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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Clear cache
The most common issue we get is "my site isn't updating with my changes" and in 99% of cases, this is a simply cache clearing issue. Here's how to clear your cache. WP Rocket First: Make ...
Patterns
Patterns are pre-made blocks that you can insert into posts. They were formerly known as "reusable blocks". Enable the menu Since Wordpress doesn't enable the Patterns menu by default, you ...
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, ...
INP (Interaction to Next Paint)
Our current understanding is that our themes and default setup don't fail INP. INP measures how quickly a browser responds to user input, and 99% of this is driven by poorly performing ...
Incompatible Archive
Wordpress 6.4.3 is meant to be a "security and bug fix" update, but in fact contains breaking changes to how it handles zip files (used by themes and plugins). Details here. This breaking change ...
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 ...
Design Guidance (Feast+)
Need some extra design guidance? We're here to help! We've included some font pairing, color palettes, and style combinations below. Font pairings We've tested and adjusted the following fonts ...
General Notes (Feast+)
Answers to how and why certain elements are set up. Contrast We use a formula to determine the largest contrast between any given color - whether primary, accent or background - and white or ...
Feast+ FAQ
Common questions for the Feast+ service. Members can access questions about the design and setup here. Do I still need the Feast Plugin with Feast+? Yes, Feast+ is an add-on subscription on ...
Getting Started (Feast+)
This page is only available to members. ...
Tweaks & FAQ (Feast+)
This page is only available to members. ...
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 ...
Introducing Feast+
Feast+ is a designer-curated set of styling options that help you define your brand, and attract high paying brand sponsorships. The Feast Plugin setup comes with best practices baked right in, for ...
Redis Object Cache
Wordpress has added the Redis Object Cache as a recommended plugin to their health check page. This is a poor recommendation and we do not recommend or support it. The redis object cache is ...
Kadence
The Feast Plugin is compatible with the Kadence framework and themes. We automatically hide settings that are not available in Kadence in order to prevent conflicting functionality. Nothing is ...
This block contains unexpected or invalid content
The error "This block contains unexpected or invalid content" is shown in the block editor when a blocks formatting doesn't match what the current version of the block editor expects. On core ...
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: ...
Frameworks
There's multiple "frameworks" available on top of Wordpress, which provide additional functionality. If you're looking for specific functionality, we recommend using plugins rather than new, ...
Content Rot
This post is just an introduction to a concept I think is important for content sites to be aware of, and that is content rot. It's not based on any SEO principle. What is content ...
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 ...
Social Icons
The Feast Social Icons is a replacement for the Simple Social Icons widget, fixing long-standing duplicate ID accessibility issues in the Simple Social Icons plugin and We opted to develop the ...
Feature Request (Feast+)
This is only available to Feast+ subscribers. If you have a subscription, please log in. ...
fetchPriority
The fetchPriority attribute allows sites to load quicker by telling the browser how the site thinks content (scripts and images) should load. This is a pagespeed update we're able to roll out to ...
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 ...
Food blogger lifecycle
Feast has developed this lifecycle internally for gauging where a blogger is and how we can best serve them. Through informal conversations we've found that some people have found this useful as a ...
Feast Layouts
The Feast Layouts tab is found under the "Feast Plugin" admin sidebar (after being enabled), and is where you'll find the: Why the change This gives us better control over how certain ...
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 ...
June 2023 Search Updates
There's a lot of changes popping up recently, some related to AI and some related to normal search updates and some are just experiments that may or may not roll out to the wider search ...
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 ...
Analytics
Our recommendation is to use the Google Site Kit Plugin, which is developed by Google to support their own analytics product. As of July 2023, all users have been forced over to GA4. Grayson from ...
Modified dates
We no longer recommend attempting to restrict the modified date from being updated (explanation below). If you still feel like this is important to you, we've heard the change last modified date ...