Instagram Photo

Before you can get started with our two Instagram plugins, you need to make sure you are an administrator for the pages that you'd like content from.

• How to become an administrator of a Facebook page (Yes, Instagram is Facebook)
• Convert your Instagram account to an Instagram Business account.
• Link your Facebook page and Instagram Business account.

Unfortunately, this is a requirement imposed by Facebook and we can not simplify the process. We recommend going through this setup 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.

Add Instagram to your content

Before you begin, make sure you are the administrator of the pages you'd like to show in your digital signage content. (See above)

• Go to Playlists
• Find or create a playlist and click Edit
• Find or create a new slide
• Click Plugins
• Search for Instagram and click Instagram Photo
• Click Log in with Facebook on the right
• Follow the instructions to log in to Facebook
• Click the dropdown Select Page, and click the page you'd like to show in your content
• Open Slide Settings, and set the slide duration (The Instagram posts will automatically update according to Update Interval (s), and will keep on doing this for the duration of the slide.)
• Click Save
• Click Preview to see how it will look in your content.

This is basically what you have to do to add Instagram in your content, but you may have noticed that there are a bunch of settings for this plugin. Make sure go through the different settings to ensure everything looks just the way you want it. 

Remove Instagram from your content

• Go to Playlists
• Find your playlist and click Edit
• Find the slide where you have Instagram added
• Click the plugin 
• Click Remove or hit backspace on your keyboard

If you only have Instagram on the slide, it might be easier to simply remove the slide. Hover over the slide in the slide overview and click X.

Options

• Alignment and Cropping
  • Fit to canvas - Maximize the image to fit the canvas
  • Align Left - Align the image to the left
  • Align Center - Align the image to the center
  • Align Right - Align the image to the right
  • Align Top - Align the image to the top
  • Align Center - Align the image to the center
  • Align Bottom - Align the image to the bottom
  • Locking Objects - Lock images
• Page – The Instagram account must be an “Instagram Business” account and linked to a Facebook page. If your page is not in the drop-down or you can’t select it, see the FAQ section on how to fix this.
• Caption above photo – By default, captions are displayed above the photo in the footer. However, if the photos contain text, having a caption on the photo makes both captions and the text on the photo unreadable. Turn off this option so captions are displayed below the photo in a separate section.
• 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.
• Show time ago – This shows how long ago the photo was posted in the caption area.
• Play Videos - Toggle this one to show video in the Instagram page
• Columns – Defines how many photo columns are in the plugin.
• Font zoom – Depending on how big the plugin area is 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 lines of the 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 a 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?
• Locale – If ‘Show time ago’ is enabled, you can localize the text – such as “_10 minutes ago_“.
• Positioning – Manually adjust the placement of your shape pixel by pixel.
• Sizing – Manually adjust the size of your shape pixel by pixel

I don’t see any pages in the drop-down.

Instagram restricts access and it’s only possible to display a photo grid for Instagram pages that you are an administrator of. If you don’t have an administrator role, the first step is to ask the page owner on Facebook (Instagram is owned by Facebook) to grant you the administrator role.

This page shows how to manage page roles on Facebook.

After you’ve received the administrator role for the Facebook page, the page needs to be linked to the Instagram account. This process is explained in the answer below.

I can’t select the page.

Facebook (Instagram is owned by Facebook) has tightened access to user data for 3rd party plugins. If you can see the page, but can not select it, that means that the page is not linked to an Instagram account.

What needs to be done:

1. You need to convert your Instagram account to Instagram Business account
2. You need to link the Instagram account to a Facebook page

Unfortunately, both of the steps are required and they assume the ownership/administration role of the Instagram account and Facebook page. Without either of them, it’s not possible for our plugin to fetch data from Instagram.

How many photos are loaded?

The plugin loads the 25 most recent entries from Instagram

Are videos supported?

Yes, in settings you'll find Play Videos; toggle this ON to include any video on the Instagram page. The video will autoplay.