Note: this is a work in progress and won't be "officially released" until 2020/04/09. One of the primary goals of moving to the Modern Homepage was to break way from the widgets and into the block ...
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Image Optimization
Pre-upload optimization Images should be optimized before uploading using your normal photo editor. Lightroom is currently the most popular application, followed by Photoshop. GIMP is a free ...
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 ...
FacetWP
The FacetWP plugin was recommended and integrated into the themes years ago when visual styling was the primary concern. But now take a holistic approach to websites and food blogging that factors ...
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
southern-bytes.com Kari saw the most dramatic improvements (from 3,300 DOM nodes to 600) because she migrated from a non-Feast theme to a Feast theme. Homepage before Homepage ...
Modern Homepage vs. Theme Homepage
The Feast Plugin is designed to allow us to release frequent, minor updates to functionality as best practices change. Unfortunately, the theme homepage is built using functionality via the ...
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. Here's a brief breakdown of how thumbnails work. Let's say we have a 1200x1200px featured image: Photo by Brooke ...
Modern post image sizes
Background: See rethinking the featured images and rethinking thumbnails. Note: this was originally part of the modern thumbnail sizes, but was split out to avoid confusion. All post images ...
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 (Featured Images)
Thumbnail sizes that are registered by the theme disappear when changing themes, which leads to irregular image sizes and issues when changing themes (and sometimes updates). To fix this, we've ...
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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 ...
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 ...
