<p>Pull customer Instagram posts into your WooCommerce store as curated hashtag feeds. Link each post to the products it features, and turn user-generated content into social proof on your storefront.</p>
<h2>Turn customer posts into your best product photos</h2>
<p>Your customers already shoot the best content for your store, and they’re already on Instagram. Instagram Sync pulls public posts that mention your curated hashtags, lets you approve the ones worth showing, and displays them as curated galleries on your storefront. Each post links to the WooCommerce product it features, turning customer UGC into a social proof signal at the moment of decision.</p>
<h2>Pull Instagram posts into WooCommerce by hashtag</h2>
<p>Define the hashtags that matter to your store, your brand tag, a campaign tag, a product line tag. Instagram Sync builds an automatic Instagram feed from matching public posts, pulled directly from the Instagram Graph API. New content shows up in a pending queue ready for you to review.</p>
<ul>
<li>Track your active hashtags within Instagram’s 7-day rolling search window</li>
<li>Pull both image and video posts from public accounts</li>
<li>Surface new posts automatically as they’re tagged</li>
<li>Connect via your existing <strong>Instagram</strong> <strong>Business</strong> or <strong>Creator</strong> account</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_18734006564630" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734006564630" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/12-_-Feeds-list.png?w=980" alt="Instagram Sync's Feeds list page in WooCommerce admin showing two configured feeds — "Another new feed" (Draft, #buythisplugin, ID 454) and "Kestrels are birds" (7 approved / 6 unapproved, #kestrel, ID 448) — with columns for Title, Media, Hashtags, and Feed ID.

