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 ...
Modern Homepage Setup
This is the setup tutorial for the Modern Homepage, which is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. We have some companion pages to help understand what makes the Modern Homepage ...
Rethinking the Homepage
This is a post covering the thought process behind the Modern Homepage. 2020/03/29: See the Modern Homepage vs. Theme Homepage for a side-by-side comparison of the two setups, and the Modern ...
Add an h1 tag to your homepage
In theme versions 4.3.0+ (and the Feast Plugin 3.4.2+), we've removed the h1 from the side-wide header. This is because h1's should be page-specific, not site-wide. All posts and categories have ...
Block Editor Styling (Gutenberg)
The block editor styling makes the post writing experience match the output on the front-end more closely. As of August 2020, this is enabled automatically for all sites. Enabled styling ...
What are "content archives"
Content archives (or just "archives") is technical jargon that is no longer relevant in 2019 and beyond. The only type of archive that is used or supported are the categories. We no longer refer to ...
WHITE FRIDAY SALE
Welcome to the White Friday Sale! Today only, you get to pay 50% extra for the same product. Is this a joke? Not at all. Sign up for the Feast Plugin today and pay $149/year, instead of ...
Remove the Entry-Meta (below content)
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Remove Entry-Meta from post footer set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between ...
November Compatibility Updates
A number of updates were released this month that need testing. We're going to docu-blog this process for quality control and review. The first step is going to be working on the Foodie Pro theme ...
Update your author bio
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Edit Post Info set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between theme changes and ...
Demo Site Updates
The demo sites have long been an example of how the themes are designed to look, without actually being a food blog themselves. Their layout, design and organization has been a stylistic reflection ...
Feast Plugin: Edit Body Font Size
All modern themes from Feast (version 4.0.0+) come with 16px as the standard body font size, for reasons outlined in the font size for food blogs article. This was done to bring the themes more ...
Post Images
This is an updated set of recommendations as of late 2019, for recent versions of the theme (4.2.0+): These are our recommendations and if you have no idea what you're doing, you should follow ...
Top Posts Widget
The current recommended way to set up "Top Posts" for your sidebar is: Open up Google Webmaster Tools and view pages, sort by pageviews descending over the last 30 daysCreate a "Featured" category ...
How to use Categories
Categories allow you to organize your recipes in a way that's good for your site visitors, as well as search engines. This is an opinionated post, based on what we see happen to the majority of ...
Simple Category Index Block
The Simple Category Index Block lets you create a simple visual index of your categories, by leveraging the new Category Featured Images. This allows us to build a more user-friendly Modern ...
Content Idea: Get specific with ingredients
Adding content for the sake of adding content has long been a bad idea. When someone comes to your website looking for a recipe, don't go on a 5-paragraph rant about your weekend and mother in law ...
Edit Leave a Reply
The "Leave a Reply" text appears above the comment form. It uses very generic, direct language that may not resonate with all audiences, and may even be considered demanding and therefore ...
Feast Plugin: Modern Mobile Menu
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The original headers and menus for the themes were designed for a world that no longer exists. They're desktop-first, with compromises made for mobile ...
Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.
When attempting to upload custom font files (eg. .woff) you may encounter a security error in Wordpress: "font.woff" has failed to upload. Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security ...
Feast Plugin: Styling Update
Version 2.8.0 of the Feast Plugin comes with a styling update for the settings page in the admin. Previously, the options were simply listed chronologically as they were released, and listed ...
Feast Plugin: Remove Entry-Meta from Post Footer
The Entry-Meta in the post footer displays the "Filed Under:" and "Tagged With:", which clutters up the screen and has low visitor usage. Unfortunately, most sites have excessive category and tag ...
How to do email marketing right for food blogs
The one thing you truly own in food blogging is your email list. Social media? That can disappear over night. Algorithms change. These are the people who you've received permission from to enter ...
