Feast Plugin Changelog

The most recent changes can be found in the Feast Plugin's releases section.

Below is an archive of past updates:

• 6.5.6 - February 23, 2022
  • Admin settings page styling update + add "create recipe post from template" button for easier access
  • Compatible with WordPress 5.9
  • Fix separator block issues
    • General note: we recommend against using spacer or separator blocks on posts - styling should be 100% handled by the theme and if additional white space is required on any elements, they should be applied SITE WIDE. Only use spacers/separators on one-off pages (contact, about, recipe index, etc).
  • Removed negative margin/padding added to H2s when Advanced Jump To is present - this caused too many other problems (text overlap, background colors)
• 6.5.4 - February 10, 2022
  • Updated featured image default thumbnail recommendation for image optimization
  • Add BETA implementation of Skip Lazyloading First Post Image
  • Remove feature: "Disable Google Fonts"
    • this has been replaced with the System Fonts setting (recommended for all)
• 6.5.3 - February 2, 2022
  • Performance tweaks for the Modern Menu to improve Core Web Vitals
  • Undo list padding from 6.5.0 due to other issues
• 6.5.0 - January 28, 2022
  • Removed the "Disable WordPress Automatic Updates Interface" setting
    • this was introduced with WordPress 5.5 and has since been addressed, so it's no longer necessary - contact your host to manage plugin updates
  • Added warning if Yoast breadcrumbs are not enabled
  • Added warning if Yoast breadcrumbs "Home" is not set
  • Added warning if Yoast breadcrumbs post taxonomy is not set
  • Fix: Cook'd Pro comment styling issue
  • Fix: Menu now only displays on first page when printing a post, instead of every page
    • Note: it's rare that users print a post, because they should be printing the recipe card - this may a sign that your recipes need to be filled out better
  • Add mmmadminlinks class to admin (edit) links to allow .mmmadminlinks { display: none; }
  • Add bottom padding to lists to prevent heading overlap causing link click issues
  • Added text-on-image guidelines to the image optimization guide
• 6.4.9 - January 8, 2022
  • Add baseline padding to blocks with a background color
  • Remove edit links from Hamburger Modern Menu due to usability issues
  • Advanced Jump To update: also pad the desktop headings instead of just mobile
  • Add exclusion class for Simple Social Icons and WP External Links
  • Unset hard coded admin name color in comments
  • Update Modern Categories to better match FSRI block for consistent branding
  • Breadcrumb enhancement: Add your Recipe Index URL to the breadcrumbs!
• 6.4.5 - December 2, 2021
  • Add (edit) links to the Inline Modern Menu for simpler access
    • NOTE: this only displays to admins, not to site visitors
  • Add setting to enable styling for group blocks in the admin to make it simpler to manage
  • BETA setting for the inline search bar on the Modern Menu for Foodie Pro (styling for other themes is not complete)
• 6.4.4 - November 29, 2021
  • Bug fix for Convert Recipe Acronyms to prevent image issues
• 6.4.3 - November 23, 2021
  • Bug fix for Modern Categories: use the Genesis archive headline by default, if not blank, otherwise fall back to WordPress core name field
• 6.4.2 - November 18, 2021
  • Updated breadcrumbs display based on feedback from Casey and Andrew
• 6.4.1 - November 14, 2021
  • Display subcategories now only shows the immediate child-categories, not grandchild-categories or lower
  • Fix an issue where the category description on page 2 or later
• 6.4.0 - November 1, 2021
  • Modern Categories and Display Subcategories
  • Add support for Grow.me subscribe modal
• 6.3.8 - October 26, 2021
  • Administrative fix
• 6.3.7 - October 20, 2021
  • BETA testing of the display subcategories for the Modern Categories
  • Update sidebar styling to fix WordPress 5.8.1 block changes
• 6.3.6 - October 18, 2021
  • BETA testing Modern Categories
• 6.3.4 - October 8, 2021
  • Fix additional Yoast issues with hiding breadcrumbs
  • Revert Modern Menu for Desktop to original hamburger menu setup, with option to inline the menu and social icons
• 6.3.0 - October 7, 2021
  • Fix Yoast issue with hiding breadcrumbs
  • Modern Menu for Desktop refinement: ensure Simple Social Icons widget title doesn't display
• 6.2.9 - October 5, 2021
  • Breadcrumbs enhancement: automatically hide single-level breadcrumbs to avoid duplicating title
  • Breadcrumbs enhancement: Remove the homepage link from breadcrumbs because the logo already links home (can also improve CLS)
• 6.2.2 - September 29, 2021
  • Modern Menu:
    • remove display of submenu items (don't use submenus!)
