Feast Plugin Changelog

The latest updates for the Feast Plugin.

  • 15.0.8 - February 13, 2026
    • More WP 6.9.1 block fixes
    • Error handling
    • Subscribe button tweaks
  • 15.0.5 - February 11, 2026
    • Allow the Custom 404 to be used on Kadence
    • Resolve unique condition with missing jump to buttons
  • 15.0.2 - February 5, 2026
    • Update custom subscribe button max-width
    • Add "G" to trusted source block icon options
    • Feast 404 updated to use a full width page layout
    • Custom 404 with Feast Hooks
  • 15.0.0 - January 20, 2026
  • 14.9.7 - January 14, 2026
    • Ensure Kadence sidebar is 300px minimum on desktop
    • Fix for WP Rocket Remove Unused CSS issue with the site title and Feast Top Banner
    • Feast+ Alternate Header hooks
  • 14.9.0 - December 3, 2025
    • Add "Enable pinning" option to the FSRI block - note that we STRONGLY advise against pinning FSRI images
    • Add data-pin-nopin="true" to category (archive) and 404 and search pages to disable pinning images on category pages - these images should be pinned directly from the proper post to provide a good user experience
    • Add scroll-margin-top to divs to ensure menu doesn't overlap anchor links
  • 14.8.5 - November 19, 2025
  • 14.8.1 - November 11, 2025
    • Resolve issue with subcategory listing on category pages
    • Kadence: the Modern Category page title will replace the category name, on-page
    • Kadence: ensure posts are removed from category listing if used in the custom content
    • Bug fix for Scheduled Categories
    • Bug fix for improperly accessed files (WP-CLI)
  • 14.7.1 - October 23, 2025
    • Resolve Yoast FAQ Toggle issue for Lattice Plugin
  • 14.7.0 - October 22, 2025
    • Remove outdated settings
    • Add after_entry_content hook
    • Add warning when full width group blocks are nested
  • 14.6.8 - October 13, 2025
    • Various fixes
    • Kadence refinements
  • 14.6.2 - September 25, 2025
    • Add file size column to Media Library (list mode) screen, with a warning when JPGs are over 500-kb, so that users are aware of images that are uploaded without proper pre-upload optimization
    • The block previews window in the Block Editor has been expanded to more accurately reflect how blocks and block patterns look once inserted into the page
  • 14.6.0 - September 23, 2025
    • Accessibility update for the Modern Menu
    • Added Customizer setting for the FSRI titles in the sidebar
    • Display Subcategories on Category Page updated to match button block styling
  • 14.5.9 - September 9, 2025
    • Add additional hidden character replacements to to "Replace AI Characters"
    • Add default top/bottom margins for group blocks to fix spacing issues
    • Remove unnecessary padding on mobile for full width group blocks
    • Expand staging site detection
  • 14.5.0 - August 27, 2025
    • Add Feast AI Buttons block to enable visitors to ask questions and make modifications to your recipe, and remember your site for recipes
    • Added "Taiwanese" to the site info specialties
    • Spacing refinement for multiple blocks
    • Enable "Hide post info for author bio hook" to work on other Feast themes, and not just Foodie Pro 5
  • 14.4.4 - August 18, 2025
  • 14.4.0 - August 11, 2025
    • Fix Feast+ header jump to buttons
    • Add RankMath breadcrumb integration
  • 14.3.6 - August 7, 2025
    • Add menu font option to the customizer
    • Miscellaneous fixes
  • 14.3.3 - July 24, 2025
    • Remove inappropriate third party image plugin ads from a certain pagespeed plugin
    • Set WP Rocket auto preload fonts to enabled using 1-click configure
  • 14.3.0 - July 21, 2025
    • The search icon is now clickable in the Modern Menu search box
  • 14.2.0 - July 11, 2025
  • 14.1.5 - July 8, 2025
    • Add extra spacing for jump to links to account for additional banners
    • Remove invalid unicode warning - will be back behind a setting
    • BETA for post meta author bio, details to come
    • Various Feast+ updates
    • CSS menu fixes, including menu and logo centering
    • Kadence compatibility updates
  • 14.0.5 - May 26, 2025
    • Add Admin-only warning to paragraphs and headings that contain invalid unicode spaces - this is caused by improperly copy+pasting from a third party text editor (eg. MSWord, RankIQ) and needs to be corrected
    • Moved Filmstrip setting to BETA, now no longer recommended
    • Feast Plugin Starter: fix saving link color
    • Sidebar: fix phantom paragraphs
    • Add new Feast Post IDs page
    • Ensure all comment links open in new window
  • 14.0.0 - May 7, 2025
    • Update Feast Layouts to prevent third party plugins from inserting content in the layouts areas
    • Add new Feast Layout for After Entry which will display below the content on all posts (not pages)
  • 13.3.0 - May 2, 2025
    • Allow using the word "Updated" instead of "Modified" in the Edit Post Info
    • Fix image alignment issue
    • Fix Customizer output on category pages
  • 13.2.8 - April 28, 2025
    • Miscellaneous styling updates
  • 13.2.6 - April 21, 2025
    • Disable WP6.8 speculative loading
    • Update custom post template to correctly use the custom title when creating a new post
