The Feast Category Images Block lets you visually display your categories, by assigned images to categories. This lets us to build a more user-friendly Modern Recipe Index that helps users ...
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Genesis 3.1.0 - GENESIS_PRE_GET_OPTION_FOOTER_TEXT
Genesis 3.1.0 came out August 21 2019. Themes from Feast Design Co. prior to 4.2.0 are not compatible with this change. This update introduces a new method of editing the footer, by going to ...
Link Parties
Link parties are a way for bloggers to exchange recipe links, in an attempt to get backlinks to new posts. And they suck. Why? Let's count the ways. No visitor value Search engines are ...
Hosting
When it comes to hosting your blog, you get what you pay for. The minimum we recommend spending on hosting is $30 per month. Anything less than that, and you're hurting your ability to rank in search ...
Create your logo
People get hung up on creating an eye-catching logo, when it's really not important. When you're first starting a food blog, the most important thing is to get those first 20 recipes up and ...
Why we're dropping the blog page template
The “blog” template is being deprecated and removed from the Genesis framework after June 19th, 2019. It will be disappearing from all Studiopress themes as of version 3.0, and Feast will be following ...
Revenue
There's a bunch of ways to monetize for food blogs - here's a quick overview of documents needed to support the different channels. Note: Canva has a large selection of templates available for any ...
Contact Forms
Feast does not offer support for contact forms. Our themes are designed to affect styling, not functionality, and this is outside the scope of our expertise. The three most popular contact ...
Food Blogger Income: Personal Chefs
Running a food blog is in simple terms, just another small business. Like all businesses, food blogs should have multiple income streams. Not only does this earn you more money each month, it ...
Disclosures for Food Bloggers
Food bloggers that take compensation (in any form) for promoting content are legally obligated to disclose it. This can include: There is no exhaustive list of what "compensation" counts as, and ...
Food Blog Site Structure
A good site structure helps search engines understand and crawl content, and it helps visitors find related recipes. As of 2019, we recommend a simpler website structure that will save bloggers ...
Sponsored Content
Sponsored content is a way to get paid by brands to create content. For food bloggers, this allows you to be paid for doing something you'd be doing for free - creating recipes and writing content to ...
About Theme Updates
We'll clarify some questions and concerns customers have had about updating themes - why there's been so much recently, and whether or not you should update. The two main points are: Your ...
Feast Design Co. Has Acquired the Cookbook Recipe Plugin!
We recommend everybody migrate to WP Recipe Maker! Not a day goes by that we don't get asked about recipe plugins. This is something that's critical to food blogging and therefore, something we ...
How to Write a Recipe Post
There are days when writing is a breeze, and others where the words just don't flow. In both cases, having a structure to work off and knowing what's important to answer helps the flow so that you can ...
Foodie Rates for Recipe Development, Sponsored Posts
A common question we get is: How do I set rates for my freelance work? The all-encompassing answer is: whatever the market will pay. We'll address the issue of creating sponsored posts for a ...
Category Pages Need Content
An often overlooked part of creating a food blog is the category pages, which double as recipe indexes, grouping recipes that share certain characteristics. Actually, this is a mistake that almost ...
SEO for Food Bloggers
Our themes come pre-designed for SEO as best as they can be, but we cover only a fraction of what it takes to compete in search in rankings. Functionality does not belong in themes. SEO features ...
Font Styling
This post is outdated and should not be used or implemented. As of 2020, we no longer recommend any custom fonts on food blogs due to CLS, pagespeed and potential accessibility issues. Instead, all ...
The Feast Plugin
The Feast Plugin completely replaces your theme setup with a rewritten modern standard, built not just around aesthetics, but also making giant leaps in: You can think of the plugin as a brand ...
Meal Kit Delivery
The idea is simple, and yet, it has become one of the most in-demand types of services today. Millennials have fallen in love with meal kit delivery and have brought the rest of the population along ...
Food Blog Sitelinks
Probably one of the least capitalized-on opportunities for food bloggers is sitelinks. What are sitelinks? The Feast Plugin Sitelinks inserts navigation code into your page's content, adding ...
Why am I Making this Change?
There are a lot of requests for customizations outside the scope of the tutorials and basic theme setup. Our themes are designed to facilitate food blogging, and we've tried to codify this in our ...
Principles and Best Practices
We believe that a clear set of principles and best practices helps our customers, employees and investors understand what our goals are and why we make the decision that we do. Principles let our ...
Food Blog Income Reports
Food bloggers are a community of highly creative, highly driven individuals who are both competitive and supportive. We've compiled a list of publicly available income reports available on food blogs ...
How to Start a Food Blog
Disclaimer: This post is a breakdown of the decisions and best practices that went into our new Food Blogger Hosting package. Save yourself the time and headache and go sign up today. For those of you ...
Customization Referrals
Our goal at Feast Design Co. is to help you get your theme installed and configured like the theme demo site. We understand that sometimes you'd like to do a bit of customization to make the theme ...
How to Edit Child Theme Files
Note: Do not EVER edit the Genesis theme files!Note: Do not EVER edit the child theme files!If you have to make a coding change, use the Code Snippets PluginIf you have to make a styling change, do it ...
Use Inspect Element to troubleshoot styles
One of the most common questions we get has to do with white-spaces and element widths, which are usually caused by the CSS margin or padding property on an element (an HTML component) of a webpage. ...
Food Blog Theme Features Comparison
Each of our themes run some of the best food blogs in the world, with features and functionality varying slightly depending on their specific needs. Note that as of 2021, the features of the ...
Enable SSL for HTTPS on your Food Blog
Google wants all site to be HTTPS. This actually dates back to 2014, when Google announced that they use SSL as a ranking signal. And as of July 2018, major browsers will begin marking all ...
heart_this Removed from Cook'd Pro
Why was it removed? The heart_this plugin was developed as a styling element for Cook'd Pro, which was removed from version 4.0.0 released on December 21, 2018. The issue was that nothing it ...
Brunch 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 Brunch Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
Cook'd 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 Cook'd Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
Foodie 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 Foodie Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
5 Days to a Better Blog Brand
Stay on top of SEO, pagespeed and compatibility updates via the newsletter! With this actionable 5-part challenge, you'll have just the digital design strategies you need for a profitable ...
Set Up Your WooCommerce Shop
The first thing you need to know is that running an ecommerce business is entirely different than running a food blog. Recipe queries (informational intent) do not convert to sales (purchase ...
Configure the Category Pages
This tutorial covers how to use the fields on the "edit category" page for each category. The how to use categories tutorial covers best practices for categories overall. Setting the category ...
How Can I Update to Version 3.0?
We're offering the Foodie Pro 3.0 theme free to current Foodie Pro 2.0 users! You can download the files from your member page at StudioPress or from https://feastdesignco.com/account, depending ...
Can I Use Multiple Recipe Index Pages?
That depends on which of our themes you are using! As of 2020, we no longer recommend using recipe index pages at all. A good site structure will reduce click depth from the homepage to as many ...