Here's a quick explanation of how to build your first social media feed with Juicer.

Juicer takes posts from your social media accounts, hashtags, and RSS feeds and blends them into a beautiful feed on your website that refreshes automatically. It's an easy way to keep the content on your website fresh, as it does all the work of pulling in social media posts and displaying them for you.

Creating an Account

To begin, sign up using the form on our homepage. You can use either your email or one of the offered social network authentication methods.

We also support signing up with your Facebook or your X/Twitter account. To see those, click the red Sign up for FREE button (top right corner) and you will be presented will all the possible sign-up methods.

If you sign up with your email, you'll receive a verification link to confirm it.

Next, let's add the first source to your Juicer feed.

Adding a Source

A "source" is any social media account or hashtag whose posts you display. Your sources are shown within the "feed", which is the wall of posts that you embed on your website. In other words, feeds are containers for your sources.

Simply click on a social network, and you can add a source from that network. We'll use Instagram as an example. 

At the top of the window, you can select the type of post you want to import. Currently, on Instagram, we support standard "Posts", "Reels", and "Stories".

☀️ Bonus: Stories are available on Juicer even after they expire on Instagram.


Then you choose if you want to import that post type from an account you connected–the @username, or from the public #hashtag pool.

Most social networks have similar options, but each has certain features or restrictions. For example, you must have the login details for any Instagram username source you want to display. And with Facebook, hashtags are not available. 

Let's try importing an X/Twitter hashtag #naturephoto…

Once you click "Create Source" Juicer will take you to the feed dashboard, where you will see that Juicer has pulled in a batch of posts for the #naturephoto hashtag.

If you scroll down, you will see a number of the most recent posts. Juicer works by obtaining posts from the social networks in batches, at set time intervals. That interval depends on your plan level. The higher the plan level, the more frequently Juicer will pull in the latest posts.
Currently, Juicer has only obtained a single batch of posts. As time goes on, more posts will appear in the feed.

 

The Dashboard

Your Juicer dashboard shows what your Juicer feed will look like once it's embedded on your website. Any changes you make to the feed here will be reflected where you embed the feed.

⚠️ Note: These changes will not impact the social posts back on the social network, so you don't need to worry about deleting or changing posts.

The toolbar on the left-hand side of your screen allows you to adjust the look of your feed, set filters in place, access your moderation section, and do other tasks. Pretty much most of the tasks regarding feeds, apart from the Embedding feature, which is located in the top right corner. We will not go into great detail here–you can access more tutorials and information from our Help Center.

Most importantly, you can use the "Social Media Sources" panel of this toolbar to add or remove sources in your feed:

On our free plan, you can add any two sources into this area. Our higher tier plans allow you to add more sources, or build more feeds.

To remove a source, simply click the source in this panel and select "Delete".

 

Curating/Moderating Your Feed

You can set automatic or manual filters in place for your feed, so only the content you want to appear is shown. One way to do this is by simply hovering over posts and selecting "Delete":

Doing so will move the post out of your feed and into your "Moderated Posts" section. You can also select "Pin to top", and then refresh your page to see the post pinned to the top part of your feed. You can do this with multiple posts.
 
Click the "Moderate and Filter" panel, and you have more flexibility to allow or block posts. This is particularly useful if you are displaying a hashtag source since you can't control how people post with that hashtag.

 

If you'd prefer to manually review all posts before they appear in your feed, turn on the "Send All Posts to Moderation" option. If not, you can turn on the "Don't allow posts with profanity" option or insert specific words or phrases that you want to block. You can also insert words or phrases that the posts must contain to appear ("Only allow posts with these words"). The allow and disallow word list can be a username, hashtag, or just a word.

Once you have curated the feed to your liking, and chosen a feed style you prefer from the "Feed Design" panel, you can embed the feed on your website. 

Embedding Your Feed

After signing up, you will receive an email that contains the embed code for your Juicer feed. You can also obtain this code via the "Embed" button, located in the top right corner of the Juicer feed dashboard. You can embed any Juicer feed in as many locations as you like, and even make customizations to the different embeds. 

Simply paste your embed code into your webpage, using your website's content management system (WordPress, Sharepoint, etc.) or webpage editor, and your feed will appear on the page. If you're experiencing inconsistencies between what you see on the Juicer feed dashboard and your website, you can also try embedding your feed using the same code at the codepen.io website under the HTML section.

The standard version of Juicer's code is commonly used, but there is also a WordPress plugin/shortcode, and an iframe version, both accessible from this same Embed panel. The iframe version of the code is not mobile responsive, nor can the post overlays (pop-ups) be used in this version. 

If you encounter problems embedding your feed, take a look at our Technical Topics help section. Of course, you can also send us an email. We'll be happy to help with this.

Connected Social Accounts

Sometimes, Juicer will ask you to connect social accounts on a separate page called the "Connected Social Accounts" page. The link to it is located in your user menu.

 

The "Connected Social Accounts" page looks like this:

These connections help Juicer obtain posts on your behalf from social networks. In some cases, they are essential for the feed to function.

Depending on the network, some connections expire every couple of months and need to be refreshed manually. This is a security requirement imposed by those networks and Juicer cannot do anything about that. The screenshot above shows how it looks when some of them expire. To refresh an expired connection, simply click the 🔄 icon and follow the instructions.

When you connect your social account to Juicer, Juicer will not post anything to your social account or edit your posts in any way (you can read more in our privacy policy). These connections provide us with read-only access to the posts you want to display and help us avoid running into API rate limits established by social networks.

 

The Main Account Menu

• Connected Social Accounts – a page where you will manage connections to your social network accounts.
• Account settings – If you would like to change your account details, such as login email address, password, or emailing preferences, you can do so by accessing your Account Settings.
• Billing settings – If you would like to change or update your payment method, and update your invoice details, including the TAX / VAT ID, you can do it from the Billing settings page.
  
  

 

 

If you have any questions or need any help, please email us at hello@juicer.io.