Update!
I now have a Foodie Pro Review and Master Setup Guide available. This page was designed for the original Foodie and the comments will be helpful, but the new tutorials are specific to Foodie Pro.
Foodie
A Food Blog Child Theme built for Genesis
What I Really Think of the Foodie Theme
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Here’s the thing: I’ve wanted an excellent WordPress food blog theme for years. Despite keeping watch for new themes that promised to be ideal for food blogs, I hadn’t seen anything worthwhile.
In the meantime, I’ve grown increasingly impressed with Genesis and know it’s the best framework for our current site. But I knew if a theme added food blog functionality on top of the Genesis framework, it would be a match made in internet blobbing heaven. (Yes, blobbing.)
The most important feature I’ve hoped to see in a theme is a great looking recipe page that could be automatically populated. Home page functionality would be a bonus, but a sleek and functional recipe page has always been the “must have” for a food blog theme.
The fact that the Foodie theme has all of these things and is simple makes it a home run. No questions asked.
I can’t even tell you how impressed I am with this theme, but I’ll try.
Features Worth Highlighting:
3 Color Options
Featured Images Options
Mobile Responsiveness
Custom Header Capability
Super snazzy Recipe Page
Custom Home Page / Featured Images
Foodie is sexy, lean, and simple. Even better, Shay Bocks – the designer – is the real deal.
If the Foodie theme looks close to what you want for your food blog (or you just aren’t sure what to do with your food blog design in general), I can’t recommend it enough.
In this review I’ve included five video/visual tutorials to help you set your foodie theme up. My goal here is to help you get your site set up quickly so you can spend more time making amazing content.
How to Install your Theme and Use Genesis and Foodie
How to Install The Foodie Plugins and Use Widgets
Plugins to Install:
Genesis Featured Widget Amplified *
(Update! In FoodiePro, the built-in widget titled“Foodie Pro – Featured Posts.” replaces this widget)
Pinterest Pin It Button for Images
How to Install A Custom Logo
How To Set Up the Home Page
I mentioned this in the video, but play around with the thumbnail size and options for showing content excerpts. Although I show you how I preferred to set these options, you might find your style could be better displayed using one of the other options.
My video actually shows the use of the 450×450 and no content option, but the Foodie demo uses the horizontal-thumbnail (680×453) and shows excerpt options.
Here are the settings used in the above tutorial:
How to Set Up the Recipe Page
Here are the settings used in the above tutorial:
How Much Can I Customize This Theme?
I always suggest trying to find a theme that is as close as possible to what you want for your site. Although it is usually possible to add the functionality you hope to see, the more you have to change, the more time it will take (or the more it will cost to hire someone else to do it for you).
I love recommending Genesis, because your purchase includes two guides tailored to your theme for ease of use: 1) A Genesis Beginner’s Guide, and 2) Specific Child Theme Documentation. Additionally, there are lots of free Genesis plugins available, which can many times give you the functionality you want without diving into the code.
Adding functionality to your site can usually be done through the theme settings and plugins. When you start wanting to make styling changes, you’re probably going to have to get into the code a bit. For example, font colors, background colors, display, etc. usually require altering the code.
Some changes are easier than others, but here are a few examples:
1. Changing the font color will require altering the code, but is relatively easy (reference the Studiopress forum).
2. Changing the way the menu displays will require altering the code. I’d say this is moderately difficult, but depends on how much you want to change.
3. Creating a custom page template is not for the faint of heart. Although this is a relatively difficult task, you can usually find tutorials by other designers that at least point in you the right direction.
Other Foodie Resources
Here are two great resources for finding more tutorials and help with this theme:
1. My Studiopress (Beginner’s Guide, Theme Settings, Code Snippets, and Forum)
2. Shay Bocks, the Foodie designer, has created a set of tutorials and faqs. You can find them here.
Final Notes
If Foodie isn’t your flavor, check out my other guide on Food Blog WordPress Themes.
Ultimately, as I always say, your focus should be on creating content. However, for a new or growing food blogger, I can’t think of a better framework for your site.
Just in case there is any confusion, to use these services, you will need to be on a self-hosted WordPress Site. I recommend Bluehost as the best option.
From there, you’ll need to purchase Genesis and Foodie (can be done in a single transaction here: Foodie Theme).
Party on my friends.
Update!
I now have a Foodie Pro Review and Master Setup Guide available. This page was designed for the original Foodie and the comments will be helpful, but the new tutorials are specific to Foodie Pro.
The original Foodie theme is no longer available and has been replaced by Foodie Pro. Here’s my detailed review – Foodie Pro Review.
I’ve turned comments off here as you’ll find more specific help on my new tutorials.
My new tutorials and comments can be found on the Foodie Pro Master Setup Guide.
Hi! I have installed the foodie pro theme on my blog today, I was just wondering how to get the set of links in the sidebar to facebook, instagram etc? is it a widget? it is not showing up at the moment.
Thankyou, and thankyou for these tutorials!!
Check out the Foodie Pro Master Setup Guide!
Hi John. Thanks for these incredibly helpful tutorials! Couple quick questions for my site thelocaldish.com
Do you know of a video gallery plugin that is compatible with this theme?
My site taxonomy isn’t recipe related so I’m having problems with the Foodie Pro Featured post widget., as it pulls my general content. Do you know if Genesis Feature Widget Amplified would work instead for the recipe page in the theme?
Even though I have the Genesis Feature Widget Amplified plugin installed, it’s not showing up as a choice in Appearance:Widgets.
Thanks!
Barb
I don’t really have much experience with video gallery plugins. I’ve typically just used the embed tag and let WordPress handle the rest. I’m sure something in the WordPress Plugin Directory could probably do the trick though.
The Genesis Featured Widget Amplified doesn’t work with Foodie Pro, as Foodie Pro utilizes the “Foodie Pro – Featured Posts” widget, which is built into the theme. You can find more details on setting that up on my Customization Guide.
Hi! Thanks for the tutorial! I tried to install as directed, but when I go to Appearance and then Themes there is not option to add new. Any advice here?
Thanks!
The “Add New” button has changed a bit, but you can see a current example on the installation video for my Foodie Pro tutorials.
If that wasn’t the issue, this sounds like a permissions problem and you’re best solution is contacting your host.
John, I have been making my way through the WordPress master course. I am still developing my blog. I am wondering if you or perhaps someone you are familiar with offers any consulting services for food blogs. Once I complete this process I would love to have someone go through my site, my various Google tools, coding issues, etc. to make sure that I have covered all of my bases before I launch my site.
Thanks again for the master course, it has been very helpful. I highly recommend it!
Aww, great to hear! Sadly, I can’t take on freelance work. However, you can usually find a couple designers specific to the theme you are using that might be of help.
Your tutorials have helped me so much with the Foodie theme! Do you happen to know what line of CSS to add in order to remove the underline style on the links? I’ve looked everywhere online and can’t seem to find anything helpful.
If you want to remove underline links from all links on your site, you can find the following code:
a {
color: #010101;
text-decoration: underline;
}
And change text-decoration to none, so it looks like this:
a {
color: #010101;
text-decoration: none;
}
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. That did the trick!
Hi John!
Thanks so much for your tutorials. I think I have watched all of them at least once by now! One question for you, I am having trouble with the loading of my logo in the header. It’s correct size but when I go to upload it, only a portion of it shows. Not sure why this is happening, could be something very simple! Anyway, thanks for your help!
The “Upload A Custom Retina-Ready Logo” video and instructions on this tutorial page should hopefully help here. I’m guessing WordPress is resizing your image for one reason or another.
Hi! First let me just say that your tutorials of foodie pro literally saved my tush! Thank YOUUUU. I have a question. I set up my site and wanted to share on my facebook but when I share, it pulls a random picture from the site. Whether I am trying to share a page or a post, it’s very random what pic it pulls. How can I change this? Thank you so much for your time!