" width="980" height="239" class="size-large wp-image-18734006564630" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734006564630" class="wp-caption-text">Manage every Instagram feed from one list — see hashtags, post counts, draft vs. published status, and feed IDs ready for use in shortcodes.<br /></figcaption></figure>
<h2>Approve every post before it goes live</h2>
<p>Nothing reaches your storefront without your approval. Imported posts sit in a pending queue where you can preview each one, approve the ones that fit your brand, and discard the rest. Pending posts that you skip are cleared automatically after seven days, so the queue never gets unwieldy. When approved posts are deleted or made private on Instagram, Instagram Sync removes them from your store too, so you don’t end up with broken galleries.</p>
<ul>
<li>Preview each post in context before publishing it</li>
<li>Skip or remove anything off-brand</li>
<li>Auto-clean pending media after seven days</li>
<li>Auto-remove posts that go private or get deleted on Instagram</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_18734006564625" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734006564625" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/07-_-Approval-queue.png?w=980" alt="Instagram Sync's "Kestrels are birds" feed edit screen in WooCommerce admin, showing thirteen kestrel and bird-photography media tiles with Approve / Unapprove buttons beneath each, plus a sidebar listing the active #kestrel hashtag source." width="980" height="601" class="size-large wp-image-18734006564625" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734006564625" class="wp-caption-text">Every imported post lands in a pending queue. Approve the ones that fit your brand and skip the rest — pending media auto-clears after seven days.<br /></figcaption></figure>
<h2>Link Instagram posts to WooCommerce products</h2>
<p>Every WooCommerce product gets an Instagram tab in its product data. Associate the Instagram posts that feature that product, and shoppers see customer photos on the product page itself, turning organic UGC into trust signals exactly where buying decisions happen. The product tab is new in version 5.1, designed to make the connection between social proof and SKU explicit.</p>
<ul>
<li>Attach approved <strong>Instagram</strong> posts to specific products</li>
<li>Show product-specific UGC on the single product template</li>
<li>Link feed items back to the products they reference</li>
<li>Build galleries that double as customer testimonials</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<h2>Display Instagram feeds your store’s way</h2>
<p>Three storefront layouts, configured per feed. Masonry for editorial Pinterest-style grids. Grid for a clean Instagram-native look. Carousel for product pages and homepage banners. Drop Instagram feeds onto shop pages, product pages, blog posts, sidebars, or anywhere else on your WordPress site with a single shortcode, and tune the column count, item count, and caption visibility for each placement.</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose masonry, grid, or carousel per feed</li>
<li>Set columns and item count per placement with shortcode parameters</li>
<li>Drop feeds into pages, posts, sidebars, or product templates</li>
<li>Show or hide captions independently for each feed</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_18734006564629" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734006564629" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/10-_-Storefront-feed.png?w=980" alt="Frontend storefront page titled "Example Instagram feed" displaying an Instagram Sync carousel of two customer kestrel photos with prev / next navigation arrows, rendered inline on a WordPress page via shortcode." width="980" height="601" class="size-large wp-image-18734006564629" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734006564629" class="wp-caption-text">A two-column carousel feed rendered directly on a WordPress page via shortcode — masonry, grid, and carousel layouts are all configurable per feed.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Open the full Instagram post in a modal lightbox</h2>
<p>Clicking a feed thumbnail opens the full post in a lightbox, with likes, comments, username, and caption included via <strong>Instagram</strong>‘s oEmbed API. Visitors get the full social proof signal without leaving your store. Thumbnails themselves are served from your own server for fast page loads, while the lightbox loads the live post on demand.</p>
<ul>
<li>Show the full Instagram post inline without redirecting visitors</li>
<li>Include captions, likes, and comments in the modal</li>
<li>Serve gallery thumbnails locally for fast page rendering</li>
<li>Keep visitors on your store while they engage with social content</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_18734006564628" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734006564628" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/11-_-Lightbox-modal.png?w=980" alt="Instagram post lightbox opened over a darkened storefront feed, showing the original rob_mule_photography post with a kestrel image, "Female Kestrel with some lunch — Croxley 7/5/26" caption, hashtags, eight likes, and View profile / View more on Instagram buttons." width="980" height="601" class="size-large wp-image-18734006564628" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734006564628" class="wp-caption-text">Clicking any thumbnail opens the original Instagram post — caption, hashtags, likes, and all — in a lightbox without sending visitors away from your store.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Update your Instagram bio link without touching Instagram</h2>
<p>Instagram only allows one clickable link in a profile bio. Set yours to redirect through Instagram Sync, and you can change the destination (to a campaign, a new product launch, a sale page, anything) without ever updating your Instagram profile. Point your bio link once, then change where it sends visitors as your priorities shift.</p>
<ul>
<li>Set a single bio link destination from WooCommerce admin</li>
<li>Update the target without touching your <strong>Instagram</strong> profile</li>
<li>Point at any page, product, or campaign on your store</li>
<li>Match the bio link to whatever you’re promoting that week</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<h2>Already syncing your catalog to Instagram Shopping?</h2>
<p>Use Meta’s free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-for-woocommerce/"><strong>Facebook for WooCommerce</strong></a> plugin to push your catalog to Instagram. Use <strong>Instagram Sync</strong> to pull Instagram content back into your store. The two handle opposite halves of the same loop and are intended to be used together.</p>
<h2>Ready to put customer UGC on your storefront?</h2>
<p>Connecting Instagram and pulling your first batch of posts takes a few minutes once your Instagram Business account is linked.</p>
<ol>
<li>Add Instagram Sync to your store</li>
<li>Connect your Instagram Business or Creator account</li>
<li>Define your hashtags and start pulling posts</li>
<li>Approve the posts worth showing</li>
<li>Drop the feed shortcode into your storefront</li>
</ol>
<p>Built and supported by <a href="http://kestrelwp.com"><strong>Kestrel</strong></a>, the team behind 40+ WooCommerce extensions.</p>
<p>Made by <img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kestrel-logo.png" alt="Kestrel logo" width="200" height="45" /></p>

Instagram Sync

<p>Show Instagram hashtag feeds on your WooCommerce store, link posts to your products, and update your link-in-bio from your WordPress site</p>

