Cook’d Pro Tutorials

Demos, FAQs, Tutorials and How-tos for the Cook’d Pro WordPress Theme.

Note: Updating from a previous version to the most recent version is like installing a new theme altogether, requiring customizations to be redone.

Before starting, read the tutorial on How to launch a food blog.

Below are all the tutorials on getting your new theme set up to appear like our demo.

Cook’d Pro Demo

Setup

1.  Install Cook’d Pro with demo content and import widgets
2. How to Configure the Home Page
3. How to Configure the Footer Widgets
4. How to Configure the Recipe Index
   • Alternative: Use a Foodie-Pro-Style Recipe Index
5. How to Configure the Content Archives
6. How to Add Content to the Category Pages
7. How to Add a Logo
   • Create a logo
8. Set Up Your WooCommerce Shop
9. How to Place Ads in the theme
10. How to Set Up your Navigation Menu
11. How to set up the newsletter
12. Run the regenerate thumbnails plugin
13. Remove the “website” field from comments to help avoid spam

Also:

• Cook’d Pro FAQ
• How to Update Cook’d Pro
• Use the Code Snippets Plugin to customize your theme (do not edit theme files)
• How to remove the featured image from posts

After-Setup

These aren’t required for getting your theme set up like the demo site, but are things you should do to set yourself up for success:

• How to Add Content to the Category Pages
• SEO for food bloggers
• Expand your functionality with the Feast Plugin!
• How to set a Favicon
• Change the size of the recipe index thumbnails
• How to use alt text for images (Posts + Pages only)
  • How many words to use for image alt text
• Understanding food blog site structure
• Add Google Analytics Tracking

How do I write a recipe post?

One of the most frustrating things we hear from bloggers is that their content doesn’t rank well. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but the most prominent is that their content is simply not high enough quality.

We’ve detailed how to write a high quality recipe post in the anatomy of a recipe post, and we highly recommend reviewing the quality rater guidelines for recipe pages.

Customization Tips for Cook’d Pro

Please note that while we’ve added these resources due to the high number of requests that we’ve received that we are unable to troubleshoot issues that arise due to customizations.

• Editing CSS, colors, fonts and whitespaces
• Using Static Images in the Hero Area
• How to Change the Header Size
• Custom Fonts
• Change the Size of the Images on the Recipe Index Page

Cook’d Pro Preview – Make sure you watch to the end to catch new features you won’t see anywhere else!

Version Updates

What’s new in the releases? You can find update notes on the Cook’d Pro theme page.