The Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is a powerful tool in the hands of the right person, but can also make your recipe pages ugly and worse for visitors if misused. Here are some modern ...
Food Blog Design and Appearance
What are the latest design trends in food blogging? How do you get your photography and navigation set up for success, like the top food bloggers? Check out these posts for tips and tricks to keep you looking fresh and modern.
Advanced "Jump To" Links
The purpose of the Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is to: provide your readers with a better on-page navigation experiencegenerate additional links in the search results for your heading ...
Modern Google Fonts
Note: this feature is still in BETA for testing and bug fixes and not officially recommended. We expect it to be ready sometime in January 2020. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its ...
Modern Homepage Setup
This is the tutorial for the modern homepage. We have some companion pages: the modern homepage vs. theme homepage details the differences between the modern homepage and theme homepagethe ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add Yoast Breadcrumbs
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin 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 ...
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This is a feature of the Feast Plugin This featured is outdated, and has been replaced by the Modern Mobile Menu.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
Set the browser color in Chrome to your brand's color! Currently only supported on Android devices. We'll update this feature for additional browser and devices as support is enabled for it. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
Contact Forms
Feast does not offer support for contact forms. Our themes are designed to affect styling, not functionality, and this is outside the scope of our expertise. The three most popular contact forms ...
Feast Plugin: Disable Google Fonts
Implements the Disable Google Fonts tutorial without editing code. This will fall-back to the default font in the theme. Recommendation: unless you have a compelling reason for doing this, ...
Why we removed the banner-top on mobile
Modern versions of the themes have the "Before Header: Newsletter" widget area set to display:none; on mobile. This is an update to bring the themes in-line with search engine requirements to provide ...
Future of Food Blogging
Food blogging has come a long way in the past few years, and I'm sad to say that our themes had fallen behind the times. These will be the changes moving forward: Mobile is King Most customer ...
Rethinking the Featured Image
Note: this is still a work in progress and has not been finalized. It was recently brought to our attention (2019/07/14) that Google's requirements for featured images have changed on articles and ...
Font Styling
The customizer can only ever have a limited set of the possible CSS options. If looking to customize your theme beyond what's built into the customizer, you'll have to learn to use inspect element and ...
Rethinking the Header
Update 2019/05/14: we'll be taking this another step further in 2019 with rethinking the nav menu. Update 2019/12/06: you should add an h1 tag to your homepage. A very common question we get ...
