Make sure that you've set the edit post info field in the Feast Plugin. Set your author bio URL to your about page, in Admin > Users > Your Profile in the Website field under the Contact Info ...
Blog
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
FSCI Shortcode
The shortcode is outdated, and we do not recommend or support using it. Use the FSCI block, in the block editor: Old shortcode settings: categories="" - specify exactly which categories to ...
Feast Category Images Block
The Feast Category Images Block lets you visually display your categories, by assigned images to categories. This lets us to build a more user-friendly Modern Recipe Index that helps users ...
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 ...
Modern Mobile Menu
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The Modern Mobile Menu replaces the theme header and menu with a mobile and accessibility-optimized layout. As of 2021, with pagespeed, SEO and accessibility ...
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. improves pagespeed by removing unnecessary DOM ...
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 ...
Use Foodie-Pro-Style Recipe Index with Cook'd Pro
FacetWP is a beautiful setup for the recipe index, but overly complicated, and costs money. It also encourages visitors to stay on a single page that's dynamically updated, rather than jumping into ...
Types of Customizations
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 ...
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
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 writeup, see: Yoast SEO ...
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: Mobile Browser Color
This has been removed from the Feast Plugin as of version 5.6.0, due to poor adoption by other browsers. If you'd like to implement it manually, create a code snippet with the ...
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 ...
Posts per page
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The posts per page has been modified to be set by Feast. It's currently set to display 40 posts per page. Simply enable the setting in the Feast Plugin: ...
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 $30 per month. Anything less than that, and you're hurting your ability to rank in search ...
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 ...
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 ...
Revenue
There's a bunch of ways to monetize for food blogs - here's a quick overview of documents needed to support the different channels. Note: Canva has a large selection of templates available for any ...
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 ...
Feast Plugin: Word Count + Reading Time
The wordcount + reading time shortcodes are being removed from the Feast Plugin due to low usage. We'll be providing a tutorial on manually implementing them via code snippets once this is ...
Feast Plugin: Disable Theme Google Fonts
Implements the Manually disable Google fonts tutorial without editing code. All sites in 2021 and beyond should use the System Font setting in the Feast Plugin to override the theme fonts, which ...
"Featured Images" for categories
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The "Featured Images" for categories is a common request from bloggers looking to associate an image with a category. It replicates the "Featured Images" ...
Color Schemes
How do you settle on a color scheme? It's actually not as difficult as you'd think. You'll want to pick a primary color, then use settle on a "color harmony you like: Check out this color wheel ...
Food Blogger Income: Personal Chefs
Running a food blog is in simple terms, just another small business. Like all businesses, food blogs should have multiple income streams. Not only does this earn you more money each month, it ...