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    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 ...

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    Compatibility

    This page will maintain the compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support: Wordpress 6.0.3 (requires theme update to version 4.4.4)If you've been auto-updated to a more ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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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. Installing the Feast Plugin doesn't do ...

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    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 ...

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    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, ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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: ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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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    Protected: Economics of a theme business

    This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: ...

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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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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, ...

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    The classic themes are only for hobby sites and any food blog interested in monetizing or SEO needs the Feast Plugin.

    • Foodie Pro Classic
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