When Instagram announced their API I really wanted to take a crack at it and develop a WordPress plugin to pull in the pictures I share on Instagram. I’m really love Instagram and iPhone photography in general.

I haven’t had enough spare time to get around to writing my own plugin, but I still may. I have some ideas more integration with WordPress later. In the mean time, I found a handful of plugins that pull in your Instagram photos. I tried them all and Instapress is my Favorite. Like most plugins, it’s simple to install. It uses a widget to place the images in your sidebar and it supports a shortcode for embedding into posts/pages.

I tweaked the style it ships with a little to suit this layout. And I used a different size image than default because wanted a larger version so it would fill up the sidebar more since a single column was the only layout option. You could tweak that with css pretty easily to make them into columns, but I liked the photobooth type effect that the strip has.

One note on image sizes. It seems Instagram supports just about any size, but anything I tried over 300 kept turning into a rectangle instead of a square. I didn’t take any more time looking into it. It could have been my sites CSS or some other thing. I just dropped it back down to 250 and it still looks good.

Instapress is a pretty good plugin if you want include your Instagram stream.