Show your latest Instagram posts in grid, list or carousel, cached locally so pages stay fast. The Meta access token never lives in WordPress — you connect once through the Lynbro portal.
Free plugin. Instagram uses the Lynbro portal (one-click connect); no Meta app to maintain per site.
long-lived Meta tokens sitting in your database.
No Meta app per site, no long-lived token to expire or leak from your database. Connect once via the portal.
Carousel, filters, profile header and lightbox are paid extras in the big feed plugins. Here they’re free.
Optional consent-gated rendering (respects a marketing-cookie) pairs perfectly with a cookie banner.
No "Pro" tier, no nag screens. The features other plugins paywall are here from day one.
Authorize via the portal; the token never reaches WordPress.
Posts + mirrored thumbnails; instant render, graceful fallback.
Grid, list or carousel; columns, count, caption length.
Avatar, counts, bio, website and a follow button.
Images / video / reels / carousels; newest or popular.
Consent-gated loading + lazy-load; emits JSON-LD.
Compared with the free tier of the leading Instagram-feed plugins.
| Feature | Lynbro Social | Smash Balloon free | Spotlight free |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta token off your site | ✓ | — | — |
| Local media cache | ✓ | Some | Some |
| Carousel + filters | ✓ | Pro | Pro |
| Profile header | ✓ | Pro | Pro |
| Consent / privacy mode | ✓ | — | Some |
| 35 languages, Danish-first | ✓ | — | — |
No. The Instagram access token is held by the Lynbro portal and never touches your WordPress site. You need a portal site token to connect.
In your WordPress options table, with optional locally-mirrored thumbnails in your uploads folder. Everything is served from the local cache.
No — rendering uses the local cache (no live API call on page load) and images can be lazy-loaded.
The last successful cache keeps showing, so your feed never goes blank.
Lynbro Social Feed