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Clone Recipes

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

Want to create a recipe similar to one you already have? No need to start from scratch! With the Premium plugin you’ll see a “Create new from existing Recipe” button you can use: After clicking, select an existing recipe and your new recipe will start with the same fields filled in as that one. Using...

Ingredient & Instruction Groups

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

Organise your ingredients and instructions in as many groups as you want using the Add Ingredient Group and Add Instruction Group buttons respectively.

Ingredient Singular and Plural

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

Go to the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Recipe Fields > Ingredients page and make sure the “Plural” column is enabled at the top. You can then click on the icon to set the plural version of an ingredient. While setting this, the “Merge” icon (second to the left) can be helpful to merge any...

Inline Ingredients

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

To put ingredients inside instruction steps, use the “Inline Ingredients” tab in the instructions section and simply click on the ingredient you want to add at the location of your cursor: When editing the “Recipe Instructions” block in the Template Editor, you will have a few different styling options to set for these inline ingredients...

Associating Ingredients with Instructions

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

To associate ingredients with instructions, use the “Associated Ingredients” tab in the instructions section: There are also a few layout options to play around with. You can find these by editing the “Recipe Instructions” block in the Template Editor: Alternatively, you can consider adding inline ingredients as well.

Instruction Videos

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

When editing a recipe you’ll be able to add an image or video to each instruction step using the icons next to that instruction: Videos can either be uploaded or embedded from various sources (like Youtube, Vimeo or your ad company). Both images and videos will be used in the recipe metadata as well. Defining...

Temperatures with Oven Symbols

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

When editing some of the rich text fields in a recipe (like the summary and instructions) you can find a temperature icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the modal. Click on it to add a temperature to your recipe: Once you’ve entered the value, click inside of it to change its options. You...

Recipe Video

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

In the Media section you’re able to upload or embed a video for the recipe. These videos will be added to the recipe metadata automatically. Embedding a Video For embedding you can just paste a link to the video for most popular video sites, use their embed code or optionally any WordPress shortcode they provide. Anything that...

Non-Food Recipes

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

By default WP Recipe Maker adds recipe metadata to all of its recipes. According to Google’s guidelines this is only allowed for food recipes, however. We also have metadata for how-to instructions, but not everything is covered by that either. If you want to use the plugin any of those other non-food and non-how-to recipes...