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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 ...
Enable SSL for HTTPS on your Food Blog
Google wants all site to be HTTPS. This actually dates back to 2014, when Google announced that they use SSL as a ranking signal. And as of July 2018, major browsers will begin marking all ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
5 Days to a Better Blog Brand
Stay on top of SEO, pagespeed and compatibility updates via the newsletter! With this actionable 5-part challenge, you'll have just the digital design strategies you need for a profitable ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Can I Update to Version 3.0?
We're offering the Foodie Pro 3.0 theme free to current Foodie Pro 2.0 users! You can download the files from your member page at StudioPress or from https://feastdesignco.com/account, depending ...
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 ...
Food Blog Home Page Pagination
Because the home page for Genesis and our themes are so flexible, pagination would not work well. We would need to limit the flexibility of the home page in order to add that feature and we chose to ...
How to Use the Customizer
Please watch the following video to learn about how to use all of the exciting features of the Brunch Pro customizer panel. To access all of these neat features navigate in your dashboard to Admin ...
How to Enable the Grid Archive for the Blog Page
As of 2019 we no longer recommend or support the use of blog pages.Instead, a proper site structure must be used, based on categories. Our customers have been asking to have more control over how ...
Using Static Images in the Hero Area
Update 2019/09/26: this is an unsupported customization and no longer displays properly on mobile with the most recent theme versions. Instead, we recommend creating a specific category for ...
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 ...
Holiday Foodie Gift Guide: Our Top Picks
Want to give a cookbook? Learn how you can (quickly) make your own here. Food gifts are underrated. And we can probably thank fruit cakes for that. But, let's look at the facts. Everyone eats ...
WordPress Food Blog Themes for 2024
These are our classic Genesis child themes, without the Feast Plugin. Here's what you should know: We highly recommend purchasing the Feast Plugin instead of the classic theme, as it contains ...
Here’s a Holiday Gift Idea: Why Not Publish a Food Blog Cookbook?
Have you made your Christmas shopping list yet? Let me guess. Golf balls for Dad? A new pair of kicks for hubby? Maybe a Sephora gift card for your best friend? Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's ...
How to Create Multiple Recipe Index Pages
This tutorial is outdated - it remains only for historical documentation purposes. Creating multiple recipe index pages is now done using the Feast Plugin's Simple Recipe Index. Note: This is ...
Customization Library
This page is ever expanding! Got a request? Submit your support ticket and if we think others will benefit, we'll write it up for you. As a best practice, we recommend that you don't customize ...
Why is troubleshooting so complex?
We support as wide of a variety of blog configurations as possible, but there is a limit to what's reasonable to expect from support, which we restrict to specifically theme issues. A theme can only ...
How to Add the Featured Posts Category Index
Below the Custom HTML and Genesis Featured Page widgets in the Recipes Bottom widget area, we are using the Cravings Pro OR Seasoned Pro Featured Posts widgets to display a few recipes from a few ...
How to Add the Visual Category Page Index
As of Genesis 3.0.0, they've removed the "blog" template used in this tutorial, and we no longer support it. If you'd like to continue using the visual category index in Cravings Pro and Seasoned Pro, ...
Best Food Blog Designs of 2022
What makes a food blog great? Loads fastGreat design that highlights contentRecipes that are focused around a theme or topicPictures of the food for reference (and to drool over) Our themes get ...
Primary Sidebar
The Primary Sidebar is a very versatile widget area that you can use to place ads, tell your readers about yourself, highlight some of your older content, add a search bar, or share information of any ...
Plugins to Install
Recipe Plugin - This plugin is used for the recipe cards on the site. Genesis eNews Extended - This is used for the newsletter opt-ins on the site. Simple Social Icons - This plugin is used for ...
Home Page Layout
The home page is made up of three different widget areas: Home Top, Home Middle, and Home Bottom. Below is a preview of those widget areas and the widgets they contain: Back to Cravings Pro ...
Food Photography
Looking to outsource your food photography? Check out these ...
Why Should I have an Editorial Calendar? Food Blogging Tips You Need
In the early stages of food blogging, many people are recipe-dependent. You add flair here and there but rely on recipes to learn new techniques and explore flavors. But as you hone your skill, you ...
3 Tips for Food Bloggers to Avoid Marketing Burnout
Avoiding your computer's gaze, so you don't have to edit one more image? Have a post ready but can't bring yourself to write the caption and hashtags for Instagram? Sure, you could be stressed. Or ...
How often should I post?
As much as you can. If you can put out 1000 high quality recipes by tomorrow, do it. Just post the content when it's ready, and make sure it's good quality content. You can't just glaze over ...
Stay Focused on Important Things (or: why Pinterest sucks)
This is an opinionated post from Skylar, arguing the counter-point about why Pinterest and social media is a waste of time. Lots of food bloggers use Pinterest very successfully and derive income from ...
Recipe Page Guidelines for Food Bloggers
Wouldn't it be nice if you knew exactly how your food blog was evaluated for quality, and what you might be doing wrong (or right)? Well, you actually can know. [Update 2019/03/31: you can find a ...
The Secret Ingredient: How to Grow into a Top Food Blog
The secret ingredient that makes your recipe pop, like pickle juice or fish sauce, can sometimes get weird. So, we're getting weird in this blog post too. Or, at least, different. Because the ...
Block Editor ("Gutenberg") Development
Essentially, they introduced a new post editor, as a plugin, which will eventually replace the old editor. We're following the rest of the industry and calling these the block editor and the ...