Things I’ll never build – Part MCLIV – WordPress Instagram Liked Plugin

This idea was inspired by one of my favorite Instagram features: see what pics have been Liked by my friends. Although there are already a number of Instagram related WP plugins, all of them are about displaying galleries of my own pics on my blog.

This one would, once a given span, post to my WordPress blog the last X instagram pics I have taken or liked. To be precise, it would:

let me choose the number of max pics it could post
show only my pics or also the ones I’ve recently liked
display the account name and link to the original photo
not show the pics that are set to private
let me choose the size of the photos and layout
post a notification to Twitter or FB.

I think that it’s a great way to:

turn non-users to users by showing them the beauty of Instagram
find new people to follow (turn non-followers to followers)
see cool photos taken by people connected to my friends without having to follow new users
give a second life to pics that have been taken a few days ago and that already have all but disappeared into the ether by sending them back in the loop via a blog post.

Well, I guess that it could also work as a standalone service (Instaliked?), like the ones I have detailed in this post on Instagram web apps round-up.

Anyway, here are 5 Instapics I like!