hatsumatsu / instygram_via_webhooks

Upload Instagram images into Wordpress via IFTTT and webhooks.

Instygram via Webhooks

This plugin receives Instagram posts via IFTTT webhooks.

Description

Use this plugin in conjunction with IFTTT to insert Instagrams into either your posts or a custom Instagram post type.

Unlike IFTTT’s Wordpress recipe, this will actually upload images to your server, which will give you greater flexibility in theme-making and, depending on your setup, possibly better performance. You will also get all the usual Wordpress thumbnails and a “featured image” thumbnail.

This plugin requires the Wordpress REST API v2.

Thanks to Hugh Lashbrooke for his very cool Wordpress plugin template. https://github.com/hlashbrooke/WordPress-Plugin-Template

Installation

1. Log in to your account with IFTTT.com
2. Add the IFTTT recipe: https://ifttt.com/recipes/397411-instagrams-in-wordpress-via-webhooks
3. IMPORTANT: change "yourserver.com" in the recipe to reflect the domain of your Wordpress install.
4. Back on your copy of Wordpress, install the Wordpress REST API v2. https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/ (note: this will be included in the Wordpress core very soon.)
5. Copy this plugin to your wp-plugins folder and Activate.

Optional Settings

By default, Instagram images will upload into your normal Wordpress “posts”. In my experience, having a custom post type is much more useful — in fact, that’s the whole reason I built this thing. So check Custom Posts “on” to get that loveliness.

If you are in a multi-user environment, you can select which user the posts are accredited to. By default it’ll be #1.

You can use IFTTT to trigger posts via some kind of hashtag or criteria other than “my pictures”. It would be a pretty good idea to review those for content before publishing live on your blog, so you can set New Post Status to “Draft” or “Pending”.

Coming Soon

• Instagrams that insert into normal posts should have the image in the content in an img tag. As this is not my normal use case, I haven’t got to it yet.
• Tags

Frequently Asked Questions

What the hell, why isn’t this working?

Do you have the IFTTT Maker recipe installed? https://ifttt.com/recipes/397411-instagrams-in-wordpress-via-webhooks

Did you change "yourserver.com" in the IFTTT recipe to reflect your own server?

How does this validate that incoming JSONs are in fact from IFTTT?

It doesn’t. If this is necessary, desirable, or necessary, please chime in on the Github Issues.