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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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What about WP Ultimate Recipe?

In 2013 we launched our first recipe plugin, WP Ultimate Recipe which was actually pretty popular, so it might seem confusing that we released another recipe plugin.

Why the new plugin?

A few structural choices we made early on caused WP Ultimate Recipe to be quite complex and not 100% compatible with all themes. With WP Recipe Maker we built the perfect recipe plugin from scratch, without all the baggage of years of development.

WP Recipe Maker was built from the ground up with all the things we learned from years of developing our other recipe plugin. We think the workflow is easier and the plugin should be more performant as well.

What’s the difference with WP Ultimate Recipe?

WP Recipe Maker has pretty much all the features our old plugin had and more!

Some features do exist in WP Recipe Maker but will not migrate over from WP Ultimate Recipe because they were built differently:

  • Meal Planner (now possible with Recipe Collections)
  • Favourite Recipes (now possible with Recipe Collections)
  • Templates built with the Template Editor (now a lot easier to use)
  • Automatic Unit Conversion (still available but needs to be set up per recipe)
  • Import/Export to XML (now uses a JSON format)
  • Recipe Index (possible to partly recreate with WP Ultimate Post Grid)

Taking note of these differences, we highly recommend you to switch to WP Recipe Maker for these reasons:

  • Better performance, faster page loads
  • More user friendly and overall easier to use
  • A lot less compatibility problems with other themes and plugins
  • Fully Gutenberg integrated
  • Even more features than WP Ultimate Recipe
  • It’s the plugin we’re focussing on for the future

Learn more about all the WP Recipe Maker features on its website.

How can I switch to WP Recipe Maker?

Migrating the recipes themselves is pretty much just the click of a button. Just make sure to set up an automatic redirect as shown in that documentation.

But I already paid for WP Ultimate Recipe Premium!

We offer a free Bundle of WP Recipe Maker and WP Ultimate Post Grid if you bought your WP Ultimate Recipe Premium license before June 13, 2019 and still have an active, yearly renewed license. It will be valid for the same period as your license is now.

Bought it after that date or haven’t renewed? We can still get you a discount for the new plugin.

Just contact us and ask.

The future of WP Ultimate Recipe

We stopped selling the Premium version of WP Ultimate Recipe in 2020, only allowing existing licenses to be renewed. This basically ensures you that you can move over to WP Recipe Maker Elite at any time.

The old WP Ultimate Recipe plugin does not get new features or improvements anymore so we HIGHLY recommend you moving over to WP Recipe Maker as soon as possible.

Updated on December 4, 2024
Migrating from Legacy to Modern mode
Table of Contents
  • Why the new plugin?
  • What's the difference with WP Ultimate Recipe?
  • How can I switch to WP Recipe Maker?
  • But I already paid for WP Ultimate Recipe Premium!
  • The future of WP Ultimate Recipe

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