    • Further conditionals to accommodate WP 6.8 polyfill functions for PHP8 (we were first 🙃 but we'll work with core WP functionality)
    • Fix Pinterest button URL
    • Enable WP Rocket host fonts locally as part of Feast Plugin Setup
    • Update FSCI placeholder image for consistency
    • Add "Polaroid" image block style
    • Add "Featured Comment" quote block style
  • 13.2.0 - April 15, 2025
  • 13.1.6 - April 10, 2025
    • Change "Recipe Update Checklist" to "Post Update Checklist"
      • Added recommendation to display positive reader comment/review
    • Intelligent Post Edits is deprecated and moved to BETA
    • Modern Homepage Styling feature is deprecated and no longer available unless it has already been set
    • Add 2-column desktop list block style for ordered and unordered lists
    • Add new blockquote styles for:
      • Foodie Pro
      • Cook'd Pro
      • Seasoned Pro
      • Left bar
      • TXT Message
    • Styling fix for inline heading group block
  • 13.1.0 - April 2, 2025
  • 13.0.8 - March 29, 2025
    • Improved scrolling to headings
    • Add link style to customizer
  • 13.0.1 - March 11, 2025
  • 12.3.0 - February 27, 2025
    • Fix System-Font option in websafe fonts setting in the Feast Plugin
    • Remove letter-spacing from headings for Foodie Pro 5, new Customizer setting added to customize this for headings and body text if certain fonts require it
    • Add warning that full width group block can't be used in the sidebar
    • Fix heading alignment issue with new customizer setting
    • Add button color options to customizer
    • Hide the classic Previous + Next if not already enabled because no site should be using this and it's not recommended - use the Modern Previous + Next instead!
  • 12.2.5 - February 14, 2025
  • 12.2.2 -February 5, 2025
    • Scheduled Categories clarifications in the plugin
    • Fix Modern Categories bug
    • Add clarifications to display category on FSRI block
  • 12.2.0 - February 4, 2025
    • Force image thumbnail ratios on Modern Categories, Modern Search and Modern 404 pages for consistency
    • Added 9-wide option for the FSCI block (must use 3-wide for mobile)
    • Allow displaying Yoast Primary Category for each post on the FSRI block
      • Note: this may negatively impact server performance, especially on sites without adequate caching
    • Improve display of horizontal FSRI block option
  • 12.1.5 - January 27, 2025
    • Update FSRI block shared_counts_total to use Hubbub
    • Add menu_order option fro the FSRI block (note: tutorial TBD)
    • Tweak mobile search bar display
  • 12.1.3 - January 17, 2025
    • New Customizer settings for Foodie Pro 5
    • Fix custom post template issue
    • Add force thumbnail ratios
    • Permanently disable "Disable Advanced Jump To" feature
  • 12.1.0 - January 14, 2025
    • Force sidebar author bio to display round even if uploaded at wrong dimensions per the sidebar author bio tutorial
    • Tweak "Full Width Slanted" group block style
    • Enable translation on "Replace Jump To Buttons"
    • Update Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced Check from recent update
    • Sidebar author bio block now forces round image even if vertical image is used (note: square image was always a requirement)
    • Add Bluesky and Substack to the Feast Social Icons
  • 12.0.9 - January 8, 2025
    • Fix year-end bug with Scheduled Categories
    • Update settings for Shortpixel version 6+
    • Tweak Yoast FAQ blocks to account for edge case
    • Fix word-break issue on menus
  • 12.0.8 - January 2, 2025
    • Update websafe fonts to only allow fonts on both Windows and iOS
    • Add tool to reset Feast Plugin settings
    • Add HTML comment to where Scheduled Categories block would be if there was a match
  • 12.0.4 - December 16, 2024
    • The Advanced Jump To can now be used on Custom Category pages
    • Various tweaks
  • 12.0.0 - November 13, 2024
  • 11.9.5 - November 4, 2024
  • 11.9.0 - October 10, 2024
    • New: Inline Heading Group Block
    • WP Rocket auto-configure update:
      • disable Preload Links because this isn't applicable to content sites
    • Add email option to Feast Social Icons
  • 11.8.9 - October 2, 2024
    • Improve Feast+ preview feature
    • Refine Modern Recipe Index template
    • Fix websafe fonts issue
    • Enable Modern Categories Custom Content for Kadence categories
    • Fix FSRI issue when using post IDs on category pages
    • Add "Include rating count" option to FSRI block when using "Include recipe rating"
    • WP Rocket auto-configure update:
      • disable rocket CDN
      • enable lazyloading background images
    • Fix search bar text color back to black
  • 11.7.0 - September 18, 2024
    • New feature: Scheduled Categories
    • BETA: new setting to force image ratio output
    • Remove jump to recipe buttons from roundups (only if Replace Jump To buttons is enabled)
    • Remove image thumbnail dimensions disabled due to issues with srcset output
    • Enable support for custom link color in Feast Plugin Starter
    • Tweak list padding to only output in content, not sidebar or footer
    • Tweaks to prebuilt patterns and pages
  • 11.6.8 - September 10, 2024
