One of the best things about Drip Socials is that your feed maintains itself. Once you've connected Instagram and added a feed block, you don't need to manually upload or swap images — the app keeps everything in sync for you.
When Your Feed Refreshes
Drip Socials pulls fresh content from Instagram at two key moments:
- Right after you connect — As soon as your Instagram account is linked, Drip Socials fetches your recent posts and profile information immediately.
- On a recurring schedule — After that, the app periodically re-fetches your latest media in the background so new posts appear and removed posts drop off automatically.
Because refreshes run on a schedule, a brand-new Instagram post may take a little while to show up on your storefront rather than appearing instantly. Reconnecting Instagram forces an immediate fetch if you cannot wait.
What Gets Synced
Each refresh updates:
- Your recent posts — new images are added, and posts you've deleted on Instagram are removed from the feed.
- Your profile details — your name, username, profile picture, follower count, and following count are refreshed so the optional profile header stays accurate.
Keeping Your Connection Alive
Instagram access uses a token stamped to expire 60 days after you connect. A background job renews tokens that are within a day of expiring and pushes the new expiry another 60 days out, so in normal operation you never have to touch it.
if a renewal call fails, your store is skipped silently. There is no banner, no email and no change to the connection status shown in the app — the token simply stops being renewed and your feed quietly stops updating. Disconnecting and reconnecting Instagram is the only fix, and it is worth trying whenever a feed has stopped picking up new posts for no obvious reason.
Good to Know
- You don't need to keep the app open for refreshes to happen — they run on their own.
- If you want the very latest post to appear sooner, you can reconnect Instagram to trigger an immediate fetch.
- Only your 20 most recent Instagram posts are ever stored (see How Many Posts Are Shown), and posts without a usable image are dropped on the way in.