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 ...
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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 ...
Food Blog Recipe Submission Sites
We've compiled a list of recipe submission sites that you can submit yours to: Do you have any favorite recipe submission sites that you submit to for traffic and exposure? Let us know in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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! ...
The Best WordPress Plugins for Your Food Blog
I love WordPress plugins. They're an effective and simple way to increase the functionality of your site and take your blog to the next level. But having lots of plugins can also affect your site's ...
Simple Tips to Make Your Blog Photography More Pinterest-Worthy
Thoughtful, innovative, and well-written content is undoubtedly a big piece of the successful food blogging puzzle. But in today's visual society, you know what else can have a big impact? The quality ...
The Kick-Butt Blogger’s Guide to Boosting Earnings Through Brand Collaborations
You absolutely love working on your blog, and take pride in the content that you produce. But if you could still feel that way and pull in some extra cash while you're at it? Well, I think you'd be ...
Productivity Hacks for Bloggers to Publish on Schedule
After a day full of errands, emails, and putting out fires, you finally kick up your feet to settle in for the evening. You're just about to pick up the remote when it hits you. "Oh, shoot!" you think ...
How to Grow Your Food Blog with Little Time
Photograph by Katie Purnell found on minimography.com Many of us creative types are building businesses from the ground up - from side hustles to bootstrapped businesses from a "home office" (aka ...
Food Blogger Media Kit Template
Besides a killer theme, what is the #1 thing bloggers, especially food bloggers, need to work with brands? A media kit! I've created several for some of my favorite clients over the years and ...
Food Blogging Resources
Here are some of my favorite resources that you may find helpful in your blogging journey! Domains & Hosting We always recommend keeping your hosting and domain registration at separate ...
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Block options
The block options setting enables a number of customizations on a block-by-block basis. Pages only This is a general warning and strongly held opinion, that you can feel free to ignore once ...
Image unlink
You don't want to be linking images to themselves because: Easiest The easiest way to fix this is to use the Blog Fixer's Image Unlink service. Free To do this, use the Broken Link ...
Staging
We consider staging sites to be key to successfully running a food blog. Testing updates A staging site is a non-live version of your website that you can use to test updates to plugins, ...
FAQ
This page is more of an off-the-cuff FAQ and doesn't reflect the actual policies of Feast. This is for educational purposes only. Feast vs Feast+ All functionality (homepage, recipe index, menu, ...
You're in! 🎉
Spring Cleanup Challenge You're In! 🎉 We can't wait to help you get your blog up to speed by leading you through quick, impactful tasks. Keep an eye out for the first Spring Cleanup lesson going ...
Spring Cleanup Giveaway Submission
We are so thrilled to see your refreshed site! To the enter the giveaway, complete the items below and submit your site to us by May 1st to be entered into a raffle. It's our way of saying ...
Pingbacks
Our recommendation is to simply delete all pingbacks. These are not used in any way and are an outdated relic from 2000's era blogging that serve no purpose today. ...
Using Blocks & Patterns (Feast+)
Once you have your Feast+ settings configured, it's time to start adding the new block patterns! If you haven't been using Gutenberg editor or just need a refresh, we recommend reading through the ...
Block themes
We do not recommend or support the use of block themes at this time. Instead, we've taken a hybrid theme approach. Based on the conversations and presentations at Wordcamp US, the official ...
Pitch
You've landed here because you've reached out to pitch Feast Design Co. on a product or service you offer. We're hugely appreciative of your interest and are open to partnering with companies that ...
Pricing
The launch of Feast+ took careful consideration when it came to figuring out where it belongs in the eco system. Feast+ offers a set of elevated styling options that complies with requirements for: ...
Recipe Key
The Recipe Key is back, in a total rewrite and bundled with the Feast Plugin for free! image It's designed to be used as a visual indicator or diets the post qualifies for, helping your readers ...
Starter Site White Glove
If you have the full Feast Plugin, please use the Fresh Site White Glove service instead. This is an exclusive offer for Feast Plugin Starter subscribers to get a a fresh install of the Feast ...
Social
Social channels Social sharing plugin We recommend and support Hubbub lite for social sharing functionality. Upgrade to Hubbub Pro for additional sharing functionality! What you should ...
Gutenberg
The term "Gutenberg" is confusing and misunderstood, so we'll define some things here: Gutenberg Gutenberg is not the block editor. Wordpress itself uses the term confusing so this is simply ...
Optimize core blocks
This feature has been deprecated as of 10.6.0 and is no longer functional. Few people enabled it, and those that did often were confused about why the options were removed. Ultimately, this is the ...
Optimize block typography
This feature has been deprecated as of 10.6.0 and is no longer functional. Few people enabled it, and those that did often were confused about why the options were removed. Ultimately, this is the ...
Site Info
The Site Info page introduced in the Feast Plugin 9.4.0 helps recipe sites define their E-E-A-T. This helps both readers and search engines better understand what your site is about what what niche ...
Tools
The Tools page was introduced in the Feast Plugin v.9.4.0 in order to provide quick services to fix common issues. The initial release features two tools: Open all comments on ...