Embed content from Instagram on your Ghost site using HTML cards

Connecting your social network presence to your publication is a great way to cross-pollinate your audiences. Here’s a quick guide for embedding public photos on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/) directly into posts on your Ghost site.

## Copy the embed code on Instagram

Locate the embed code for the image you’d like to embed by clicking the three dots in the top right corner `...` and **Embed**:

Then copy the code provided:

## Paste into an HTML card

Head back to your post in the Ghost editor and insert the embed code into a new HTML card:

## Publish your post

That’s all there is to it! Your new post will now include an embedded Instagram image. Here’s an example of the end result:

Instagram

[cats\_of\_instagram _Verified_](https://www.instagram.com/cats_of_instagram/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=A0WtX7VdG13TBQulhVhTIA5)

12.3M followers

[View profile](https://www.instagram.com/cats_of_instagram/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=A0WtX7VdG13TBQulhVhTIA5)

\
cats\_of\_instagram _Verified_\

18,076 posts · 12M followers\

[View more on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cats_of_instagram/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=A0WtX7VdG13TBQulhVhTIA5)

## Do more with Zapier

As always, you can power up your site even further using [Zapier](https://zapier.com/). If you’re already using Instagram for photos, then you might also like some of these complimentary automations:

[View Ghost + Instagram integrations on Zapier →](https://zapier.com/apps/ghost/integrations/instagram)