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Getting Started

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  • WP Recipe Maker 101
  • Installing WP Recipe Maker
  • Activating your license key
  • Updating WP Recipe Maker
  • An overview of WP Recipe Maker
  • Creating a recipe
  • Editing a recipe
  • Filling in the Recipe Fields
  • Managing Recipes
  • Recipes and their Parent Post, Page or Custom Post Type

Video Tutorials

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  • An overview of WP Recipe Maker
  • Displaying recipes in a grid or index
  • Template Editor
  • Taxonomy Term Images
  • Share Buttons
  • Adding a Grow.me Button
  • Nutrition Label
  • Translation API
  • Recipe Collections
  • Add Recipe to collections through Link

SEO & Metadata

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  • Recipe Metadata for SEO
  • Metadata for Guided Recipes
  • Metadata for How-to Instructions
  • Recipe Metadata Checker
  • ItemList metadata for Recipe Roundup posts
  • ItemList Metadata for Archive Pages
  • Health Check
  • Pinterest Rich Pins

Template Editor

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  • Template Editor
  • Features
    • Mobile Friendly Templates
    • Recipe Snippets Template
    • Using a different template for a recipe
    • List Checkboxes
    • Recipe placeholders you can use
    • Using conditions in the recipe template
    • Adding text, HTML or 3rd party shortcodes
  • How-To
    • Changing template colors
    • Changing template fonts
    • Changing template labels
    • Changing recipe image size
    • Changing instruction image size and alignment
    • Changing ingredient and instruction list styles
    • Changing the star rating color
    • Changing the adjustable servings display mode
    • Changing the Unit Conversion style
    • Changing the nutrition label​ style
    • Adding a Call to Action
    • Adding the Recipe Pin button
    • Removing the Recipe Video
    • Using smooth scroll for the Jump to Recipe button
    • Removing the Print Recipe button from the snippet at the top of a post

Nutrition Facts

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  • Nutrition Label
  • Nutrition Facts Calculation
  • Custom Nutrition Ingredients
  • Custom and Calculated Nutrients
  • Translation API

Recipe Collections

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  • Recipe Collections
  • Using the Recipe Collections
  • Saved Recipe Collection
  • Quick Access Shopping List
  • Displaying the Recipe Collections feature
  • Features
    • Ingredient Groups for the Shopping List
    • Add to Recipe Collection button
    • Changing the Recipe Collections layout
    • Use custom recipes, ingredients and notes in your collections
    • Display nutrition facts per column for your collections
    • Add Collections through Link
    • Setting default collections for new users
    • Quick add pre-made collections
    • Starter Templates for Collections
    • Add Recipe to collections through Link
    • Show the Shopping List for a Saved Collection
    • Restricting access to the Recipe Collections feature
    • Viewing and editing Recipe Collections of your users
    • Altering the Recipe Collections search with WP Extended Search

Import & Export

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  • Importing recipes from other plugins
  • Custom Recipe Importer
  • Import recipe from text
  • Import Recipes from JSON
  • Export Recipes to JSON
  • JSON import and export for Taxonomy Terms
  • Import recipes from the Paprika Recipe Manager app
  • Importing from Plugins
    • Import from Tasty Recipes
    • Import from WP Delicious
    • Import from Create by Mediavine
    • Import from Recipe Card Blocks by WPZOOM
    • Import from WP Ultimate Recipe
    • Import from EasyRecipe
    • Import from Meal Planner Pro
    • Import from BigOven
    • Import from Ziplist
    • Import from Yummly
    • Import from Recipe Card
    • Import from FoodiePress
    • Import from Cooked
    • Import from Cookbook
    • Import from Simple Recipe Pro
    • Import from Purr Recipe Plugin
    • Import from Recipes by Simmer
    • Import from WordPress.com Shortcode
    • Import from Recipes Generator

Integrations

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  • Displaying recipes in a grid or index
  • Easy Affiliate Links Integration
  • How to use this for a multilingual blog
  • Clickable images for Lightbox integration
  • Google AMP Compatible
  • Google Analytics 4 Event Tracking
  • Link Amazon Products to Equipment
  • SmartWithFood Shoppable Recipes
  • Shop with Instacart Button
  • Shop with Walmart Button
  • Chicory In-Recipe Ads and Shoppable Button
  • Adding a Grow.me Button
  • Adding a Slickstream Favorites button
  • What theme do you recommend for WPRM?

