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 ...
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Crafts, knitting, DIY blogs
Can the Feast Plugin be used on craft sites like knitting and DIY? Absolutely. This is what can be used for craft sites: Modern HomepageModern Recipe Index (using crafts categories)Modern ...
Travel blogs
Can the Feast Plugin be used on travel sites? Absolutely. This is what can be used for travel sites: Modern HomepageModern Recipe Index (using travel categories)Modern MenuModern SidebarModern ...
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 ...
Non-Food Blogs
The Feast Plugin can be used sites in a number of other niches, like sewing, crafts, parenting, travel and fashion. While our recommendations and tutorials are geared specifically towards food ...
Food Blogger Summit
Below is the presentation on page jumps from the Food Blogger Summit. The Feast Plugin saves time and offers a maintenance-free way to do this using the Advanced Jump To shortcode. Learn how ...
Food Blog Page Structure
On a very basic level, the pages on your site are broken into 4 major sections, each with different purposes: header (orange)content (blue)sidebar (green)footer (red) By contrast, the mobile ...
How to do email marketing right for food blogs
The one thing you truly own in food blogging is your email list. Social media? That can disappear over night. Algorithms change. These are the people who you've received permission from to enter ...
Why we're dropping the blog page template
The “blog” template is being deprecated and removed from the Genesis framework after June 19th, 2019. It will be disappearing from all Studiopress themes as of version 3.0, and Feast will be following ...
How to Launch Your Food Blog
Spoiler alert: "Launching" a food blog is a myth. There is no reason at all to have your website in "maintenance mode" or password-protected when you're starting a food blog. In fact, because it ...
Food Blogger Income: Personal Chefs
Running a food blog is in simple terms, just another small business. Like all businesses, food blogs should have multiple income streams. Not only does this earn you more money each month, it ...
Disclosures for Food Bloggers
Food bloggers that take compensation (in any form) for promoting content are legally obligated to disclose it. This can include: There is no exhaustive list of what "compensation" counts as, and ...
Food Blog Site Structure
A good site structure helps search engines understand and crawl content, and it helps visitors find related recipes. As of 2019, we recommend a simpler website structure that will save bloggers ...
Font Size for Food Blogs
We recommend using the Feast Plugin to edit the body font size, as this customization keeps through theme updates and changes. In all themes versions 4.0.0+ we've updated the body text size, as ...
Food Blog Content Width Updated to 720px
As of theme versions 4.0.0 released on December 18, 2018, the content width for all themes is now 720px. This applies to: Foodie Pro 4.0.0 (formerly: 680px)Brunch Pro 4.0.0 (formerly: ...
Future of Food Blogging
Food blogging has come a long way in the past few years, and I'm sad to say that our themes had fallen behind the times. These will be the changes moving forward: Mobile is King Most customer ...
SEO for Food Bloggers
Our themes come pre-designed for SEO as best as they can be, but we cover only a fraction of what it takes to compete in search in rankings. Functionality does not belong in themes. SEO features ...
Food Blogger Jr Migration Form
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Food Blog Sitelinks
Probably one of the least capitalized-on opportunities for food bloggers is sitelinks. What are sitelinks? The Feast Plugin Sitelinks inserts navigation code into your page's content, adding ...
Food Blogger Migration Form
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Food Blog Income Reports
Food bloggers are a community of highly creative, highly driven individuals who are both competitive and supportive. We've compiled a list of publicly available income reports available on food blogs ...
How to Start a Food Blog
Disclaimer: This post is a breakdown of the decisions and best practices that went into our new Food Blogger Hosting package. Save yourself the time and headache and go sign up today. For those of you ...
Food Blog Theme Features Comparison
Each of our themes run some of the best food blogs in the world, with features and functionality varying slightly depending on their specific needs. Note that as of 2021, the features of the ...
Enable SSL for HTTPS on your Food Blog
Google wants all site to be HTTPS. This actually dates back to 2014, when Google announced that they use SSL as a ranking signal. And as of July 2018, major browsers will begin marking all ...
Food Blogging Trends
Visitor Participation What do all the top recipes in the search engines have in common? High visitor engagement. This isn't a coincidence - factors such as time on page, and pages-per-session are ...
5 Days to a Better Blog Brand
Stay on top of SEO, pagespeed and compatibility updates via the newsletter! With this actionable 5-part challenge, you'll have just the digital design strategies you need for a profitable ...
Food Blog Home Page Pagination
Because the home page for Genesis and our themes are so flexible, pagination would not work well. We would need to limit the flexibility of the home page in order to add that feature and we chose to ...
How to Enable the Grid Archive for the Blog Page
As of 2019 we no longer recommend or support the use of blog pages.Instead, a proper site structure must be used, based on categories. Our customers have been asking to have more control over how ...
WordPress Food Blog Themes for 2024
These are our classic Genesis child themes, 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 ...
Here’s a Holiday Gift Idea: Why Not Publish a Food Blog Cookbook?
Have you made your Christmas shopping list yet? Let me guess. Golf balls for Dad? A new pair of kicks for hubby? Maybe a Sephora gift card for your best friend? Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's ...
Best Food Blog Designs of 2022
What makes a food blog great? Loads fastGreat design that highlights contentRecipes that are focused around a theme or topicPictures of the food for reference (and to drool over) Our themes get ...
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Why Should I have an Editorial Calendar? Food Blogging Tips You Need
In the early stages of food blogging, many people are recipe-dependent. You add flair here and there but rely on recipes to learn new techniques and explore flavors. But as you hone your skill, you ...
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 ...
Recipe Page Guidelines for Food Bloggers
Wouldn't it be nice if you knew exactly how your food blog was evaluated for quality, and what you might be doing wrong (or right)? Well, you actually can know. [Update 2019/03/31: you can find a ...
The Secret Ingredient: How to Grow into a Top Food Blog
The secret ingredient that makes your recipe pop, like pickle juice or fish sauce, can sometimes get weird. So, we're getting weird in this blog post too. Or, at least, different. Because the ...
Food Blog Recipe Videos
A growing trend in food blogging is recipe videos, which can help increase time-on-site, get you featured positions in search engines and makes your content more easily shareable. In fact, schema ...
Pinterest for Food Bloggers
We recommend using TastyPins to manage your Pinterest pins. Pinterest functionality Wordpress themes are designed for aesthetics - visual styling that should be timeless. Formatting content ...
8 Ways to Promote Your Food Blog
One of the key aspects of creating an actionable promotion strategy is breaking to-dos down into bite-sized pieces. While many promotional techniques require strategy and time, there are plenty of ...
How to Price Sponsored Content For Your Blog in 2020
You've put time, energy, and creativity into making your blog wildly successful, checking off items from our how to start a food blog tutorial. You've made it beautiful with a premium wordpress theme ...