We consider staging sites to be key to successfully running a food blog. Testing updates A staging site is a non-live version of your website that you can use to test updates to plugins, ...
Clear cache
The most common issue we get is "my site isn't updating with my changes" and in 99% of cases, this is a simply cache clearing issue. Here's how to clear your cache. WP Rocket WP Rocket is ...
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 ...
Site Info
The Site Info page introduced in the Feast Plugin 9.4.0 helps recipe sites define their E-E-A-T. This helps both readers and search engines better understand what your site is about what what niche ...
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 ...
Blog insurance
Food bloggers may benefit from Professional Liability / Errors & Ommissions insurance for their site. A popular source for this is BiBerk, which can cost about $800 per year depending on ...
Productivity
As part of the transition to the Feast Plugin, we've expanded the scope of what we cover to include: We try to focus on areas where there currently are no alternative solutions (eg. ...
Linking
Check out the TopHatRank webinar on links, from Mediawyse, Nerdpress and TopHatRank. Internal links Andrew's tips for internal links: make sure they're NOT nofollow use good anchor text make ...
Before + After
Check out these before and afters of food bloggers fixing their pagespeed issues. ...
Modern Previous + Next
The previous + next feature built into the themes was designed for a time when blogs were blogs - chronological lists of posts. But this is 2022, and blogs are dead. Modern "food blogs" require ...
Block Editor Styling (Gutenberg)
The block editor styling makes the post writing experience match the output on the front-end more closely. As of August 2020, this is enabled automatically for all sites. Enabled styling ...
Hosting
When it comes to hosting your blog, you get what you pay for. The minimum we recommend spending on hosting is $30 per month. Anything less than that, and you're hurting your ability to rank in search ...
How to Write a Recipe Post
There are days when writing is a breeze, and others where the words just don't flow. In both cases, having a structure to work off and knowing what's important to answer helps the flow so that you can ...
3 Tips for Food Bloggers to Avoid Marketing Burnout
Avoiding your computer's gaze, so you don't have to edit one more image? Have a post ready but can't bring yourself to write the caption and hashtags for Instagram? Sure, you could be stressed. Or ...
Stay Focused on Important Things (or: why Pinterest sucks)
This is an opinionated post from Skylar, arguing the counter-point about why Pinterest and social media is a waste of time. Lots of food bloggers use Pinterest very successfully and derive income from ...
How to make email marketing an easy part of your content production process
You already know that social media is vital to promoting your food blog, but did you know that email marketing is just as important to the top food blogs? According to OptinMonster and MailMunch, ...
DMCA and Copyright Infringement
There's some debate about whether recipes can be copyrighted, but generally, copying creative content (such as a post, or parts of one) Note that recipes themselves can not be copyrighted: ...
Feel Refreshed Tomorrow With This Nightly Routine for Food Bloggers
Evening is the time when we get to unwind and relax - when we can decompress and let all of those troubles and stresses melt away. But do most of us actually use our evenings to do that? Probably ...
The Secret to Getting More Done—Even When Your Schedule's Packed
You're busy. And, even though you're filled with tons of creative ideas and inspiration, finding the minutes throughout the day to act on them is a totally separate battle for you. It's easy to ...
Productivity Hacks for Bloggers to Publish on Schedule
After a day full of errands, emails, and putting out fires, you finally kick up your feet to settle in for the evening. You're just about to pick up the remote when it hits you. "Oh, shoot!" you think ...
How to Grow Your Food Blog with Little Time
Photograph by Katie Purnell found on minimography.com Many of us creative types are building businesses from the ground up - from side hustles to bootstrapped businesses from a "home office" (aka ...
Build Your Dreams on Epic Fails
No one gets it right the first time, every time. NO ONE! Whatever it is that you are trying to accomplish - a new recipe, a new blog, designing a new website or a new small business venture - is ...
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