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An overview of WP Recipe Maker
Last Updated: December 10, 2024Where do recipes exist in WPRM? After installing WP Recipe Maker you’ll see a new WP Recipe Maker section in the admin backend: The Manage page is where you can find an overview of all of the recipes you’ve created in WP Recipe Maker. A recipe in that list doesn’t necessarily show up on your website,...
Displaying recipes in a grid or index
Last Updated: December 10, 2024WP Recipe Maker does not include an index or grid feature. We do however integrate with one of our other plugins: WP Ultimate Post Grid. WPUPG is a grid plugin with a free and Premium version and a lot of options for filtering and displaying recipes. Any of the recipe taxonomies you’ve defined can be...
Template Editor
Last Updated: December 11, 2024How to open the Template Editor The Template Editor can be found in the menu, by going to WP Recipe Maker > Template Editor. Setting a Default Preview Recipe We highly recommend to set the “Default Preview Recipe”. This is the recipe used to preview in the template editor. You want this to be a...
Taxonomy Term Images
Last Updated: December 10, 2024Add images to any of the taxonomy terms and display them in your recipe template using a “Recipe Tag” block in the Template Editor. Demo Video In this example video we create a “Allergen” taxonomy and display it as images in the recipe template. Quick note: in the video I did not set an alt...
Share Buttons
Last Updated: December 10, 2024Using the Template Editor, different share buttons can be added to a recipe template. In this video I walk you through how to add a Facebook Share and Text Share button (mobile only) to a recipe template: Available Share Buttons Right now these share buttons can be added in the Template Editor: Need even more...
Adding a Grow.me Button
Last Updated: December 10, 2024Grow.me is a platform by Mediavine that allows visitors to save the recipes on your (and other) websites. Using the Template Editor you can add a Grow.me button to your WPRM recipe template as well. To get started, make sure you’ve signed up for Grow.me and have all necessary plugins/scripts loaded and enabled. We basically...
Nutrition Label
Last Updated: December 10, 2024While the free version already allows you to add calories to recipes, with WP Recipe Maker Premium you can add all the standard nutrition facts to your recipes: Even more fields can be enabled (or disabled) through the WP Recipe Maker > Manage > Your Custom Fields > Custom Nutrients page: Where do I get these values?...
Translation API
Last Updated: December 10, 2024When using the Nutrition Facts Calculation or Unit Conversion feature we integrate with the Spoonacular API to calculate the values for specific ingredients. For non-English sites this requires an extra translation step, as the API only recognizes English names for the ingredients. With the Nutrition Facts Calculation you can manually search for the English translation...
Recipe Collections
Last Updated: December 10, 2024Recipe Collections allow your visitors to save the recipes on your website in their own collections and then generate a shopping list for them. Can be used for collecting favorites, meal planning and much more! For visitors, the collections are automatically stored in their browser for later reuse. For logged in users they are saved...
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...