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: ...
Blog
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 ...
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". Accessibility Most ...
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. A large percent of recipe searches are ...
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. ...
Recipe 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 ...
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
If you've historically used just the themes without the Feast Plugin, we hope to clarify what the Feast Plugin provides relative to the individual themes. We recommend all sites use the Feast ...
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: See the ...
Full width page
The Feast Plugin adds a toggle to the Post settings to display a page full width: This only affects the page it is set on. Genesis / Theme layout (outdated) The outdated version ...
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: ...
Indexes
Note: this is a work in progress and may undergo changes. When it makes sense to organize a site into sub-categories for SEO, user experience and topical organization purposes, creating indexes ...
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 ...
Theme + Plugin Setup Form
Thanks for purchasing the Theme + Plugin Setup! Filling out the information below will give us the access needed to set up the theme and Feast Plugin. Always use a staging site for this, and ...
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. Incompatible simply means that we don't offer support for sites with ...
Translation
Translation is done through third party plugins such as WPML or Polylang. Certain areas need to be specifically enabled via these plugins. Please contact the translation plugins for any support ...
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
Food blogging is very competitive, and with so much great content, pagespeed can make a difference in ranking. This is because Google knows its users want content that isn't just relevant, but is ...