Check out the TopHatRank webinar on links, from Mediawyse, Nerdpress and TopHatRank.Internal linksAndrew's tips for internal links: make sure they're NOT nofollow use good anchor text make sure ...
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Fonts
Learn about fonts for your site below.System fontsOur default setup in the Feast Plugin uses System Fonts, which is the same font your device (desktop, tablet or phone) uses for all its settings. ...
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 Plugin ...
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 normal ...
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 rethinking ...
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to the Post settings to display a page full width: This only affects the page it is set on.Genesis / Theme layout (outdated)The outdated version implemented via the ...
Why you shouldn't make customizations
We frequently get asked about how to make certain customizations, and we recommend against it.PriceWe 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 instead ...
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 ...
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 the ...
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 Mobile ...
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 a ...
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 Modern ...
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", those ...
Pagespeed
Food blogging is very competitive, and with so much great content that already exists out there, pagespeed can make a difference in ranking.This is because Google knows its users want content that ...
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 reinforcement, ...
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, slowing ...
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 LayoutsEnable the Feast Layouts before ...
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.BackgroundThe themes were designed during a time when styling was the primary ...
SEO-2
Notes from Tastemaker SEOPotential to reach more audiences with auto-translation of video using AI.Entity understandingIntentSearch Generative Experience (SGE)Helpful contentDaniel EnoInternal ...
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: Running a membership site is an ...
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.AccessibilityThis is because screen ...
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 tutorials.While ...
Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is a between pages concept.PenaltiesThere are no penalties associated with duplicate content. You can have the same content on every page on your website, and it's simply treated as ...
Favicon
The Wordpress "Site Icon" is also known as a "favicon".We recommend reviewing Google's favicon documentation.In Wordpress versions greater than 6.5.4, your favicon is set in Admin > Settings > General ...
Per Page CSS
The per-page CSS lets you add custom CSS to specific pages, to help improve pagespeed.Note: this is for pages only, not posts. All posts should have identical site-wide styling applied in "Additional ...
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 web ...
Modern Navigation
Your site's navigation has an impact on SEO, accessibility and user experience.SEOWhile secondary content (link to E-A-T) provides queues to search engines about what's important, there's no reason to ...
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 problems if you don't use it properly.Generally, we do not recommend making styling changes to individual blocks on posts. ...
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.With the Feast Plugin, you can find the Sidebar ...
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 easier-to-use, ...
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 a number ...
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 post on ...