This 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 template so that it doesn't look like everyone else!
Instead of relying on the recipe update checklist to update and improve posts after they've been written, how much time would you save from using a pre-formatted recipe template?
Introducing the Recipe Post Template, which creates a new post with key headings and sections all ready for you to fill out.
You'll find this on the Feast Plugin settings page, and the Recipe Update Checklist page.
Rather than coming up with the headings and formatting yourself each time from scratch, use the default template and add and remove content as needed to fit your recipe.
Use the Recipe Update Checklist for guidance on updating existing posts.
What's included
The actual content and format of the template will change over time, depending on best practices and feedback we get.
In general, it's formatted in "sections" that begin with a heading, followed by paragraphs and images.
This follows our guidelines for creating quality content, such as:
SEO
The post is formatted in a way that's optimized for search engines, with headings breaking up the different sections of content.
Imagine you're writing an outline
Similar to writing an outline for a large paper, put some thought into what the main points and sub-points of the content on the page will be and decide where to use heading tags appropriately.
This makes it simpler for search engines to understand the different sections of content and rank them appropriately.
It also encourages the use of lists where appropriate, and answers common questions that readers will run into when buying ingredients, preparing them, creating the recipe and storing them. This create more comprehensive topic coverage.
The Advanced Jump To is included by default, which can encourage in additional links in the search engines for high quality content.
Custom template
You should always create your own custom template that changes wording and language used in the template, removes irrelevant sections, or adds pieces that are unique to your site.
You must Publish it public for it to be live. Feast Layouts are not visible/indexable and will never been seen by users or Google.
Note: make sure the "Feast Layouts" option in the Feast Plugin has been enabled.
You can take your custom template even further with custom blocks available in Feast+, letting you highlight top tips, serving sizes, calls to action and more!
If you need to access our original template, you can unassign your custom "Post Template", or unpublish it, then click the Create Post Template From Scratch button to get the original template.
Duplicate instructions steps
You can duplicate the instruction steps block in order to add more steps:
- Select the columns block
- Click the 3 dots
- Click Duplicate
Multiple post templates
In the Feast Plugin 10.8.1.+, you can create as many post templates as you'd like:
Once assigned to the "Post Template" layout, they'll become available on the Feast Plugin settings page:
This isn't strictly limited to recipes - it can be used for restaurant reviews, travel, product reviews and more!
FAQ
No! Remove anything that doesn't belong, like cooking time for a salad, or storage instructions for one-mug brownies.
Yes! You can create your own Recipe Post Template in the Feast Layouts section.