Simple: Delete them. Current best practices for food blogs are to use your categories properly, and completely delete all tags. Categories and tags serve almost the same purpose, and require ...
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Feast Plugin Setup
Note: if you run into issues or have questions that aren't answered here (or in the linked tutorials) then use the support ticket page in the Feast Plugin. The Feast Plugin gets implemented in two ...
Modern Footer
The Modern Footer replaces the theme footer, making it simpler to customize it using the block editor. improves user experience, thanks to updated content guidelinessimpler to customize, using the ...
Modern Homepage Styling Guide
One of the primary goals of moving to the Modern Homepage was to break way from the widgets and into the block editor, so that it could be modified in almost any way you can imagine. Please, ...
Image Optimization
Images are an essential part of recipe posts and can have far-ranging impacts on user experience, site-speed, SEO and accessibility. Pre-upload optimization Images should be optimized before ...
Simple Modern Homepage
Many of you expressed concerns about being overwhelmed by the volume of changes for the Modern Homepage, and you weren't wrong. We rolled multiple updates that could have been spread out: this was ...
Google Webmaster Conference (2019)
Google finally released the presentations from the Webmaster Conference in 2019! There was so much great information that I wish I had been able to share when I left. You get a much different ...
Themes are dead
Well, in the traditional sense they are. Themes should be chosen purely for base styling, not functionality. As of 2021, we consider the Feast Plugin setup essential for all recipe sites older ...
Design
This document should serve as a current guideline for how we approach design and layout. Generally we consider the following breakpoints: Mobile: 420px and underTablet: 421px - 1199pxDesktop: ...
FSRI Shortcode
Do not use the FSRI shortcode, as it's outdated and no longer supported. We only support the FSRI block moving forward. The FSRI (Feast Simple Recipe Index) shortcode is the replacement for the ...
Modern Homepage Showcase
After converting to the Modern Homepage, you can also apply a number of different homepage styles to better match your branding. Check out the Full Width Modern Homepage for additional ...
Modern Homepage vs. Theme Homepage
Check out the Modern Homepage Showcase for examples of sites that have made the transition. The Feast Plugin is designed to allow us to release frequent, minor updates to functionality as best ...
Setup Search Console Access
We may require access to your Google Search Console in some situations to troubleshoot issues, or perform certain tasks. Video Instructions To grant us access: Go to Google Search ...
Modern Previous + Next
The previous + next feature built into the themes was designed for a time when blogs were blogs - chronological lists of posts. But this is 2022, and blogs are dead. Modern "food blogs" require ...
Why we don't recommend minifying
In our recommended WP Rocket settings, we don't recommend minifying HTML or CSS or Javascript. Why? "Minification" is basically removing all the human-readable-but-unnecessary-for-machines white ...
Image file size vs. pagespeed
We don't actually recommend uploading images larger than 1200px, but made a point of using oversized images below to take this to the extreme as a demonstration. There's some commonly circulating ...
How thumbnails work
This post uses examples from the Modern Thumbnails of the Feast Plugin. You may also be interested in checking out the more general image optimization guide. Here's a brief breakdown of how ...
Modern post image sizes
Background: See rethinking the featured images and rethinking thumbnails. See the updated image optimization guide. Note: this was originally part of the modern thumbnail sizes, but was split ...
Customizer
The themes were designed at a time when the customizer was being actively developed and maintained, and standards on the web were much looser. Unfortunately, in 2020 this no longer appears to be ...
Troubleshooting Featured Images
Featured images can be varying sizes for a number of reasons, including: Images too small The most common cause of inconsistent image sizes is that they're being uploaded too small. Make ...
Modern Thumbnails (Featured Images)
The Modern Thumbnails are better sized for the theme content width, and allow you to change themes without worrying about images being incorrectly sized. IMPORTANT: thumbnails are generated from ...
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Understanding "penalties"
One thing we're becoming more vocal about in 2020 is the fact that running an outdated theme isn't just "not optimal", it's actively working against you. We recommend signing up for the Feast ...
How to use emojis in headings to boost your click through rates
Emojis can be used in the Advanced Jump To Links. In November 2019 at the Google Webmaster Conference one of the speakers discussed how it took a team at Google an entire year to incorporate emojis ...
Gallery block
We're making a strong recommendation not to use the gallery block. Instead, we recommend using the columns block to display images or content side-by-side. Picture inside picture For some ...
Modern guidelines for page headings
The Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is a powerful tool in the hands of the right person, but can also make your recipe pages ugly and worse for visitors if misused. Here are some modern ...
Advanced "Jump To" Links
The purpose of the Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is to: provide your readers with a better on-page navigation experiencegenerate additional links in the search results for your heading ...
Why we're dropping support for the category drop down menu
Note: due to ambiguity, we'll be calling this drop-down category menu the select category widget. Put simply, the select category widget is a poor user experience, and has been replaced by updated ...
Modern Google Fonts
Note: this feature is still in BETA for testing and bug fixes and not officially recommended. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its release. The fonts implementation in the themes were ...
How long does it take for a post to rank?
We've said it repeatedly: the only important thing for a recipe start is to put out as much high quality content as possible. Your first 6-12 months should be entirely dedicated to perfecting the ...
Change Button Styling
Some of the themes contain built-in customizer settings for button styling. However, these are saved to the theme settings, which means they're lost between updates. Instead, we recommend copying ...
Yoast FAQ Block
The Yoast FAQ block allows you to qualify for the "People also ask" rich search result, which looks like this in search engines: Because the FAQ block was released after the Feast Plugin, we've ...
Modern Homepage Setup
This is the setup tutorial for the Modern Homepage, which is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. The Modern Homepage replaces the theme homepage, greatly improving SEO, accessibility, ...
Rethinking the Homepage
This is a post covering the thought process behind the Modern Homepage. 2020/03/29: See the Modern Homepage vs. Theme Homepage for a side-by-side comparison of the two setups, and the Modern ...
Add an h1 tag to your homepage
This tutorial is for the classic theme setup, which is outdated. Only follow this if you're on the classic theme setup without the Feast Plugin.All sites should be using the Modern Homepage through ...
Block Editor Styling (Gutenberg)
The block editor styling makes the post writing experience match the output on the front-end more closely. As of August 2020, this is enabled automatically for all sites. Enabled styling ...
What are "content archives"
Content archives (or just "archives") is technical jargon that is no longer relevant in 2019 and beyond. The only type of archive that is used or supported are the categories. We no longer refer to ...
WHITE FRIDAY UNSALE
Welcome to the White Friday Unsale! Today only, you get to pay 50% extra for the same product. Is this a joke? Not at all. Sign up for the Feast Plugin today and pay $224/year, instead of ...
Remove the Entry-Meta (below content)
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Remove Entry-Meta from post footer set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between ...
November Compatibility Updates
A number of updates were released this month that need testing. We're going to docu-blog this process for quality control and review. The first step is going to be working on the Foodie Pro theme ...