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: ...
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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: Do you have any favorite recipe submission sites that you submit to for traffic and exposure? Let us know in the ...
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 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feel Refreshed Tomorrow With This Nightly Routine for Food Bloggers
Evening is the time when we get to unwind and relax - when we can decompress and let all of those troubles and stresses melt away. But do most of us actually use our evenings to do that? Probably ...
9 Business and Blogging Tools You Should Know (and Love!)
You're busy. Believe me, nobody can sympathize with that more than me. There are far too many times when I feel like I'm juggling eight bowling balls with one arm tied behind my back—and I'm ...
How to Write Your Perfect “About Me” Page
When I stumble upon a new blog or website, the "About Me" page is one of the first things I look for. I absolutely love finding out more about the site's author. It allows me to feel more of a ...
How to Drive More Pinterest Traffic to Your Blog
If you're anything like me, you love Pinterest. It's a great source of inspiration—whether I'm looking for home decor ideas or a recipe I can whip together that night for dinner, I can always find ...
How to Craft a Sponsored Post Without Seeming Inauthentic
Working with brands to create sponsored posts is a great way to bring in extra income with your blog. But writing these posts in a way that seems completely genuine can feel like quite the ...
6 Food and Lifestyle Blog Trends to Take Your Site to the Next Level in 2018
With so many blogs available in the digital world, it can be tough to be heard through the noise. With these easy design tips, though, your wordpress blog will be the hottest on the web in no time! ...
Dear is now Brunch Pro // Permission Slip to Pivot
I have no problem saying this: Foodie Pro, the crown jewel of WordPress themes reaching the #1 spot in StudioPress sales almost every month for two years, has given us amazing insight to our niche ...
The Best WordPress Plugins for Your Food Blog
I love WordPress plugins. They're an effective and simple way to increase the functionality of your site and take your blog to the next level. But having lots of plugins can also affect your site's ...
The Secret to Getting More Done—Even When Your Schedule's Packed
You're busy. And, even though you're filled with tons of creative ideas and inspiration, finding the minutes throughout the day to act on them is a totally separate battle for you. It's easy to ...
Simple Tips to Make Your Blog Photography More Pinterest-Worthy
Thoughtful, innovative, and well-written content is undoubtedly a big piece of the successful food blogging puzzle. But in today's visual society, you know what else can have a big impact? The quality ...
The Kick-Butt Blogger’s Guide to Boosting Earnings Through Brand Collaborations
You absolutely love working on your blog, and take pride in the content that you produce. But if you could still feel that way and pull in some extra cash while you're at it? Well, I think you'd be ...
Productivity Hacks for Bloggers to Publish on Schedule
After a day full of errands, emails, and putting out fires, you finally kick up your feet to settle in for the evening. You're just about to pick up the remote when it hits you. "Oh, shoot!" you think ...
How to Grow Your Food Blog with Little Time
Photograph by Katie Purnell found on minimography.com Many of us creative types are building businesses from the ground up - from side hustles to bootstrapped businesses from a "home office" (aka ...
Food Blogger Media Kit Template
Besides a killer theme, what is the #1 thing bloggers, especially food bloggers, need to work with brands? A media kit! I've created several for some of my favorite clients over the years and ...
Foodie Pro is Now Translation Ready!
You asked, we listened! After we noticed an increase of support tickets requesting translation-ready code, we decided to look into things a bit. And what we found out was astounding. Foodie Pro has ...