    • update container to semantically-correct <nav> element
    • improve consistency of menu selection
  • Modern Mobile Menu: Improve alignment of modern mobile menu items
• 6.2.1 - September 27, 2021
  • Desktop Modern Menu breakpoint update: only displays when the screen or browser width is above 1200px, otherwise it will display the Modern Mobile Menu on tablets, phones, or browsers using zoom for accessibility reasons
• 6.2.0 - September 23, 2021
  • Updated Desktop Modern Menu to automatically inline menu and social icons (BETA setting removed)
  • Tweak for fraction output (now uses UTF8 character rather than HTML entity code)
• 6.1.2 - September 21, 2021
  • Advanced Jump To refinement
  • Inline Modern Menu for Desktop refinement
    • this removes the "Subscribe" button from the desktop menu, place it in the feast-mobile-menu menu to re-add it
    • this supports translation as well as additional language and landing page options
• 6.1.1 - September 20, 2021
  • Modern Mobile Menu refinement
  • Modern Homepage search block refinement
• 6.1.0 - September 7, 2021
  • Advanced Jump To user experience enhancement: add chevron to make it clear this can be toggled open/closed
  • Enhancement: prevent http output of Modern Menu logo
  • Added base styling for the Yoast FAQ block
  • BETA release of the Modern Menu inline menu for desktop
• 6.0.0 - August 19, 2021
  • Pagespeed optimization (CSS file removed)
  • Enhancement to recipe post template
  • Feast Plugin vs. "Classic themes" release
• 5.9.7 - August 10, 2021
  • Limited private feature test for upcoming release
• 5.9.6 - August 4, 2021
  • Add Trellis toggle for manual testing on limited sites - do not use this
• 5.9.5 - August 3, 2021
  • Release the "Convert recipe acronym" setting, recommended for all sites
• 5.9.0 - July 27, 2021
  • Add "Remove commenter avatars" setting, recommended for all sites
• 5.7.4 - July 20, 2021
  • Final tweaks for "Subscribe" button update
• 5.7.3 - July 14, 2021
  • Remove body animations to resolve CLS bug from Seasoned Pro, Cravings Pro (this was also released in v.4.4.2 of the themes)
  • Deprecate and remove "Remove Themes Google Fonts" setting (replaced by "System Fonts" setting), replaced with filter for special use cases
• 5.7.1 - July 6, 2021
  • Update Modern Menu for potential display issue
• 5.7.0 - June 25, 2021
  • Add new recipe template
  • Prev+Next: remove additional DOM nodes, fix search engine title issue, enhance accessibility
  • Improve "subscribe" button positioning in Modern Menu
• 5.6.5 - June 9, 2021
  • Add feast-checklist class to create checkmark-styled lists
  • Update prev+next formattingNote: this will help with multi-lang sites by removing unnecessary characters from titles, but may require some rewriting of current setups
  • Add fix to resolve sidebar CLS issue in rare cases (thanks Heather @ nerdpress and Grayson at imarkinteractive)
• 5.6.2 - May 19, 2021
  • Add the ability to translate the subscribe button image in the Modern Menu for translation
  • Update Modern Menu breakpoints for mobile vs. desktop
  • Add clarification for category featured image size
  • Add clarification for disabling WordPress automatic theme+plugin updates
• 5.6.0 - May 2, 2021Add link to make edit post info easier to access
  • Add system font stack option to improve pagespeed and CLS
• 5.5.5 - April 22, 2021
  • Fix mobile screen width issue from WordPress' core search block
  • Update feast button ("back to top") styling, necessary due to WordPress update
  • Visual tweak to better display the Modern Menu when logged in
