Travel blogs

Can the Feast Plugin be used on travel sites? Absolutely❗

The Feast Plugin has been completely rebuilt with a Modern Setup to avoid the common pitfalls that WordPress and other travel themes + frameworks fall into.

This means that no matter what setup you're moving from, your travel-content site will benefit from major improvements to the layout, and inter-connectedness of our site structure.

Homepage

The Modern Homepage improves SEO and user experience by featuring your top content, organizing posts into related and sensible sections by category, prominently displaying your E-E-A-T with your author profile, and featuring an optional call-to-action.

Sidebar

Our Modern Sidebar is designed using the block editor, making it simpler to edit and utilizing the FSRI block and Scheduled Categories to optimize internal linking.

This layout is designed to maximize your RPMs, earning your more revenue.

Footer

The Modern Footer is designed using the block editor to make it simple to edit and customize.

Widget-based footer layouts are restrictive in their design and editing.

Ad-Optimized Layout

We've worked with the major ad networks to build page layouts with ideal dimensions to optimize ad placement, maximizing your RPMs.

Continuous Maintenance & Feature Updates

Standards for Google, WordPress, Accessibility and user experience are continually evolving on a monthly basis.

When you custom or self-design, you either need to be constantly relearning and working on updates, or accept that you'll fall behind and eventually be penalized.

Using our setup as your base ensures that we can update things as needed, and minimize (but not eliminate) the amount of work you need to do.

Advanced Jump To

Our Advanced Jump To is a fully-optimized Table-of-Contents solution featuring only necessary H2s, and uses Google-friendly HTML+CSS instead of javascript, improving both SEO and user experience.

Post Meta

Use the Edit Post Info to display and customize information that Google and users want, such as published AND modified dates, author name, and legally required disclosures for travel sites.

We'll also automatically hide the modified date if it's within 7 days of the published date, to clean it up.

Post Template

Stop writing each new post from scratch! Create your own Post Templates that pre-fill new travel posts with the relevant sections, turning writing into a fill-in-the-blank process that ensures you never miss key parts of a post.

This adds up to hours of saved time each year, and ensures consistency across your content.

Modern Index

While your homepage links to your top content, a Modern Index page provides a breakdown of categories by topic, based on user-intent.

Travel sites often have indexes for Destinations (countries), Lifestyle (not travel specific), Guides (credit card points, hotel benefits) and Trip Types (all-inclusive, couples, groups, nomad).

Modern Previous + Next

The outdated, default way that WordPress and most themes internally link is by date. This is most often totally irrelevant content and is bad for SEO and user experience.

The Modern Previous + Next internally links to related posts using your primary category and eye-catching images.

This ensures topical relevance and is more useful for users.

Comment Optimization

The comments can be major headache for spam and source of pagespeed issues due to high DOM nodes.

We help to optimize this by removing the “website” field from the comments form and removing links to unrelated websites.

Image Optimization

We've taken a full 360-degree look at images used on travel sites, and built our image guidelines around maximizing quality, reducing disk space, improve pagespeed, and reducing your workload.

This helps to ensure the pictures you've painstakingly taken are working for you and not against you.

You'll find the image optimization guide provides a complete guide for on-site optimization to make your images work best.

Smart Thumbnails

We have a concise approach to image thumbnails in order to minimize disk space usage on your host, saving you money.

Other travel themes register far too many unused thumbnails that fill up disk space and force you to pay more for hosting.

Smart Integrations

We integrate with industry-leading third parties including Yoast, WP Rocket and Shortpixel so that you don't have to.

Themes should not pretend (or attempt) to do SEO, pagepeed or image compression themselves. These highly-specialized technology verticals require 100% focused third parties.

+ 22+ more optimizations + settings under the "recommended" section

We also have extensive non-theme tutorials such as the Modern Guidelines for Page Headings and Categories guide that help you properly structure your content for both search engines and readers.

Travel + Recipes

For travel sites that also feature recipes, these features will prove indispensable:

Convert recipe acronyms
Convert text to fractions
Recipe update checklist (ignoring recipe specific recommendations)
Integrations displaying WPRM data in the FSRI block

What we don't do

A major part of our setup isn't just what we do and offer, but what we intentionally design against. With thousands of customers at all levels, we've seen exactly what works and what doesn't work and have removed the garbage that doesn't work from our setup.

These are some of the many low-quality ideas and poorly-thought-out features that WordPress and other themes + frameworks offer, that we don't:

tags
blogrolls
sliders
light boxes
pagebuilders
ecommerce
outdated versions
left sidebars

While you can use our setup with any of the above, we will not offer support for any integrations or issues they cause to pagespeed, SEO, accessibility, mobile-optimization, ad revenue or user experience.

See our compatibility and plugin audit pages for more information.

While we don't explicitly recommend against translation/multi-lang sites because they're a waste of time, we don't offer meaningful support for them.