To edit an existing Instagram feed, navigate to Elevated › Instagram Feed, select the My Feeds tab, locate your feed card, and click Edit. This launches the setup wizard preloaded with your current configuration. Any modifications you save dynamically update on your live pages without requiring you to replace or re-paste the feed shortcode.

Table of Contents

• Step 1: Open the My Feeds Directory
• Step 2: Locate Your Target Feed and Click Edit
• Step 3: Modify Feed Settings inside the Wizard
• Step 4: Save Progress Locally and Globally
• Step 5: Finalize and Exit the Wizard
• Feed Editing Behavior
• Troubleshooting Common Editing Issues

Step 1: Open the My Feeds Page

To access your existing Instagram feeds, navigate to Elevated › Instagram Feed in your WordPress admin sidebar.

The overview page opens by default. Click the My Feeds tab located at the top of the interface.

Step 2: Locate Your Target Instagram Feed and Click Edit

The My Feeds page lists all Instagram feeds previously created and saved on your WordPress website.

1. Scan the list to find the feed you wish to modify.
2. Click the Edit button displayed on that feed’s card.

Elevated Instagram Feed will automatically start the 7-step wizard interface, pre-populating all panels and dropdown menus with the settings currently active for that feed.

Step 3: Modify Feed Settings inside the Wizard

Once the wizard loads, you can jump directly to any step to make your desired changes. You do not have to click through every step in sequential order.

Use the progress bar at the top of your workspace page to navigate straight to the relevant setup pane:

• Step 1 (Template): Switch layout between six options available.
• Step 2 (Account): Choose a different connected profile or authorize a new account.
• Step 3 (Filters): Modify your custom hashtag moderation parameters under Show Posts Containing or Hide Posts Containing.
• Step 4 (Post Elements): Adjust image crop shapes under Image Aspect Ratio or toggle elements like Likes Count or Comments Count.
• Step 5 (Layout): Edit columns, margins, or customize label strings within the Columns and Rows, Header, or Custom Labels accordions.
• Step 6 (Styles): Update color style or element margins for your Feed, Header, Post, or Popup layouts.

Step 4: Finalize and Exit the Wizard

As you make adjustments, the live preview window on the right-hand side updates in real-time. This allows you to verify your changes before pushing them to live site visitors.

To complete the editing process:

1. Navigate to Step 7 (Complete) by clicking number 7 on the top or clicking the blue Next button at the bottom.
2. Optionally rename your feed in the Feed Title (optional) text input field.

This will finalize your configurations and clear the feed cache to update it everywhere it is used on the website.

Feed Editing Behavior in Elevated Instagram Feed

When you place a feed on your WordPress site, you paste a shortcode referencing a unique identifier ID, such as [elevated_instagram_feed id=”1″]. This shortcode acts as a dynamic database pointer.

When you edit an existing feed, you are overwriting changes to that exact ID. Consequently, you do not need to replace, edit, or copy the shortcode on your live pages or posts after editing. The visual and functional changes apply automatically across your live site the moment you save your changes in the wizard interface.

Troubleshooting Common Editing Issues

Visual changes are not reflected on the website

First, ensure you have navigated to the last step and clicked the Save changes button. If modifications are still missing from the front end, your web browser, WordPress site, or hosting environment is likely serving a cached version of the page. Navigate to the Settings tab at the top of the interface and click the Clear Cache button to purge the plugin’s local media file directory. You may also need to clear active third-party optimization plugins, hosting-level object caches, or CDN cache.

Clicking Edit on the Feeds tab opens a blank wizard screen

This can happen when a server database connection timeout or a conflicting browser extension interrupts the WordPress admin JavaScript loader. Refresh your web browser window to re-trigger the script initialization. If the wizard interface remains blank, open your browser developer console (F12 › Console) to check for active script errors, and try temporarily disabling security, privacy, or ad-blocking browser extensions.

The live preview panel does not update during editing

This behavior occurs if your secure Instagram session token has expired or if the connection to the external media API times out. Navigate back to Wizard Step 2 (Account), and verify your profile is connected. If your secure authorization session has closed, disconnect and re-authorize the Instagram account to restore the live image preview.

Related Documentation

• How to Connect Your Instagram Account
  Initial OAuth authorization and account configuration flow for first-time profile setups.
• How to Embed an Instagram Feed on WordPress
  A step-by-step guide to pasting generated feed shortcodes into pages, posts, or widget block areas.
• How to Clear Cache and Refresh Instagram Feeds
  How to manually purge the plugin’s local storage files and trigger immediate background updates from Instagram.