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 ...
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FSRI Block
The Simple Recipe Index (FSRI) block is a block-editor component for building the Modern Homepage. It's intended to be used as a replacement for the FSRI shortcode. It contains many of the same ...
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. Themes The themes ...
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 will maintain the compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support: Wordpress 5.8.1Note: there are ongoing issues with reusable blocks in Wordpress 5.8, however, this ...
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 ...
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
Pre-upload optimization Images should be optimized before uploading using your normal photo editor. Our recommendation is to upload in-content images at 1200px width (height doesn't matter). For ...
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 ...