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 ...
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Rethinking the Header
Update 2019/05/14: we'll be taking this another step further in 2019 with rethinking the nav menu. Update 2019/12/01: this has been completed and released as the Modern Mobile Menu Update ...
Meal Kit Delivery
The idea is simple, and yet, it has become one of the most in-demand types of services today. Millennials have fallen in love with meal kit delivery and have brought the rest of the population along ...
GDPR
This page is a work-in-progress, and information is updated as we learn more and implement changes. Last updated 2018/05/18. Our opinion on GDPR is that it is overly broad, burdensome on small ...
Brunch Pro Theme
The Brunch 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 ...
How to Create Multiple Recipe Index Pages
The ability for all themes to use multiple recipe indexes was introduced with the Feast Plugin's Simple Recipe Index feature. See the Modern Recipe Index. Unlike previous iterations of the ...
Food Blog Sitelinks
Probably one of the least capitalized-on opportunities for food bloggers is sitelinks. What are sitelinks? The Feast Plugin Sitelinks inserts navigation code into your page's content, adding ...
Themes vs. Customizations
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 ...
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 Configure the Cook'd Pro Footer Widgets
Cook'd Pro has 4 available footer widget areas: Footer 1 is the full-width top area (banners)Footer 2 is the 1/3-width left bottom areaFooter 3 is the 1/3-width middle bottom areaFooter 4 is the ...
All About Featured Images
Find full guidelines in our image optimization guide. Featured images are not meant to be displayed in the post itselfShould be squareUpload at minimum 1200x1200 pxShould have a file name that ...
How to Start a Food Blog
Disclaimer: This post is a breakdown of the decisions and best practices that went into our new Food Blogger Hosting package. Save yourself the time and headache and go sign up today. For those of you ...
"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 ...
Affiliates
The affiliate program is available for all Feast Design Co. customers. Here's a few things to be aware of: If you have any questions or suggestions please contact us ...
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 ...
Change the Size of the Cook'd Pro Recipe Index Thumbnails
Before making any changes to your site, make sure you have a recent (daily) backup copy from your hosting company that you can restore from in case anything breaks. You can change the thumbnail ...
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 ...
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 ...
How to Enable Comments on Your Site
There are a few places to check to be sure comments are enabled on your posts: Specific posts You may need to do that for all your posts if the comment form doesn't display. The Settings ...
How to Control Which Categories Show Up in the Categories Widget
You might want to look into this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pro-categories-widget/ Update: as of 2019, we no longer recommend using the categories drop-down menus. This is a poor user ...
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 ...
FAQ for All Themes
Which Recipe Plugin Do You Recommend? How Do I Setup My Newsletter/Genesis eNew Widget? How Do I Setup My Navigation Menu? Can I Use Multiple Recipe Index Pages? How Do I Edit My Theme ...
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 ...
Add Google Analytics Tracking Code
This post has been updated in January 2023 to change our stance on this. Due to complications with GA4, we recommend use the Google Site Kit plugin to set up and manage your Google Analytics ...
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. ...
Food Blog Theme Features Comparison
Each of our themes run some of the best food blogs in the world, with features and functionality varying slightly depending on their specific needs. Note that as of 2021, the features of the ...
Food Blogging Trends
Visitor Participation What do all the top recipes in the search engines have in common? High visitor engagement. This isn't a coincidence - factors such as time on page, and pages-per-session are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Change the Header Size in Cook'd 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...