Title: Access Token Changed?
Last modified: March 22, 2017

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# Access Token Changed?

 *  [marshmelly621](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marshmelly411/)
 * (@marshmelly411)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-token-changed/)
 * Just curious…is there any reason why someone’s access token would randomly change
   to a new one? I use my access token on all my client’s sites to display their
   feeds, and suddenly their feeds are no longer displaying because it says the 
   access token is invalid. I’m able to get the “new” one but its been a pain replacing
   it everywhere. Not the end of the world, but just wondering why this would have
   happened.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Craig at Smash Balloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craig-at-smash-balloon/)
 * (@craig-at-smash-balloon)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/access-token-changed/#post-8949411)
 * Hey Marshmelly411,
 * Unfortunately Instagram doesn’t give us much information on why or when this 
   happens. The only piece of information in their documentation mentions that access
   tokens may expire in the future.
 * Most tokens never expire and some expire every month it seems. The tokens we 
   use for testing and demos are still either original or were only replaced when
   Instagram changed their API policy last June.
 * You could always try logging in to each of your customer’s Instagram accounts
   and then using the blue button to get their access tokens for them. That would
   be equally painful I would imagine though.

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