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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
The Modern Sidebar and Modern Footer can be translated using WPML. To do this, go to the "Feast Layouts" section while on the primary language, and create a layout to assign to the sidebar and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Disabled emoji rewrites
Certain Wordpress hosting/installation setups have filters enabled that rewrites emoji characters to externally hosted images. This is a poor setup because: it causes an external DNS lookup, ...
oembed
oembeds are a way for Wordpress to integrate content from external websites into your website. By pasting a link to certain networks, the Wordpress editor will attempt to automatically fetch that ...
Modern Sidebar
The Modern Sidebar replaces the theme's sidebar, making it simpler to customize the sidebar using the block editor, instead of widgets. customize the sidebar more easily with the block ...
Page experience
Running into page experience issues? The Feast Plugin can help you resolve these, getting you to a passing score for your entire site: Contact us today to get started. ...
Submitted URL marked 'noindex'
Running into the Google Search Console issue 'Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’'? We can help you resolve it: Contact us today to get started. ...
Before + After
Check out these before and afters of food bloggers fixing their pagespeed issues. ...
Icons
Here are some sites for finding icons: ...
Modern Themes
This is currently in development and should be ignored. Stay subscribed to the newsletter to be notified when it's live. Background The themes were designed during a time when styling was the ...
Memberships
While ads, sponsored content and recipe photography are the main way of earning revenue for recipe sites, memberships are also a possibility. Below are some examples: The Dinner PlannerBack ...
Convert text to fractions
The Convert text to fractions setting fixes a significant accessibility issue with recipe sites, by replacing text such as 1/4 with a proper fraction, like ¼. Accessibility This is because ...
Non-Food Blogs
The Feast Plugin can be used sites in a number of other niches, like sewing, crafts, parenting, travel and fashion. While our recommendations and tutorials are geared specifically towards food ...
Branding and consistency on the category pages
The category pages are still something we get support tickets for, with people unsure of how to change the default image size displayed there, despite being covered in the theme setup ...
Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is a between pages concept. Penalties There are no penalties associated with duplicate content. You can have the same content on every page on your website, and it's ...
Favicon
We recommend reviewing Google's favicon documentation. Your favicon is set in Customize > Site Identity ...
Per Page CSS
The per-page CSS lets you add custom CSS to specific pages, to help improve pagespeed. This is in contrast to the "Additional CSS" page, which loads styling across your entire site, even when it's ...
Web Stories
Web stories are an Instagram-stories style format that Google recently launched. They're a essentially a mobile-formatted slideshow that use images and video, and work well for recipes. Think of ...
Modern Navigation
Your site's navigation has an impact on SEO, accessibility and user experience. SEO While secondary content (link to E-A-T) provides queues to search engines about what's important, there's no ...
Why we don't support block-level styling
The block editor is a powerful tool, but also one that can cause you a lot of harm if you don't know how to use it properly. Generally, we do not recommend making styling changes to individual ...
User Profile Block
The HTML-based user profile widget has long been a staple of the sidebar, giving your visitors information about who you are and demonstrating E-A-T. Note: we haven't recommended using the Gravatar ...
FSRI Block
The Simple Recipe Index (FSRI) block is a block-editor component for building the Modern Homepage. It contains many of the same configuration/setting options as the shortcode, but in an ...
Rethinking the Newsletter
Annoying, right? Email signups are arguably one of the few assets a recipe site can own and develop, and as such, are a key part of running a food blog. However, current practices fall short in ...
Black Foodies
Due to feedback from our customers that they'd like to connect with more black food blogs, we're putting together a list of recipe sites operated by black entrepeneurs. More than just sharing a ...
May Updates
While waiting for bug fixes, then working on testing for: Genesis 3.3Wordpress 5.4Yoast 14.0 Multiple updates rolled out including: a major Google core algorithm update on May 14new schema ...
Click Through Rates (CTR)
Ever wonder what a good click-through-rate is for your posts? Keep wondering. Google Search Console provides the ability to view CTR on a page level, and query level, and page-by-query ...
May Pagespeed Update
Google released the Lighthouse version 6 update about 2 weeks ago, and appears to have rolled it into the Pagespeed Insights tool on May 27th 2020. This update basically rewrites the tool, using ...
Recipe Update Checklist
When you're updating posts, you want to be as thorough as possible to avoid having to re-edit multiple times. Remembering all of what needs to be done is impossible though - so we've created a Recipe ...
Pruning comments
After hitting a base number of comments (10), we recommend removing low quality comments from posts. In this post, we'll simply refer to these as "worthless comments". Why? They don't ...
Accessibility
This page is a work in progress and represents the best of our current understanding at the time it is being viewed. It is not an authoritative document and not prescriptive. Keep in mind that: ...