The Feast Hooks allows you to add content at key locations in a theme, similar to Reusable Blocks.The difference between hooks and Reusable Blocks is that the hooks can be automatically inserted on … [Read more...]
Link color
You can change the link color of your site by navigating to Customize > Colors > Content > Link Color: AccessibilityNote that selecting a color with sufficient contrast ratio is key to avoiding … [Read more...]
System Fonts
The System Font and web safe fonts are the only font supported via the Feast Plugin.On average, we've seen a 3-4 point increase in overall score from replacing the theme (or custom) fonts with System … [Read more...]
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 not a … [Read more...]
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 above … [Read more...]
Linking
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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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to the Post settings to display a page full width: This only affects the page it is set on.Genesis / Theme layout (outdated)The outdated version implemented via the … [Read more...]
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: … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Migration
When migrating to our theme + plugin setup, we often get asked about to have it done in one step. Doing many complex changes at once can lead to difficult to identify issues and major setbacks.The … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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, … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
Before + After
Check out these before and afters of food bloggers fixing their pagespeed issues. … [Read more...]
Icons
Here are some sites for finding icons: … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Non-Food Blogs
The Feast Plugin can be used sites in a number of other niches, likeWhile our recommendations and tutorials are geared specifically towards food bloggers, the pagespeed, SEO, usability and … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Favicon
The favicon is used in the browser when a visitor is on your site, and in Googles Search Results. This is controlled by Wordpress itself, not the theme, and is not theme related.It should be set in … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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