<p>The Google Product Feed extension allows you to create a real-time feed to supply product information to Google Merchant Center, a prerequisite for setting up Product Ads.</p>
<h3>Why use this?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Imports product data to Google Merchant Centre, but gives you full control over your ad setup & spend</li>
<li>Maximize your campaign performance, and minimize your costs by improving product data quality with our extensive list of supported fields allowing you to provide the richest possible data to Google</li>
<li>Improve your product quality scores by mapping existing product data onto Google’s required fields from your site’s taxonomies, attributes or product fields</li>
<li>Capture additional data recommended by Google not normally held in WooCommerce using the plugin’s additional data entry fields</li>
<li>Lower your data entry burden with store-wide defaults, category-level data entry, or product-specific information against products or even individual variations if required</li>
<li>Add rich data more easily with full support for WooCommerce’s importer and REST API for bulk importing data</li>
<li>On-demand feed shows the latest information for your products, maximising product approvals</li>
<li>Integrates with a wide range of <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/google-product-feed-extension-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">common WooCommerce extensions</a></li>
<li>Extensive documentation covering setup and customisation and</li>
<li>Rich set of WordPress filters and actions allowing flexible customisation if necessary</li>
<li>Get your products found more easily with support for Google’s local product feeds, and review feeds</li>
<li>Keep control over your product listings with category-specific feeds and individual product submission opt-out</li>
</ul>
<p>Once your products have imported into Google Merchant Centre they’ll be available to your linked Google Adwords account, giving you the flexibility to set up product ads as you want. Using the full power of Google Adwords – <strong><em>you’re in full control of your ad setup and budgets</em></strong>.</p>
<h3>Product data fields</h3>
<p>The extension supports <strong>50+</strong> feed attributes including all mandatory fields. Simple fields such as link, title, image_link etc are all populated automatically for you. Other fields provide a simple one-click mapping to allow you to map across your product fields onto the feed. You can provide store-level, or category level defaults and the feed will automatically pick the right values to include.</p>
<p>Where you don’t have data, the plugin provides custom fields on your products to allow you to enter richer product data. These fields are all available to the standard WooCommerce CSV import tool, and exposed via the WooCommerce REST API.</p>
<p>Fields currently supported include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><em>Core fields</em></strong>: availability, brand, color, condition, description <em>(main product short/long, variant description or both)</em>, google product category, GTIN, ID, image links (including featured images, product gallery images, embedded content images, and support for custom images), link, MPN, price, product type, sale price (including effective date), shipping label, size, size system, size type, title (including ability to provide custom titles), short title</li>
<li><em><strong>Rich data fields</strong></em>: adult content flag, age group, consumer datasheet, consumer notice, energy efficiency class (including min/max), energy label, gender, lifestyle image, material, pattern, product detail, product highlights, tax category, transit time label</li>
<li><em><strong>Advanced fields</strong></em>: adwords grouping filter, adwords label, availability date, bundle flag, cost of goods sold, custom labels, disclosure date, expiration date, identifier exists flag, included/excluded destination, instalments, minimum/maximum handling time, multipack, pause flag, promotion ID, ships from country, unit pricing measure & base measure</li>
<li><strong>Shopping actions-specific fields</strong>: google funded promotion eligibility, product fee, purchase quantity limit, return address label, return policy label, sell on google quantity, shopping ads excluded country,</li>
<li><strong>Local-inventory-specific fields</strong>: pickup method, pickup SLA</li>
</ul>
<h3>Product review feeds</h3>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3894232" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hoodie-ad-with-product-review.png?w=120" alt="" width="102" height="201" />In addition to the standard product feed, the extension provides a Google Product Review feed which integrates with WooCommerce’s built-in review system to provide a feed of product reviews that Google can cross-link to your products to display more compelling product ads including product ratings.</p>
<p>These ratings can show star ratings on Shopping ads and, in some instances, on product listings on Google. These ratings can help shoppers with their purchase decisions, driving more qualified shoppers to your product pages.</p>
<p>The extension provides full feeds, and incremental weekly, and daily feeds. Review data is automatically linked with your product feed data to allow Google to match reviews to products, and you have the ability to exclude reviews from the feed if required to meet Google’s policies.</p>
<h3>Integrated with other WooCommerce extensions</h3>
<p>The extension includes automatic integration with a wide range of WooCommerce extensions, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Product Bundles</li>
<li>Composite Products</li>
<li>Brands</li>
<li>Product Brands for WooCommerce</li>
<li>Cost of Goods</li>
<li>Multi-Currency</li>
<li>Min/Max Quantities</li>
<li>Product CSV Import Suite</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/google-product-feed-extension-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and more</a>….</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feeds</h3>
<p>The extension provides a number of feeds to help you integrate, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Google Product feed</strong> – integrate your products to Google Merchant Centre so you can use them in surfaces across Google, and product ad campaigns</li>
<li><strong>Google Local inventory feed </strong>– set up local surfaces, and local inventory ads</li>
<li><strong>Google Product Reviews feed</strong> – send product review / ratings data to Google to enhance your product ad campaigns</li>
<li><strong>Google Promotions feed</strong> – automatically send supported promotion data & pricing to Google</li>
<li><strong>Bing product feed</strong> – integrate your products to Bing’s Merchant Centre so you can use them in product ad campaigns</li>
</ul>

Google Product Feed

<p>Feed rich product data to Google Merchant Center for setting up free product listings, product ads, and local inventory campaigns. Full control over your field mappings, and feed content so you can maximize campaign performance and ad spend.</p>

Instagram Sync vs Google Product Feed