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General Notes (Feast+)
Answers to how and why certain elements are set up. Contrast We use a formula to determine the largest contrast between any given color - whether primary, accent or background - and white or ...
Getting Started (Feast+)
This page is only available to members. ...
Kadence
The Feast Plugin is compatible with the Kadence framework and themes. We automatically hide settings that are not available in Kadence in order to prevent conflicting functionality. Nothing is ...
Food blogger lifecycle
Feast has developed this lifecycle internally for gauging where a blogger is and how we can best serve them. Through informal conversations we've found that some people have found this useful as a ...
June 2023 Search Updates
There's a lot of changes popping up recently, some related to AI and some related to normal search updates and some are just experiments that may or may not roll out to the wider search ...
Optimize core blocks
This feature has been deprecated as of 10.6.0 and is no longer functional. Few people enabled it, and those that did often were confused about why the options were removed. Ultimately, this is the ...
Optimize block typography
This feature has been deprecated as of 10.6.0 and is no longer functional. Few people enabled it, and those that did often were confused about why the options were removed. Ultimately, this is the ...
Tools
The Tools page was introduced in the Feast Plugin v.9.4.0 in order to provide quick services to fix common issues. The initial release features two tools: Open all comments on ...
Feast Plus vs. Feast Plugin
Short answer: The Feast Plugin is designed for compatibility with best practices and low maintenance, so that you can focus on content development. Customizations usually increase maintenance and ...
Modified dates
There's a lot of concern about updating the modified date on posts that's fear-driven and in our opinion, overblown. Dates do not matter - only content does. We no longer recommend attempting to ...
Buttons
Buttons (including the button block) should never be used as links. This violates accessibility guidelines. Buttons perform actions on a page. Buttons should not link to another ...
Changing domains
In general, it's best not to change domains. But if you have to, this process has worked for us in the past. Preparation It's best to start this process 12 months ahead of time. The longer ...
Feast Plugin Changelog Archive
The most recent changes can be found in the Feast Plugin's releases section. Below is an archive of past updates: 9.8.0 - September 19, 2023 Fix block typography bug for Feast Plugin ...
How to create a real shopping experience
While providing links to products you use regularly is a good idea intuitively, it doesn't work out in the real world. these are typically thin content pageslinking to it from your navigation menu ...
Getting started
We generally have 3 different entry-points for people looking to get their site updated with best practices for: With the Feast Plugin, you get access to all 5 themes, and all themes are ...
Feast Plugin Onboarding
This is for anyone who has had a new site setup using our GraftedPro clone service, which saves hours of technical setup so that you can get started food blogging immediately. Page ...
Feast Plugin Starter
The Feast Plugin Starter is the Feast Plugin with all options and settings locked to our recommendations, which reduces the amount of effort and complexity needed to launch a brand new food ...
White Glove Tutorials
If you've had us perform the Feast + Plugin Setup or the Fresh Site White Glove, you'll find compressed training videos here on how to edit your site. Along with each training video, there will be ...
Post Template
This is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. Creating high quality content that demonstrates E-A-T, follows modern guidelines for headings is difficult, and can be very time ...
Foodie Pro Classic Theme
Foodie Pro Classic is the Genesis child theme, without the Feast Plugin. Here's what you should know: We highly recommend purchasing the Feast Plugin instead of the classic theme, as it contains ...
Why you shouldn't make customizations
We frequently get asked about how to make certain customizations, and we recommend against it. Price We don't build customization support into our themes: ...
Migration
When migrating to our theme + plugin setup, we often get asked about how it's done in a single large project. There's often multiple separate projects that actually need to be done, and unless hiring ...
oembed
oembeds are a way for Wordpress to integrate content from external websites into your website. By pasting a link to certain networks, the Wordpress editor will attempt to automatically fetch that ...
Convert text to fractions
The Convert text to fractions setting fixes a significant accessibility issue with recipe sites, by replacing text such as 1/4 with a proper fraction, like ¼. Accessibility This is because ...
Web Stories
Web stories are an Instagram-stories style format that Google recently launched. They're a essentially a mobile-formatted slideshow that use images and video, and work well for recipes. Think of ...
Why we don't support block-level styling
The block editor is a powerful tool, but also one that can cause you a lot of problems if you don't use it properly. Generally, we do not recommend making styling changes to individual blocks on ...
FSRI Block
The Simple Recipe Index (FSRI) block is a block-editor component for building the Modern Homepage. It contains many of the same configuration/setting options as the shortcode, but in an ...
Accessibility
This page is a work in progress and represents the best of our current understanding at the time it is being viewed. It is not an authoritative document and not prescriptive. Keep in mind that: ...
Compatibility
This page always has the most up to date compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support: Note the distinction compatibility - compatibility means we've tested for it ...
2020 Roadmap
The Wordpress core is changing quickly, and we've been busy keeping on top of it. It's time to take a step back and provide some clarity on where things were, and where they're heading. Food ...
Image Optimization
Images are an essential part of recipe posts and can have far-ranging impacts on user experience, site-speed, SEO and accessibility. Pre-upload optimization Images should be optimized before ...
Themes are dead
Well, in the traditional sense they are. Themes should be chosen purely for base styling, not functionality. As of 2021, we consider the Feast Plugin setup essential for all recipe sites older ...
Modern Thumbnails (Featured Images)
The Modern Thumbnails are better sized for the theme content width, and allow you to change themes without worrying about images being incorrectly sized. IMPORTANT: thumbnails are generated from ...
Block Editor Tutorials
The block editor isn't a seamless experience, but it's approaching stable and we expect it to be fully usable by the end of 2020. Come 2021, we expect to see developments that make it a ...
Modern guidelines for page headings
The Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is a powerful tool in the hands of the right person, but can also make your recipe pages ugly and worse for visitors if misused. Here are some modern ...
Modern Google Fonts
Note: this feature is still in BETA for testing and bug fixes and not officially recommended. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its release. The fonts implementation in the themes were ...
What are "content archives"
Content archives (or just "archives") is technical jargon that is no longer relevant in 2019 and beyond. The only type of archive that is used or supported are the categories. We no longer refer to ...
Remove the Entry-Meta (below content)
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Remove Entry-Meta from post footer set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between ...
November 2019 Compatibility Updates
A number of updates were released this month that need testing. We're going to docu-blog this process for quality control and review. The first step is going to be working on the Foodie Pro theme ...