The single biggest question we get when someone is looking to update their theme is "what about my customizations". The problem is that we have no idea what customizations you're talking about - how ...
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Feast Plugin: Remove link from date in comments
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin Toggle this setting to remove the links from the date in the comment section. On today's talk about "technical things you didn't know or care about", we're ...
Why we removed the WP Instagram Widget
As of mid August 2019, Instagram shut down outside access to its images. Like all social networks, Instagram wants people to interact and view content within its "closed garden", where it can track ...
Add Yoast Breadcrumbs
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin Yoast has a feature which enables adding breadcrumb schema to your website, creating a more complete schema graph, which search engines love. For the full ...
Genesis 3.1.0 - GENESIS_PRE_GET_OPTION_FOOTER_TEXT
Genesis 3.1.0 came out August 21 2019. Themes from Feast Design Co. prior to 4.2.0 are not compatible with this change. This update introduces a new method of editing the footer, by going to ...
Feast Plugin: Sticky Mobile Menu
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin This featured is outdated, and has been replaced by the Modern Mobile Menu. Keep your mobile menu pinned to the top of the page as the visitor scrolls ...
Feast Plugin: Mobile Browser Color
Set the browser color in Chrome to your brand's color! Currently only supported on Android devices. We'll update this feature for additional browser and devices as support is enabled for it. ...
Feast Plugin: Previous + Next on Posts
When your readers reach the end of a post, they face the choice of either leaving or looking for more content. This has a direct impact on your income as a food blogger: if you can keep them ...
Feast Plugin: Disclosures
How do you make sure you've covered off all your disclosures? The FTC, search engines and ad companies require a number of disclosures when money changes hands, and paid content requires clear ...
Feast Plugin: Change number of posts per category
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin Easily modify the number of posts showing up on your category page by specifying the number in this setting. Admin Posts per Page You'll also want to ...
Link Parties
Link parties are a way for bloggers to exchange recipe links, in an attempt to get backlinks to new posts. And they suck. Why? Let's count the ways. No visitor value Search engines are ...
301 Redirects, Links, Canonical and Pagespeed
This is a slightly more advanced coverage of a few pagespeed topics, as an extension of the SEO for food bloggers post. If you've been running a food blog for a few years, you need to correct ...
Hosting
When it comes to hosting your blog, you get what you pay for. The minimum we recommend spending on hosting is $20 per month. Anything less than that, and you're hurting your ability to rank in ...
Create your logo
People get hung up on creating an eye-catching logo, when it's really not important. When you're first starting a food blog, the most important thing is to get those first 20 recipes up and ...
Why the category pages now display half-width on mobile
All theme versions prior to 4.0.8 displayed categories as full-width on mobile. This lead to needing to scroll excessively to browse through a category. In version 4.0.8, we updated the default ...
Yoast 11.4 "name" errors
We've had multiple reports of a "name" error being generated in the recipe page schema in Yoast 11.4 (and 11.5). This appears to be tied to the "Author Archives" being disabled in SEO -> Search ...
Why we're dropping the blog page template
The “blog” template is being deprecated and removed from the Genesis framework after June 19th, 2019. It will be disappearing from all Studiopress themes as of version 3.0, and Feast will be following ...
Rethinking the Thumbnails
Thumbnails are generated from the featured image specified in the post. In Rethinking the Featured Image, we came to the conclusion that the correct size for featured images is 1200x1200 (square) ...
Feast Plugin: Configurations Audit
Between everything involved in running a food blog, keeping on top of changing recommendations and configurations is nearly impossible. One of the most frequent requests we get is for help managing ...
Genesis Schema vs Yoast v.11
Update 2019/08/23 - Genesis 3.1.0 automatically removes its own schema if Yoast is enabled, removing the need to install a plugin when running Genesis 3.1.0 and later. It comes with a number of ...
Contact Forms
Feast does not offer support for contact forms. Our themes are designed to affect styling, not functionality, and this is outside the scope of our expertise. The three most popular contact forms ...
Feast Plugin: Word Count + Reading Time
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin With the rise of low-quality recipes from high-authority websites that fail to provide adequate instructions (like this one), visitors are increasingly looking ...
Feast Plugin: Disable Google Fonts
Implements the Disable Google Fonts tutorial without editing code. This will fall-back to the default font in the theme. Recommendation: unless you have a compelling reason for doing this, ...
Feast Plugin: Category "Featured Images"
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The category "Featured Images" is a common request from developers looking to associate an image with a category. It replicates the "Featured Images" feature ...
