Feast Design Co.

WordPress Themes for Food & Lifestyle Bloggers

The Feast Plugin

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Have you ever avoided updating your theme because it was difficult, time consuming, and you were afraid of losing your changes?

Do you know that your blog is being penalized because it’s outdated, but updating is a hassle?

We’ve heard you.

Update Without Reinstalling

The Feast Plugin will make updating your theme simpler, providing functionality that can be kept up-to-date without having to reinstall your theme.

Save Customizations When Changing Themes

Even better, we’ll be making these persistent, saving your plugin customizations between theme changes.

Unlock Next-Gen Features

We’re building out next-generation features (including the block editor) and further customization settings, helping food bloggers who want to take their blog further, and get the most of their time and efforts.

All new features will be built into the plugin moving forward, instead of the themes, so that we can update them as necessary over time.

Bonus

For a limited time, subscribing to the Feast Plugin grants you access to all 5 Feast Design Co. themes, including:

  1. Foodie Pro v.4.2.0
  2. Brunch Pro v.4.2.0
  3. Cook’d Pro v.4.2.0
  4. Seasoned Pro v.4.2.0
  5. Cravings Pro v.4.2.0

Normally priced at $199/year for the plugin and access to themes, we’re offering an early subscriber price of $99/year including the plugin and all themes. You can cancel the subscription at any time to avoid being re-billed.

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2019 And Beyond

2019 will be the year of user-experience (UX), shifting the focus to making sure your blog is optimized for the user-experience of your visitors. The Feast plugin makes complying with these changes simple, with options for:

Upcoming features include:

  • Foodie Profile
  • Additional styling

Avoid having to edit code to customize your menu position (before or after your logo). Simply select where you’d like it to appear. Note: Seasoned Pro and Cravings Pro use an inline menu, and aren’t styled for before/after headers.

Note: does not currently work for Seasoned Pro and Cravings Pro, which use a different header setup.

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Foodie Profile (in development)

Roughly 80% of traffic to food blogs now being driven by mobile. This means that when someone lands on your recipes (typically, 90% of your website traffic), you’re failing to demonstrate “creator expertise”, which negatively affects your E-A-T and page quality.

Is your “About Me” located in your sidebar? Chances are that 80% of your visitors never see it and never know who you are. On the mobile version of food blogs, the user-profile sidebar gets pushed below your content – all the way down at the bottom.

The Foodie Profile adds an author box above your posts, explaining who you are and why you’re an expert on the page’s topic.

This is also a great place to put a short call-to-action – whether to sign up for a newsletter, buy your latest cookbook, or join a membership program.

Extra Header Options (in development)

Oversized, elaborate headers push your content further down the page (“below the fold”), creating a bad user experience and going against best practices for search engines. They’re outdated, and do nothing for your visitors.

Toggle a minified header with the click of a button, putting your mobile menu, logo and search bar in a compact bar at the top of your page.

Additional Styling (in development)

We’ve added styling classes, making customizing your blog easier than ever. Included are:

  • feast-round-image: make your images a circle
  • feast-vibrant: make your images brighter and more colorful
  • feast-vibrant-2x: even brighter and more colorful!
  • feast-greyscale: turn images an edgy monochrome color, and restore the color on hover
  • feast-chat-bubble: make images and content distinctive with a chat bubble layout

Note that these styling classes affect the display of images on your blog’s front-end, not the back-end, and they don’t actually modify the image. If someone downloads or pins your images, the original file will be used. These do not create additional versions of your image on your host.

Simple Recipe Index (in development)

The recipe indexes in all themes were set up in different ways, depending on what the prevailing best practices of the time were. Unfortunately, this means they’re all setup different, and it makes changing themes difficult.

With the Simple Recipe Index, we’re creating a new recipe index into a re-usable template that will be integrated into the block editor over time. This new version will contain feature requests and solutions to common support requests.

Rather than complicated widgets and custom page types (which sometimes created duplicate pages), this will be built using shortcodes, with support for the block editor added over time.

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Configuration Audit (in development)

Have you followed the hundreds of updates and articles put out by Google, Yoast, WP Rocket, WordPress, Genesis and Feast over the years? If not, your blog settings may be holding you back.

The configuration audit checks your settings against current best practices, which are regularly reviewed and updated here at Feast, and notifies you when your settings should be updated.

Support

The Feast Plugin is designed to work as-is, and does not include anything not explicitly outlined above.

You can always send in a request for something you’d like to see implemented.

We have not seen any issues with Jetpack, but expect that it may cause conflicts with some sites.

Pricing

The Feast Plugin is a subscription service:

  • $99/year – Base plugin
  • $199/year Limited Time: $99/year – Gain access to the Feast Plugin, plus all 5 Feast Design Co. themes, and switch at your heart’s content. No refunds (or money back guarantee) due to theme files being non-refundable.

You are purchasing a yearly license subscription which grants you access to plugin updates and priority support.

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Requirements

  • Genesis Framework
  • Theme from FeastDesignCo
  • Valid version of PHP (7 and later)
  • SSL active

Refunds

With the base plugin, you can cancel any time in the first 30 days for a full refund. At this time, we’re not selling the base plugin separately. Only the $199/year option (includes access to all themes) is available for sale, and is not eligible for refunds.

Plans that include access to theme files are not eligible for refunds or the 30-day money back guarantee.

Canceling

You can cancel your subscription at any time and you’ll retain access until your year is complete. Canceling the subscription does not initiate a refund.

FAQ

We’ll answer questions as they arise via the Feast Plugin FAQ.

Features and functionality may change as they’re developed. Some statements are forward-looking plans, and not guaranteed to be implemented or maintained long-term. Version 1 has been launched as a minimum-viable-product under the “release early, release often” software philosophy. The value of the plugin for the immediate future lies in the access to all themes for $99/year.

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