How I Set Up an Instagram Shop for a WooCommerce Client (Without Losing My Mind)
A client asked me to connect their WooCommerce store to Instagram Shop. Simple enough, right? Well—in theory. In practice, it meant wading through a swamp of outdated YouTube videos, guides that described screens that no longer exist, and Meta’s own UI doing its best impression of a moving target. So I did what any sensible person does in 2025: I asked Claude. What followed was a surprisingly smooth setup session — and this post is my attempt to document it properly so I (and hopefully you) never have to start from scratch on this again. First, the Thing Nobody Tells...