That’s something that’s a bit beyond the scope of these tutorials and there are lots of variations of ways to do this.
However, there are lots of other tutorials available that help you choose specific images and text to show up in facebook posts. Facebook has an article on this topic as well, which can be found here – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/checklist
Awesome tutorial! Really helped to personalize my menu!! :) Thanks so much!! I also used the other tutorials when setting up my Foodie site at first too!! If you are looking for suggestions for NEW tutorials I would LOVE love love to know how to personalize my header further – aka how can I make it bigger and/or how can I position it to the left? Thanks so much!!
Excellent! Thanks for the idea Ceara!
Hey!
Can you please tell me if I can have a static page on the home page? No blog at all?
Thanks :)
Yes! You can set this under Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays
I recently upgraded our site to dedicated WordPress hosting and Foodie Pro. Am now experiencing database errors like this:
[thelunac_wrdp1.wp_posts] error: Key in wrong position at page 3214336
[thelunac_wrdp1.wp_posts] error: Corrupt
Bluehost says “It looks like your post table crashed again. Unfortunately the storage engine that you are using does not support repairs. The most common cause of this is either a bad plugin, or sometimes a bad theme. Please try disabling your plugins, and then changing your theme. ”
Have you encountered any issues with Foodie Pro or conflicts with plugins and Foodie Pro?
Thanks …
I’ve used a lot of different plugins with this theme and never had that issue. I’d guess it’s one of the 3rd part plugins you installed or simply a broken table within your database. Bluehost should be able to help getting you fixed.
Hey!
Your tutorials are amazing! I find these really useful when setting up my home page. There are still some questions I couldn’t find answers to.
1. How to remove the underlines for all the links on the blog? Every tag and link is underlines and it doesn’t look good..
2. How do I remove the dotted lines on recipe bottom widgeted area? You can see how it looks atm here: http://www.paljasporgand.ee/retseptid/
Thanks!
Looks like you might’ve already figured it out! Both should be possible with a little CSS. Let me know if you still have those things showing up.
With this theme, can you add header photos to each post?
If what you’re asking to do is place a photo at the top of every post, that should be possible with almost any WordPress theme. If you’re looking to add a featured image to each post and have it show up at the top of your post, it is possible and this comment should help.
If I missed your question or you were thinking about something else, please let me know!
Hey! This is helpful… where in function.php do I add the code?
The favicon video at the end shows you how to access your functions.php file and add code to it. It’s the same process, just a different snippet.
Thanks so much for your help! So, I went to add the code into the function.php and got this error message… now I can’t even log into my dashboard. Can you help?
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<' in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas05_data01/04/2417404/html/wp-content/themes/foodiepro/functions.php on line 192
You probably placed the code in too early or used an
If you took a backup, simply revert back to that.
You can access your functions.php file from an ftp client (you’ll have to set this up with your host if you haven’t already). It is located in yoursite -> wp-content -> themes -> foodiepro -> functions.php.
If you haven’t made other changes to that file, you can simply reupload a new one from the foodie zip file you received with your download (it’s located in the same spot if you unzip that file).
Otherwise, simply remove that snippet of code and save!
Is there a way of displaying a primary menu above the headed/banner in Foodie Pro child theme?
I need both primary (above the header) and secondary (below the header). I checked the current settings and can’t see why both menus are displayed together below the header with the primary menu just above the secondary one.
Thank you
Add this code to your functions.php file (reference the favicon video if you need help finding how to do that):
//* Reposition the primary navigation menu above the headerremove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
Hi John,
Thank you for your prompt reply. Something must have gone wrong when I added the code to functions.php file because I couldn’t even log in to WP after adding the code…
That sounds more like the code was accidentally placed inside another snippet or has an extra quote or something similar. I tried the same code (all the way at the bottom of my functions.php) and had it working.
Hi John,
Thanks for the great content and tutorials!
I’d like to start a Multilingual food blog, where I would write in my native language as well as in English.
Does the Genesis Foodie Pro theme support that, and if so, do I need to know something before I set it up?
Thanks,
Moran
Multilingual support is really a WordPress issue, but it’s wise to make sure your theme is compatible as well.
By default, you shouldn’t find a problem here. If you’re looking to use translator or multilingual support plugin, I know WPML works with Genesis.
I would be surprised to find one didn’t work out, but I also don’t have personal experience in this area.
Hope that helps!
These tutorials are awesome! Thank you so much! I am BRAND NEW to food blogging but this has been instrumental. One question I have – is there a quick tutorial for adding an email subscription to the footer in foodie pro? I may be totally missing it because that seems like an easy question. HA!
Yes, I even have a specific video tutorial on it for the Foodie Pro customization guide. Hope that helps!
Hey John,
I was just wondering, how did you go about placing the two long banners (in-house ads / ads) next to each other? Did you use a Split Column widget or something along those lines? That’s a great way to save space!
Stace
It’s really just a little bit of custom css I used inside a text widget.
If you add in your sidebar width (probably 300px), something like this should do the trick (if you want to forgo editing the stylesheet).
<div style="margin: auto; width: WIDTH OF SIDEBAR"><div style="float: left; width: WIDTH OF AD1; margin-left: 1%; margin-right: 1%;">AD 1</div><div style="float: left; width: WIDTH OF AD2; margin-right: 1%;">AD 2</div>
</div>
John, this is beautiful! I’m looking to refresh my food blog/website. I’m self hosted and the design was created for me but I really need something a bit more traditional to accommodate ads and affiliate links. Does Foodie Pro work with a self hosted wordpress site?
Hi Karista! Yes, it’s actually required to be on a self-hosted site. I have some more details on my newest Foodie Pro customization guide as well. Hope that helps!
This is wonderful information! Thank you so much. I am looking to update my blog and this is the info I need and will go through your site to get the Foodie theme. Do you know if I am able to embed videos into my blog posts on this theme? If so, is that easy to do also?
Thanks!
Jessica
Hey Jessica!
Yes, assuming you’re using a well-known video host (like youtube or vimeo).
To embed, you can simply paste the url in your post and WordPress will automatically embed it for you. Or you can use the shortcode [embed][/embed] to control the width and height.
Hope that helps!
Hi there, I recently started blogging and am using a free wordpress theme right now. I’m using Recipage for my recipes right now… do you have to use the recipe function in the foodie theme or could I continue to use recipage? Also, wondering if you have any tips for transferring over to a new theme to avoid downtime/disruption to the site?
Hi Jessica!
Not sure about recipage, but assuming it operates separately from your theme, you should be able to still use it.
In terms of downtime, the theme can switch instantly and you won’t experience any downtime.
However, if you were wanting to have all the styling and coding done before you activate the theme, you could configure the theme on another WordPress installation and then export all the settings. That way you could install the theme on your current site and upload your settings. There are specific functions for this in WordPress and Genesis.
However, to keep the foodie settings, you might have to get into your database and pull the proper records. Or, you could just manually copy over the changes you made, etc.
This whole tutorial is amazing!! You explain it very well and all it’s functions! I am so glad that I went with this theme. :) You guys rock!
Thanks Amy! I actually just published even more tutorials here if it helps!
Hey John Shultz . Thanks for the tutorial and highlighting the features of Foodie theme. All i can say its a genuine review. Well i was seeking for a food template for my sis new food blog and now making my mind to buy it from your blog referral url.
~ Nitin Mohan
Thank you for this information John.
Now I wonder, how do I remove the lines around the menu? and how do I create the recipe page as you’ve done?
Hi Ellinor
The lines are coded in the CSS, so you’ll have to look there to remove them. I think if you add the following code to your CSS page, (appearance -> editor), it should remove them:
.genesis-nav-menu {
border: none;
}
The recipe page should be setup similar to the tutorial above, but using the Foodie Pro – Featured Posts widget.
