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 helpShort, ...
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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.Keep in mind that: No ...
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 to write ...
Compatibility
This page always has the most up to date compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support:Note the distinction compatibility - compatibility means we've tested for it and support ...
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 like a book index, showing the chapters (categories) of your site. It primarily uses the FSCI Block to display categories, with some room for displaying trending recipes ...
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 blogging ...
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 site layout ...
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 extensive ...
Feast Plugin Setup
Note: if you run into issues or have questions that aren't answered here (or in the linked tutorials), please use the support ticket page in the Feast Plugin. Make sure to ask specific questions about ...
Modern Footer
The Modern Footer replaces the theme footer, making it simpler to customize it using the block editor. Footer Themes Plugin Relies on outdated widgets✔x Requires creating complicated ...
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, whatever ...
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 optimizationImages should be optimized before uploading ...
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 the ...
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 ...
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 than 12 ...
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: 1200px ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Setup Search Console Access
We may require access to your Google Search Console in some situations to troubleshoot issues, or perform certain tasks. VideoInstructionsTo grant us access:Go to Google Search ConsoleMake sure the ...
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 proper ...
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 spaces ...
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 ...
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 thumbnails ...
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 out to ...
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 the ...
Troubleshooting Featured Images
Featured images can be varying sizes for a number of reasons, including:Images too smallThe most common cause of inconsistent image sizes is that they're being uploaded too small.Make sure you're ...
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 the ...
Protected: Economics of a theme business
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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 Plugin so ...
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 ...
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 pictureFor some reason, ...
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 ...
Advanced "Jump To" Links
The purpose of the Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is to:The core of it breaks down into two features that when combined, can qualify you for additional links in search engines, and hugely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 post ...
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 this ...