Instagram feed and blog posts widgets

Pull in your Instagram grid automatically, or show your published blog posts on any page.

The Instagram widget shows a grid of your connected Instagram posts. The Blog Posts widget shows articles you've published in your storefront blog.

Where to find it

Website → open a page → drag Instagram or Blog Posts from the widget picker.

How it works

Instagram

Heading and Subheading: optional title and supporting line (leave blank to hide either).
Number of posts: how many tiles to show.
Columns: 3, 4, or 5 tiles per row on desktop (fewer on tablet and mobile).
Show captions: overlays the first line of each caption when hovering a tile.
Show follow button: adds a "Follow" button linking to your Instagram account.
Requires your Instagram business account to be connected first. The Instagram section is only offered in the Add Section list when Renta has switched Instagram on; if you do not see it there, it is switched off for your site.

Blog Posts

Heading and Subheading: title and optional intro line.
Number of posts: how many to show — set to 0 to show every published post (useful for a full blog index page), or a positive number for a teaser section.
Show featured post: renders your newest post as a large lead card, with the rest below in a grid.
Columns: 2, 3, or 4 columns for the non-featured posts.
Show excerpt and Show date: toggle each on the cards.
Posts per page: if used as your blog index, how many posts show before a "next page" link appears (real page links, not a "load more" button, so search engines can find every post).
Show "View all posts" link: adds a link to your full blog index below the grid.

Example

A jet ski rental shop could add a Blog Posts widget to their homepage with "Number of posts" set to 3 and "Show featured post" off, giving a simple teaser row that links to the full blog.

Good to know

The Instagram widget needs your Instagram business account connected first — without it, there's nothing to display.
Blog posts are written and published separately — see Writing and publishing blog posts.

Showing an Instagram feed from LightWidget instead

If you already use LightWidget (a separate service that makes an Instagram grid you can paste into a website), you can use it on your Renta site without connecting Instagram to Renta. 1. In LightWidget, copy the embed code. It contains an `<iframe>` that points to `https://lightwidget.com/widgets/(your id).html`. 2. In the Site Builder, add a Sandbox section (see Widgets overview) and paste the code into its custom code box. 3. Publish the page.

Renta's site security rules allow frames from `lightwidget.com` and nothing else under that name, so the grid now loads. Before this was allowed the frame was blocked and the area stayed blank with no error shown on the page. Other embed services are not covered by this change, because Renta only allows frames from a short list of approved sites.