Hi,
I love this theme. But my wordpress page, is hosted by GatorHost, can I still use this theme?
Hi Helena!
I think so, but the best way to know for sure is to check by going to Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
If you can upload a theme there, then this theme should work!
I just found out about your site which is so clean and beautiful. i’m another food blogger
I’m using the High End Theme in wordpress for the last 6 months and now I’m ready to switch to Genesis and Food Pro theme. I bought them, and I’m in the process of getting ready to apply this new theme to my web site. I watched your wonderful videos again and again. I don’t see two things in the Genesis theme.
I’m using version: 2.1.2
I don’t see the COLOR STYLE and I don’t see SEO setting under Genesis menu. Can you let wher I can find them?
Thanks
Rachida
Hi Rachida!
The color customization switched with the new FoodiePro (great catch!).
The color style can be set by going to Appearance -> Customize
For the SEO section, it should be found by clicking “Genesis” and then “SEO Settings”
Thanks John for your fast response. I will definitely consider follow your suggestions.
Thanks again,
Rachida
Hello John,
Thanks for this page. I live on your site while I am trying to figure all of this out. I have the foodie pro.
1. Do you have an eta for the foodie pro tutorials?
2. Do you know if it is possible to have pagination with numbers on the new foodie even if we use the genesis sandbox instead of the amplified widget or featured post widget?
Thanks for all that you are doing.
Hi Eve!
Working on a huge set of tutorials, but it’s taking longer than expected. I’m aiming to have them out within the week.
I’m not really sure about using sandbox. Are you looking to add pagination on the home page or the recipe page?
Thanks for the response John,
Yes. I was able to add number pagination to the home page/front page by adding and using the genesis sandbox widget instead of using the featured post widget provided. I ended up putting in the number of posts that I had in the front page within the widget and also in the Genesis theme settings, and the reading settings as well. Make sure all three match to the number of posts in the front page. Click on pagination within the widget and voila it works. I hope this helps anyone else that wants to do the same. I will try to write a tutorial if you don’t do a tutorial on this after I launch my site.
I am still awaiting your tutorials though. They make everything seem easier. I will patiently wait.
Thanks,
Eve
Hey Eve! Thanks for the tips and idea.
I did get a new set of tutorials published here!
I am very new to blogging, I am trying to set up my blog but am having so much trouble, I purchased foodie after seeing how beautiful your page is but I am still having such trouble with even the basics (like how do I align text, set up my page, and where the heck is my menu?!) do you think you could help me out?
Hi Nicole,
Some of these things are just figuring out how to use WordPress. If you’re still struggling, check out the very extensive WordPress lessons page – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons
Also, there are lots of youtube videos and tutorials available online with a quick search.
Hope that helps!
Hi John,
Thanks again for the awesome tutorials. You have saved me!
I purchased the Foodie theme and have been following your tutorials to get my blog ready to be switched over from my current theme to the Foodie theme. However, I just saw that I could upgrade and download the Foodie Pro theme for free. Can I easily switch to the Foodie Pro without having to re-do everything I’ve already done using the Foodie theme (i.e, recipe pages, home page, header/logo, etc.)?
Hi Jodi!
Yes, you should be able to switch over without running into much trouble. Some of the widgets (Genesis Featured Amplified, for example) will have to be replaced with in-theme widgets, but other parts should stay as-is. You will probably have to redo the home page and recipe page, but your logo should still work.
If you have a way to backup your site, I’d definitely recommend do that first. That way the worst case is you revert to your current setup.
Also, it should be possible to upload the new foodie theme into your theme page. If it’s too much work or isn’t working out for you, you should be able to reactivate your original Foodie theme.
Let me know how this goes if you give it a try. I’d love to learn more about that transition.
Hi! This is such a wonderful review and resource! I absolutely LOVE Foodie Pro too and am so happy with what I’ve been able to get it to do; however, I’ve been searching for a way to move my search bar up to the very top right of the page, have you seen this, have any ideas about how to do this? I’ve tried adding it to the Top Ad widget area, but then the search bar stretches all the way across the page (and looks silly, haha!).
Thank you!!
Hi Kristine!
The best way I can think to do this would be either add some CSS to control the header area you used (making it not stretch across your screen) or adding a new widget area entirely. The problem with creating a new one will be having it not conflict with your current widget area.
You should be able to find a few tutorials for searching for “genesis header right widget.”
Alternatively, you could look into adding a search bar in the nav menu. It might be a bit easier to figure out if that’s something that works for you.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help! This isn’t something I’ve tested yet, but it’s a great idea!
Hi John!
Thank you so much for your response, I actually hadn’t thought about adding the search bar the primary navigation…brilliant! That was so much easier and only took a few minutes.
Thanks again!!
Hi John! First, a big thank you for all of the amazing tutorials you’ve put together! They’ve been such an incredible resource. I have a question about my featured images. They all seem to be really grainy and fuzzy. Is there some setting that I am overlooking or do I need to create specific featured images that will display properly? If the latter, how would that work once they change from the main featured post size to the smaller thumbnail sizes? I really hope I’m making sense. ;) Thanks a bunch, John!
Hi Sarah!
Glad they’ve been such a help. If your featured images are fuzzy, my guess is that your featured images aren’t large enough. If you upload a bigger image, does the grain go away? I’d aim for having the width being at least 680px if possible.
My other guess would be that you have photos uploaded before you installed the Foodie theme. Although that’s fine, it might mean that your images don’t have the right sizes to work within Foodie perfectly. The theme is possibly making do with what it has, but can probably be fixed by simply reuploading the photo you were using.
I’m guessing it’s the first issue, but it could also be something else. Let me know if this takes care of your problem!
Hi, I just started a blog and brought foodie. I’m not very technical minded so I hope this question doesn’t sound too dumb. When I load images to the blog, the home page image seems fine but when I click on the post, the images seem really big and the two test ones I did, the images were different sizes. Is there a way that the images stay the same size no matter what the original size uploaded was. Or do I ensure that the image I upload is always the same size. If that is the case, what is the best size for images?
Thanks in advance
Hi Tam!
The best bet is to resize your images before uploading. The ideal post image size is to have images at 680px wide.
Images that are too big should size down, but it’s not always guaranteed.
Does that help with your images?
Hey there! Thank you so much for all the blogger resources you are magnanimous :)
You recommended mail chimp and I went with it. I am all set up and now and I find out that my mailing address (my personal since this is a food blog not a company) has to be public. Is there a quick fix to this other than getting a p.o.box? or what is the next best thing after mail chimp? Thanks again!
Hi Luma!
Yeah, getting a PO Box is about the best option if you’d like to use mailchimp and hide your address. All email newsletter services will require this footer.
If you don’t want to use mailchimp and just want to send an automatic email with new post updates, you could use feedburner’s email service. Since the email comes from feedburner, I don’t think they require your address.
Hope that helps!
John, thanks for a great set of tutorials. I follow you and Dana, albeit quietly, and was so pleased to have found your review and walk-through’s of Foodie Pro. Between your tutorials and StudioPress support I got my Foodie Pro theme up and running in less than a few hours.
My mind was blown when I saw the Recipe Page video – to quote Joy the Baker this theme is “Bonkers Awesome”.
Hi John,
Thank you so much for your tutorials. I am switching to the Foodie theme and couldn’t do it without your tutorials.
I have a question about the recipe page. When you click recipes and it pulls up the thumbnails and recipe title of the first 5, 6, 7, etc. recipes and then it has the “more” button, is it possible to click the “more button” and have it just display all recipes in that category with the thumbmnail/recipe title rather than pull up the full post for each recipe. Does that even make sense?
Thanks for your help.
Jodi
Hi Jodi!
I think I understand. In short the way FoodiePro handles this is to have you change your settings under Appearance -> Customize -> Content Archives.
