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System Fonts
The System Font stack has been rolled out in the Feast Plugin 5.6.0. On average, we've seen a 3-4 point increase in overall score from replacing the theme (or custom) fonts with System Fonts, ...
Tiktok
At this time, we have no plans to implement, support or recommend Tiktok-related functionality or social buttons. Any Tiktok related functionality will come from third party plugins. Tiktok is ...
Logo
Our official recommendation in 2021 is to use the Modern Menu built via the Feast Plugin on both Mobile and Desktop displays. The Modern Menu: improves user experience by displaying more content ...
Modern Sidebar
Feast Plugin Resources more resources → Categories Classic themes The classic themes are only for hobby sites and any food blog interested in monetizing or SEO needs the Feast ...
Monetization
If you're just getting started, we recommend signing up for the Feast Plugin Starter plan to access the Recipe Post Template. The average site will start seeing reasonable income in 12-18 months if ...
Fonts
Custom fonts are a disaster in 2021, with issues relating to: CLS (inconsistent ligature sizes, letter spacing, questionable font-display recommendations)Font weights (bold, italic, etc)Pagespeed ...
Portfolio
Building a recipe photographer portfolio can be done easily and quickly with the Feast Plugin. We'll be building a showcase site, which isn't specifically designed for SEO or accessibility or ...
Subscribe button
The Modern Menu integrates a "Subscribe" button that provides a call-to-action for readers to sign up for your newsletter the entire time they're on your site. This allows you to: See the ...
Full width page
The Feast Plugin adds a toggle to the Post settings to display a page full width: This only affects the page it is set on. Genesis / Theme layout (outdated) The outdated version ...
Migration
When migrating to our theme + plugin setup, we often get asked about how it's done in a single large project. There's often multiple separate projects that actually need to be done, and unless hiring ...
Modern Menu White Glove Conversion
This is not longer available - please purchase the Theme + Plugin Setup instead, which includes all the required elements. For those who are too busy to follow the Modern Menu conversion, we're ...
Modern Sidebar White Glove Conversion
This is not longer available - please purchase the Theme + Plugin Setup instead, which includes all the required elements. For those who are too busy to follow the Modern Sidebar conversion, we're ...
Translation
Translation is done through third party plugins such as WPML or Polylang. Certain areas need to be specifically enabled via these plugins. Please contact the translation plugins for any support ...
728px
Updating the content width to 728px allows for "leaderboard" ads to be displayed, potentially generating more revenue for publishers running ads. In the past, this would have to be implemented via ...
CLS
We're only able to impact the lab data portion of the Pagespeed Insights report - this is controlled by the theme/plugin and we're currently seeing < 0.03 scores for sites that implement: the ...
White Glove
We have complete tutorials for implementing the Feast Plugin in the Feast Plugin Setup, which has been followed thousands of times. If you would prefer to hand the setup and conversion process to ...
Modern Footer White Glove Conversion
This is not longer available - please purchase the Theme + Plugin Setup instead, which includes all the required elements. For those who are too busy to follow the Modern Footer conversion, we're ...
Pagespeed
Food blogging is very competitive, and with so much great content, pagespeed can make a difference in ranking. This is because Google knows its users want content that isn't just relevant, but is ...
Custom list styling
Version 5.0.0 of the Feast Plugin introduced the ability to add custom bullet styling to your lists. We recommend using this in a section to draw special attention or add some branding ...
Disabled emoji rewrites
Certain Wordpress hosting/installation setups have filters enabled that rewrites emoji characters to externally hosted images. This is a poor setup because: it causes an external DNS lookup, ...
Trellis
Trellis open BETA was released August 30, 2021. BETA software is designed for testing and development, to discover bugs and compatibility issues that are meant to be fixed in a live release. This ...
Modern Sidebar
The Modern Sidebar replaces the theme's sidebar, making it simpler to customize the sidebar using the block editor, instead of widgets. 1. Enable the Feast Layouts Enable the Feast Layouts ...
Page experience
Running into page experience issues? The Feast Plugin can help you resolve these, getting you to a passing score for your entire site: Contact us today to get started. ...
Refund Policy
Feast Design Co. has a no-refunds policy, for any reasons. We sell digital products which are non-returnable and therefore non-refundable. The subscriptions (such as the Feast Plugin or Feast+) ...
Modern Themes
This is currently in development and should be ignored. Stay subscribed to the newsletter to be notified when it's live. Background The themes were designed during a time when styling was the ...
SEO-2
Notes from Tastemaker SEO Potential to reach more audiences with auto-translation of video using AI. Entity understanding Intent Search Generative Experience (SGE) Helpful ...
Memberships
While ads, sponsored content and recipe photography are the main way of earning revenue for recipe sites, memberships are also a possibility. Below are some examples: Running a membership ...
Convert text to fractions
The Convert text to fractions setting fixes a significant accessibility issue with recipe sites, by replacing text such as 1/4 with a proper fraction, like ¼. Accessibility This is because ...
Non-Food Blogs
The Feast Plugin can be used sites in a number of other niches, like sewing, crafts, parenting, travel and fashion. While our recommendations and tutorials are geared specifically towards food ...
Branding and consistency on the category pages
The category pages are still something we get support tickets for, with people unsure of how to change the default image size displayed there, despite being covered in the theme setup ...
Per Page CSS
The per-page CSS lets you add custom CSS to specific pages, to help improve pagespeed. Note: this is for pages only, not posts. All posts should have identical site-wide styling applied in ...
Web Stories
Web stories are an Instagram-stories style format that Google recently launched. They're a essentially a mobile-formatted slideshow that use images and video, and work well for recipes. Think of ...
User Profile Block
The HTML-based user profile widget has long been a staple of the sidebar, giving your visitors information about who you are and demonstrating E-A-T. Note: we haven't recommended using the Gravatar ...
FSRI Block
The Simple Recipe Index (FSRI) block is a block-editor component for building the Modern Homepage. It contains many of the same configuration/setting options as the shortcode, but in an ...
Rethinking the Newsletter
Annoying, right? Email signups are arguably one of the few assets a recipe site can own and develop, and as such, are a key part of running a food blog. However, current practices fall short in ...
May Pagespeed Update
Google released the Lighthouse version 6 update about 2 weeks ago, and appears to have rolled it into the Pagespeed Insights tool on May 27th 2020. This update basically rewrites the tool, using ...
Recipe Update Checklist
When you're updating posts, you want to be as thorough as possible to avoid having to re-edit multiple times. Remembering all of what needs to be done is impossible though - so we've created a Recipe ...
Accessibility
This page is a work in progress and represents the best of our current understanding at the time it is being viewed. It is not an authoritative document and not prescriptive. Keep in mind that: ...
Food Blogger Summit
Below is the presentation on page jumps from the Food Blogger Summit. The Feast Plugin saves time and offers a maintenance-free way to do this using the Advanced Jump To shortcode. Learn how ...