Recipe Blogger Theme

Top Bar/Before Header Widgets

This document last updated on: May 4, 2020

The Recipe Blogger Theme includes one widget area before Header call Top Bar Before Header

We set subscribe bar here but here we can set any simple text with text widget too and call to action button

Genesis – eNews Extended

Settings for Genesis eNews Extended

Title: Subscribe
Before Text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
Form Action: #(please set correct action as per your email marketing tool)
First Name Field: fname
Email Field: Email
First Name Text: ‘First Name’
Email Text: ‘Email’
Button Text: ‘SIGN ME UP!’

Additional Resources

This document last updated on: September 18, 2020

Useful resources that you may find helpful in your blogging journey!

Recipe Blog Plugins

Genesis Framework: Required for our child theme to be installed.
Tasty Recipes Plugin: A powerful recipe plugin for WordPress blogs
Tasty Pins Plugin: Optimize your images for SEO and Pinterest
Tasty Links Plugin: Autolink keywords to maximize affiliate revenue
FacetWP: Advanced filtering for WordPress categories (example: Clean Cuisine Recipe Index)
WP Recipe Maker Plugin: Recipe card plugin
Gravity Forms: The easiest, most trusted tool to create advanced forms for your WordPress-powered website.

Domains & Hosting

NameCheap Domains: Domain name registration
BigScoots Hosting: Managed WordPress hosting
WPEngine: Managed WordPress hosting
SiteGround: Managed WordPress hosting

Images & Fonts

Unsplash: The internet’s source of freely-usable images.
Google Fonts: Website-friendly fonts (As of 2019, we don’t recommend using custom/imported fonts due to the fact that it slows down pagespeed loading times.)

Marketing

Smashballoon Plugin: World’s Leading Social Media Feed Plugins for WordPress
Flodesk: Beginners and experts use Flodesk to create campaigns that grow their business.
Mailchimp: Email templates, RSS campaigns and email management

Backup

UpdraftPlus

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Demo Posts Install

This document last updated on: October 26, 2020

When WordPress is not fresh install, demo posts not going to import during one click theme setup.

To import demo posts manually

#1. Admin > Tools > Import > WordPress > Install Now

#2. Unzip Theme Files

Theme Files include demo posts and widgets files that can be found under “demo” folder.

#3. Run Importer

Import coachingplus-posts.xml/recipeblogger-posts.xml depends on theme you installed.

#4. Upload file and import

Assign Author to existing author or import author
Import Attachments so all posts images also get imported. check “Download and import file attachments“
Submit

After import, screen will show “All done” message

NOTE: Sometime Featured images not set on import because its how wordpress import work so that may be you need to set manually otherwise import works great.