You can choose which grid you’d like to use (how many columns of images there are), to display a featured image (what you’re looking for) and the title only.
Tinkering with that menu should help, but let me know if you still have questions!
Hi John,
First off, thanks for all of your help! I have Foodie Pro/Genesis and am loving it.
I want to have a ‘blog’ page. I imagined my new blog posts showing up to the home page along with recipes but wanted all of the blog posts to then be posted underneath my ‘blog’ page tab at the top of my site. Is this possible? I also don’t want there to be categories underneath my page tabs at the top of my site. What am I missing??
Hi Gabriella!
To setup a separate blog page, you can create a new page (title it something like “blog”) and then in the sidebar, choose the “blog” template. That will automatically pull your site content into a blog style layout. From there, you should be able to add a menu and link to the page.
For the categories – are you seeing those in your menu or somewhere else?
Yes, I figured it all out! Thank you for your help.
This weekend I updated Foodie Pro to the latest version, 2.0.5 which was released the first week of November. This version resolves the issue with the result of the search archives, displaying the results in a grid style instead of showing the large images. Also installed the Genesis Grid plugin that helped with the grid layout.
So, check with StudioPress or directly with Shay Bocks to get the latest version. Hope this version helps those who were struggling with the display of the search results. Best of luck!
One more thing, remember to backup all your files before updating :)
Hi John,
Got to say a massive thanks for your tutorials for Foodie – they were a massive help when I redesigned my blog earlier this year.
I’ve just upgraded to foodie pro and noticed that in certain browsers my blog images are now insanely big, like 2 or 3 times the size of the width of the page – do you have any idea why that would be, or how I could change it? (it looks normal on a mac but seems to be a PC problem)
I’ve also noticed that when I try run an RSS campaign through mail chimp everything is out of sync as well with the text going way wider than necessary. Any guidance would be AMAZING!!!
Cheers,
Gemma
Hi Gemma,
That’s an interested problem. Can you identify which browsers are giving you more trouble? Is it IE8 by chance?
My guess is that it’s just a line of code that needs to limit your image size, but it’ll be easier to figure out what’s wrong if you know which browsers are giving you trouble.
Mailchimp is a whole other beast and varies a lot by situation, but I’m interested in the combination of why it was working before and isn’t now. My recommendation would be using the RSS campaign template if you’re not already. It might even be worth recreating a new campaign from this template (if you already had one) to test out the functionality. If none of that works, it’s probably something worth chatting with Mailchimp to see if they have any recommendations.
Hi John,
As the resident Foodie Theme expert:), I have a quick question about the Foodie theme which I think is a quick answer, but I’m having trouble locating the answer via Google search.
How do you display related posts at the bottom of your blog posts? I believe on Minimalist Baker you have “If you liked this recipe…..”
I’d like to do the same for my site. My site incoporates food and fashion, so hopefully this will still work? The whole point of this is to keep the reader engaged in the site, so I think it would be beneficial to add.
Thanks for your help!
Lauren
Hi Lauren!
I added our related posts by manually coding in the functionality. You can probably do the same by searching for Genesis related posts code and adding a few lines to your functions.php file and some CSS for styling. I think I started with this article and this article.
However, easier alternatives would be using one of the related posts plugins or a service that does this for you. The plugin would be preferable as you could keep your data on your site, but some hosts don’t allow the functionality required to run these plugins properly. If you install something like Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, you can hopefully drag the widget into the “after post” widget area.
Alternatively, especially if your host doesn’t allow these plugins, you could use a 3rd party plugin. I’d guess your best bet is using Jetpack, but it’d also be worth checking out Rverb, nRelate, and similar services. These sites offload the searching for related posts to another server and then relay that information back into your site.
Hope that helps!
Hi!
I was wondering if there was a way to add an image in the about me section on the right side widget area. For some reason I can’t figure out how to get it there!
Thanks!
Amy
Hi Amy!
The easiest solution is using the “Genesis – User Profile” widget. Just drag it to your primary sidebar, chose your gravatar size, and then add any text you’d like. You can use html in the widget if you’d like to link to your about page or elsewhere.
Alternatively, you could manually write up a bit of code to place an image and some text in a simple text widget placed in your sidebar. For the image, you’d use the![]()
tag to pull your image into your widget area.
Thank you, John!
I set it up like you said, but for some reason there’s not picture showing just a bubble. Maybe it’s a wordpress thing, but is there somewhere on there where I can add a picture because it doesn’t show up automatically?
Amy
It actually pulls the image from the Gravatar platform. It’s the same little image that is used when people leave comments on WordPress sites (like the comments on this page) and a profile image appears. Adding a profile picture there should populate the image on your site!
Hi there!
Thank you so much for your AMAZING tutorials! The background color of the foodie dropdown menu is currently black and I’m looking for a way to change this to white. Do you know of an easy way to do this? Thanks so much!
-Monique
Hi Monique!
Great question. Assuming you are using the FoodiePro theme, you’d need to jump into the code a little bit to make this change. The color currently being used is #010101
To change the color, you will need to update your stylesheet (appearance -> editor) and look for this area to change the background color:
.genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu a:hover,
.genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a:hover {
color: #fff;
background: #010101;
}
Changing the background to white (#fff) would render the text unreadable, but you can simply change the color area to something like #333 to match the top layer of the menu. This would mean you would replace the top section of code with something such as:
.genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu a:hover,
.genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a:hover {
color: #333;
background: #fff;
}
I’ll try and make a tutorial around this issue as well. Thanks for the idea!
This helped a lot! Thanks! :)
When you click the “next page” button on the bottom of my homepage, it loads a blank page.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance
Hi Karie!
I’m not entirely certain, but seems like its two settings conflicting. How did you add that next page button? Were you using a plugin or something else?
I am using the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified under the Home Top section. I selected both “work with pagination” and “show site navigation” inside the widget.
I never had a next page button before having this widget, so I’m happy to have it, but totally confused as to why it isn’t working.
Thanks
Hmm, that is odd, but I’m interested to find out the solution.
Are you using the original Foodie theme or FoodiePro?
The original Foodie Theme
I think your WordPress settings might be conflicting with your theme settings. Here’s what I’d try:
Go to Settings -> Reading and set the “Blog pages show at most” to 4.
Did that work?
Yes I tried that. Still didn’t work. (sad face)
Are you using all of the home page widget areas? Your pagination might need to be in the home-bottom widget. Are you using that area?
Hi John,
This was so useful and was what ultimately drove me to purchase foodie pro! Thanks so much.
I’m in the process of constructing my site, and as you noted, I’m using the “Foodie Pro Featured Posts” widget instead of “Genesis Featured Widget Amplified”. However, I would much prefer to use the Genesis widget as it offers more options such as taxonomy & pagination. I’ve downloaded the plugin for the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified (and it’s activated), however it’s not showing up on my widgets page? Would you know why this would be?
Thanks so much for all your efforts!
MJ
Hi MJ!
Thanks for the details. Some people reported that it’s simply disabled in the new version of foodie, which sounds like the case with the information you’ve provided. I’m certain there has to be a reasonable solution, but I don’t have an answer yet. I’m working on a set of new tutorials and hope to have some more answers next week. Were you mainly trying to use the pagination on the homepage?
The taxonomy is a new problem that I will look into as well. If you notice anything else, please let me know!
Hi John,
Yes the pagination was for the home page.
Glad to know you’re working on more tutorials. I think it would be useful to have one on how to set up an “About me” section commonly used at the top of the sidebar, like what you have on the minimalist baker (with a photo and short description).
The tutorial provided by Shay uses the Genesis profile widget which only uses the gravatar icon and no option to upload a different photo.
One more issue I had when building my site was on the top section of the recipe page, where you put the search bar/archives/categories. My blog is not purely about food, but has travel and beauty posts too. I haven’t found a way exclude these categories from the drop down menu.
