Creating high quality content that demonstrates E-A-T, follows modern guidelines for headings is difficult, and can be very time consuming. Most recipes take a full day to shoot, edit and publish, ...
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Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals are a (relatively small) ranking factor that changes the way websites need to be built. While this is frustrating, it ultimately focuses on improving user experience, which everyone on ...
Missing Item Name
The Google Search Console warning saying that there's a "missing name or item.name" is a false error and should be ignored. The pages listed under this match the format: /page/9/?cat=-1 If the ...
Hooks
List of hooks by theme/framework: Theme Hooks AllianceGenesis Visual Hook Guide ...
System Fonts
The System Font stack has been rolled out in the Feast Plugin 5.6.0. On average, we've seen a 3-4 point increase in overall score from replacing the theme (or custom) fonts with System Fonts, ...
Tiktok
At this time, we have no plans to implement, support or recommend Tiktok-related functionality or social buttons. Any Tiktok related functionality will come from third party plugins. Tiktok is ...
Logo
Our official recommendation in 2021 is to use the Modern Menu built via the Feast Plugin on both Mobile and Desktop displays. The Modern Menu: improves user experience by displaying more content ...
Linking
Check out the TopHatRank webinar on links, from Mediawyse, Nerdpress and TopHatRank. Internal links Andrew's tips for internal links: make sure they're NOT nofollow use good anchor text make ...
Fonts
Custom fonts are a disaster in 2021, with issues relating to: CLS (inconsistent ligature sizes, letter spacing, questionable font-display recommendations)Font weights (bold, italic, etc)Pagespeed ...
Themes vs. Feast Plugin
As of June 2021, we're moving all-in on the Feast Plugin setup for recipe sites, and leaving the theme-based setup behind. If you have just the theme without the Feast Plugin, we'll be referring to ...
Portfolio
Building a recipe photographer portfolio can be done easily and quickly with the Feast Plugin. We'll be building a showcase site, which isn't specifically designed for SEO or accessibility or ...
Subscribe button
The Modern Menu integrates a "Subscribe" button that provides a call-to-action for readers to sign up for your newsletter the entire time they're on your site. This allows you to: increase ...
Full width page
Genesis / Theme layout The version implemented in the themes is a an actual Wordpress "template" in the theme files. Setting a page to "full width" layout in Genesis (as with the Full Width Modern ...
Why you shouldn't make customizations
We frequently get asked about how to make certain customizations, and we recommend against it. Price We don't build customization support into our themes: ...
Migration
When migrating to our theme + plugin setup, we often get asked about how it's done in a single large project. There's often multiple separate projects that actually need to be done, and unless hiring ...
Plugin Audit
Below is a list of services and plugins that we've tested to be compatible with our recommended setup, and offer support for. Pagespeed For simplicity sake, let's just say that the ONLY ...
I'm setting up a new site
Congratulations on deciding to launch a "food blog". We'd encourage you to think of yourself more as a publisher in the food industry. What you're building is almost exactly like a magazine: content ...
Blocking Time
Blocking time boils down to the amount of time the users browser spends executing javascript, which is why we recommend avoiding javascript as much as possible. Our current setup uses the Modern ...
728px
Updating the content width to 728px allows for "leaderboard" ads to be displayed, potentially generating more revenue for publishers running ads. In the past, this would have to be implemented via ...
CLS
We're only able to impact the lab data portion of the Pagespeed Insights report - this is controlled by the theme/plugin and we're currently seeing < 0.03 scores for sites that implement: the ...
Lazyloading comments
We do not recommend or support lazyloading comments. Google has said that it will not index anything hidden behind a click/interaction on page, so if you have to "click to load more comments", ...
Pagespeed
There's been a lot of discussion around pagespeed recently and updating themes and theme frameworks, and if you're running our theme + the Feast Plugin: Your theme is not the problem. It's all ...
Branding
Our themes and plugin provide base styling to make your content stand out, but feedback we've had was that people struggled to make it their own. And even after customizing, people were left with ...
Custom list styling
Version 5.0.0 of the Feast Plugin introduced the ability to add custom bullet styling to your lists. We recommend using this in a section to draw special attention or add some branding ...