The fetchPriority attribute allows sites to load quicker by telling the browser how the site thinks content (scripts and images) should load. This is a pagespeed update we're able to roll out to ...
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Video
We've seen a trend over the last few years towards video being the preferred way for users to consume content, including food and recipe content online. This has become more important over the last 2 ...
Feast Layouts
The Feast Layouts tab is found under the "Feast Plugin" admin sidebar (after being enabled), and is where the Modern Footer and Modern Sidebar live. This new setup lays the ground work for some ...
Social
We've had a long-standing belief about social networks that we'll clarify here. What you should know This will deal specifically with Threads, but the principles apply generally across all ...
Gutenberg
The term "Gutenberg" is confusing and misunderstood, so we'll define some things here: Gutenberg Gutenberg is not the block editor. Wordpress itself uses the term confusing so this is simply ...
Modern Search
The Modern Search behaves the same as the Modern 404, showing searches for individual words if no results are found for a search query. ...
June 2023 Search Updates
There's a lot of changes popping up recently, some related to AI and some related to normal search updates and some are just experiments that may or may not roll out to the wider search ...
Posts vs. Pages
Posts and pages confuse some users so this is an attempt to clarify the key differences in how recipe sites implement them. Posts are used to write recipe posts, or anything that is substantially ...
Optimize core blocks
Wordpress includes a number of blocks that we don't recommend using, or are not appropriate for posts (post type). See posts-vs-pages for clarification. The Feast Plugin now lets you optimize the ...
Optimize block typography
Note: this currently applies to posts, not pages. See posts-vs-pages for clarification. Wordpress has introduced an ever-expanding range of typography (text styling) options into the core blocks, ...
Site Info
The Site Info page introduced in the Feast Plugin 9.4.0 helps recipe sites define their E-E-A-T. This helps both readers and search engines better understand what your site is about what what niche ...
Tools
The Tools page was introduced in the Feast Plugin v.9.4.0 in order to provide quick services to fix common issues. The initial release features two tools: Open all comments on ...
Feast Plus vs. Feast Plugin
Short answer: The Feast Plugin is designed for compatibility with best practices and low maintenance, so that you can focus on content development. Customizations usually increase maintenance and ...
Recipe Cost
Note: this is specifically for sites whose audience are budget or cost conscious. If your audience doesn't specifically ask for this type of information, we wouldn't recommend using it because it's a ...
Modified dates
There's a lot of concern about updating the modified date on posts that's fear-driven and in our opinion, overblown. Dates do not matter - only content does. We no longer recommend attempting to ...
Buttons
Buttons (including the button block) should never be used as links. This violates accessibility guidelines. Buttons perform actions on a page. Buttons should not link to another ...
Changing domains
In general, it's best not to change domains. But if you have to, this process has worked for us in the past. Preparation It's best to start this process 12 months ahead of time. The longer ...
GA4
Taken from Mediavine: GA4!!!! Learn what to do now and what to expect later Google sent out this email to everyone still using Universal Analytics this week (or maybe everyone hard ...
Smooth scrolling
Smooth scroll is a javascript feature that "scrolls" the screen slowly to the intended destination. This requires the use of javascript, which slows sites and often causes conflicts with other ...
Modern 404
The Modern 404 replaces your generic "not found" page with a page that's more useful to readers, encouraging them to click through to related posts. This is purely a user-experience upgrade and ...
Protected: January 2023 Update
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Private Label Rights (PLR)
Private Label Rights (PLR) content is content which you have rights to use with certain restrictions imposed by the provider. PLR content typically must be purchased, and is only meant to be used ...
W3 HTML Validation
In general, we believe that the W3 HTML Validator is outdated nonsense and has zero real world impact. Most things flagged by it are completely valid, and are built out by Wordpress and/or Yoast. ...
Focus
Our tutorials and recommendations are geared towards building a 100% recipe-focused content site. User experience The majority of search engine traffic lands on specific pages looking for a ...
Process Shots
We recommend using the columns block to lay out process shots for instructions. Galleries We do not recommend galleries because they're not well developed and have undergone a couple changes - ...
Either "name" or "item. name" should be specified (in "itemListElement")
If this appears tied to a page with cat=-1 in the URL, simply ignore it. We've released a fix for this in the Feast Plugin v.7.1.0: ...
Productivity
As part of the transition to the Feast Plugin, we've expanded the scope of what we cover to include: We try to focus on areas where there currently are no alternative solutions (eg. ...
Collaborate
The simplest + quickest way to have us access a site (when we requested it for support or troubleshooting) is to add us as a collaborator on BigScoots. To do this, open your BigScoots WPO login and ...
Shop page
We don't recommend or support ecommerce functionality. These pages typically don't earn any meaningful revenue for the simple fact that people looking for recipes are not in buying ...
Minification
Don't use minification. It makes troubleshooting next to impossible for us, and provides zero benefit in terms of pagespeed. It also adds an unnecessary layer of caching and can result in ...
Horizontal scrolling
We do not recommend horizontal scrolling. This basically amounts to a slider, which are a poor user experience and Yoast thinks sliders should be banned. We agree. Mobile Horizontal ...
Skip lazy loading first post image
Improve your desktop Core Web Vitals by skipping lazy loading your first post image automatically: This is generally a small improvement, and is recommended. Smart logic By default we ...
SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) cover a broad range of topics, that can't possibly be covered in a single guide. We'll cover a broad range of topics here that gives you some basis to look into ...
Internal links
Internal linking is a key part of on-site SEO and can have an impact on how your site does (or doesn't) rank. While links are not specifically theme-related, this does impact how people build their ...
Default Image Size
You should always insert images into posts at "Full Size": Note: this is different than the "default thumbnail size" in the Feast Plugin which is specifically for the FSRI block and the Modern ...
Feast Plugin Price Increase from $199 to $249
On February 1, 2022 we'll be increasing the price of the Feast Plugin for all new subscriptions. Sign up today to get locked in at $199/year. Grandfathered pricing Existing active ...
Full Site Editor (FSE)
The "Full Site Editor" (FSE) is the next evolution in Wordpress, bringing the functionality of the block editor to the entire website. This is not ready for use on live sites and we don't expect it to ...
Modern Menu for Desktop
The Modern Menu is an enhancement to the Modern Mobile Menu that incorporates inline display on the desktop version (screen/browsers over 1200px). You must complete the Modern Mobile Menu setup for ...
Inline subscribe
This is currently in development and not ready for use. The inline subscribe lets you embed a newsletter subscription form dynamically into your content, without having to edit every ...
We recommend using Google Workspace (Formerly GSuite) for hosting your domain's email. This is accessed directly through gmail, making your email accessible from any device, anywhere in the ...