WP Recipe Maker FAQ

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  • Translating text in the plugin
  • Automatic archive pages for taxonomy terms
  • Using fractions for ingredient amounts
  • Can I add more diet terms?
  • Setting your own YouTube Data API key
  • How to disable pinning for recipe images

Common Issues

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  • Recipes Don’t Have the Correct Parent Post
  • API Status
  • Google is sending me Recipe Metadata Warnings
  • Missing field “aggregateRating” in metadata
  • Prevent CLS issues
  • 403 Forbidden Error
  • Cloudflare Firewall Issues
  • Error message when saving a recipe
  • The recipe video is not displaying inside of the recipe card
  • Empty recipe after saving

WPRM for Developers

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  • The Recipe Post Type
  • Recipe Shortcodes
  • Access recipes in a post via code
  • Show default WordPress UI for taxonomies
  • Using the Recipe Object for front-end changes
  • Plugin hooks and filters
  • WordPress REST API
  • Custom Recipe Importer
  • How themes can style WP Recipe Maker
  • Create your own template
  • Adding your own SVG icons for the Template Editor

Announcements

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  • WP Recipe Maker Changelog
  • Version 9.4.1 – About those recipe ratings
  • Version 5.6.0 – Some highly anticipated features!
  • Version 5.3.0 – All about the Nutrients
  • Version 5.2.0 – How-to recipes and more!
  • Version 5.0.0 – Introducing a new User Interface
  • Version 4.0.4 – Changing the look of the Cutout template
  • Migrating from Legacy to Modern mode
  • What about WP Ultimate Recipe?

Debugging Plugin Issues

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  • Debugging plugin problems
  • The downloaded plugin is not a zip archive
  • Flushing permalinks to fix 404 errors
  • Creating a Temporary Login
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Recipe Metadata for SEO

See the Recipe Metadata for SEO in action

WP Recipe Maker automatically includes all your recipe details in the recipe metadata. We use JSON-LD metadata, which is the format that Google recommends. This allows you to show up as rich snippets & rich cards in Google’s search results.

No need to worry about this metadata either. Everything is added automatically behind the scenes when you write your recipes. It is also possible to mark recipes as non-food to not output any metadata at all.

How can I test my recipe metadata?

Use Google’s Rich Results Test to test a page on your website that has a recipe on it. When using the tool you’ll see something like this:

Our plugin only handles the recipe portion of this. Your theme and SEO plugins like Yoast are responsible for the rest (and also very important!). Also note the difference between “Recipes” and “Guided Recipes”. The “Recipes” metadata is responsible for your rich snippets in the search results. We also provide metadata for guided recipes but it’s probably not as important for your site.

You’ll want to make sure there are definitely no errors in there. Warnings don’t necessarily have to be a problem. Those are fields that Google recommends you to add, but might not make sense for all recipes (like a recipe video, for example).

Another thing to look out for is that there is only 1 recipe item on the page. In the screenshot above it says “1 item” at the end, so that’s what you’re looking for.

You should not have multiple recipe markups if you only have 1 recipe box on the page. If you do, make sure you don’t have any other recipe or metadata plugins active.

If you have multiple recipe boxes on a page you might want to consider marking some as being  Non-Food recipes to not output their metadata and have only 1 recipe to focus on for Google. Another option is to use the setting on the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Metadata page to only output metadata for the first recipe box on the page.

Using suitableForDiet Metadata

WP Recipe Maker has an integration for the https://schema.org/suitableForDiet metadata to specify what diets your recipes are suitable for. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled on the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Metadata page.

There is a fixed list of valid options for suitableForDiet Metadata so you can only pick from this list. The labels on how they actually get displayed on your website can be changed on the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Recipe Fields > Diets page, however.

Updated on December 3, 2024
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