--- title: Meta Just Quietly Undid the Change That Broke Instagram... description: Meta has reversed its 2020 decision to require access tokens for its oEmbed APIs, making Instagram, Facebook, and Threads embeds tokenless again as of June 15,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-just-quietly-undid-the-change-that-broke-instagram-embeds-in-wordpress-exnurjyos twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meta Just Quietly Undid the Change That Broke Instagram Embeds in WordPress | daily.dev og:description: Meta has reversed its 2020 decision to require access tokens for its oEmbed APIs, making Instagram, Facebook, and Threads embeds tokenless again as of June 15,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-just-quietly-undid-the-change-that-broke-instagram-embeds-in-wordpress-exnurjyos og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/exNURJyOs.png og:image:alt: Meta Just Quietly Undid the Change That Broke Instagram Embeds in WordPress og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meta Just Quietly Undid the Change That Broke Instagram Embeds in WordPress **[WP Mayor](https://daily.dev/sources/wpmayor)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta has reversed its 2020 decision to require access tokens for its oEmbed APIs, making Instagram, Facebook, and Threads embeds tokenless again as of June 15, 2026. This restores the simple paste-a-URL embed experience in WordPress that was broken for nearly six years. Meta also released an official open-source WordPress plugin called Meta Embeds to make single-post embeds easy. However, this change only affects single-post oEmbed calls for public content — it does not affect Instagram feed plugins, which still require the Instagram API with tokens. There are caveats: tokenless access may have lower rate limits, and the embed HTML loads Meta's JavaScript in visitors' browsers, which has GDPR implications for EU-facing sites. Native Meta embed support may also be returning to WordPress core in a future release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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