Social Hashtags
Grabs images & videos matching any hashtag from social APIs like instagram & youtube.
The facts
- Rating
- 4★ from 5
- Active installs
- 20+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2015
- Added
- Jun 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.0.1
- Tested up to
- WP 4.1.42
- Downloads
- 7,525
Our analysis
AI-assistedSocial Hashtags is a WordPress plugin that allows you to retrieve images and videos from social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube based on specific hashtags. It stores the media locally in a custom post type, giving you control over how to display and categorise the content on your site.
The plugin is designed for users who want to enhance their websites with social media content, allowing for private or public sharing and custom integration into pages. It also has plans for future updates to include additional platforms like Twitter.
Best for: This plugin suits users looking to integrate social media content into their WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Grabs media from Instagram and YouTube by hashtags
- ✓Stores thumbnails and details locally for control
- ✓Allows categorisation of content
- ✓Can make content private or public
- ✓Extendable to include additional social media platforms
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in February 2015
- •Limited to specific social media platforms currently
- •Directory score indicates potential issues
Verdict
Social Hashtags provides a specific functionality for pulling in social media content, but its age and directory score suggest it may have limitations in performance or compatibility.
From the developer
shanaver's own description of Social Hashtags, lightly tidied.
Grabs images & videos matching any hashtag from social APIs like instagram & youtube. Stores thumbnails & details locally for each one in a custom post type so you have full control over the content on your site. This allows you to categorize, make private/public, etc and include them any wayt hat you like on your pages.
Extendable to include twitter, telportd and others as well.
We first developed this for the original Kony2012 site, it was a huge hit. Sorry that it took so long to get it into the WordPress plugins.
Update Plans
We are going to upgrade twitter to oAuth, and clean up the layout.