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
- Removed the "Disable WordPress Automatic Updates Interface" setting
- 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)
- Add (edit) links to the Inline Modern Menu for simpler access
- 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
- 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
- Modern Menu:
- 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
- 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 updatestemporarily 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Advanced Jump To Links updates:
- 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
- Advanced Jump To Links updates:
- 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
- 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
- 3.0.0 - September 24, 2019
- 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
- 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
- 2.5.0 - August 30, 2019
- 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
- 2.2.0 - August 13, 2019
- 2.1.0 - August 13, 2019
- 2.0 - August 13, 2019
- Auto-update from the plugin page
- 1.9 - May 3, 2019
- 1.8.1 - April 19, 2019
- 1.8 - April 2, 2019
- 1.7 - March 15, 2019
- Categories featured image
- Note: this requires further development work, and is in BETA
- 1.6 - March 8, 2019
- 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
- 1.1 - December 26, 2018
- Before/After Header Menu