All modern themes from Feast (version 4.0.0+) come with 16px as the standard body font size, for reasons outlined in the font size for food blogs article. This was done to bring the themes more ...
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How to use Categories
Categories allow you to organize your recipes in a way that's good for your site visitors, as well as search engines. This is an opinionated post, based on what we see happen to the majority of ...
Modern Mobile Menu
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The Modern Mobile Menu replaces the theme header and menu with a mobile and accessibility-optimized layout. As of 2021, with pagespeed, SEO and accessibility ...
Types of Customizations
The single biggest question we get when someone is looking to update their theme is "what about my customizations". The problem is that we have no idea what customizations you're talking about - how ...
Feast Plugin Changelog
The latest updates for the Feast Plugin. Past updates can be found on the Feast Plugin changelog archive page. ...
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 ...
301 Redirects, Links, Canonical and Pagespeed
This is a slightly more advanced coverage of a few pagespeed topics, as an extension of the SEO for food bloggers post. If you've been running a food blog for a few years, you need to correct ...
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 ...
About Skylar Bowker
Hey! I'm Skylar. tl;dr; I got my first paid web development gig when I was 16. Since then, I've been mostly self-employed, focusing on e-commerce and marketing for food brands. It's allowed me ...
Rethinking the Nav Menu
Last year we updated the header/logo, making it simpler to manage for food bloggers, and correcting some faux-pas, like hidden off-screen text. We've continued listening to feedback and monitoring ...
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 ...
Should I remove content?
The following is a Facebook post from Casey Markee on the topic of deleting vs. re-writing content. We've republished it here with his permission. It's amazing how much incorrect and just plain ...
Why we removed the header-right widget area
The header-right widget area was never actively part of the themes - just something kind of inherited from Genesis and left in. But over the years, it's proven to be extremely difficult to configure ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When should I start using ads?
Broadly speaking, we don't recommend adding ads until you qualify for Mediavine or AdThrive. Why? The pay out just isn't worth it. While it can be enticing to think you can start to "cover ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
How to Change the Header Size in Cook'd Pro
In all of our themes version 3.1.6 and up, header sizes are displayed at whatever resolution they're uploaded at. This tutorial is outdated for versions newer than 3.1.6. See this post: rethinking the ...
Food Blog Home Page Pagination
Because the home page for Genesis and our themes are so flexible, pagination would not work well. We would need to limit the flexibility of the home page in order to add that feature and we chose to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Foodie Pro Theme
The Foodie Pro theme is now only available through the Feast Plugin. If you're in your first 12 months of food blogging and would like to purchase the theme without any support, you can purchase the ...
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 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! ...
Dear is now Brunch Pro // Permission Slip to Pivot
I have no problem saying this: Foodie Pro, the crown jewel of WordPress themes reaching the #1 spot in StudioPress sales almost every month for two years, has given us amazing insight to our niche ...