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Here’s a Holiday Gift Idea: Why Not Publish a Food Blog Cookbook?
Have you made your Christmas shopping list yet? Let me guess. Golf balls for Dad? A new pair of kicks for hubby? Maybe a Sephora gift card for your best friend? Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's ...
Best Food Blog Designs of 2022
What makes a food blog great? Loads fastGreat design that highlights contentRecipes that are focused around a theme or topicPictures of the food for reference (and to drool over) Our themes get ...
Classic Recipe Index Page Layout
Note: we highly recommend setting up the Modern Recipe Index using the Feast Plugin instead. WARNING: Recipe index pages are "thin content" pages and should be no-indexed to avoid a low-quality ...
Food Photography
Looking to outsource your food photography? Check out these ...
Why Should I have an Editorial Calendar? Food Blogging Tips You Need
In the early stages of food blogging, many people are recipe-dependent. You add flair here and there but rely on recipes to learn new techniques and explore flavors. But as you hone your skill, you ...
3 Tips for Food Bloggers to Avoid Marketing Burnout
Avoiding your computer's gaze, so you don't have to edit one more image? Have a post ready but can't bring yourself to write the caption and hashtags for Instagram? Sure, you could be stressed. Or ...
How often should I post?
As much as you can. If you can put out 1000 high quality recipes by tomorrow, do it. Just post the content when it's ready, and make sure it's good quality content. You can't just glaze over ...
Stay Focused on Important Things (or: why Pinterest sucks)
This is an opinionated post from Skylar, arguing the counter-point about why Pinterest and social media is a waste of time. Lots of food bloggers use Pinterest very successfully and derive income from ...
Recipe Page Guidelines for Food Bloggers
Wouldn't it be nice if you knew exactly how your food blog was evaluated for quality, and what you might be doing wrong (or right)? Well, you actually can know. [Update 2019/03/31: you can find a ...
The Secret Ingredient: How to Grow into a Top Food Blog
The secret ingredient that makes your recipe pop, like pickle juice or fish sauce, can sometimes get weird. So, we're getting weird in this blog post too. Or, at least, different. Because the ...
Block Editor ("Gutenberg") Development
Essentially, they introduced a new post editor, as a plugin, which will eventually replace the old editor. We're following the rest of the industry and calling these the block editor and the ...
Food Blog Recipe Videos
A growing trend in food blogging is recipe videos, which can help increase time-on-site, get you featured positions in search engines and makes your content more easily shareable. In fact, schema ...
How to make email marketing an easy part of your content production process
You already know that social media is vital to promoting your food blog, but did you know that email marketing is just as important to the top food blogs? According to OptinMonster and MailMunch, ...
8 Ways to Promote Your Food Blog
One of the key aspects of creating an actionable promotion strategy is breaking to-dos down into bite-sized pieces. While many promotional techniques require strategy and time, there are plenty of ...
DMCA and Copyright Infringement
There's some debate about whether recipes can be copyrighted, but generally, copying creative content (such as a post, or parts of one) Note that recipes themselves can not be copyrighted: ...
Where did the "before header" area go?
The "before-header" area has removed in version 3.2.0, from themes that previously contained it. This was previously promoted as a space to put newsletter signups, or ads. However, recent ...
How to Price Sponsored Content For Your Blog in 2020
You've put time, energy, and creativity into making your blog wildly successful, checking off items from our how to start a food blog tutorial. You've made it beautiful with a premium wordpress theme ...
Why we don't support pop ups (interstitials)
Pop ups are claimed to increase conversion rates of newsletter signups, and actually, they do. But people hate them. You may increase your newsletter signups from 0.1% to 1%, but you're going to ...
Why we don't support pagebuilders
We do not recommend that bloggers use pagebuilders to create pages on their website, and we don't offer support for it. Below is an opinionated take on pagebuilders, and why we don't support it. As ...
How to get an audience in your first year of blogging (Spoiler: there's no magic bullet)
by Cathy Tibbles, WP Barista Once upon a time I was married to a man who was diagnosed with celiac disease. So I started converting our family-friendly recipes into gluten-free ones. I posted them ...
