Instagram Pro Widget

Main features

Instagram Pro Widget is a tool aimed to attract more customers to your online store and make your pages diverse. Show your clients upcoming products or your real-life cases. Show photos from presentations and various industry events. Show them whatever you like - just make photos and publish them in your store through Instagram Pro Widget. Or set a specific hashtag and display posts of other people. Decide on what you want to have on your pages and share it with your clients.

Display posts of any Instagram user with no need for API authorization

In instagram Pro Widget there is no necessity to connect your store to your Instagram account. Just set the name of the user, whose posts you want to show, or a hashtag. If you have set photos display by Product Hashtag or by Category Hashtag, then posts will appear only under the hashtags you have pointed out on the correspondent pages.

Decide on the appearance of the widget on your store

Think over what option is better for your design and implement it. Instagram Pro Widget supports both types of images display: a grid and a slider. Decide which model reflects the photos to be published better as every website and every design may require its own way of presentation.

Select the way your users will see the post details

Set how your users will get the post details, when clicking on a thumbnail. Choose a Lightbox on your store or a Redirection to Instagram page of a correspondent account. Moreover, you can choose the option of not showing this information at all - Instagram Pro Widget supports this function as well.

Configure the quality of thumbnails in the widget

To make the widget better integrate to your design, set the resolution of existing thumbnails in your widget. Decide whether it is better to load faster or to show thumbnails of quality - for every store there is its own configurations.

Determine on what pages you want Instagram Pro Widget to be displayed

You can post your extension on any page you consider the best for it. Choose a number of them if you want or display the widget on all of them. Instagram Pro Widget supports multi-page function, so you can make this widget suit your store the best.

Use clear and simple extension settings

All the settings in Instagram Integration Widget have their function and cover all the most important details. No useless and bulky configurations. It helps store owners to adjust everything properly and not get confused with the number of options.

Choose the exact place where your widget will appear

Easy and friendly settings of this extension let you attach the widget displayed on the frontend to any place of a page you want, like Footer, Header, or a Column. Thus, you can regulate the way the photos from Instagram are displayed, allowing for improving User Experience of your customers.

Add a title and a description of your widget

For your and your users’ convenience or just for better appearance, you can set a title and a description of the widget shown. With the title you can make it clear for your customers, what photos they will see here. The description has the same purpose, but it can provide more information.

Point out the post information shown on your store

If you set the post information to be shown in a Lightbox, you can also specify this information. You can show your users the data of the photo creation, the number of likes, the author’s avatar, his of her username, etc. Besides, you can hide all this information - this option is also available in Instagram Pro Widget.

Set the basic features

There is a number of other quite handy options you can set. The next one is Global Hashtag. It is a non-obligatory option that may display products under this very hashtag if you didn’t set otherwise in the Mode option in the widget settings.
Another field here is Cache Lifetime. It allows to point out the desired time to keep posts in cache in seconds. After the time expires, the cached photos will be deleted from server. The last option here is called “Show Advertisement”. Its purpose is simple - it allows to show or hide advertisement in your widget. Decide on whether you need it and set the correspondent status.

Adjust the widget appearance

All websites are different and the feature that may look wonderful in one of them will not be appropriate for another one. For this purpose Instagram Pro Widget has flexible settings regarding its appearance on a page. Not only you can assign it to particular Store Views and set a Design Package. You can also specify the Sort Order that is responsible for numerical order of widget instances in one block reference.

Have your widget on various pages

The next options give you a possibility to adjust widget display on certain pages, like Bundle Products or CMS Home Page. You can even put it on all your pages. Then goes Block Reference. It is responsible for a specific place one a page, where the widget will be shown. The best way to improve your clients’ visual experience.

Four modes available

Choose one of the four modes to display posts: by User Name, by Hashtag, by Product Hashtag, by Category Hashtag. To set this option, follow CMS > Widgets > the Name of your widget. Or you can create a new one by clicking on the button “Add New Widget Instance” at the same place.

Choose Category and Product Hashtags

If you set “by Product Hashtag”, then you will see the photos selected by the hashtag you have set on the product page. The mode “by Category Hashtag” does completely the same. The only difference is that it deals with category pages instead of product pages.

Select by User or by Hashtag

Each of these modes has its own features and lets you regulate the images shown in the widget. For example, if you set the mode “by User Name”, only the posts of the respective Instagram user will be shown. It may be you, your manager, or another person.

The “by Hashtag” mode allows to show all the images under this particular hashtag regardless of the person posted it. You can create your own hashtag and point it out. It may be used, for example, to show clients using your products. The number of ideas is limitless.

Decide on the appearance of the widget

Another option here is “Widget type”. Instagram Pro Widget supports two ways of displaying: a grid and a slider. Choose the one that suits your design the most and then set the desired thumbnails resolution a bit further. The last settings here are the number of Rows and Columns that help make the widget even more suitable or your website. You can also set “Show by step” if you want to regulate display by rows. Set the Step Length to finish the widget adjustment.