When you're updating posts, you want to be as thorough as possible to avoid having to re-edit multiple times. Remembering all of what needs to be done is impossible though - so we've created a Recipe ...
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Pruning comments
After hitting a base number of comments (10), we recommend removing low quality comments from posts. In this post, we'll simply refer to these as "worthless comments". Why? They don't ...
Accessibility
The themes were not designed for ADA compliance. As an off-the-shelf theme designed in 2015 and updated throughout the years, this was never a concern. Much like pagespeed became a hot topic in ...
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 ...
Compatibility
This page will maintain the compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support: Wordpress 5.3.2Genesis 3.3.0 Note the difference between compatibility - compatibility means ...
Full Width Modern Homepage
This is a transition guide to go from the Modern Homepage to a full-width Modern Homepage. To get the Modern Homepage set up, either follow the: Modern Homepage (complete guide)Simple Modern ...
WebP
Our current recommend is not to use WebP. is not supported by all major browsersis generally the same size as JPGprovides no tangible performance benefitsdoes not impact pagespeed score (pointless ...
Modern Recipe Index
The goal of the Modern Homepage was to convert the most "important" page on your site to a better version of the traditional recipe index. Doing this helps: show more useful content content than ...
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 ...
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) The Modern Mobile ...
How to use WordPress Tags
Simple: Delete them. Current best practices for food blogs are to use your categories properly, and completely delete all tags. Categories and tags serve almost the same purpose, and require ...
Feast Plugin Setup
Note: if you run into issues or have questions that aren't answered here (or in the linked tutorials) then use the support ticket page in the Feast Plugin. A number of settings in the Feast Plugin ...
Modern Homepage Styling Guide
One of the primary goals of moving to the Modern Homepage was to break way from the widgets and into the block editor, so that it could be modified in almost any way you can imagine. Please, ...
Image Optimization
Pre-upload optimization Images should be optimized before uploading using your normal photo editor. Our recommendation is to upload in-content images at 1200px width (height doesn't matter). For ...
Simple Modern Homepage
Many of you expressed concerns about being overwhelmed by the volume of changes for the Modern Homepage, and you weren't wrong. We rolled multiple updates that could have been spread out: this was ...
Google Webmaster Conference (2019)
Google finally released the presentations from the Webmaster Conference in 2019! There was so much great information that I wish I had been able to share when I left. You get a much different ...
Themes are dead
Well, in the traditional sense they are. Themes should be chosen purely for base styling, not functionality. Note: we're not discontinuing theme "updates". We'll continue releasing styling-based ...
FSRI Shortcode
The FSRI (Feast Simple Recipe Index) shortcode is the replacement for the "Featured Posts" widget included in the theme, and is used to build the Modern Homepage. We've taken all the ...
Modern Homepage Showcase
After converting to the Modern Homepage, you can also apply a number of different homepage styles to better match your branding. southern-bytes.com Kari saw the most dramatic improvements ...
Modern Homepage vs. Theme Homepage
Check out the Modern Homepage Showcase for examples of sites that have made the transition. The Feast Plugin is designed to allow us to release frequent, minor updates to ...
Setup Search Console Access
We may require access to your Google Search Console in some situations to troubleshoot issues, or perform certain tasks. To grant us access: Go to Google Search Console Make sure the correct ...
Why we don't recommend minifying
In our recommended WP Rocket settings, we don't recommend minifying HTML or CSS or Javascript. Why? "Minification" is basically removing all the human-readable-but-unnecessary-for-machines white ...
Image file size vs. pagespeed
We don't actually recommend uploading images larger than 1200px, but made a point of using oversized images below to take this to the extreme as a demonstration. There's some commonly circulating ...
How thumbnails work
This post uses examples from the Modern Thumbnails of the Feast Plugin. You may also be interested in checking out the more general image optimization guide. Here's a brief breakdown of how ...
