Nostalgie Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Nostalgie is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta.
Instagram will hand you your entire history as a ZIP file, a perfect keepsake
you can’t actually look at. Nostalgie unpacks that download onto your own
WordPress site so you can finally use it.
Your posts and carousels are imported with their original dates, captions,
hashtags and emoji, and every media file is stored privately: Nostalgie
writes a deny rule over its own uploads folder, so the files are not publicly
addressable. They reach a browser only through a protected endpoint that checks
permission first, and only on the pages you choose to put them on.
Your export stays the master copy. Nostalgie reads it and never changes it.
Imports are safe to repeat: duplicates are detected and skipped, and anything
you’ve organised afterwards is preserved. You can clear everything and rebuild
from your ZIP at any time.
What it does
- Imports posts, carousels and archived posts from the official Instagram
data export, either through WP-CLI or a browser importer that batches its work
so large archives don’t time out. - Keeps the details right. Original timestamps (posts are backdated to when
you posted them), captions with full emoji fidelity, hashtags, and the place
name you tagged when posting. - Protects your media. Files are denied at the web-server level and served
only through a permission-checked endpoint with proper range support, so video
scrubbing and browser caching still work. - Displays anywhere. Drop a photo, video or a whole carousel into any page
or post with the[nostalgie]block or shortcode. Media is addressed by
stable Instagram ids, so your embeds keep working even after you clear and
re-import. - Pick media by looking at it. The block opens your imported archive and
lets you search it by caption, hashtag or tagged place, so you never have to
know a filename. The Media Library gives your imports their own filter
(images, videos, carousels, stories, archived) and offers a ready-to-paste
block for any single file. - Says what an import will store, before it runs. Both the Import button
and the WP-CLI command show what will land on your server, who will be able
to see it, and what looking after it means for you. - Works with AI assistants. Nostalgie registers a WordPress ability, so an
assistant connected to your site can find a post by what you wrote, the
hashtags you used, or the place you tagged, and hand back the exact block to
paste in. Read-only, and limited to users who can already edit posts. - Generates video cover images with ffmpeg when your host provides it, and
degrades gracefully when it doesn’t.
Privacy
Nostalgie does not connect to Instagram, log in to anything, or sync live
data. It reads the export file you downloaded yourself. The free edition makes
no outbound network requests at all, so nothing about your archive leaves your
server.
Nostalgie Pro
A paid edition makes your archive searchable. It imports the deeper parts of the
export (stories, comments and direct messages) and adds a gallery app on your own
domain where you can search all of it, put your photos on a map, and browse by
hashtag or by what you posted on this day in earlier years. Every account is
private unless you say otherwise, several accounts can live on one site, and
anything you do choose to make public gets a shareable embed. The free edition
described here is complete in itself: nothing above is disabled or time-limited.
Not affiliated with Instagram
Nostalgie is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or
sponsored by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. “Instagram” is used only to
describe the data-export format this plugin reads.
Screenshots
Imported photos and videos in the Media Library, filtered to your Nostalgie import (video thumbnails via ffmpeg).
Picking and sizing imported media with the Nostalgie Media block, right in the editor.
The Accounts screen after an import: post/file counts and per-account media access.
