Plugin Settings
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Edit Body Font Size
Last Updated: March 21, 2026All modern themes from Feast (version 4.0.0+) come with 16px as the standard body font size, for reasons outlined in the font size for food blogs article. This was done to bring the themes more in-line with modern web standards, and to resolve "text too small" errors in Google Search Console. increases ad revenue by...
Subscribe button
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The 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 rethinking the newsletter post for further details. Examples Subscribe URL The subscribe button is hardcoded to point to a page with the slug...
Social Icons
Last Updated: March 21, 2026The Feast Social Icons is a replacement for the Simple Social Icons widget, fixing long-standing duplicate ID accessibility issues in the Simple Social Icons plugin and We opted to develop the social icons block internally instead of relying on the WordPress social icons block, because WordPress has a very nasty habit of updating and breaking...
Recipe Key
Last Updated: March 21, 2026The Recipe Key is back, in a total rewrite and bundled with the Feast Plugin for free! image It's designed to be used as a visual indicator or diets the post qualifies for, helping your readers more easily find recipes they're interested in. First: Set up your diet-types You'll need to set up your diet...
Post Template
Last Updated: March 29, 2026This is available exclusively through the Feast Plugin. Creating high quality content that demonstrates E-A-T, follows modern guidelines for headings is difficult, and can be very time consuming. Most recipes take a full day to shoot, edit and publish, with the writing taking up about 1/4 of that time on average. Make sure to customize your...
Table of Contents
Last Updated: March 21, 2026We use a custom built Table of Contents called the Advanced Jump To.
Post IDs
Last Updated: March 21, 2026You can use the FSRI block to manually select posts to display in the Modern Homepage and Modern Sidebar, to display specific posts. However, we've heard feedback that finding the post IDs and building a list can be tedious. The new Admin > Feast Plugin > Post IDs page makes it simple to create a...
Google Trusted Source
Last Updated: March 21, 2026The Google Trusted Source button allows users to tell Google to customize their search results to show your site higher for search terms you already rank for. This only re-arranges that specific users search results for queries that your site may show up for already. Button This button takes the user directly to Google's "Source...
Edit Leave a Reply
Last Updated: March 21, 2026The "Leave a Reply" text appears above the comment form. It uses very generic, direct language that may not resonate with all audiences, and may even be considered demanding and therefore daunting. This likely isn't a high impact change, but can be a tweak to help branding on your site by letting your personality shine...
Disable Trackbacks
Last Updated: March 21, 2026Trackbacks (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 > Settings > Discussion you can disable: Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the post Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on...
Modern Previous + Next
Last Updated: March 20, 2026The original "Related Posts" feature built into most themes was designed for a time when blogs were blogs - chronological lists of posts. But this is 2025, and blogs are dead. Modern content sites require proper site structure and content categorization. People search for specific topics, and expect your linked content to be related. The...
Posts per page
Last Updated: March 21, 2026This is a feature of the Feast Plugin The posts per page has been modified to be set by Feast. It's currently set to display 40 posts per page. Simply enable the setting in the Feast Plugin: We've turned this into something we manage (if enabled) because this is technical, and not something that the...
Breadcrumbs
Last Updated: March 20, 2026Breadcrumbs refer to the "breadcrumb trail" of links that you see at the top of a post: This helps: Breadcrumbs are critical to both UX and SEO and are considered a mandatory part of our setup. There is no reason to ever exclude this. However, there's so much more optimization that can be done beyond...
Productivity
Last Updated: March 20, 2026As part of the transition to the Feast Plugin, we've expanded the scope of what we cover to include: We try to focus on areas where there currently are no alternative solutions (eg. pre-existing, well-supported plugins). One of these is productivity. By removing unnecessary settings, minimizing configurations, and offering default best practices, we can reduce...
Smooth scrolling
Last Updated: March 20, 2026In the Feast Plugin 10.3.5, you can now enable a CSS-only smooth scroll affect site-wide which will also apply to the Advanced Jump To links: This is found under the "General" section of the Feast Plugin settings. It's important that this is a CSS-only solution which means that it: Whether you decide to turn this...
Image unlink
Last Updated: March 20, 2026You don't want to be linking images to themselves because: Fix Enable the Remove image self-links on posts setting in the Feast Plugin to automatically remove links to image files. Free To do this, use the Broken Link Checker plugin and let it index your links (this can take hours or days). Then navigate to...
Replace recipe card Jump To buttons
Last Updated: March 20, 2026This tutorial is specific to WP Recipe Maker and Tasty users. It will not work with other recipe card plugins. In Admin > Feast Plugin > Posts you'll find the ability to replace WP Recipe Maker "Jump To" snippets with one that uses basic WordPress button styles: The reason for this is simply to have...
BETA
Last Updated: March 20, 2026Ignore anything in the BETA section. These are live features that are still in development (buggy!) and may change before final release. Sign up for the newsletter to be notified when features are released.