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Themes vs. Feast Plugin
If you've historically used just the themes without the Feast Plugin, we hope to clarify what the Feast Plugin provides relative to the individual themes. We recommend all sites use the Feast ...
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 Genesis / Theme layout (outdated) The outdated version ...
Why you shouldn't make customizations
We frequently get asked about how to make certain customizations, and we recommend against it. Price We don't build customization support into our themes: ...
Theme & Plugin White Glove Form
Thank you for purchasing the Theme & Plugin White Glove Service. In order for us to set up your site, please complete this form, which will provide us with your site credentials, and your ...
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 ...
Plugin Audit
Below is a list of services and plugins that we've tested to be compatible with our recommended setup, and offer support for. Incompatible simply means that we don't offer support for sites with ...
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 ...
Blocking Time
Blocking time boils down to the amount of time the users browser spends executing javascript, which is why we recommend avoiding javascript as much as possible. Our current setup uses the Modern ...
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 ...
Lazyloading comments
We do not recommend or support lazyloading comments. Google has said that it will not index anything hidden behind a click/interaction on page, so if you have to "click to load more comments", ...
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, ...
Trackbacks
Trackbacks (or pingbacks) are not used in the recipe space. We recommend disabling them fully. Genesis In Customize > Theme Settings > Comments and Trackbacks: Wordpress In Admin ...
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 ...
oembed
oembeds are a way for Wordpress to integrate content from external websites into your website. By pasting a link to certain networks, the Wordpress editor will attempt to automatically fetch that ...
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. ...
Submitted URL marked 'noindex'
Running into the Google Search Console issue 'Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’'? We can help you resolve it: Contact us today to get started. ...
Before + After
Check out these before and afters of food bloggers fixing their pagespeed issues. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Install It For Me
Thank you for purchasing the Install It For Me Service. Please go ahead and complete this form, so that we can get your site set up. ...
Favicon
We recommend reviewing Google's favicon documentation. Your favicon is set in Customize > Site Identity This is configured/set by Wordpress, and is not theme related. Unfortunately ...
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 ...
Modern Navigation
Your site's navigation has an impact on SEO, accessibility and user experience. SEO While secondary content (link to E-A-T) provides queues to search engines about what's important, there's no ...
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 ...