Visitor Participation What do all the top recipes in the search engines have in common? High visitor engagement. This isn't a coincidence - factors such as time on page, and pages-per-session are ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why we don't support taglines
Taglines are not included in our themes by design. Taglines are a "default" feature of the Wordpress platform, originally built over a decade ago, when designs and visitor behavior was different. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. Comments contribute ...
Launching or Re-launching A Website? Get In On This!
I won't lie, I've had a bit of a designer crush on Michelle Martello since we first connected on Facebook. (Yes, Facebook.) Her work is impeccable and she is as business savvy as she is stunningly ...
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! ...
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 ...
Occam's Razor: Simple Design Is Better Design
Have you ever pioneered a quicker way to get somewhere than by following Siri's directions? Discovered an ingenious way to shorten the time it takes you to get ready for work, or the kids out the ...
