WordPress: Pinterest Widget

All of our themes include a custom Pinterest widget. This widget will display your recent pins from your profile or from a specific Pinterest Board.

Pinterest Widget for WordPress

Follow the steps below to use this widget:

1) Go to Appearance > Widgets in your WordPress dashboard.

WordPress widgets

2) Select the widget called pipdig - Pinterest Pins and assign it to any widget area, e.g. "Sidebar".

3) You can now select options to display your Pinterest pins:

How to display pins from a Pinterest account

For example, to display recent Pinterest pins for our Pinterest account at https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pipdig, we would enter "pipdig" into the options:

If you are unsure what your Pinterest username is, please see this guide.

How to display pins from a Pinterest Board

If we wanted to only display pins from our Custom Designs by pipdig board, we would change the widget settings to the following:

You can get the board name by copying this part of the board's url/link:

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