Genesis Setup
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Edit Post Info
Last Updated: March 21, 2026This tutorial applies to our Genesis themes, see the Kadence tutorials for our Kadence themes. The Edit Post Info feature enables bloggers to customize the post info of their recipe posts. Customizing and improving your post info allows you to gain an advantage over food blogs that haven't put the time and effort into these areas....
Update Author Bio
Last Updated: March 21, 2026Make sure that you've set the edit post info field in the Feast Plugin, if using Genesis. Author Bio URL Set your author bio URL to your about page, in Admin > Users > Your Profile in the Website field under the Contact Info heading. This is done to comply with the Expertise, Authority and...
Modern Navigation
Last Updated: March 21, 2026Your 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 reason to link to everything from your navigation menu. Additionally, having menus that are too large results in excessive DOM nodes, which cause the browser to...
Clear Cache ‼️
Last Updated: March 21, 2026The most common issue we get is "my site isn't updating with my changes" and in 99% of cases, this is a simply cache clearing issue. There is no caching functionality in the theme, and this document serves as our complete guide to self-troubleshooting. Follow the below steps in order, and allow for 10-30 minutes...
Layout
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The "layout" of a site refers to the overall page structure. The Feast setup supports two content layouts: The default layout is content + sidebar and is used across the entire site. Full width The full width layout is 1200px wide. The full width layout is generally not recommended, because the sidebar provides important side-wide...
Modern Index
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The Modern Index is like a book index, showing the chapters (categories) of your site. It primarily uses the FSCI Block to display categories, with some room for displaying trending posts and author information. The Modern Index: The goal of the Modern Homepage was to convert the most "important" page on your site to a...
Feast Plugin Setup
Last Updated: March 20, 2026For new or existing sites, we recommend using Kadence. ** ADD BLURB** Note: if you run into issues or have questions that aren't answered here (or in the linked tutorials), please use the support ticket page in the Feast Plugin. Make sure to ask specific questions about the specific issue you're having. Installing the Feast...
Modern Homepage Setup
Last Updated: March 20, 2026This 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, and your ability to customize the homepage to suit your personal style. We have some companion pages to help understand what explains how the Modern Homepage is...
Modern Menu for Desktop
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The Modern Menu is an enhancement to the classic theme menus, that incorporates inline display on the desktop version (screen/browsers over 1200px). You must complete the Modern Menu setup for this to function correctly. Note: on most food blogs, 80% of all pageviews happen on mobile, and so that menu needs to be designed for...
Modern Mobile Menu
Last Updated: March 20, 2026This 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 being major concerns, the Modern Mobile Menu is designed to be: The formatting and guidelines below have also been applied to the Inline...
Sidebar
Last Updated: March 20, 2026Feast's Modern Sidebar is built using the block editor, instead of widgets. 1. Enable the Feast Layouts Enable the Feast Layouts before proceeding. 2. Create the Modern Sidebar page Navigate Admin > Feast Plugin > Setup and scroll to Modern Sidebar to automatically create the page by clicking the button: 3. Content The sidebar should...
Modern 404
Last Updated: March 20, 2026You might also be interested in the Custom 404 page! The Modern 404 replaces your generic "not found" page with a page that's more useful to readers, encouraging them to click through to related posts. This is purely a user-experience upgrade and has no impact on SEO. Enable Simply head over to the Feast Plugin...
Modern Recipe Index
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The Modern Recipe Index is like a book index, showing the chapters (categories) of your site. It primarily uses the FSCI Block to display categories, with some room for displaying trending recipes and author information. The Modern Recipe Index: The goal of the Modern Homepage was to convert the most "important" page on your site...
Modern Categories
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The Modern Categories enables the category pages to be built with the block editor, letting you create high quality, user-friendly category pages, just like the homepage and recipe index. This allows: With the Feast Plugin, you can now add custom content just like you do with the homepage and recipe index. See it in action...
Modern Footer
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The Modern Footer replaces the theme footer, making it simpler to customize it using the block editor. Footer Themes Plugin Relies on outdated widgets ✔ x Requires creating complicated menus ✔ x Designed with accessibility in mind x ✔ Designed to be mobile-first x ✔ One-click setup x ✔ Easily customized in the block editor...