Instagram API to WordPress – Recent Photos Aren’t Most Recent

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I’ve got this working to pull recent Instagram posts into WordPress, however the “recent” photos that are displayed aren’t actually my most recent Instagram posts. When I refresh, the Instagram posts that are pulled in also change. I can only find a max/min time within the API docs. Is there any way to just get the last 3 Instagram posts made? 

<?php
$json = file_get_contents('https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/user-id/media/recent/?access_token=key-number');
$a_json = json_decode($json, true);
foreach( $a_json['data'] as $key => $value) {
  $a_images[$value['id']]['link'] = $value['link'];
  $a_images[$value['id']]['url'] = $value['images']['standard_resolution']['url'];
  $a_images[$value['id']]['caption'] = $value['caption']['text'];
}
shuffle($a_images);

echo '<ul>';
$i = 0;
foreach($a_images as $image) {
  if ($i < 3) {
    echo '<li class="large-4 columns">
        <div class="front">
            <a href="'.$image[link].'" target="_blank">
                <img src="'.$image[url].'"/>
            </a>
        </div>

        <div class="back">
            <p>'.$image.'</p>
        </div>
    </li>';
    $i++;
  }
}
echo '</ul>';
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  1. You are receiving the data in the right order, but then you are using the shuffle() function on the images array $a_images you created .

    if you remove the shuffle($a_images); from your code it’ll be just fine.

    and replace $image[link], $image[url] and $image[caption] with
    $image['link'], $image['url'] and $image['caption']

    sorry for bad english