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How to Create Multiple Recipe Index Pages
This tutorial is outdated - it remains only for historical documentation purposes. Creating multiple recipe index pages is now done using the Feast Plugin's Simple Recipe Index. Note: This is ...
How to Change the Background Color of the Genesis eNews Widgets
There are some settings in the customizer that control the color of the eNews widgets, but they are not styled the same in all placements. If you'd like to change the color of all of the eNews ...
Seasoned Pro Social Icons
This theme uses the Simple Social Icons plugin to display the social icons. To add this plugin to your site navigate to Plugins>Add New and search for Simple Social Icons in the search box. Once ...
Customization Library
This page is ever expanding! Got a request? Submit your support ticket and if we think others will benefit, we'll write it up for you. As a best practice, we recommend that you don't customize ...
Why is troubleshooting so complex?
We support as wide of a variety of blog configurations as possible, but there is a limit to what's reasonable to expect from support, which we restrict to specifically theme issues. A theme can only ...
WordPress Settings
Below are the recommended WordPress Reading settings. To edit these settings on your site you can navigate to Settings > Reading: ...
Seasoned Pro Classic Tutorials
If you have the Feast Plugin, do not follow this tutorial. Go directly to the Feast Plugin Setup. Demos, FAQs, Tutorials and How-tos for the Seasoned Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
Cravings Pro Classic Tutorials
If you have the Feast Plugin, do not follow this tutorial. Go directly to the Feast Plugin Setup. Demos, FAQs, Tutorials and How-tos for the Cravings Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
How to Add the Featured Posts Category Index
Below the Custom HTML and Genesis Featured Page widgets in the Recipes Bottom widget area, we are using the Cravings Pro OR Seasoned Pro Featured Posts widgets to display a few recipes from a few ...
How to Add the Visual Category Page Index
As of Genesis 3.0.0, they've removed the "blog" template used in this tutorial, and we no longer support it. If you'd like to continue using the visual category index in Cravings Pro and Seasoned Pro, ...
Recipe Index: Content Configuration (Cravings Pro + Seasoned Pro)
WARNING: Recipe index pages are "thin content" pages and should be no-indexed to avoid a low-quality score from search engines. The "Recipe Index: Content" (formerly Recipes Bottom) widget area is ...
Best Food Blog Designs of 2022
What makes a food blog great? Loads fastGreat design that highlights contentRecipes that are focused around a theme or topicPictures of the food for reference (and to drool over) Our themes get ...
Recipe Index: Filter
WARNING: Recipe index pages are "thin content" pages and should be no-indexed to avoid a low-quality score from search engines. The "Recipe Index: Filter" (formerly Recipes Top) widget area is ...
Classic Recipe Index Page Layout
Note: we highly recommend setting up the Modern Recipe Index using the Feast Plugin instead. WARNING: Recipe index pages are "thin content" pages and should be no-indexed to avoid a low-quality ...
Footer Widget Areas
Note: There needs to be a widget in Footer 1 in order for the other footer widgets to display. If you don't want to use Footer 1 you can place a blank text widget there to get the other widget areas ...
Primary Sidebar
The Primary Sidebar is a very versatile widget area that you can use to place ads, tell your readers about yourself, highlight some of your older content, add a search bar, or share information of any ...
Cravings Pro Before Header Widget Area (outdated)
As of version 3.2.0., this section has been removed as it has been deemed a negative visitor experience because it pushes your blog content further down the page. Your newsletter call-to-action should ...
Cravings Pro Home Bottom Widget Area
The Home Bottom widget area uses 3 Cravings Pro Featured Posts widgets. The first is configured to show recent posts across all categories and the next two are configured to highlight recent posts ...
Home Middle
The Home Middle widget area is styled for 3 Genesis - Featured Page widgets. You can drag and drop the Genesis Featured Page widget from the inactive widget area to the Home Middle widget area and ...
Cravings Pro: Home Top
We use the Cravings Pro Featured Posts widget here to display recent posts. You can drag and drop the Cravings Pro Featured Posts widget into the Home Top widget area and configure as you'd like. See ...
Plugins to Install
Recipe Plugin - This plugin is used for the recipe cards on the site. Genesis eNews Extended - This is used for the newsletter opt-ins on the site. Simple Social Icons - This plugin is used for ...
Home Page Layout
The home page is made up of three different widget areas: Home Top, Home Middle, and Home Bottom. Below is a preview of those widget areas and the widgets they contain: Back to Cravings Pro ...
Why Should I have an Editorial Calendar? Food Blogging Tips You Need
In the early stages of food blogging, many people are recipe-dependent. You add flair here and there but rely on recipes to learn new techniques and explore flavors. But as you hone your skill, you ...
3 Tips for Food Bloggers to Avoid Marketing Burnout
Avoiding your computer's gaze, so you don't have to edit one more image? Have a post ready but can't bring yourself to write the caption and hashtags for Instagram? Sure, you could be stressed. Or ...
How often should I post?
As much as you can. If you can put out 1000 high quality recipes by tomorrow, do it. Just post the content when it's ready, and make sure it's good quality content. You can't just glaze over ...
Stay Focused on Important Things (or: why Pinterest sucks)
This is an opinionated post from Skylar, arguing the counter-point about why Pinterest and social media is a waste of time. Lots of food bloggers use Pinterest very successfully and derive income from ...
Recipe Page Guidelines for Food Bloggers
Wouldn't it be nice if you knew exactly how your food blog was evaluated for quality, and what you might be doing wrong (or right)? Well, you actually can know. [Update 2019/03/31: you can find a ...
The Secret Ingredient: How to Grow into a Top Food Blog
The secret ingredient that makes your recipe pop, like pickle juice or fish sauce, can sometimes get weird. So, we're getting weird in this blog post too. Or, at least, different. Because the ...
Block Editor ("Gutenberg") Development
Essentially, they introduced a new post editor, as a plugin, which will eventually replace the old editor. We're following the rest of the industry and calling these the block editor and the ...
Food Blog Recipe Videos
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 ...
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 ...
Pinterest for Food Bloggers
We recommend using TastyPins to manage your Pinterest pins. Pinterest functionality Wordpress themes are designed for aesthetics - visual styling that should be timeless. Formatting content ...
How to make email marketing an easy part of your content production process
You already know that social media is vital to promoting your food blog, but did you know that email marketing is just as important to the top food blogs? According to OptinMonster and MailMunch, ...
8 Ways to Promote Your Food Blog
One of the key aspects of creating an actionable promotion strategy is breaking to-dos down into bite-sized pieces. While many promotional techniques require strategy and time, there are plenty of ...
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 ...
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 ...