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Translating text in the plugin

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

The text in the plugin follows WordPress standards for making them translation-ready. We recommend using the Loco Translate plugin to translate any text in the plugin. Take note that there are 2 domains a particular string of text could be part of: Loco Translate can be used to translated both of these. Alternative for text...

Automatic archive pages for taxonomy terms

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

For regular categories, WordPress automatically generates archive pages, meaning that you can go to https://demo.wprecipemaker.com/category/recipes/ to see a list of all the posts in that particular category. By default, the recipe taxonomies do not have those archive pages but they can be enabled on the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Your Custom Fields > Recipe...

Using fractions for ingredient amounts

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

Prefer using fractions to decimals in your ingredient amounts? That’s not a problem! WP Recipe Maker will recognize these as well and also allows you to use fraction symbols. Think ¼ instead of 1/4. Using fraction symbols like ¼ is better for accessibility, so it’s what we recommend. Manually inserting fraction symbols When you’re editing the ingredient amounts...

Can I add more diet terms?

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

The default “Diet” taxonomy is a special one that’s directly related to the schema.org suitableForDiet metadata. This is a fixed list of diets that can be found here. Since these are the only diets that are allowed for this metadata field, it’s not possible to add others. You should also not be renaming diets that...

Setting your own YouTube Data API key

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

To retrieve the YouTube video metadata our plugin makes use of the YouTube Data API. We have a our own API key that’s shared between all of our users, but it’s also possible to set your own personal key instead. Our shared key might hit the daily limit, preventing the YouTube video metadata from showing...

How to disable pinning for recipe images

Last Updated: December 5, 2024

Don’t want your visitors pinning the recipe and/or instruction images because you have an optimised Pinterest image you want them pinning instead? Go to the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Social Sharing page where you can disable the pinning of images inside the recipe template: Maybe use the pin custom image feature to have your visitors...