    • Fix list padding issue
    • Add 2:3 photography portrait thumbnail size (not yet documented)
    • Preliminary Kadence support
    • Preliminary Feast+ preview
  • 11.6.2 - September 5, 2024
    • Restore missing post template in Feast Layouts
    • Remove warnings from third party plugins on settings page
  • 11.6.0 - August 29, 2024
  • 11.5.4 - August 20, 2024
    • Enable the Primary navigation menu as the fallback menu if the correct menu name isn't used for the Modern Menu
    • Bug fix: FSRI category picker when slugs don't match the name
    • Fix list padding
  • 11.5.1 - August 14, 2024
    • CSS tweak for Foodie Pro 5
    • Update the Setup page with further guidance
    • Update FSRI block to use category picker
  • 11.5.0 - August 3, 2024
    • Add right line heading style for h2 headings
      • note: this is desktop only, and doesn't work with multi-line headings
    • Add feast-recipe-heading class to replace recipe card heading feature
    • Add external link arrow block style for paragraphs and buttons
    • Font optimization for Feast+
    • Refine collapsible FAQ styling
  • 11.4.8 - July 26, 2024
    • One-click Social Icons menu setup
  • 11.4.3 - July 23, 2024
    • Add tutorial links for better access to documentation to FSRI, FSCI, and Advanced Jump To blocks
    • Fix pagination overflow on category pages
    • Allow controlling the order of the FSCI block
    • Update grow.me integration in settings
  • 11.4.0 - July 17, 2024
  • 11.3.9 - July 15, 2024
    • Add "Add widget after content" to incompatible plugins list
    • Bug fix for footer
  • 11.3.7 - July 1, 2024
    • Roll back auto-create troubleshooting admin, will be changed to a button on the support page
  • 11.3.4 - June 24, 2024
    • Exclude web stories archive from the Modern Categories layout (this belongs to the web stories plugin)
    • Add option to set default link color in the Feast Plugins "Fonts" section
  • 11.3.0 - June 14, 2024
    • WP 6.5.4 testing compatibility complete
    • Resolve opacity issue that may contribute to INP issues on some sites
    • Ensure links are underlined on category pages
    • Introduce web safe fonts, you can now set a web safe body font, a web safer heading font, a heading font weight, or choose not to use this at all
    • The "General" section of the Feast Plugin has been replaced by the "Fonts" section
    • Note: "Smooth scroll" has been moved up to the "Posts" section of the Feast Plugin settings.
  • 11.2.5 - June 9, 2024
    • BETA testing for Foodie Pro 5
    • Social icons tweak
    • Re-organize Feast patterns into more specific categories, so that it's clear which pages/sections they're designed for
    • New: Remove image thumbnail dimensions from file names
  • 11.1.9 - May 31, 2024
    • New "browse by diet" pattern
    • Resolve duplicate menu items introduced by WordPress 6.5
    • Fix for Hubbub social icons
  • 11.1.8 - May 28, 2024
    • Update Modern Menu to use flexbox instead of grid, to improve item spacing
    • Add right arrow option to text hyperlinks
    • Add Amazon + Flipboard to Feast Social Icons
    • Fix list styling on Modern Category pages
    • Various CSS fixes
  • 11.1.5 - May 21, 2024
  • 11.1.2 - May 20, 2024
    • Add FAQ Toggle to turn Yoast FAQ blocks into accordions
  • 11.0.7 - May 13, 2024
  • 11.0.6 - May 7, 2024
    • Update modern sidebar template to use the new author bio, right arrow button, and add a seasonal posts section
    • Update default recipe post template with numbered instruction pattern, remove food safety section
    • Update modern homepage to add group blocks around distinct sections
    • New! Stretch recipe card to full width on mobile to potentially improve RPMs (found under the "Posts" section of the Feast Settings)
  • 11.0.3 - May 3, 2024
    • Add right arrow style to button blocks
    • Updated recipe instruction block pattern to insert 4 columns instead of 2
    • Support enhancement: visiting the Feast support page will now automatically create an admin account for us to help troubleshoot, instead of requiring you to create one + submit a form (this is also more secure)
    • New "As seen in" pattern
  • 10.9.7 - April 27, 2024
    • Resolve Hubbub issue with sidebar
    • Remove outdated theme menu items
    • Update search page to better match FSRI styling site-wide
    • Add plugin compatibility warnings to support page
  • 10.9.4 - April 25, 2024
    • Remove Optimize Block Typography and Optimize Post Blocks due to low usage
    • Add warnings for known incompatibilites to support page
    • Add warnings for the FSRI block full width inside a full width group block
    • Update search pages for consistency with rest of site
  • 10.8.7 - April 12, 2024
    • Advanced Jump To fix for Tasty Recipes
    • Hubbub added to recommend plugins
    • Sidebar author bio update
    • On-site guidelines for category descriptions updated to use the Modern Categories
  • 10.8.1 - April 4, 2024
    • You can now create multiple post templates! note that this was renamed from the "recipe post template" to just "post template" because not all templates will be recipes
  • 10.8.0 - April 3, 2024

Past updates can be found on the Feast Plugin changelog archive page.