The Modern Menu integrates a "Subscribe" button that provides a call-to-action for readers to sign up for your newsletter the entire time they're on your site. This allows you to: increase ...
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.
Modern guidelines for page headings
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 ...
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. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its release. The fonts implementation in the themes were ...
Modern Homepage Setup
This is the setup tutorial for the Modern Homepage, which is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. We have some companion pages to help understand what makes the Modern Homepage ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Feast Plugin: Disable Google Fonts
Implements the Manually disable Google fonts tutorial without editing code. Note: this is automatically enabled with the Feast Plugin's System Font option. This will fall-back to the default ...
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
This has been completed, and rolled into the Modern Thumbnails. It was recently brought to our attention in July 2019 that Google's requirements for featured images have changed on articles and ...