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    Home » Tech and Plugins

    Convert Recipe Acronyms

    Published: Aug 1, 2021 · Modified: Mar 18, 2022 by Skylar · 2 Comments

    This tutorial features the Feast Plugin, which enhances and extends your theme to improve SEO, pagespeed, accessibility and user experience.

    The Convert recipe acronym setting fixes a significant accessibility issue with recipe sites, by replacing acronyms like "tsp" with the full text equivalent "teaspoon".

    ingredient list show tsp and tbsp
    before
    ingredient list show teaspoon and tablespoon
    after
    Jump to:
    • Accessibility
    • SEO
    • Fix
    • Acronyms
    • Technical notes

    Accessibility

    Most screen readers pronounce acronyms literally, reading the letters out loud if they don't recognize a word, so acronyms like

    • "tsp" is read out loud as "tee ess pee"
    • "tbsp" is read correctly as "tee bee ess pee"

    SEO

    Search engines are more advanced than screen readers, with the ability to understand acronyms and interpret the text:

    This means that if users use the acronym instead of the full word, your recipe will still show up in the search results.

    Converting acronyms to words should have no impact on SEO.

    Fix

    Solving this for hundreds of recipes is as simple as checking off the option in the Feast Plugin:

    Acronyms

    We currently convert:

    • tsp to teaspoon
    • tbsp to tablespoon

    Technical notes

    • This does not change the contents of the recipe card, only what is output to the screen on posts
    • After enabling this, we recommend visiting your top 8 recipes to make sure the units make sense
    • You may need to clear your cache for this to show up for non-logged-in users

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    1. Adrienne says

      September 08, 2021 at 1:17 pm

      Hi there. Does this affect directions too and not just ingredients? I assume that we should address any abbreviations in the directions part of the recipe as well, correct? Thanks in advance!

      Reply
    2. Adrienne says

      September 08, 2021 at 1:18 pm

      Does this conversion feature address the directions as well or just the ingredients? Am I correct in thinking that we should address any abbreviations in the direction section too? Thank you!

      Reply

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