  • Deprecated: Mobile browser color setting due to low adoption, see the tutorial for replacement details
  • Deprecated: disclosure shortcodes due to low adoption and changing best practices, see the tutorial for replacement details
  • Update Modern Menu close button animation per Andrew at NerdPress
• 5.5.4 - April 15, 2021
  • Add filter to allow Advanced Jump To to be used on non-English sites
  • Prevent homepage from being displayed by FSRI block
• 5.5.3 - April 8, 2021
  • Add further accessibility support for Modern Menu icons
  • Allow category images to be used on non Genesis themes
• 5.5.2 - March 31, 2021
  • Prevent Advanced Jump To from displaying if there's no h2s on the page
  • Resolve Modern Menu logo spacing (we don't know why this suddenly become an issue
• 5.5.1 - March 25, 2021
  • Resolve mobile issue with headings making links directly above them unclickable
  • Further styling tweaks to menu icons
• 5.5.0 - March 22, 2021
  • Update menu icons so that they can be styled via CSS
• 5.4.9 - March 11, 2021
  • Modified FSCI block to correct http:// to https:// if SSL is active, rather than throw a warning (you should still always use https links but this is a hosting issue, not theme issue)
  • Added content suggestions to the Recipe Update Checklist
• 5.4.8 - March 2, 2021
  • Enable removing Google fonts in Cook'd Pro
  • Accessibility enhancement: tag FSRI images with aria-hidden="true" as a further hint for accessibility compliance
  • Add styling to allow printing the recipe update checklist
  • Bug fix: correctly disable previous+next navigation on posts for Foodie Pro, if the setting isn't enabled (hint: we recommend enabling it)
  • Support ticket enhancement to better tailor support replies
• 5.4.6 - February 22, 2021
  • Minor optimization: update URL subscribe from /subscribe to /subscribe/ to avoid unnecessary redirect
  • Support ticket enhancement to better tailor support replies
  • FSCI block enhancement: use placeholder image when one hasn't been set
  • Minor tweak: remove "nofollow" from "back to top" link in Modern Footer template
• 5.4.2 - February 12, 2021
  • Update styling for subscribe button
• 5.4.0 - February 9, 2021
  • Minor CSS fix for Modern Menu on screen sizes under 360px
  • Add "full width page" toggle in block editor
• 5.3.0 - January 30, 2021
  • Pagespeed optimization: specify image dimensions for the Modern Menu navbar
  • Release "Subscribe" button for Modern Menu
• 5.2.2 - January 26, 2021
  • Remove web stories from search has been moved to a (recommended) setting in the plugin
  • Removed styling for web stories archives (users should never visit this page), see web stories archives
• 5.2.0 - January 20, 2021
  • Option to update content width to 728px
  • Full width container for FSRI block
• 5.1.4 - January 10, 2021
  • Remove web stories from WordPress search
  • Update web-stories archive formatting (see: about web stories)
  • Added some margin to the Jump To menu to fix heading overlaps
• 5.1.1 - December 18, 2020
  • Deprecated: feast-image-double-frame, feast-image-pivot, feast-image-casablanca
  • Various bug fixes
• 5.1.0 - December 14, 2020
  • Modern Sidebar
• 5.0.3 - December 5, 2020
  • Move branding to separate page, add unfinished settings
• 5.0.1 - November 23, 2020
  • Disabled automatic emoji rewrites for customers experiencing this issue
  • Initial "Branding" setup in the Feast Plugin including feast-list, feast-button and primary+secondary colors (more guidelines to follow over the coming months)
