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Do you know that your blog is being penalized because it's outdated, but updating is a hassle?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

The Feast Plugin introduces replacements to outdated theme configurations, which we can keep up to date through regular plugin updates and built to modern standards. These replacements are identified through the presence of the Modern preface, such as the Modern Homepage, Modern Sidebar, Modern Footer, Modern Menu and Modern Recipe Index.

Having trouble figuring out what the plugin provides? For a breakdown, see the themes vs. Feast Plugin post.

Update Without reinstalling

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

Save plugin customizations

Customizations done with the plugin settings are saved between theme changes and plugin updates.

Unlock next-gen features

We're building out next-generation features that are compatible with the block editor.

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.

Access all the themes

Subscribing to the Feast Plugin grants you access to all 5 Feast Design Co. themes, including:

  1. Foodie Pro v.4.4.1
  2. Brunch Pro v.4.4.2
  3. Cook'd Pro v.4.4.1
  4. Seasoned Pro v.4.4.0
  5. Cravings Pro v.4.4.0

Here's what you should know

  • The plugin lives alongside your current theme and enhances it, it does not replace the theme
  • Theme updates are still required for certain issues, but we've been able to deliver approximately 95% of updates via the plugin, instead of requiring a theme update
  • We expect to replace 99% of the theme functionality with updated versions by mid 2021

Priced at $199/year, you can cancel the subscription at any time to avoid being re-billed. Your currently installed copy will remain, but you will lose access to updates and support.

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2021 And Beyond

2019 was the year of user-experience (UX), shifting the focus to making sure your blog is optimized for the user-experience of your visitors.

2020 is the year of focus (20/20), streamlining settings and layouts so that your blog stays hyper-focused on what's important: creating high quality recipes.

The Feast plugin makes complying with these changes simple, with options for:

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Modern Mobile Menu

The navbar for the modern mobile menu drastically improves above-the-fold content being displayed, improving pagespeed scores.

Old theme nav bar + logo
Modern Mobile Menu

This is a more user-friendly experience.

Modern Homepage

The Modern Homepage moves from a widget-based setup to building with the block editor, which is significantly simpler to customize and offers better SEO and accessibility compliance.

The FSRI block allows you to build the Modern Homepage and Modern Recipe Index using the block editor instead of widgets.

Modern Recipe Index

The Modern Recipe Index leverages the FSCI block (Simple Category Index) to visually display categories.

FSCI block

This helps to:

  • improve site structure and reducing the click depth of categories and posts
  • visually see how your page looks in the editor as well as the front end

The Modern Footer moves from a widget-based setup to building with the block editor, which is significantly simpler to customize.

Modern Sidebar

The Modern Sidebar moves from a widget-based setup to building with the block editor, which is significantly simpler to customize.

Additional Styling

You can customize the Modern Homepage in any way you want to match your brand, without needing to change your theme. Check out the Modern Homepage Styling Guide:

Advanced Jump To

The Advanced Jump to block helps you to write better headings on your page and generates additional links in Google to entice readers to click on:

search engine result with jump to links

Recipe Update Checklist

Ever wish you had a guide for updating a post according to modern best practices for SEO and accessibility? Use our 56-point checklist to ensure you're covering off all your bases and writing recipe content that can actually bring traffic.

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Pricing

The Feast Plugin is a subscription service:

  • $199/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 (not included) for the themes
  • Theme from FeastDesignCo (for some of the features, but not all)
  • Hosting with:
  • Not hosted on WordPress.com, and Jetpack not enabled

As of December 2020, the majority of functionality works without Genesis or our themes, including the Modern Homepage, FSRI, Category Featured Images, Modern Mobile Menu and Modern Sidebar.

Support

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

Refunds

This is a digital product, so there are no refunds for any reason.

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.

Canceled subscriptions lose access to the grandfathered subscription price. If you originally sign up at $99/year or $149/year and cancel, you'll need to sign up at the current price of $199/year.

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.

The plugin is developed under the "release early, release often" software philosophy. This enables us to quickly release a new feature, and iterate on it over time based on requests.

Releases

  • 5.6.2 - in development
    • 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, 2021
    • Add 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
  • 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
  • 5.4.0 - February 9, 2021
  • 5.3.0 - January 30, 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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