Why we don't support site-wide taglines
A "tagline" actually makes for a great homepage title (h1) in the Modern Homepage. Check out the Modern Homepage Showcase for some well-done examples of this.The key difference is that this is ...
Best WordPress Recipe Plugins for Food Bloggers
As of 2018, we recommend either: WP Recipe Maker Tasty Recipes MediaVine also entered the market in 2018 with their MediaVine "Create" plugin. If you're on MediaVine then it may be worth ...
How To Take Action When You're Paralyzed With Blogging Advice Overload
"Content is king." We've all heard it. At this point, the necessity of content marketing is well-known, and there are millions (if not billions) of articles offering advice on how to make your ...
Food Blog Recipe Submission Sites
We've compiled a list of recipe submission sites that you can submit yours to: FoodyubFoodgawkerFridgg (no longer active)Recipe LionMy Magic RecipeKitchenThyme (no longer active)Tastespotting (no ...
Should Food Blogs Pay to Advertise for Email List Signups
The short answer: No. The effort and expertise required for conversion rate and landing page optimization to convert paid traffic into an email list, and then generate a return-on-investment, is ...
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Feast Design Co. continues to evolve in 2021, with a renewed focus on blog performance with the Feast Plugin and best practices to keep you in sync with search engine requirements. We're more focused ...
Why we dropped support for Landing Pages
The "landing page" template has been removed from version 4.0.0 of all themes. We'll be detailing the change here. Why Was It Dropped? Using a different page template (separate PHP files to ...
5 Things Getting In The Way Of Your Blog’s Success
Even the most energetic, passionate, and motivated people have an uphill battle ahead of them when it comes to building a successful blog. Many people get into blogging thinking it's a shortcut ...
Modern Categories
The Modern Categories setting replaces the theme based category output with one that's configured to use our best practices. This resolves: configurations with poor optionsCLS issues with the ...
Upgrade Your iPhoneography With These Apps & Accessories
As Chase Jarvis like to say – so much that he used it as the title for his book – "the best camera is the one that's with you." For many of us, it's an iPhone that we use to snap photos, in between ...
Food Holidays
Looking for food-oriented holidays to celebrate your favorite recipe on your blog, instagram and twitter? Look no further! January Food Holidays Jan. 4: National Spaghetti Day, U.S. Jan. 5: ...
How to Self Publish a Cookbook
Note from FeastDesignCo.: Skylar picked up Nancy's How to cook Halloumi cookbook earlier this year after trying it for the first time, and falling in love right away with the salty, savoury goodness. ...
How to get started selling online with WooCommerce
This is a guest post from Michelle Martello from Minima Designs. She's your gal when it comes to digital strategy for modern entrepreneurs! Running a blog or other type of online business? At some ...
2016 Saveur Blog Awards--Freakin' Out For Our Clients!
The 2016 Saveur Blog Award finalists were announced the other day--have you started voting yet!? We're super excited for our clients and theme customers who've made it to this stage of the process. ...
Gutenberg Blocks for Food Bloggers
What's a "recipe"? There's confusion sometimes about what a "recipe" is on your blog. A recipe is a wordpress post in it's entirety, which includes not only personal information about you and why ...
Case Study: Dine & Dish
Goals & clarity for the site: "I want people to feel like they are walking into my home to sit down to a cup of coffee and a good chat ." Her gift to share: "Because of been blogging for so ...
Why You Should Always Buy Your Themes From The Source
If you're shopping around for a WordPress theme, it's easy enough to find many of the popular ones available for free – but there's a dark side to these "free" themes. It's technically legal ...
Comments
Note: this post is in progress. The comments are getting a refresh in the Feast Plugin. Why Comments can help bloggers rank for keywords not found in their actual content. Search engines ...
Monetize This: 3 Things To Know Before Selling Sponsored Content
With the recent news about Facebook allowing verified pages to publish sponsored content, you're probably wondering if it's something you can offer for yourself. If you're thinking about how you can ...