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 ...
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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 consuming. ...
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
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 ...
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. 1. Enable the Feast Layouts Enable the Feast Layouts ...
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 ...