Nostalgie

Instagram hands 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, carousels and reels 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, reels 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 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.