Shortcode with Instagram embedding

Hi,

I know I can display Instagram photos in my posts by simply copy-pasting the url of an image, for example https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqj5sIEgDv2/

Now, I have a shortcode that I would like to be able to output Instagram urls like the one above.

If I just return “https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqj5sIEgDv2/”, WP simply outputs this as a text string in the post.

I have also tried to wrap the Instagram url in do_shortcode() but that didn’t work too.

Anyone know a secret trick for making a shortcode output an Instagram url so the post displays the image?

Thanks,
Mads

• This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic