlight feeds.
Changed
– The Help page now opens inside the WordPress admin on the free version too, instead of in a new tab.
– On the free version, the account menu item is now called “Account” instead of “License”.
– Updated Freemius SDK to the latest version.
Fixed
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.