You must have the “Smash balloon Social Photo Feed (Previously known as Instagram Feed)” Plugin and activate it.
To view Smash Balloon 2022 version tutorial, click here.
- Connect your Instagram account first. Fill in the access token and User IDs. Save. Go to the next tab “Customize”.
- In the Customize tab, width of the feed has to be 100%.
For the footer area, Number of photos to be displayed: 8 items then the columns also have to be 8 columns. Remove the padding so there will be no border around the image.
For the sidebar area, number of photos to be displayed can be 4, 6 or 9. The number of columns is up to you. 2 Columns means only 2 items per row. 3 Columns means 3 items per row.
Continue with the rest of the settings, disable the ones that you don’t need. - Go to Display your setting tab. Copy the shortcode.
- Go to your widget (Appearance – Widgets) and add Custom html and paste this shortcode : [instagram-feed] Add instagram widget to Instagram widget area.