In any case looking forward to your next tutorials, thanks again!
Just wanted to say thank you for this and all of your other blogger resources posts. I’m still just starting out but your posts have definitely given me a great head start and helped me immensely in setting up my site. So thank you and keep up the great work!
~Alex
John,
Thanks for the in depth video tutorials on how to set up the Foodie theme! I’m thinking about using Foodie for my blog, but I would like to know if it will allow me to use the thumbnail of an embedded YouTube video as the Featured Image?
Thanks,
Toby
Hi Toby!
Cool idea. I think this will really have to do with WordPress functionality more than Foodie and my general thoughts are that by default it wouldn’t work to have the image pulled directly from your video.
What you could do is manually upload a thumbnail taken from your video as an image (somehow getting a .jpg or .png file) and set it as the featured image.
Alternatively, there might be a plugin that can help you do this, but I haven’t done any testing in the area.
Let me know if you try it and figure something out one way or the other. I’d be interested to see it!
John,
I’ll play around with pulling a thumbnail out of Final Cut and using that as the featured image. I’ll also be sure to let you know if that ends up working for me. Thanks again for all of the great info on your site; you definitely whetted my appetite looking at that gorgeous photo of the vegan chai ice cream through all of the Foodie theme tutorials! I can’t wait to make it myself!
As ever,
Toby
John,
Thanks again for the advice you gave me back in October! The the featured images are 680 x 450 (aspect ration of 1.5:1) but the YouTube thumbnails we create for the videos are 1920×1080 (aspect ratio of 1.7:1). When we make the thumbnails in photoshop for YouTube it’s a quick crop and recompose to output the featured image. I was unable to find any way to automate the process, but it doesn’t take long to make the featured image. You can check it out at http://www.veganvideopantry.com. Enjoy!
Toby
Looks really slick Toby! Thanks for the info too!
John,
Thank you for answering my comment earlier about the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified! The updated widget works perfectly. I have another question, though. I entered my settings just like yours for my Content Archives under the Genesis tab, but when I go to any category archive, the picture that shows up for each recipe is huge. No matter what I change the image size to, it still stays just as big, the quality just drops. I really want the image to appear small like yours so that each recipe won’t take up so much space on the archive page. Do you have any idea what is wrong?
Hi Annie,
Check out this comment above for some category page explanation and a few options for adjusting. Let me know if that works!
John,
I tried to change the size of the picture in the “content archives” area, but it doesn’t change the literal size of the picture, just the quality. For example, if I choose the smallest thumbnail size, it just makes the picture horrible quality but it’s still just as big as before. It’s weird! Any ideas?
Hmm, I would try regenerating a thumbnail by re-uploading your featured image on a post or two. Then reselect your archive options to see if the image shrinks to size.
If it still isn’t working, have you made any other changes to your archives page or within your functions.php file that might have affected your photo size?
Thank you for the tutorials. Much appreciated. I’ve downloaded the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin, but it does not show up in widgets. Am I missing something?
Never mind! I read the comments above. Thanks!
How to set up the home page video:
1. Only used home middle and did not check the show featured image
2. My posts have featured images, but they’re not showing up
What do I do?
Thanks!
Hi Karie!
It looks like you got this squared away, but let me know if you didn’t. My first guess would be double checking your settings or you might need to use one of the other home sections to make sure the home middle works properly.
Let me know!
Hi John, almost there :) Under the recipes menu when one chooses from the category drop down and selects a category instead of displaying the list of recipes in the thumbnail format it is going to the large picture format with text. Could you please tell me where I could add the Featured Posts widget to display the results for the category chosen in the thumbnail format?
I added it under the Recipes Bottom with a visibility statement to only show if category = but it did not work.
I will appreciate any help that you can provide.
Have a great day,
Carmen
Hi Carmen!
When you are using the categories menu that comes with Foodie, selecting a category actually loads a new page that is defined as a category page (not another recipe template page).
To make edits to this template, you can either add code int eh categories template or use the available settings found on Genesis -> Theme Settings. In the “content archives” portion, you can see some available changes including the thumbnail option.
However, changing this will also change other parts of your blog to match the style (list at the bottom of the settings menu can give you a general idea of which pages to check). If you like the style, it might be a good option.
To have a new set of thumbnails show up requires a second recipe style template page and some advanced coding. Sorry I can’t be of more help there!
Thanks John, I used the Featured Posts widget and it works great!
There is only one issue, at the end of the list of recipes there is no “go to next” link to see the other recipes.
As for the lines separating the recipes, did you add that in the css?
Thanks,
Carmen
Yes, the lines were CSS and border-bottom style. Sorry, I’m not sure where to put them in the new template (but hope to investigate more soon).
The go to next/see more option should be available through your pagination options if you have more posts available than the limit you are showing in the category. Make sure that option is selected and in use.
Hi John,
Have another question. Does Genesis Featured Widget Amplified work with WP 4.0? I have uploaded several times and activated it but for some reason I cannot see it under the widget list.
Any ideas what is happening? I even used FireFox instead of Chrome but still could not see it.
I will appreciate any help, at this point I am baffled!
Carmen
FoodiePro uses its own widget called “Foodie Pro – Featured Posts.” That should take the place of the Featured Widget Amplified. Let me know if that works!
First of all thank you so much for these awesome videos! I do have a question that is perplexing me. I am using the Home Bottom section with excerpts and 450×450 thumbnails. However, it’s refusing to display the thumbnails as squares. Am I missing a setting somewhere??
Just replying to my own question. I figured it out. The images I had set as featured images weren’t big enough (they were 600 wide). Once I added a few tests posts with featured images at 650 or higher, and edited a couple of the existing test post featured images with larger sizes the squares started to work. :)
Thanks for the update Amanda!
I think you hit the issue spot on. Foodie uses a custom thumbnail size (450 x 450px) and when you’re uploading new posts and featured images, it’s automatically creating those thumbnails.
For your prior posts, you could either re-upload featured images or use a plugin like Regenerate Thumbnails to give your old posts the new thumbnail dimensions.
However, it’d be important to backup your site first before executing the process just to make sure you don’t lose any images you might need.
Hi John, thanks for your suggestion on Genesis Foodie. It was installed on my food blog less than a week ago and it is already getting more visitors.
I’ve been having trouble getting to link the logo to the home page. I also have a home menu option but would prefer to get rid of it. Could you please tell me where this link can be added to the logo? Looked through the html but could not figure it out.
Thanks,
Carmen
Hey Carmen!
Great to hear. Your menus are edited through the wordpress menu (Appearance -> Menu). You should be able to remove the link there.
Changing the link in your logo (the default should take you to your homepage) will have to be done through the functions.php file.
Hope that helps!
I am currently rebuilding my blog on a back end so it isn’t live. I downloaded the Genesis amplified widget. It shows up as an active plug in, but when I go to my pages, like my recipe page it doesn’t show up there. It just say genesis featured page. It said on the widget it may not be usable on my wordpress because it hasn’t been updated. So is there something I can get to do to show up on my pages to use it or something different I can use?
Hi Rachel!
When using Foodie Pro, the new “Foodie Pro – Featured Posts” widget should take the place of the Featured Widget Amplified. Let me know if that works!
Hey John!
Thanks so much for all these amazing resources I couldn’t have set up my blog as I wanted it to be with all this help!
However, I downloaded everything however when I go to upload it on wordpress, everything is in three different folders and there isn’t a .zip link I can upload :/
There’s a foodie folder, a genesis folder and genesis sample folder all with different files and do not see any zip files
Hope that makes sense!
Hi Andrea!
I’d suggest trying to download your theme and genesis framework from studiopress again. They should by default download as a .zip file. Your computer might be automatically opening them, but you should be able to still track down the .zip file.