• 4.9.8 - November 11, 2020
  • Add server encoding checks to settings page
  • Add footer edit link when logged in for ease of access
• 4.9.7 - November 2, 2020
  • Resolve URL conflict with support page
  • Accessibility: updated styling to identify currently focused item for keyboard navigation
• 4.9.5 - October 11, 2020
  • Update the Modern Footer to use a proper up arrow for "↑ back to top" link
  • Add admin bar configuration checks for the current page
  • Add admin bar links to Pagespeed Insights for checking pagespeed
  • Add admin bar links to wave.webaim.org for checking accessibility
  • Added support for text-to-fraction conversion on WPRM's print recipe card (Tasty Recipes previously supported)
• 4.9.2 - October 8, 2020
  • Updated desktop version of Modern Mobile Menu to display full-width
  • Bug fix for fractions to resolve URL/image conflicts
• 4.9.0 - September 25, 2020
  • Updated Modern Mobile Menu panel to resolve scrolling issue at 200% browser magnification
  • Added BETA for displaying star ratings in FSRI block
• 4.8.3 - September 21, 2020
  • Add support for changing the image size in the FSCI block
  • Add audit to admin bar on posts, checking for proper configurations
• 4.8.0 - September 18, 2020
  • Feast Plugin moved to its own menu for consistency
  • Automatic: overrides category image settings with the default image size for the FSRI block
• 4.7.0 - September 4, 2020
  • Modern Footer released
  • Fix for WP Rocket lazyloading image size bug
  • Re-enable toggle for disabling WordPress auto update UI
  • Update Modern Footer block editor styling to more closely match front-end

• 4.6.3 - August 13, 2020
  • Removed incompatible setting from Cravings Pro + Seasoned Pro
  • Added warning when Modern Mobile Menu logos haven't been properly set
  • Added toggle to disable WordPress 5.5 automatic updates temporarily removed for further testing
  • Minor updates for WordPress 5.5 block editor styling updates
  • Fix for modern homepage author block
  • Added clarification for Modern Mobile Menu logos
• 4.6.1 - August 10, 2020
  • add data-pin-nopin="true" to Modern Mobile Menu
  • note: everyone should be using "force pinning hidden image" and not enabling the "Pinterest button" for all images
• 4.6.0 - August 7, 2020
  • Modern Footer BETA released for testing - public version should be ready by end of the month
• 4.5.4 - August 5, 2020
  • Bug fix for block editor styling (Thanks Rodney!)
  • Block editor styling now automatically enabled, can be disabled with code snippet
  • Clarified recommended settings
• 4.5.1 - July 31, 2020
  • Implement disabling per-page-css
  • Added support for "Additional CSS Class(es)" to FSRI block
  • Bug fix for Disable Yoast breadcrumbs
• 4.5.0 - July 29, 2020
  • Disable Yoast breadcrumbs on specific pages and posts
• 4.4.0 - July 28, 2020
  • Advanced Jump To Block to replace the Advanced Jump To Shortcode
• 4.3.3 - July 24, 2020
  • Added inline errors to the FSCI block, visible to logged in admins only
• 4.3.1 - July 19, 2020
  • Add support for using page IDs in the "Post IDs" section of the FSRI Block - you can now display pages using the FSRI Block.
• 4.3.0 - July 18, 2020
  • per-page CSS in the block editor
• 4.2.1 - July 6, 2020
  • Accessibility: reorder Modern Mobile Menu close button
• 4.2.0 - July 1, 2020
  • Accessibility: remove aside markup from navigation menu
• 4.1.7 - June 18, 2020
  • Add Mobile Menu Navbar rendering optimization
  • Add item to Recipe Update Checklist
  • Resolve encoding issue for Jump to Links on some hosts (Thanks Kari!)
