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Modern Menu
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The Modern Menu replaces the theme header and menu with a mobile and accessibility-optimized layout. improves user experience by increasing above-the-fold ...
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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: 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
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 ...
Feast Plugin Changelog
The most recent changes can be found in the Feast Plugin's releases section. Below is an archive of past updates: 5.1.4 - January 10, 2021Remove web stories from Wordpress searchUpdate ...
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 ...
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 ...