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Here’s How to Integrate Instagram on Your Blog - DailyBlogTips

Here’s How to Integrate Instagram on Your Blog - DailyBlogTips

Here’s How to Integrate Instagram on Your Blog

Posted: 12 Jan 2016 05:45 AM PST

As you probably know Instagram is the most popular image-based social network these days. They have close to 500 million monthly active users. That is around 20% of the whole Internet population!

What if you could integrate Instagram accounts,feeds,images together with their hashtags directly on your blog or website? It certainly would give a nice touch to your design and even allow your users to discover new images or interact with your Instagram official profile, for instance.

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If you are using WordPress, doing this integration is pretty easy. This Instagram plugin allows you to display multiple public accounts, feeds, images together with their metadata and hashtags on your WordPress website. You can also do this by adding a widget to your sidebar, that will grab images directly from Instagram.The plugin has four image display views- Masonry and Blog style, Thumbnails and Image browser, to display the images both in thumbnails and in full size.The feeds can be displayed in three options: pagination, infinite scrolling and load more images upon clicking in the "more" button. Images can be sorted based on the likes, comments, date or randomly. You can also select whether to show likes,comments, description, user bio and followers count for the images.

You also control what happens when the user clicks on the image. The visitors can be redirected to Instagram, or the image can open in a lightbox. You can customize lightbox width and height and also select a transition effect from the available 15 ones.The images can be viewed as a slideshow as well. The lightbox supports filmstrip option and is capable of showing image info within it. You can also enable fullscreen view, comments and share buttons in the lightbox and add a link to the Instagram account.

Besides the mentioned features that are available in the free version, Instagram Feed WD Pro provides support and regular updates at very low prices.

Overall it’s a very cool and advanced plugin to display Instagram images on your site, so check it out! You can also view the instagram demo to see how the plugin works.

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Need a Calendar for WordPress? Check Out Event Calendar WD - DailyBlogTips

Need a Calendar for WordPress? Check Out Event Calendar WD - DailyBlogTips

Need a Calendar for WordPress? Check Out Event Calendar WD

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 06:46 AM PST

If you have a website where you usually need to share the events you organize or participate, the best way is adding a nice calendar on which you will showcase all the events in a professional and structured way. This will add a value for your users who can easily follow your upcoming events.
There are bunch of WordPress calendar Plugins that you can consider to use for this purpose but sharing my experience I'd strongly recommend you Event Calendar WD which will do all the work for you.

I really like the variety of event display modes they suggest: Month, Week, Day, List, Map, 4 Days, Posterboard. You should enter the demo page to see how elegant each view looks in reality. If you are already in the demo page, don't forget to check also theme skins which can be easily customized to meet the design needs of your website.

Another great thing about this WordPress calendar plugin is that it is truly responsive and has nice structure on any device screen.

My other favorite features in this plugin are:

-No restriction on the number of calendars or events
-Ability to create categories for events
-Structured event markup
-Ability to create venue-list and adding an event just select from the list not write venue info each time again
-Ability to manage organizers' data
-Google Maps integration
-Social share buttons
-And much more

Besides all this really advanced features the pro version of calendar also comes with bunch of integrations and add-ons which add really cool functionalities.

Event Calendar WD has the following Integrations that you'll really love to have:

-Facebook event integration
-Google calendar integration
-iCal integration

Here I want also to share the list of Event Calendar WD add-ons that you may want to give a try:

-Event filter bar
-Event countdown (I really enjoy this add-on)
-Upcoming events widget
-ECWD export/import

I’m sure that this well structured calendar will add extra charm to your website and will give you better experience of managing events through your website.

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