  • Add support for custom wrapper classes to FSRI block
  • Accessibility updates for Modern Mobile Menu:
    • move to header
    • update alt attribute for navbar
    • add aria-label
    • resolve :focus issue on logo
• 4.1.5 - June 9, 2020
  • Add the FSRI block
• 4.1.3 - May 27, 2020
  • Add post ID to admin bar when viewing post for FSRI display specific posts attribute
  • Initial testing for configurations audit page
  • Added support for tasty recipe card in the Advanced Jump To Links
  • Added Yoast Meta Description check to Recipe Update Checklist
• 4.1.2 - May 20, 2020
  • Updates to Recipe Update Checklist
• 4.1.0 - May 10, 2020
  • Added: Recipe Update Checklist
• 4.0.9 - May 5, 2020
  • Added styling for Full Width Modern Homepage
  • Added <div class="fsri-title"> wrapper to FSRI titles for more styling control
  • Added FSRI limit="" attribute as alternative for posts_per_page=""
• 4.0.8 - April 24, 2020
  • Use "medium" thumbnail as fallback if WPRM or Create thumbnails not available (not: they will be irregularly sized if not following the modern featured images guidelines)
  • Add feast-recipe-index class to replace feast-category-index (not yet removed) class on fsri shortcode
  • Added feast-image-round styling for WebP (not recommended or supported)
  • Updated vertical spacing between FSRI rows
  • Added list_class="feast-grid-full" styling for sidebar usage
• 4.0.6 - April 13, 2020
  • change default image size to (easier) drop-down menu
• 4.0.4 - April 9, 2020
  • Emoji test area for Advanced Jump To troubleshooting, on settings page
  • Added editor styles for author box (to be announced)
  • Tutorial: convert the recipe index to a category index
  • Fixed WordPress 5.4.0 search input styling bug
• 4.0.3 - April 7, 2020
  • Add default image_size setting to plugin settings page
• 4.0.2 - April 2, 2020
  • Added fsci shortcode as alternative to the feast-simple-category-index shortcode
    • Note: FSCI is for categories, FSRI is for recipes (posts)
  • Categories will now display in the order they're specified in the fsci shortcode
  • fsri shortcode will automatically display in the order they're specified in the fsri shortcode, when using the id="111,222,333,444" attribute
  • Yoast breadcrumbs automatically removed from homepage
• 4.0.0 - March 30, 2020
  • Modern Homepage
  • Feast Simple Recipe Index

• 3.9.3 - March 24, 2020
  • Simple Category Index: add alt tag if no title showing
  • Simple Category Index: add data-pin-nopin="true"
• 3.9.2 - March 20, 2020
  • Various bug fixes
• 3.8.8 - March 12, 2020
  • Advanced Jump to improvements
  • Reorganized settings page
  • Added toggle to enable Modern Menu on desktop
  • Added media selector button to image field in settings
• 3.8.3 - March 4, 2020
  • Fixed Advanced Jump To anchors mixed with strong or em (still not a best practice to combine HTML tags)
  • Fixed: do not insert recipe heading for Advanced Jump To Links if there's a Mediavine Create List
  • Added option to enable Google Analytics tracking event for Advanced Jump To Links
  • Fixed over-zealous posts-per-category feature, no longer runs in the admin
• 3.8.0 - February 17, 2020
  • Modern Thumbnail Sizes
  • Modern Post Image Sizes
• 3.7.0 - February 11, 2020
  • Support tickets added in the admin
• 3.6.9 - February 3, 2020
  • Remove WordPress "Smart Quotes"
  • Added "Jump To" links to settings page
• 3.6.2 - January 21, 2020
  • Advanced Jump To Links updates:
    • IDs more aggressive - removes any existing ID on h2s
    • Setting added: replace recipe card link with custom text
    • Added example headings to Emoji list in Feast Plugin
    • Added list of animals (beef, pork, chicken, duck, mutton, seafood) to emoji list in Feast Plugin
• 3.6.1 - January 16, 2020
  • Advanced Jump To Links updates:
    • Enabled on pages now, not just posts
    • Setting added: default open or closed
