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How Many Posts Are Shown

3 min readUpdated 2026-09-16

Two numbers decide how many posts appear: the size of your grid, and the hard limit on how many posts Drip Socials stores for your store.

The 20-post ceiling

Important

Drip Socials only ever keeps your 20 most recent Instagram posts. This is a fixed limit, not a setting you can change — there is no control for it anywhere in the app. Older posts are not stored and cannot be shown.

Your grid decides the display count

A feed block shows columns × rows posts, drawn from the stored pool newest first.

  • Columns can be set to 2 through 10.
  • Rows can be set to 1 or 2 only.

So the largest grid you can build is 10 columns × 2 rows = 20 posts, which is exactly the storage ceiling. There is no way to display more than 20 posts, in one block or across several.

Some common grids:

  1. 3 columns × 2 rows = 6 posts
  2. 4 columns × 2 rows = 8 posts
  3. 6 columns × 1 row = 6 posts
  4. 10 columns × 2 rows = 20 posts

Why a grid can look short

The grid is filled with whatever posts are stored, and nothing pads the empty cells. If there are fewer stored posts than cells, you simply get fewer tiles.

  1. You have fewer than 20 Instagram posts. The grid fills to however many you have.
  2. Some posts were filtered out. Not every Instagram post can be displayed — see the post-types article. A post with no usable image is dropped without warning, so 20 fetched posts can become fewer stored ones.
  3. You deleted posts on Instagram. They are removed from your feed on the next sync, shrinking the grid.
Warning

choosing 10 columns × 2 rows leaves no headroom at all. Every dropped or deleted post immediately leaves a gap. If you want a grid that always looks full, size it a little below the number of posts you reliably have.

Making sure your feed looks full

  1. Keep your grid size at or below the number of recent posts you have.
  2. If you have very few Instagram posts, choose a smaller grid such as 3 × 2.
  3. Post regularly so there is always fresh content within the most recent 20.

Next Steps

  • Change your grid — see Feed Layout and Grid Options.
  • Understand which posts are eligible — see Which Post Types Appear in Your Feed.

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