The category pages are still something we get support tickets for, with people unsure of how to change the default image size displayed there, despite being covered in the theme setup ...
News & Updates
WordPress 5.5
DO NOT UPDATE TO WORDPRESS 5.5. Wordpress 5.5 contains a number of features. We'll cover off first impressions below. The quick summary is: Update to Genesis 3.3.3Do not update to Wordpress ...
Per Page CSS
The per-page CSS lets you add custom CSS to specific pages, to help improve pagespeed. This is in contrast to the "Additional CSS" page, which loads styling across your entire site, even when it's ...
Modern Navigation
Your site's navigation has an impact on SEO, accessibility and user experience. SEO While secondary content (link to E-A-T) provides queues to search engines about what's important, there's no ...
Why we don't support block-level styling
The block editor is a powerful tool, but also one that can cause you a lot of harm if you don't know how to use it properly. Generally, we do not recommend making styling changes to individual ...
User Profile Block
The HTML-based user profile widget has long been a staple of the sidebar, giving your visitors information about who you are and demonstrating E-A-T. Note: we haven't recommended using the Gravatar ...
FSRI Block
The Simple Recipe Index (FSRI) block is a block-editor component for building the Modern Homepage. It's intended to be used as a replacement for the FSRI shortcode. It contains many of the same ...
Rethinking the Newsletter
Note: this post is a work in progress Email signups are arguably one of the few assets a recipe site can own and develop, and as such, are a key part of running a food blog. However, current ...
Black Foodies
Due to feedback from our customers that they'd like to connect with more black food blogs, we're putting together a list of recipe sites operated by black entrepeneurs. More than just sharing a ...
May Updates
While waiting for bug fixes, then working on testing for: Genesis 3.3Wordpress 5.4Yoast 14.0 Multiple updates rolled out including: a major Google core algorithm update on May 14new schema ...
Click Through Rates (CTR)
Ever wonder what a good click-through-rate is for your posts? Keep wondering. Google Search Console provides the ability to view CTR on a page level, and query level, and page-by-query ...
May Pagespeed Update
Google released the Lighthouse version 6 update about 2 weeks ago, and appears to have rolled it into the Pagespeed Insights tool on May 27th 2020. This update basically rewrites the tool, using ...
Recipe Update Checklist
When you're updating posts, you want to be as thorough as possible to avoid having to re-edit multiple times. Remembering all of what needs to be done is impossible though - so we've created a Recipe ...
Pruning comments
After hitting a base number of comments (10), we recommend removing low quality comments from posts. In this post, we'll simply refer to these as "worthless comments". Why? They don't ...
Accessibility
This page is a work in progress and represents the best of our current understanding at the time it is being viewed. It is not an authoritative document and not prescriptive. Themes The themes ...
Food Blogger Summit
Below is the presentation on page jumps from the Food Blogger Summit. The Feast Plugin saves time and offers a maintenance-free way to do this using the Advanced Jump To shortcode. Learn how ...
Compatibility
This page will maintain the compatibility information for the Feast Plugin. We currently support: Wordpress 5.3.2Genesis 3.3.0 Note the difference between compatibility - compatibility means ...
Full Width Modern Homepage
This is a transition guide to go from the Modern Homepage to a full-width Modern Homepage. To get the Modern Homepage set up, either follow the: Modern Homepage (complete guide)Simple Modern ...
WebP
Our current recommend is not to use WebP. is not supported by all major browsersis generally the same size as JPGprovides no tangible performance benefitsdoes not impact pagespeed score (pointless ...
Modern Recipe Index
The Modern Recipe Index is a replacement for the theme's recipe index, by using the Simple Recipe Index Block. The goal of the Modern Homepage was to convert the most "important" page on your site ...
