Instagram is a really popular addictive social media platform. It is quite easy to upload, edit and share all your images and videos. Currently, there are more than 300 million active Instagram users on a monthly basis on Instagram and means that there is a significant potential on Instagram for developing your business and your social media marketing. One of the most straightforward methods of taking advantage is by connecting your Instagram business profile with your WordPress business website. In this article, you will learn how you can make your WordPress website more integrated with Instagram.
How can Instagram help your business?
There are a lot of ways by which Instagram can help you develop your business. It will increase your brand’s awareness among people. It will encourage more followers in sharing your content. It will gradually build credibility via the photos and the videos that you are uploading. It will create a relationship between you and your followers. It will increase awareness about products and activities. There are a lot of ways by which you will be able to connect your Instagram contents on your WordPress sites. You will be able to only post one image in one go manually, by hand. You can get all the images displayed on your WordPress site as a post or in a dedicated gallery.
Embed your content manually
A simple method is posting your pictures manually in your pages and your posts by embedding them. The materials will be featuring unique links with your user id, and then it will link it to your account on Instagram. You will be able to embed your content by just pasting in the link of your content in its line inside your posts and your pages.
If you do not feel like placing the content in its lines, then you can use shortcodes. The shortcode will be looking like this: [Instagram URL=LINK]. Replace the LINK with your URL. Your content will then appear like this:
Your content will work when you do not want to make any posts of different sizes and then add them to your gallery. It will be easy for adding to the posts you have, but you will not have to add up all the content manually every single time. In case you only want to post some images, then it is also a likely choice and also quite comfortable. You can go in for automation too.
Badges
If you feel like providing direct links to your business profile on Instagram, then you can make use of a symbol. Even though you can feel like including your photos from Instagram in the posts you make and, on your pages, it is still a great idea to provide links to your Instagram profile. It will act as a reminder for your audience and visitors about your activities on Instagram and will make your Instagram marketing acuter also. There are a lot of different ways of creating and using badges.
Instagram Badges
To create your new badge right from Instagram and then place it on your business website, you will have to go to your account and then choose Badges. Select those badges which you want to display and then you must copy the following code that you get. You will be able to now place this code in texts through a widget in the sidebar of your WordPress website to show a link to your Instagram account. The badge will include a link to your Instagram profile. Even though this will not display any image, but it is still an excellent method for telling your readers about your account on Instagram and is quite remarkable since they may not be able to see your posts and your images and will give them a chance to see and share the contents that you upload.
Instagram Counter Widget
Instead of having just a badge and a link, you can get a badge that has counters and statistics too. It will show you the total number of followers that you have, the number of people whom you are following and the entire media that you have. There are different types of badges. You can find many such widgets on the internet. Using them is also quite easy. You will first have to install the widget and then go to your widgets area and then drag and drop the widget into your sidebar on your WordPress website. Give it a title of your choice. After this you will have to give it your username on Instagram and then turn on the Clicks Hit option, choose which style of the counter you feel like having and then save the changes. Whenever a visitor clicks on your badge, there will be a redirection whereby they will land on your Instagram page.
Some Quick and amazing Tips for Using content from your Instagram
You can tag your fellow Instagrammers in pictures by only leaving just a comment or maybe a caption on your images which will include the @ sign, and their own Instagram names will then help to boost further engagement with your contents. You will also have to label the images with relevant hashtags so that you can contribute to connecting other Instagram users with yourself, provided you share similar interests. You must use the pictures from your business account on Instagram in the regular contents that you upload and can give more exposure to your Insta content and will also help in increasing the number of your followers. Provide both a badge of your Instagram account on your website in WordPress and even embed the Instagram contents from your Instagram page on the posts on your site to get maximum exposure. Visit Gramblast to know how you can use Instagram for your business website.
Hopefully, the information in this article will help you make your business website better. To know more about WordPress related matters, you can check out the other blogs written by experienced and professional authors.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
