Feast Plugin Changelog

The latest updates for the Feast Plugin.

12.0.0 - November 13, 2024
- Foodie Pro 5: allow moving post info above title
- New Customizer controls for:
  - FSRI
  - FSCI
  - Link color + Link hover color
  - IMPORTANT: you will need to clear your caches for these to be visible for non-logged in visitors
- Updated support page for improved clarity and quicker answers
11.9.5 - November 4, 2024
- Add edit link to Replace Jump To buttons
- Add edit link to Modern Previous + Next
- Update heading line height for aesthetics
- Update grow.me integration link
- Update star rating display
- Feast+ tweaks
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
- Add Replace Jump To buttons feature
- CSS tweaks
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
- Remove image self links
- Add message if "Disabled Advanced Jump To" is active
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
- Change target class for Yoast FAQ because they modified it in v.22.7
- Add support for the Menu Social Icons in the Feast Layouts
- Exclude already-created Custom Content drop-down from the Modern Categories
- Added horizontal layout options to the FSRI block
11.1.2 - May 20, 2024
- Add FAQ Toggle to turn Yoast FAQ blocks into accordions
11.0.7 - May 13, 2024
- Fix social icons color select issue
- Fix whitespace issue on FSRI block
- FSCI category selection enhancement
- WordPress 6.5.3 testing complete
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
- Custom Post Template
- Remove incorrect classes from the Feast Archive + Search + 404
10.7.9 - March 29, 2024
- We're now recommending that the Modern Categories custom content is placed before the category display + sidebar, for better layout options
- Resolve a pagination issue with the Modern Categories and custom content
- Update Modern Search / Modern 404 to return individual results if a match is found
- Add a Recipe Index custom label to the breadcrumbs
- Add labels back to the Feast Patterns block inserter (these were previously removed by WordPress, not us)
10.7.1 - March 13, 2024
- Fix Threads + Flipboard social icons
- Support translating post info
- Fix Tasty Recipes line height issue with FSRI block
- Feast+ preview is available until March 17th for the Tastemaker conference
10.6.0 - March 6, 2024
- Fix list styling affect Advanced Jump To
- Modern categories minor fix
- Update Feast+ labels on block inserter
10.5.9 - March 1, 2024
- Fix: list spacing
10.5.5 - February 26, 2024
- Added "diabetic" to diet types in Feast Plugin > Site Info
- Add "Flipboard" to social platforms in Feast Plugin > Site Info
- Add flipboard to Feast Social Icons
- Add placeholder image for FSRI posts missing a featured image, for display purposes
- Catch FSRI category usage bug
10.5.0 - February 21, 2024
- Added "Threads" to social platforms in Feast Plugin > Site Info
10.4.8 - February 12, 2024
- Misc. styling fixes
10.4.5 - February 8, 2024
- Fix PHP warning
- Feast+ tweaks and updates
10.4.0 - February 6, 2024
- Improved message when FSRI block has no posts left to display
- Feast+ tweaks and updates
10.3.7 - February 1, 2024
- Message added to the Advanced Jump To when it's used on a roundup post (any post where the content contains the word "roundup") because this affects the functionality
- New: Add CSS-only smooth scroll option site-wide (primarily useful for the Advanced Jump To)
- Added better text wrapping to FSCI + FSRI blocks
10.3.3 - January 31, 2024
- Update mb_convert_encoding() to mb_encode_numericentity()
  - Thanks Andrew @ NerdPress for the heads up
- Add tool to delete all pingbacks/trackbacks as they're not used and can cause issues
- Disable outdated theme customizer if Feast+ is enabled, to prevent style conflicts
- Pre-emptively fix WP 6.4.3 zip issues
  - Note: we're not recommend or supporting updating to 6.4.3 yet - you can find compatibility information here
10.3.0 - January 16, 2024
- 1-click preset style setup for Feast+
  - Note: this overrides all your current settings and is not recommended if you're set with your current styling
10.2.8
- Tweak FSRI margins
- Improve access to view+edit category from the Modern Categories page
- Miscellaneous Feast+ tweaks
10.2.3
- Miscellaneous Feast+ updates
- Modern Menu spacing update
- Improve Modern Categories instructions
10.1.8 - January 10, 2024
- Catch mb_convert_encoding() warning for non WordPress managed hosts
- Add warning screen when minimal UI is enabled
- Fix FSRI title underlines
10.1.4 - January 3, 2024
- WordPress 6.4.2 compatibility completed
- Remove old BETA branding styling (never actively supported or recommended)
- Miscellaneous Feast+ updates
- Add details to support page
- Fix WordPress image spacing issue due to 6.4.2 update
10.1.0 - December 20, 2023
- Miscellaneous updates for Feast+
10.0.6 - December 18, 2023
- Feast+: Resolve some Google fonts not loading
- Resolve issue with WPRM linked recipe being deleted from a post but left in place (ie. doesn't exist)
10.0.8 - December 12, 2023
- Add support for Feast Patterns on the categories and layouts
- Improvements to the full width layouts
- Added new category link align option to the FSRI block
10.0.6 - December 6, 2023
- Add option to display Modern Categories custom content in a full-width setup, above the posts and sidebar
- Prevent Modern Categories custom content from displaying on page 2 (and beyond) of categories
- Add helper text to Modern Category pages when post count is limited
10.0.0 - December 2, 2023
- Custom category pages with the newly updated Modern Categories
  - Also compatible with Kadence
- Feast+ soft launch for early adopters
- Resolve jump to comments issue on pages
9.9.3 - November 10, 2023
- Fix WP Recipe Maker error with FSRI block
- Added Kadence compatibility
- Fix WordPress 6.4 breaking change - the default center align doesn't work any more until WordPress releases a fix
9.9.0 - October 13, 2023
- Enable a 3-wide layout for the modern category pages so that you can display larger images
- Fix for mb_convery_encoding deprecation in PHP8.2
- Auto-configure setting for the Feast Plugin to our recommended best practices
- Auto-register Polylang support
Fix: list spacing on Advanced Jump To
Update Feast Social Icons support for custom colors at block level
Update HelpScout beacon
Tweak Kadence integration
Add (BETA) Icon option for FSCI block
Undo automatic admin account creation due to feedback, re-visit integration controls

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