Hi John,
Thank you so much for all of the great tutorials! It is really helpful and I love Foodie and Genesis so far just still learning… Do you know how to get a welcome widget in the primary sidebar area? I would like to have a picture and text that I can format easily. You and Dana have a great one on MB, is it a plugin I have to download? Thank you so much for all the help!
~Maria
Hi Maria!
We just use a text widget with a little code to pull our image from the server and give a little bio. However, an even easier setup would be using the “Genesis – User Profile” widget which is available by default once you’ve installed Genesis. I’d recommend playing around with that widget first to see if you can get what you’re looking to create.
Hi John,
Thank you so much the Genesis user profile widget did the job! One more question.. how do you add a link from your post titles to your recipe page? Thank you for your help!
~Maria
I believe what you’re looking for is the option in the widget to “Link Title to Post”. That setting should link your title to the relevant post.
Hello!
Your tutorial videos are SO helpful! I am having issues with the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, though. I have installed and activated the plugin, and it is showing as activated when I look at my plugins available, but it isn’t showing up on my available widget page. Has it been too long since the plugin has been updated and it doesn’t work anymore? Let me know if you have any idea of what is wrong. Thank you!!!
Hi Annie!
When using Foodie Pro, the new “Foodie Pro – Featured Posts” widget should take the place of the Featured Widget Amplified. Let me know if that works!
I a just setting up a blog for the firs time, and your tutorials have been so helpful as it is all a foreign language to me! I imported the demo post on foodie pro so I could play around with the layout, but how to I get rid of them now so I can publish my own posts?
Hi Lucy!
If you go into your WordPress dashboard, you should be able to see all your posts and batch select and delete them. It’s located on the lefthand side of your site once you are logged in. Hope that helps!
Hi John,
This site has been wonderful in helping me get set up. Thank you so much. I am wondering if you have any guidance on narrowing the site in general. I have a background pattern I would like to show a little bit more of. I see a lot of width’s in the template but am unsure what I am really looking for. Any suggestions?
Best,
Eric
Hey Eric!
So, this is a bit difficult to answer due to the fact that although you an edit the overall width of the site, the other portions (particularly, your content column and sidebar) have fixed widths. If you change the overall site width, you’ll also need to adjust these other areas accordingly.
The overall side width can be edited within the .site-container class. However, as I mentioned, you’ll likely need to look into editing the .site-inner, .content, and .sidebar-primary classes. It becomes a bit more tricky at that point, but I think those classes would be your starting points.
Using the Google Chrome developer tools (free part of the Chrome browser) would be a great way to do some testing.
Hope that helps!
Hi John. Thank you so much for these helpful videos! I just downloaded Foodie Pro and am having issues with the “Genesis Featured Widget Amplified.” It is activated but does not appear on my widget page. The only thing similar on my widget page is the “Genesis Featured Page.” Any idea on how to get it to work? Or do you have any alternatives that would do a similar thing? I’ve tried it in both Firefox and Google Chrome. Thanks in advance for your help!
Hi Elizabeth!
When using Foodie Pro, the new “Foodie Pro – Featured Posts” widget should take the place of the Featured Widget Amplified. It should have most the same functionality. Let me know if that works!
Hi John,
I’m a long time MB fan and I got the Foodie theme, thanks for your recommendation!! Just followed your home page instruction tutorial (amazing!). I’m having problem with the Home Bottom Widget though..it’s not showing the last featured post image at each page to fill the spot, leaving a massive ugly gap. You can see it on my site now… would love to hear why you think that is…
Hey Karen!
I’d guess your WordPress settings might be getting in the way, currently limiting the posts to show at most at 5.
I’d try to go to Settings -> Reading and set the “Blog pages show at most” to 4.
OMG it worked! Thanks so much! You’re a genius!
Hi,
I noticed that Shay mentions that multiple recipe indexes can be created but we would need to know some code to do that. Do you have a tutorial you could point me towards to create additional recipe indexes?
Thanks,
Meredith
Hi Meredith!
Sorry, I don’t know of any tutorials and don’t have one myself. However, I aim to create one! Relatively speaking, it’s a pretty involved change.
Sorry I can’t be of more help!
Hi John – All your great tutorials convinced me to try Foodie Pro today for a new blog that will track my travels in Spain for the next 7 months, but I have 2 quick questions. I noticed on your samples that the post date is in all caps and I can’t figure out how to do it. I also noticed a very cool, all grey pushpin that seemed to hover over one of your main post images. Can you guide me where to pick that up and install it?
Hi Caroline!
You know, it was actually installed as part of the original CSS of the theme. That way, when you installed the Pinterest Pin it for Images plugin, it would show that pushpin instead.
However, now that functionality has been removed (probably for browser compatibility issues).
Alternatively, you can use the “jQuery Pin It Button For Images Options” plugin and actually upload a custom media icon for your pin image. Maybe try that and see if it works for your site!
Oh, huge thanks. I’ll give that a try and see what I can come up with. You’re a generous genius. Love reading all your tips from other’s questions.
Hi! :)
First of all, sorry for my English!
Secondof all: during these days I am trying to set up my blog but I can’t figure out how tu add more Menu in the Homepage.
The only thing I was able to do was to add a Recepie Page and the About Me page but, if you take a look at my blog, they are in two different “rows”. What I’d like to do is to add those pages (and more) in the same row, as you have done for your site: about – recipes – blogger resources – store
Can you help me with this please?
Thank you so much
Veronica
Hi Veronica!
My best guess is that you have two separate menus loading. One under “Primary Navigation Menu” and one under “Secondary Navigation Menu.”
For the setup you’re looking for, we only want to use “Primary Navigation Menu.”
If you go to Appearance -> Menus, you should be able to edit both of these menus.
For reference, on our site, we have one menu called “navigation” that links to all of our pages (about, recipes, etc) and next to “theme locations,” we have checked “Primary Navigation Menu.”
For more help on setting up menus, here’s the WordPress official tutorial.
Let me know if that fixes the issue!
Grazie John!!!! It’s fixed now! It was so easy XD I was totally freaking out..
Thank you very much!
Vero
Hi John!
Thank you so much for all this info. I have been using free themes for too long and think it is time to invest. That recipe tab is to die for. No questions yet as I haven’t purchased it yet but just wanted to thank you in advance!! You and Dana are awesome. Keep on doing what you’re doing!
Thanks again,
Kelsey
Thanks Kelsey! Yeah, the recipe tab really makes it.
Good luck on the switch and feel free to ask questions if you find them!
Hello –
I am building a brand new blog using the Foodie Pro theme and I am struggling with the logo feature. Hoping you can help! The PSD file I have for my logo has the following dimensions: Pixel – 4000 x 2500. Doc size – 13 x 8. Resolution – 300. I understand that I have to get this a lot smaller, but no matter how I decrease the pixel size it becomes extremely pixelated. I’m not sure what else to do. I have tried saving for web using various formats and uploading to my header section, but all formats end up being pixelated as soon as I hit crop after uploading to the media library. All logos I resize are automatically pixelated no matter where they are as soon as I reduce the pixel dimensions to anything lower than 2000 for the width. If I leave the pixel dimensions as is and “save for web” they only become pixelated when I finish cropping it in the media gallery. They look fine when uploading to the media library and in the select and crop screen. They only become pixelated after I hit “crop.” Hopefully that helps explain my issue and hopefully you can help guide me in the right direction! Thanks!!
-Melissa
Hi Melissa,
I’m guessing your issue is that when you are uploading to WordPress, your image size is different than the header size. Although the script within WordPress that resizes your image is good, it sometimes creates this pixilated effect.
The best way to manage this is to resize to the exact proportions your site is using (can be found under Appearance -> Header). If you upload an image with the exact dimensions your theme requires, you won’t be asked to crop it within WordPress (avoiding that script).
