All About Featured Images

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: