The Admin > Feast Plugin > Site Info page 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 you specialize … [Read more...]
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 postsComments are a great … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Modified dates
We no longer recommend attempting to restrict the modified date from being updated (explanation below). If you still feel like this is important to you, we've heard the change last modified date … [Read more...]
Buttons
Convert the feast-button to a normal Wordpress button following the tutorial here: With the button selected, simply click the backwards "P" icon and in the drop-down that appears, select transform to … [Read more...]
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.PreparationIt's best to start this process 12 months ahead of time. The longer you're able … [Read more...]
GA4
Taken from Mediavine: GA4!!!! Learn what to do now and what to expect laterGoogle sent out this email to everyone still using Universal Analytics this week (or maybe everyone hard to say … [Read more...]
Smooth scrolling
In the Feast Plugin 10.3.5, you can now enable a CSS-only smooth scroll affect site-wide which will also apply to the Advanced Jump To links:This is found under the "General" section of the Feast … [Read more...]
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 has no … [Read more...]
Protected: January 2023 Update
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Intelligent Post Edits
We no longer recommend this feature. See the modified dates post for more details.The Intelligent Post Edits setting prevents the "post modified" date from being updated unless the actual content was … [Read more...]
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 after … [Read more...]
Focus
Our tutorials and recommendations are geared towards building a 100% recipe-focused content site.User experienceThe majority of search engine traffic lands on specific pages looking for a specific … [Read more...]
Process Shots
We recommend using the columns block to lay out process shots for instructions.GalleriesWe do not recommend galleries because they're not well developed and have undergone a couple changes - and we … [Read more...]
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: … [Read more...]
Blog insurance
Food bloggers may benefit from Professional Liability / Errors & Ommissions insurance for their site.A popular source for this is BiBerk, which can cost about $800 per year depending on coverage. … [Read more...]
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. pre-existing, … [Read more...]
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: Note: do not add us to support … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 styling … [Read more...]
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.MobileHorizontal scrolling seems to be … [Read more...]
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 logicBy default we only add this to … [Read more...]
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 things … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 pricingExisting active subscriptions (at … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 post.Create the … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Convert Recipe Acronyms
The Convert recipe acronym setting fixes a significant accessibility issue with recipe sites, by replacing acronyms like "tsp" with the full text equivalent "teaspoon".AccessibilityMost screen readers … [Read more...]
Holidays
The purpose of the Holidays taxonomy is to make it simpler to organize recipes, to be displayed on the homepage and sidebar during the relevant time of year.The holidays are only designed to be … [Read more...]
OBJ
Sites with an OBJ piece of text in a box are having broken javascript inserted into their page, typically by the ad company.Please contact your ad company for support with removing this. … [Read more...]
Post Template
This is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. Creating high quality content that demonstrates E-A-T, follows modern guidelines for headings is difficult, and can be very time consuming. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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=-1If the affected … [Read more...]
Hooks
List of hooks by theme/framework: Theme Hooks AllianceGenesis Visual Hook Guide … [Read more...]
Link color
You can change the link color of your site by navigating to Customize > Colors > Content > Link Color: AccessibilityNote that selecting a color with sufficient contrast ratio is key to avoiding … [Read more...]
System Fonts
The System Font and web safe fonts are the only font supported via the Feast Plugin.On average, we've seen a 3-4 point increase in overall score from replacing the theme (or custom) fonts with System … [Read more...]
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