    • Setting added: specify your own "jump to:" text
    • Setting added: insert link to comments at end of list
• 3.6.0 - January 15, 2020
  • How to use Emojis for Headings to boost your click through rates + food-related emoji list in the Feast Plugin
• 3.5.0 - January 9, 2020
  • Advanced "Jump To" Links
• 3.4.7 - December 19, 2019
  • Update to Modern Mobile Menu - toggles on at 1200px
• 3.4.6 - December 17, 2019
  • BETA feature for updated Google Fonts - do not use
• 3.4.3 - December 11, 2019
  • Disable Mediavine Jump to Recipe if Mediavine 1.5.0 native "Jump to Card" detected
  • BETA features for testing images - we do not recommend enabling these settings until out of BETA
• 3.4.0 - December 3, 2019
  • Block editor styling to more closely match the output on the front-end of the website
• 3.3.0 - November 17, 2019
  • Edit Body Font Size
  • 3.3.1 - November 24, 2019 - fixed issue with Simple Category Index displaying at inconsistent sizes on mobile
  • 3.3.3 - November 25, 2019 - fixed text overflowing, added link to plugin page in admin menu bar
  • 3.3.4 - December 2, 2019 - formatting update + notice of "Jump to Recipe" being removed due to Create's built-in Jump to Recipe feature with ad-enhancements
• 3.2.6 - November 3rd, 2019
  • BETA implementation of future release for beta testers
  • Whitespace fix for Modern Mobile Menu logo
• 3.2.0 - October 7th, 2019
  • Simple Category Index
  • 3.2.1 - October 9, 2019 - Add feature to process shortcodes on Custom HTML widgets
  • 3.2.3 - October 15, 2019 - Added desktop-specific display options for Simple Category Index
  • 3.2.4 - November 1, 2019
    • Improvement: add vertical scroll handling to Modern Mobile Menu
    • Fix: whitespace issue with Modern Mobile Menu logos
    • Added: feast-line-through class for text, feast-image-shadow class for images
• 3.1.0 - September 27, 2019
  • Disable Google Fonts
  • Customize the "Leave a Reply" text
• 3.0.0 - September 24, 2019
  • Modern Mobile Menu
  • Layout fix: block editor overlap in Chrome
  • Update: block editor content width changed to 720px to match front-end
• 2.8.0 - September 16, 2019
  • Remove post-footer entry-meta (categories, tags)
  • Styling update for settings page
  • Improvement: change number of posts per category (2.2.0) now also applies to search pages
• 2.7.0 - September 12, 2019
  • Remove author link from comments
• 2.6.1 - September 8, 2019
  • Fix: corrected comment date to match original
  • Fix: updated "Edit Post Info" example to include author
  • Fix: reading time + wordcount now just outputs the numbers, and lets you add your own description (for international/language support)
• 2.6.0 - September 4, 2019
  • Remove link from date in comments
• 2.5.0 - August 30, 2019
  • Add "Jump to Recipe" Button
• 2.4.1 - August 28, 2019
  • Hide "Disable Genesis Schema" if on Genesis 3.1.0+
• 2.4.0 - August 22, 2019
  • Fix footer error in Genesis 3.1.0+
• 2.3.0 - August 13, 2019
  • Remove the "website" field from the comments form
• 2.2.0 - August 13, 2019
  • Change the number of posts per category
• 2.1.0 - August 13, 2019
  • Pagespeed-friendly Retina Logo
• 2.0 - August 13, 2019
  • Auto-update from the plugin page
• 1.9 - May 3, 2019
  • Mobile Browser Color (Android)
• 1.8.1 - April 19, 2019
  • Remove duplicate schema
• 1.8 - April 2, 2019
  • Word Count + Reading Time
• 1.7 - March 15, 2019
  • Categories featured image
  • Note: this requires further development work, and is in BETA
• 1.6 - March 8, 2019
  • Disclosures shortcodes
• 1.5 - February 26, 2019
  • Edit Post Info
  • Update March 8, 2019: Disclosures usable in edit post info
  • Update April 2, 2019: word count + reading time usable in edit post info
• 1.4 - February 1, 2019
  • Previous/Next Post Navigation
• 1.3 - January 15, 2019
  • Sticky Mobile Menu
• 1.1 - December 26, 2018
  • Before/After Header Menu