This tutorial covers how to use the fields on the "edit category" page for each category.The how to use categories tutorial covers best practices for categories overall.Setting the category fieldsWhen … [Read more...]
Holiday Foodie Gift Guide: Our Top Picks
Want to give a cookbook? Learn how you can (quickly) make your own here. Food gifts are underrated. And we can probably thank fruit cakes for that. But, let's look at the facts. Everyone eats … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Best Food Blog Designs of 2025
Visit the getting started guide for where to start your food blog today.What makes a food blog great?Our themes get the design out of the way and highlights your content and images, so that you can … [Read more...]
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 score … [Read more...]
Food Photography
Looking to outsource your food photography? Check out these … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 this … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 deep … [Read more...]
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 secret … [Read more...]
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 classic … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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, … [Read more...]
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: … [Read more...]
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 changes to … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Food Blog Recipe Submission Sites
We've compiled a list of recipe submission sites that you can submit yours to:Do you have any favorite recipe submission sites that you submit to for traffic and exposure? Let us know in the comments … [Read more...]
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 out of … [Read more...]
About
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Modern Categories
The Modern Categories enables the category pages to be built with the block editor, just like the homepage and recipe index. This allows: With the Feast Plugin v.10.0.0 release, you can now add custom … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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: … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 for … [Read more...]
Comments
Note: this post is in progress.The comments are getting a refresh in the Feast Plugin.WhyComments can help bloggers rank for keywords not found in their actual content.Search engines actually consider … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
How to Start Your Own Food Blog
Some people get into food blogging just to share, while others are hoping to turn their passion into a profession. But while you know your way around the kitchen, when it comes to starting your own … [Read more...]
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