The Feast setup no long supports or offers a "blog" or "blog roll" type of homepage, or any other page. Instead, you need to properly categorize your pages.
Blog roll pages were a concept from the early 2000s when the internet was different and user experience wasn't a focus.
We strongly recommend against blog/blog-roll type pages, and will not support them.
Known issues are:
- irrelevant sequence of posts on a site, to a visitor
- lacking proper categorization, making it difficult for users to navigate
- high quantity of thin-content pages, and counts negatively towards site quality scoring and ability to rank
- creates crawl/index issues as Google wastes time crawling junk pages instead of high quality content
We covered this specific to food blogs on the All Recipes page.
User experience
The correct way to display your posts to create a positive user experience is to properly organize it following our category guidelines.
The posts should then be displayed by category relevant to the user, grouping thematically/topically relevant content that helps the visitor achieve whatever task they're on your website to achieve.
Examples of this are:
- grouping posts by meal on a food blog
- grouping posts by city/country on a travel blog
- grouping posts by material/skillset on craft sites
- grouping posts by type (car/truck/suv) on auto sites
This should be used on your homepage, index page(s), and provides better, more relevant internal linking on the posts themselves.
This is such a fundamental, basic component of any modern content site that we consider it absolutely essential.
The only exception to this is sites with less than 100 posts, as detailed on our how to launch a food blog guide.
Create your own
If you want to ignore our recommendations and have your own blog/blog-roll style page, what you can do is create an "all" category such as "All Recipes" or simply "Blog" and assign every post on your site to it.
It will automatically display in chronological order and exactly mimic a blog-style setup.
We strongly recommend against this and will not offer any support for it.
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