A growing trend in food blogging is recipe videos, which can help increase time-on-site, get you featured positions in search engines and makes your content more easily shareable. In fact, schema ...
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How to clear your cache
One of the most common support issues we get is that changes aren't being reflected on peoples' sites. This is a caching issue, 99% of the time, and not related to the theme. It's especially common ...
DMCA and Copyright Infringement
There's some debate about whether recipes can be copyrighted, but generally, copying creative content (such as a post, or parts of one) Note that recipes themselves can not be copyrighted: ...
Where did the "before header" area go?
The "before-header" area has removed in version 3.2.0, from themes that previously contained it. This was previously promoted as a space to put newsletter signups, or ads. However, recent ...
Setup a secondary navigation menu
Yep, this is a clickbait post. The Feast themes are not designed for a secondary navigation and we don't recommend dual navigation. Trying to use two navigation menus is a rookie ...
How to Price Sponsored Content For Your Blog in 2020
You've put time, energy, and creativity into making your blog wildly successful, checking off items from our how to start a food blog tutorial. You've made it beautiful with a premium wordpress theme ...
15-Minute Fix
This is for a customization project, that requires roughly 15 minutes of work on our part. Theme support is restricted to getting your theme set up like the demo site. This is because troubleshooting ...
Feast Plugin FAQ
FAQ relating to the Feast Plugin. Access your Feast Plugin Subscription here. The plugin is an entirely setup than themes - you must download and install the themes separately. See the theme ...
Why we don't support pagebuilders
We do not recommend that bloggers use pagebuilders to create pages on their website, and we don't offer support for it. Below is an opinionated take on pagebuilders, and why we don't support it. As ...
How to get an audience in your first year of blogging (Spoiler: there's no magic bullet)
by Cathy Tibbles, WP Barista Once upon a time I was married to a man who was diagnosed with celiac disease. So I started converting our family-friendly recipes into gluten-free ones. I posted them ...
Why we don't support site-wide taglines
A "tagline" actually makes for a great homepage title (h1) in the Modern Homepage. Check out the Modern Homepage Showcase for some well-done examples of this.The key difference is that this is ...
Best WordPress Recipe Plugins for Food Bloggers
As of 2018, we recommend either: WP Recipe Maker Tasty Recipes MediaVine also entered the market in 2018 with their MediaVine "Create" plugin. If you're on MediaVine then it may be worth ...
How To Take Action When You're Paralyzed With Blogging Advice Overload
"Content is king." We've all heard it. At this point, the necessity of content marketing is well-known, and there are millions (if not billions) of articles offering advice on how to make your ...
Modern Sidebar: Done For Me
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Modern Menu: Done For Me
If you've purchased the "Modern Footer: Menu White Glove Conversion" service, please fill out this form. ...
Should Food Blogs Pay to Advertise for Email List Signups
The short answer: No. The effort and expertise required for conversion rate and landing page optimization to convert paid traffic into an email list, and then generate a return-on-investment, is ...
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Feast Design Co. continues to evolve in 2021, with a renewed focus on blog performance with the Feast Plugin and best practices to keep you in sync with search engine requirements. We're more focused ...
Why we dropped support for Landing Pages
The "landing page" template has been removed from version 4.0.0 of all themes. We'll be detailing the change here. Why Was It Dropped? Using a different page template (separate PHP files to ...
5 Things Getting In The Way Of Your Blog’s Success
Even the most energetic, passionate, and motivated people have an uphill battle ahead of them when it comes to building a successful blog. Many people get into blogging thinking it's a shortcut ...
Modern Categories
The Modern Categories enables the category pages to be built with the block editor, just like the homepage and recipe index. This allows: With the Feast Plugin v.10.0.0 release, you can now add ...
Upgrade Your iPhoneography With These Apps & Accessories
As Chase Jarvis like to say – so much that he used it as the title for his book – "the best camera is the one that's with you." For many of us, it's an iPhone that we use to snap photos, in between ...
Food Holidays
Looking for food-oriented holidays to celebrate your favorite recipe on your blog, instagram and twitter? Look no further! January Food Holidays Jan. 4: National Spaghetti Day, U.S. Jan. 5: ...
How to Self Publish a Cookbook
Note from FeastDesignCo.: Skylar picked up Nancy's How to cook Halloumi cookbook earlier this year after trying it for the first time, and falling in love right away with the salty, savoury goodness. ...
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Once upon a time, you were interested in what we've got going on at Feast. Once upon a time, you were determined to feel inspired; to get your blog into gear; to make it happen; and to do it with ...
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2016 Saveur Blog Awards--Freakin' Out For Our Clients!
The 2016 Saveur Blog Award finalists were announced the other day--have you started voting yet!? We're super excited for our clients and theme customers who've made it to this stage of the process. ...
Gutenberg Blocks for Food Bloggers
What's a "recipe"? There's confusion sometimes about what a "recipe" is on your blog. A recipe is a wordpress post in it's entirety, which includes not only personal information about you and why ...
Why You Should Always Buy Your Themes From The Source
If you're shopping around for a WordPress theme, it's easy enough to find many of the popular ones available for free – but there's a dark side to these "free" themes. It's technically legal ...
Comments
Note: this post is in progress. The comments are getting a refresh in the Feast Plugin. Why Comments can help bloggers rank for keywords not found in their actual content. Search engines ...
Monetize This: 3 Things To Know Before Selling Sponsored Content
With the recent news about Facebook allowing verified pages to publish sponsored content, you're probably wondering if it's something you can offer for yourself. If you're thinking about how you can ...
How to Start Your Own Food Blog
Some people get into food blogging just to share, while others are hoping to turn their passion into a profession. But while you know your way around the kitchen, when it comes to starting your own ...
Design It For Me
This has been discontinued and replaced with the Feast+ service for the Feast Plugin. "I've gotten nothing but positive feedback on the design from readers, and I keep finding new things I love ...
Discontinued: Customize It For Me
This has been discontinued and replaced with the Feast+ service for the Feast Plugin. We've made our simple themes insanely easy to customize, but we also recognize that many of our customers are ...
Install It For Me
We've made our minimalist themes insanely easy to configure, but we also recognize that many of our customers are new to WordPress or simply don't have the time to invest in doing things ...
Feel Refreshed Tomorrow With This Nightly Routine for Food Bloggers
Evening is the time when we get to unwind and relax - when we can decompress and let all of those troubles and stresses melt away. But do most of us actually use our evenings to do that? Probably ...
9 Business and Blogging Tools You Should Know (and Love!)
You're busy. Believe me, nobody can sympathize with that more than me. There are far too many times when I feel like I'm juggling eight bowling balls with one arm tied behind my back—and I'm ...
How to Write Your Perfect “About Me” Page
When I stumble upon a new blog or website, the "About Me" page is one of the first things I look for. I absolutely love finding out more about the site's author. It allows me to feel more of a ...
How to Drive More Pinterest Traffic to Your Blog
If you're anything like me, you love Pinterest. It's a great source of inspiration—whether I'm looking for home decor ideas or a recipe I can whip together that night for dinner, I can always find ...
How to Craft a Sponsored Post Without Seeming Inauthentic
Working with brands to create sponsored posts is a great way to bring in extra income with your blog. But writing these posts in a way that seems completely genuine can feel like quite the ...
6 Food and Lifestyle Blog Trends to Take Your Site to the Next Level in 2018
With so many blogs available in the digital world, it can be tough to be heard through the noise. With these easy design tips, though, your wordpress blog will be the hottest on the web in no time! ...