Instagram Hashtag for Digital Signage is a great way to connect your Instagram with your digital signage. Both the Instagram Hashtag and the Instagram Photo work like a photo frame displaying photos from Instagram based on chosen hashtags or your page’s photos.
How to set up your Instagram Hashtag for Digital Signage
Hashtags – Enter up to 5 hashtags that are used to search for photos.
Media type
Top media – The popularity is determined by a mix of views and viewer interaction
Recent media – Finds posts that are published within the last 24 hours
Show likes – This shows the number of likes in the photo caption area.
Show comment count – This shows the number of comments in the photo caption area.
Columns – Defines how many photo columns are in the plugin.
Font zoom – Depending on how big is the plugin area and what kind of font you use, you might want to increase or decrease the font size.
Caption lines – If the photo caption text is very long, it may not fit entirely. This option defines the maximum number of lines of a caption that is shown, if the caption is longer, then it’s truncated (trimmed) with an ellipsis (…). If you don’t want to show a caption at all, just set the value to 0.
Caption background – The background color for the caption area. We recommend using color with transparency for a nicer look – the default is a white color with an alpha (transparency) of 0.5.
Border width – Adds a border around each individual photo in the grid. We suggest choosing either black or white.
Update interval – How often the photos in the grid are updated?
FAQ
Instagram Hashtag for Digital Signage is not completely set up?
To use Instagram Hashtag for Digital Signage, your Facebook and Instagram accounts need to be linked. The following steps must be taken:
Be in the ‘administrator’ role of a Facebook page (or create one).
Unfortunately, this is a requirement imposed by Facebook and we can not simplify the process. We recommend going through this setup with the Instagram Photo Grid plugin first and getting it working – that plugin has a ‘Page‘ drop-down where you can see which pages are granted access and if the page is not selectable, it is not linked to an Instagram Business account.
Search limit exceeded?
Instagram limits hashtag searches, you can create a total of 30 hashtag searches per 7 days window. If you exceed your limit, wait a few days until the quota resets.
How many photos are loaded?
The plugin loads 50 posts that match the hashtag condition.
Are videos supported?
Posts containing videos are not supported, they are skipped.
Is hashtag search not working?
Currently, there is a bug in the Facebook API that manifests when the user has only been given granular access to our FB app. The way to work around it is to remove our app integration and add it again, this time checking all the possible boxes and giving full access to our app.
