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Before + After
Check out these before and afters of food bloggers fixing their pagespeed issues. ...
Icons
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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 ...
SEO-2
Notes from Tastemaker SEO Potential to reach more audiences with auto-translation of video using AI. Entity understanding Intent Search Generative Experience (SGE) Helpful ...
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 This is configured/set by Wordpress, and is not theme related. Unfortunately ...
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 ...
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: ...
Food Blogger Summit
Below is the presentation on page jumps from the Food Blogger Summit. The Feast Plugin saves time and offers a maintenance-free way to do this using the Advanced Jump To shortcode. Learn how ...
Compatibility
This page always has the most up to date compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support: Note the distinction compatibility - compatibility means we've tested for it ...
Full Width Modern Homepage
This is a transition guide to go from the Modern Homepage to a full-width Modern Homepage. To get the Modern Homepage set up, either follow the: Modern Homepage (complete guide)Simple Modern ...
WebP
Our current recommend is not to use WebP. is not supported by all major browsersis often a larger file size than properly optimized JPGtakes up additional disk space (1 webp per jpg, including ...
Modern Recipe Index
The Modern Recipe Index is a replacement for the theme's recipe index, by using the Simple Category Index (FSCI) Block. is more customizable to suit your styleimproves user experience by making ...
2020 Roadmap
The Wordpress core is changing quickly, and we've been busy keeping on top of it. It's time to take a step back and provide some clarity on where things were, and where they're heading. Food ...
Food Blog Page Structure
On a very basic level, the pages on your site are broken into 4 major sections, each with different purposes: header (orange)content (blue)sidebar (green)footer (red) By contrast, the mobile ...
How to use WordPress Tags
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 ...
Modern Footer
The Modern Footer replaces the theme footer, making it simpler to customize it using the block editor. Footer Themes Plugin Relies on outdated widgets✔x Requires creating complicated ...
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: ...