If your image looks good before uploading and you have these exact dimensions, it should work much better. Ideally, resize the image in photoshop and export in a .png or .jpg.
Let me know if that works!
Thanks, John! I’ve tried saving as both png and jpg and nothing is working for me. Not sure what else to do. I’ve thought about tossing my logo and starting from scratch by making my photoshop pixel dimensions 400 x 170 from the start, but even when I set a new canvas to this size anything I add to it is pixelated from the very beginning. Not sure if this is a Photoshop issue. At this point I’m not sure how I am going to reduce the images pixel dimensions for my current logo and I cant figure out how to create a logo from scratch in a canvas set to the proper pixel dimensions. Ahhh! :(
Hi Melissa,
Did you ever find an answer to this? I’m having the same issue. No matter what program I use (Photoshop or Illustrator), and what size the file is, it always looks pixelated when I bring it into my Foodie Pro theme. It’s driving me crazy! Just wondered if you found a solution. Thanks!
Christin
Hey Christin and Melissa!
I was playing around with the theme and I think the trick is to upload a 800 x 340px image exactly. My guess is that the fuzziness you are seeing is a resizing of WordPress and a bit of non-HD rendering.
If you upload the exact size exactly (make your logo fit those dimensions – 800 x 340px), your image won’t be automatically cropped and therefore display at the best possible resolution.
Let me know if you try that and if it works for your problem! I have a video coming out in the next couple days of exactly how I did this with our logo to hopefully shed a bit more light on the issue.
Hi John,
For some reason it’s not allowing me to comment directly to your message, so I’m hoping you see this. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me! I tried your suggestion (800 x 340) but it’s still giving me pixelation in my header. Do you mind checking out my website and letting me know if the logo looks pixelated to you? veggiechick.com Also, I tried it on 3 different browsers and the sizes are all different on each! The only browser that looks correct is Firefox. It’s very strange. =) Thanks!
Christin
So, it sounds like maybe you browser caching was playing tricks on you. Does it display more clearly now or are you still having some pixelation issues?
It’s still pixelated no matter if I’m looking at it on a different browser or device. A friend of mine said that when she looks at my site on Internet Explorer, it cuts the header in half. When I look at it on my tablet or laptop, the text is not sharp compared to the rest of the text on the screen. Not sure what to do. I’m wondering if it’s something I’m doing when saving in Photoshop.
Hmm, I see what you’re talking about, but I also see your logo dimensions are currently 400 x 170px.
If you have the original file in a vector format (such as on Illustrator), using the “save for web” function and exporting to exactly 800 x 340px would be my starting point. When you did this last time, did WordPress still make you crop the image, or did it skip that step? If it worked correctly, it’d skip the cropping step (which I think is causing your issues).
For the IE problem, I’m not totally sure there. That might be a question for Shay, as it could be a browser bug that needs special adjusting.
Hello,
I followed Shay’s tutorial on how to add the most popular posts to Footer 2, however it’s not coming up on my page. Can you please help.
My best guess is that you simply haven’t added enough posts in the category to fully populate the plugin. Following the initial instructions, you need 6 posts for the widget to show. Does that sound like it might be the case?
Are you seeing any other errors? Might be worth double checking the settings too.
This really helps! I really can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the work that you have done to make this experience so much easier. Your tutorials have really priceless. Your quick response and professional knowledge is amazing! A few other things i have noticed and I’m not sure about is: My widgets page is different than both yours and Shays. I have to hit the widget and add, then when i go in there is a list of the location where I want to place it. I can’t click and drag the widget like you do with yours. Also, do you have a tutorial or know of a good one on how to set up google analytics. This has proved to be very confusing for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have also noticed a little glitch in the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, when I initially add it all the fields and choices aren’t appearing. However, when I go back in they magically reappear. How do I take the Shay Bocks Foodie Theme off at the bottom of my page? Again, I’m so grateful for any help.
So glad the tutorials have helped. Thanks for the encouragement.
Have you tried using another browser when moving widgets? I can’t think of anything else causing the issue. The widget functionality is actually part of WordPress and should perform the same.
Google Analytics is really easy to setup directly in Genesis. Simply grab your analytics code (from Google) and go to Genesis -> Theme Settings and find “Enter scripts or code you would like to output to wp_head()” (at the bottom of the settings). Paste your script there and save!
To change the footer, you can install the Genesis Simple Edits Plugins to make changes to the footer and other areas without getting into the code.
The google analytics are up and running! Wonderful! I’m still having this problem with the click and drag. It works on my work computer, which is a PC, however, my mac at home still won’t let me click and drag. I’m very confused!
Have you tried using another browser yet (like Chrome or Firefox)? My best guess is that sounds like an issue with your computer and not really WordPress.
Hi John! Does the subsription box plug-in come integrated with the foodie theme? I am currently using the Magic Action Box and have linked it with mailchimp. Any help would be great!
Thanks
Hi Sarah!
So the subscription box is actually a separate and free plugin called eNews Extended. It works with mailchimp, aweber, and feedber (and possibly others).
The Foodie theme then has custom CSS built in so that the subscription box matches the style of the rest of the site.
In my opinion, it’s a great pair and I appreciate when a developer makes this consideration. It’s the subscription box we are using on this site (I wrote the CSS) and it works great.
Let me know if that didn’t make sense or you have other questions!
Hi John.. I installed the E-News extended Plug-in and it works great and looks great too. I even altered the css to match my website.
I just installed the Foodie theme yesterday and my blog looks so much cleaner and nicer. Thanks for the great tutorial.
Btw, my husband is a great fan of you’ll. He loves your food photography e-course and that’s his go-to book for editing all the great pictures he’s been clicking for our blog.
I just want to respond *blushing*
Thanks so much Sarah! Glad the plugin is working. Props on the custom CSS! It looks great!
Hey John one more question.
I have noticed that you guys have a ‘Most Popular’ widget on your side bar. Have you used any particular plugin for this, or you custom coded a widget via function.php?
It’s actually the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified as well! I’m actually using a custom thumbnail size, but I think Foodie has a default one that will display really well.
In the widget settings, I just chose how many posts I wanted to share and organized them by comment count (or you can choose a different metric / just manually select which posts show).
Hi John I have been confused by the need for the genesis eNews widget. I have mailchimp for my RSS feed. I put the genesis eNews widget in so I could have a sign up form but genesis eNews required me to have either feedburner or mailpoet to work in conjunction with it. Now at the bottom of my posts there is a optin box for mail subscriptions that seems to be generated by mailpoet. When my readers click on the optin box it does not work. I saw mailchimp has a app for signup forms. Would the mailchimp app work with the foodiePro theme?
Hey Dahn!
We use the eNews widget with mailchimp and it works seamlessly.
Maybe checkout this tutorial for more help: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-genesis-enews-extended-mailchimp-tutorial
In the alternative, you could use the mailchimp forms within Foodie and it should work pretty well.
Hope that helps!
thanks John, and thank you for all the help in your posts, it has been a very helpful resource.
Hello! I just want to thank you so much for all these wonderful tutorials. My website wouldn’t be functioning at all if wasn’t for them. I’m having an issue, my website isn’t showing an area to leave comments. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Kaleigh,
This seems like it’s a WordPress setting that you simply need to allow comments (Settings -> Discussion Settings). On posts that have already been published, you’ll need to edit the post so that under “discussion,” allowing comments is turned on.
Let me know if that works!
Totally worked! Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing your tutorial. Do you know which part of the css should I tweak images to center them in my posts? My older posts use smaller pictures and I can’t afford to resize them so am thinking to center them via css so that they at least look more presentable.
Hi Seasame!
My hesitation in pointing you any direction is that any property you’d change like this will change all your photos, including future uploads and likely in places you didn’t want changed. Further, some plugins might overwrite or make it difficult to keep things in place.
