Find full guidelines in our image optimization guide.
- Featured images are not meant to be displayed in the post itself
- Should be square
- Upload at minimum 1200x1200 px
- Should have a file name that matches the recipe on the page
- When a modern recipe card is used on a page, Google will use the recipe card image for search engine listings
- For simplicity, we recommend using the same image for the "Featured Image" as well as the recipe card
- The Featured Image is used for article schema, output by Yoast
- Troubleshooting Featured Images
- You can add featured images to categories using the Feast Plugin: Simple Category Index
The setting to set the featured image in the classic editor and block editor is located on the right-hand side and looks like this:
