We hope to provide some clarity here over the scope of work of the support offered for themes vs. customizations customers may wish to pursue. A theme is like a recipe: we create and test according ...
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Theme Update Philosophy
We've had some questions about why certain features are implemented, or modified, or dropped when it comes to theme updates. There are a number of factors that go into the decisions, but the most ...
Why am I Making this Change?
There are a lot of requests for customizations outside the scope of the tutorials and basic theme setup. Our themes are designed to facilitate food blogging, and we've tried to codify this in our ...
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 Add a Header Logo to Cook'd Pro
To display a logo in your header instead of your site title, navigate to Appearance > Customize > Header Image Click on Add New Image and either select your header image from your Media ...
"Done For You" Services
The Feast Plugin Setup tutorials and the migration guide ensures that anyone can do their own setup at no cost. Not sure where to get started? Check out the getting started guide first. If you ...
Customization Referrals
Our goal at Feast Design Co. is to help you get your theme installed and configured like the theme demo site. We understand that sometimes you'd like to do a bit of customization to make the theme ...
How to Configure the Foodie Pro Classic Home Page
Foodie Pro Classic uses a "widgetized" home page template to accomplish the flexible layout that shows recent and/or featured posts in full-width or grid format. This means that you'll configure your ...
Troubleshoot Plugin Conflicts
To resolve a plugin conflict, you'll want to If so then you can reactivate them one by one to see which one is causing the problem. For your reference the only recommended plugins ...
Change the Number of Posts That Show on the Category / Search / Archive Pages
Note that this tutorial is outdated for Modern food blogs which should be using the Modern Categories from the Feast Plugin. This allows us to automatically configure the posts per page to optimize ...
Genesis User Profile Widget
We recommend using the Custom HTML method to avoid loading gravatar on each page, which hurts pagespeed. The Genesis User Profile widget is built into the themes and is an easy way to display an ...
How to Add Pagination to the Home Page
2019 Update: Home page pagination is outdated. Instead, focus on creating good site structure with well defined categories. Because the home page is so flexible, pagination would not work well. We ...
How to Edit Child Theme Files
Note: Do not EVER edit the Genesis theme files!Note: Do not EVER edit the child theme files!If you have to make a coding change, use the Code Snippets PluginIf you have to make a styling change, do it ...
Setup Genesis eNews Widget/Newsletter
The Genesis eNews Extended plugin is designed to be used with a newsletter service such as Mailchimp, Aweber, ConvertKit, or any of the other popular newsletter services. Setup + Installation You ...
Custom Fonts With Cook'd Pro
Note: the built-in Google Font selector is outdated and does not reflect modern web best-practices: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/02/font-display With this theme, any styling ...
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. ...
heart_this Removed from Cook'd Pro
Why was it removed? The heart_this plugin was developed as a styling element for Cook'd Pro, which was removed from version 4.0.0 released on December 21, 2018. The issue was that nothing it ...
Translation + Multi Language Support
We don't offer support for help with translation and multi-language features. Reminder: our themes are for styling and not functionality. Translation and multi-language is a Wordpress ...
Brunch Pro Classic Tutorials
If you have the Feast Plugin, do not follow this tutorial. Go directly to the Feast Plugin Setup. Demos, FAQs, Tutorials and How-tos for the Brunch Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
Cook'd Pro Classic Tutorials
If you have the Feast Plugin, do not follow this tutorial. Go directly to the Feast Plugin Setup. Demos, FAQs, Tutorials and How-tos for the Cook'd Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
60-Minute Customization
This is for a customization project, that requires roughly 60 minutes of work on our part. Theme support is restricted to getting your theme set up like the demo site. This is because ...
Foodie Pro Classic Tutorials
If you have the Feast Plugin, do not follow this tutorial. Go directly to the Feast Plugin Setup. Demos, FAQs, Tutorials and How-tos for the Foodie Pro Classic WordPress Theme. Note: Updating ...
Genesis Child Themes
Foodie Pro is the number one selling Genesis child theme. Loved for it's simple, minimalist design that makes your content the star of the page, it's trusted by thousands of foodie and lifestyle ...
Why do my images look different in edit post and live?
There's a number of reasons that images may look different when editing your post in the Wordpress admin, to pushing it live. A few possible causes to troubleshoot include: Image compression. If ...
How to Configure the Cook'd Pro Classic Home Page
Cook'd Pro Classic uses a widgetized home page template to accomplish the flexible layout that shows recent and/or featured posts in full-width or grid format. The widget used to create these sections ...
Custom Fonts with Foodie Pro
All sites in 2021 and beyond should use the System Font setting in the Feast Plugin to override the theme fonts, which eliminates: font-related CLSpagespeed-related issues due to font ...
How to Change the Header Size in Foodie Pro 3.0
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. For more details, see: ...
Ecommerce
We do not recommend or support sites that have ecommerce integrated, such as woocommerce. The simple reason is that it creates too much complexity, is too difficult to support, and is not our focus as ...
Configure the Category Pages
This tutorial covers how to use the fields on the "edit category" page for each category. The how to use categories tutorial covers best practices for categories overall. Setting the category ...
Configure the Foodie Pro Footer Widgets
Note: Instead of following this tutorial, we recommend you follow the instructions to Import the Foodie Pro Widgets to import the pre-configured widgets in your theme files, then customize ...
How to Add a Logo to Foodie Pro 3.0
Note: This tutorial is outdated for Foodie Pro version 3.1.5 and newer, see: Rethinking the Header and the logo tutorial To display a logo in your header instead of your site title, ...
Install Theme, and Import Demo Content and Widgets
Always make sure you're performing installations and updates on a staging site, not your live site. x This tutorial covers the following themes: Foodie ProBrunch ProCook'd ProCravings ...
Using Google Fonts with Brunch Pro Classic
We highly recommend using the System Fonts setting in the Feast Plugin to optimize your site for pagespeed and core web vitals Note: the built-in Google Font selector is outdated and does not ...
How to Add a Header Logo to Brunch Pro Classic
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 ...
How to Configure the Brunch Pro Classic Home Page
Brunch Pro Classic uses a widgetized home page template to accomplish the flexible layout that shows recent and/or featured posts in full-width or grid format. The widget used to create these sections ...
Foodie Pro 3.0 FAQ
These are the features you can expect from this fresh update of everyone's favorite minimalist blog theme: Clean and simple widgetized home page for a flexible layout Make it your own with the ...
How to Change the Header Size in Brunch 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 ...
Can I Use Multiple Recipe Index Pages?
That depends on which of our themes you are using! As of 2020, we no longer recommend using recipe index pages at all. A good site structure will reduce click depth from the homepage to as many ...
How Do I Set Up My Navigation Menu?
This tutorial covers setting up the navigation menu for Foodie Pro, Brunch Pro, Cook'd Proand Seasoned Pro. Navigation menus are a core element of Wordpress and are primarily configured in the ...
Cravings Pro Theme
The Cravings 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 ...