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Ingredient Groups for the Shopping List
Last Updated: December 4, 2024The shopping list can group ingredients by different groups that you can assign yourself: To change these groups, go to the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Recipe Fields > Ingredients page and make sure the Shopping List Group column is enabled. The group can then be changed using the edit icon or the Bulk Edit feature.
Add to Recipe Collection button
Last Updated: December 5, 2024The “Add to Recipe Collection” button can be added to your recipe template to allow people to save recipes in their recipe collections. Once saved, the button changes to a link to that recipe collections page to easily take your visitors there. How to add the button Before the button can show up you have...
Changing the Recipe Collections layout
Last Updated: December 11, 2024Use the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Collections > Appearance page to make changes to the Recipe Collections layout. Recipe Collections Layout Style The first setting you’ll find is the “Layout Style”. We highly recommend using the “Grid” layout, which is the default layout for the collections feature as of WP Recipe Maker...
Use custom recipes, ingredients and notes in your collections
Last Updated: December 4, 2024You’re not restricted to using the recipes on your website in your collection. On the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Collections page you can choose what other items can be added by your visitors: After clicking on “Add Item” when editing a collection you’ll see the other options: Adding Ingredients If you enable the “Allow...
Display nutrition facts per column for your collections
Last Updated: December 4, 2024On the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Collections page you can enable the option for visitors to view the nutrition facts for all recipes added up per column. These will be the values per serving. You can also choose which nutrients get displayed there.
Add Collections through Link
Last Updated: December 4, 2024To simplify the workflow for your users, every single Saved Recipe Collection has its own “Save Link” that, when followed, will automatically add that saved collection to that user’s own collections. These save links can be found on the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Features > Saved Collections page. In this video you can see...
Setting default collections for new users
Last Updated: December 4, 2024By default, new users will start out with an empty collection, containing only the “Inbox” (whose name can be changed through the settings). An empty slate can be overwhelming, so it might be a good idea to start them out with a few example saved recipe collections. You could create an empty saved collection that...
Quick add pre-made collections
Last Updated: December 4, 2024You can set any saved collection to “Quick Add” on the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Features > Saved Collections page: Once you do that, it will become available to easily add to a user’s own collections: This optional feature can make it easy for users to add your latest meal plans, for example.
Starter Templates for Collections
Last Updated: December 4, 2024Starting out with a completely blank collection can be overwhelming for those not used to the collections feature. “Starter Templates” can be offered to start a new collection from: You have full control over which starter templates are offered, as these are regular saved collections that can be created on the WP Recipe Maker >...
Add Recipe to collections through Link
Last Updated: December 10, 2024Instead of users adding recipes themselves it’s possible to use a link to save a particular recipe to their collections inbox. This can be useful for links in a newsletter or cookbook, for example. To do that, go to the page that includes your collections shortcode and append ?add=123 at the end, with 123 the...
Show the Shopping List for a Saved Collection
Last Updated: December 4, 2024The display the shopping list of any Saved Recipe Collection (instead of displaying the full collection), create a regular WordPress post or page to add the shopping list block/shortcode to. Once you’ve create a saved collection you can display its shopping list by adding the [wprm-shopping-list id=123] shortcode to any page or post on your website....
Restricting access to the Recipe Collections feature
Last Updated: December 4, 2024On the WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Collections page you can restrict access to this feature to logged in users only and set a message to show to regular visitors instead: We use the default WordPress user system for this. Because of that you can use any of the numerous front-end login and...
Viewing and editing Recipe Collections of your users
Last Updated: December 4, 2024Want to know if and how your users are using the recipe collections feature? Go to the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Features > User Collections page to get an overview of all of the users on your site and their usage of the feature. You can find an overview of the number of collections...
Altering the Recipe Collections search with WP Extended Search
Last Updated: December 4, 2024When searching for a recipe in the Recipe Collections feature it uses the default WordPress search functionality, which searches the title and recipe summary, but not any of the other fields. If you want to have more options (like searching ingredients and instructions) you could use the WP Extended Search plugin to set this up....