A good site structure helps search engines understand and crawl content, and it helps visitors find related recipes. As of 2019, we'll be recommending a simpler website structure that will save ...
Blog
Modern post image sizes
Note: this was originally part of the modern thumbnail sizes, but was split out to avoid confusion. All post images should be inserted using "Full Size"All in-post images should be uploaded at ...
Customizer
The themes were designed at a time when the customizer was being actively developed and maintained. Unfortunately, in 2020 this no longer appears to be the case. The customizer doesn't recognize ...
Troubleshooting Featured Images
Featured images can be varying sizes for a number of reasons, including: Images too small The most common cause of inconsistent image sizes is that they're being uploaded too small. Make ...
Modern Thumbnails
The Feast Plugin contains more modern thumbnail sizes for food blogs. This brings all themes in line with what we now know are best practices, and offers a consistent thumbnail size for all ...
Protected: Economics of a theme business
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Understanding "penalties"
One thing we're becoming more vocal about in 2020 is the fact that running an outdated theme isn't just "not optimal", it's actively working against you. We recommend signing up for the Feast ...
How to use emojis in headings to boost your click through rates
Full disclosure: I never thought I'd waste days of my life working on Emojis. When Stephanie from FearlessFresh reached out about how emojis were handled in the Advanced Jump To Links, my first ...
Modern guidelines for page headings
The Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is a powerful tool in the hands of the right person, but can also make your recipe pages ugly and worse for visitors if misused. Here are some modern ...
Feast Plugin: Advanced "Jump To" Links
The purpose of the Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is to: provide your readers with a better on-page navigation experiencegenerate additional links in the search results for your heading ...
Why we're dropping support for the category drop down menu
Note: due to ambiguity, we'll be calling this drop-down category menu the select category widget. Put simply, the select category widget is a poor user experience, and has been replaced by updated ...
Modern Google Fonts
Note: this feature is still in BETA for testing and bug fixes and not officially recommended. We expect it to be ready sometime in January 2020. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its ...
How long does it take for a post to rank?
We've said it repeatedly: the only important thing for a recipe start is to put out as much high quality content as possible. Your first 6-12 months should be entirely dedicated to perfecting the ...
Change Button Styling
Some of the themes contain built-in customizer settings for button styling. However, these are saved to the theme settings, which means they're lost between updates. Instead, we recommend copying ...
Add an h1 tag to your homepage
In theme versions 4.3.0+ (and the Feast Plugin 3.4.2+), we've removed the h1 from the side-wide header. This is because h1's should be page-specific, not site-wide. All posts and categories have ...
Feast Plugin: Block Editor Styling (Gutenberg)
The block editor has a lot of potential to become a finely-tuned writing experience, eventually. One of the opportunities theme developers have is to make the post writing experience match the output ...
What are "content archives"
Content archives (or just "archives") is technical jargon that is no longer relevant in 2019 and beyond. The only type of archive that is used or supported are the categories. We no longer refer to ...
WHITE FRIDAY SALE
Welcome to the White Friday Sale! Today only, you get to pay 50% extra for the same product. Is this a joke? Not at all. Sign up for the Feast Plugin today and pay $149/year, instead of ...
Remove the Entry-Meta (below content)
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Remove Entry-Meta from post footer set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between ...
November Compatibility Updates
A number of updates were released this month that need testing. We're going to docu-blog this process for quality control and review. The first step is going to be working on the Foodie Pro theme ...
Update your author bio
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Edit Post Info set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between theme changes and ...
Demo Site Updates
The demo sites have long been an example of how the themes are designed to look, without actually being a food blog themselves. Their layout, design and organization has been a stylistic reflection ...
Feast Plugin: Edit Body Font Size
All modern themes from Feast (version 4.0.0+) come with 16px as the standard body font size, for reasons outlined in the font size for food blogs article. This was done to bring the themes more ...
Post Images
This is an updated set of recommendations as of late 2019, for recent versions of the theme (4.2.0+): These are our recommendations and if you have no idea what you're doing, you should follow ...
Top Posts Widget
The current recommended way to set up "Top Posts" for your sidebar is: Open up Google Webmaster Tools and view pages, sort by pageviews descending over the last 30 days Create a "Featured" ...
