The themes were designed at a time when the customizer was being actively developed and maintained, and standards on the web were much looser. Unfortunately, in 2020 this no longer appears to be ...
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Modern Thumbnails (Featured Images)
The Modern Thumbnails are better sized for the theme content width, and allow you to change themes without worrying about images being incorrectly sized. IMPORTANT: thumbnails are generated from ...
How to use emojis in headings to boost your click through rates
Emojis can be used in the Advanced Jump To Links. In November 2019 at the Google Webmaster Conference one of the speakers discussed how it took a team at Google an entire year to incorporate emojis ...
Advanced "Jump To" Links
The purpose of the Feast Plugin's Advanced Jump To Links is to: The core of it breaks down into two features that when combined, can qualify you for additional links in search engines, and ...
Why we're dropping support for the category drop down menu
Note: due to ambiguity, we'll be calling this drop-down category menu the select category widget. Put simply, the select category widget is a poor user experience, and has been replaced by updated ...
Modern Google Fonts
Note: this feature is still in BETA for testing and bug fixes and not officially recommended. Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified of its release. The fonts implementation in the themes were ...
How long does it take for a post to rank?
We've said it repeatedly: the only important thing for a recipe start is to put out as much high quality content as possible. Your first 6-12 months should be entirely dedicated to perfecting the ...
Yoast FAQ Block
The Yoast FAQ block allows you to qualify for the "People also ask" rich search result, which looks like this in search engines: Because the FAQ block was released after the Feast Plugin, we've ...
Modern Homepage Setup
This is the setup tutorial for the Modern Homepage, which is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. The Modern Homepage replaces the theme homepage, greatly improving SEO, accessibility, ...
Rethinking the Homepage
This is a post covering the thought process behind the Modern Homepage. 2020/03/29: See the Modern Homepage vs. Theme Homepage for a side-by-side comparison of the two setups, and the Modern ...
Add an h1 tag to your homepage
This tutorial is for the classic theme setup, which is outdated. Only follow this if you're on the classic theme setup without the Feast Plugin.All sites should be using the Modern Homepage through ...
What are "content archives"
Content archives (or just "archives") is technical jargon that is no longer relevant in 2019 and beyond. The only type of archive that is used or supported are the categories. We no longer refer to ...
Remove the Entry-Meta (below content)
Note that this is unnecessary if you're running the Feast Plugin with the Remove Entry-Meta from post footer set up. The plugin is preferable to this theme setting, because it will be saved between ...
November 2019 Compatibility Updates
A number of updates were released this month that need testing. We're going to docu-blog this process for quality control and review. The first step is going to be working on the Foodie Pro theme ...
Update your author bio
Make sure that you've set the edit post info field in the Feast Plugin. Set your author bio URL to your about page, in Admin > Users > Your Profile in the Website field under the Contact Info ...
Demo Site Updates
The demo sites have long been an example of how the themes are designed to look, without actually being a food blog themselves. Their layout, design and organization has been a stylistic reflection ...
Edit Body Font Size
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 ...
Post Images
This is an updated set of recommendations as of late 2019, for recent versions of the theme (4.2.0+): These are our recommendations and if you have no idea what you're doing, you should follow ...
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 ...
Feast Category Images Block
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 ...
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 ...
Feast Plugin: Remove Entry-Meta from Post Footer
The Entry-Meta in the post footer displays the "Filed Under:" and "Tagged With:", which clutters up the screen and has low visitor usage. improves pagespeed by removing unnecessary DOM ...
Feast Plugin: Remove author link from comments
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin Remove the link from the author name in the comments. This is an extension of the remove website field from comments form feature, which just prevents new ...
Use Foodie-Pro-Style Recipe Index with Cook'd Pro
FacetWP is a beautiful setup for the recipe index, but overly complicated, and costs money. It also encourages visitors to stay on a single page that's dynamically updated, rather than jumping into ...
Feast Plugin: Remove link from date in comments
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin Toggle this setting to remove the links from the date in the comment section. On today's talk about "technical things you didn't know or care about", we're ...
Why we removed the WP Instagram Widget
As of mid August 2019, Instagram shut down outside access to its images. Like all social networks, Instagram wants people to interact and view content within its "closed garden", where it can track ...
Add Yoast Breadcrumbs
Yoast has a feature which enables adding breadcrumb schema to your website, creating a more complete schema graph, which search engines love. For the full writeup, see: Yoast SEO ...
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 ...
Feast Plugin: Previous + Next on Posts
When your readers reach the end of a post, they face the choice of either leaving or looking for more content. This has a direct impact on your income as a food blogger: if you can keep them ...
Feast Plugin: Disclosures
How do you make sure you've covered off all your disclosures? The FTC, search engines and ad companies require a number of disclosures when money changes hands, and paid content requires clear ...
Posts per page
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The posts per page has been modified to be set by Feast. It's currently set to display 40 posts per page. Simply enable the setting in the Feast Plugin: ...
Customizations
Customization support is not built into our pricing, and is not offered with our themes. Our themes are built with best practices built in, based on feedback from thousands of users and input from ...
Feast Plugin: Remove website field from comments form
This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The website field in the "comments" form is mostly used for spam, and removing the website field can disincentivize comment spam. And if that wasn't enough? ...
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 ...
AMP Support
Feast will NOT be implementing support for AMP, nor will we be providing support or guidelines for its use. Thanks to antitrust scrutiny, Google is finally rolling back their self-preferential ...
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 the category pages now display half-width on mobile
All theme versions prior to 4.0.8 displayed categories as full-width on mobile. This lead to needing to scroll excessively to browse through a category. In version 4.0.8, we updated the default ...
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 ...