This tutorial is for the classic theme setup, which is outdated. Only follow this if you're on the classic theme setup without the Feast Plugin.All sites should be using the Modern Homepage through ...
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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.Enabledstyling for FSCI ...
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 UNSALE
Welcome to the White Friday Unsale! 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 $373.50/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 2019 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
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 ...
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 them. ...
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 display, ...
Feast Category Images (FSCI) Block
The Feast Category Images (FSCI) 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 PluginThe Modern Mobile Menu replaces the theme header and menu with a mobile and accessibility-optimized layout. As of 2021, with pagespeed, SEO and accessibility being ...
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 nodesimproves ...
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 ...
Like all social networks, Instagram wants people to interact and view content within its "closed garden", where it can track your actions and show you ads.This means that Instagram (like all social ...
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 BreadcrumbsHowever, ...
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 following:ArchiveSet 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 around ...
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 PluginThe 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: We've ...
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 of ...
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 ...