However, if you’re ok with that, you could probably adjust the img.alignnone property to do what you’d like, assuming that was assigned to all the photos that you didn’t align previously.
Sorry I can’t be of more help. It’s possible I’m overlooking something, but this is usually the type of thing that I just buy a bottle of wine and we spend an evening manually correcting.
Hi! I was actually have moved to the Foodie Theme from my original Innovative them due to the simplicity of navigation for viewers and what I want it to accomplish. I am still trying to set it up as it seems it would have been easier to just start all over. My 2 issues are these: when I am trying to set up the Home Bottom and Middle using the Genesis Amplified as on your instructions, I do not even have that option on Foodie Pro. It is in my “installed plugins” but when I go to the Widgets, it only lists Food Pro and it doesnt have the same settings. Any advice on that one?
My other issue is wanting to change the font that has transferred from my prior blog in certain posts. Is there a way to change that as well? It looks silly on this new set up.
Thanks so much.
Nicole
Hi Nicole,
I haven’t had the time to really play with FoodiePro yet, but I’m working on it. So, I’m not sure about your first question. Personally, I’d first reference the theme documentation (from Studiopress) as it probably address the issue.
For your second issue, it really depends how you setup the font before and where that’s being pulled from. If it is something you manually added to your posts, you’ll have to manually remove it. Essentially, I’d suggest trying to undo whatever you had done before to add that font and your theme should adjust.
I hope to get more into FoodiePro soon, but let me know if you figure out your issue there!
Hi there,
I really love the Foodie theme and you have done a great review here, very useful. I am struggling however with the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified. I have been following the instructions that you gave, but when altering the settings I can’t seem to click on the ‘Show content’ button. Instead it continues to click on ‘show excerpt’ and therefore I can’t get a picture on the post. Any help would be appreciated!
Hi Jessie,
I noticed a couple other people mention the same thing. It’s some glitch with the plugin and chrome. The easiest solution is simply using another browser to save your settings.
Let me know if that works!
I have to thank you so much for this post. Seriously I can’t thank you enough. I am new to wordpress and so frustrated and everything I don’t know, and my inability to find people who will help me (even for good pay!). This post has saved me. Thanks again! I am going to be purchasing a few Minimalist Baker products as “payment” for your help! :)
Thanks Melissa! So glad they helped.
Hi there,
I’ve added the home middle and bottom as you’ve instructed. All looked ok, other than the main post also appearing as the first smaller post on the bottom so I offset by 1 and it went from showing 4 posts as I had it set, to 10 per page. Have you ever run into this issue?
Hi Angie,
I think your WordPress settings are causing the issue.
Try going to Settings -> Reading and set the “Blog pages show at most” to 4.
Let me know if that works!
Hi John,
I chose the Foodie Theme solely off your review. I fell in love with it immediately. I am now hosting my own site & practically teaching myself web designing but I’ve run into a bump & despite countless hours of research I cannot crack it. My issue is the mobile version of my site is completely different from the desktop version. The mobile site doesn’t show the pages with my bio, contact info or recipes. I’ve tried installing several plugins & the only one that looked half way decent & reflected the desktop version is WP Mobile Detector Mobile Plugin. However, the recipes tab didn’t work with that plugin & only the first photo would appear. When scrolling down all of the recipes were there but the photo link was broken. It also requested I change the permission settings to 777 to work properly but with further research WP advised against it as it would make my site World-Writable. All of this is very confusing to me & I’m just looking to find a plugin or information on how to make my site mobile friendly. Any information is greatly appreciated as this continuing issue has become frustrating & discouraging. Thank you! :)
Hello!
First, just for clarity, it sounds like we are troubleshooting an issue with your navigation menu.
Second, Foodie is by default a mobile responsive site. My best guess is that if you weren’t seeing your site properly in your mobile browser, something else was causing the issue.
I don’t use or recommend mobile plugins for the reasons you’re describing. Ideally, you want a theme that automatically adjusts based on your viewer’s browsing choice (which Foodie should do).
If you’re up for it, I’d try disabling your mobile plugins and seeing if you can view your site properly in your mobile browser. If that doesn’t work, I’d try disabling any other plugins that you have that could be causing this conflict.
If the menu still isn’t showing, I’d be curious if you changed something in your functions file that might have altered the way your menu is displaying.
Let me know if any of that works!
Hi John,
I have watched your tutorials and contacted the Foodie support team, but I still can’t figure out how to make my main page only have one column of previews of earlier posts. If you go to my site, you can see that it is sort of tiled, but I would like it to be one straight column, with the preview the same width as the main post. I’m thinking this will involve code. I am just wondering if you can tell me the proper terms to google so I can figure this out. I don’t even know the “name” for what I am trying to do. Thanks for your great tutorials! They were really helpful to me when I was setting up my blog.
Sara
Hi Sara,
You’ll need to write custom CSS code to make that happen (placed in your stylesheet). You can use the google chrome “developer tools” to help narrow what area you’re trying to alter.
Best of luck!
Hi Josh,
Thanks so much for these wonderfully helpful tutorials!
I have a question for you… My categories don’t seem to be showing up when I’m in the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified under the Taxonomy and Terms tab. I’m assuming these automatically pull from the categories created from Pages > Categories, but am I incorrect and is there another place where one creates corresponding categories?
Thanks for all of your help!
Hi Christina,
Yes, that’s where they are pulled from. One issue might be that you haven’t tagged any posts with those categories. I believe the plugin won’t allow you to select a category that doesn’t have any posts associated with it.
Did that work for you?
I can’t seem to get the slider to work. I tried looking on Shay’s website and sent an email with no response. I’ve tried everything but don’t know what I’m doing wrong?
Hi Charlene,
The slider can be kind of tricky and requires following Shay’s instructions almost exactly (in fact, I’d recommend duplicating her settings first to make sure it works and then making changes from there if you want). I’d double check that you have the right plugin and that your settings are correct. From there, make sure you have featured images selected for the posts you are using.
Let me know if that works!
Hi John,
firstly, a big thank you! This page has helped me a lot! I followed your ‘how to set up a home page’ exactly however in the home bottom section it is still showing 4 recent posts, where as I only want it to show 2. Do you know how to resolve this? Also in the home middle section, I have decided to show my most recent post in its entirety but the text is centred when I would rather it aligned left. The post itself is aligned left.
Let me know if you need more info.
Thanks, Bianca
Hi Bianca!
First, sometimes when you make changes to your site, you might have to clear your cache (on your site or your computer). That’s probably not the issue here, but it’s something to keep in mind.
Second, are you sure that “Number of Posts to Show” is set to “2”? Some people have reported that the settings don’t always save properly and you have to double check them. If you’re having trouble saving settings, it might be worth trying another browser.
Lastly, in the home middle section, the default should be left aligned. So, I’m guessing it has something to do with another plugin you have installed or setting on the post itself. If you include your site if you leave another comment, I’ll see if I can easily see where the problem is.
I just wanted to say that you are awesome for doing all this:)
Shucks! Thanks Karine!
Hi John,
Could you tell me how you got your first post to show up with full image and content followed by the smaller images?
I’ve tried to make the bottom middle in foodie be the smaller 450×450 thumbnails, offset by 3, but then the first 3 aren’t showing up. I have to make them still go through the featured widget amplified (which I don’t want). It looks like you figured it out. Can you help? Thanks.
Hi Bonnie!
The basic idea is to use the same Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, but under “content type” select “show content.” You can then limit how much content shows by using the “read more” option in your wordpress post page. You’ll still need to offset the posts in the next widget depending on how many you choose to show in the top widget.
Hope that helps!
That totally worked. Thanks for helping me with the fine print. :)
I have watched the tutorials, but I still can’t set the slider on the homepage. :(((
Hi Andra,
I’d be happy to try and help, but I’d need more details. Or, check out Shay’s other tutorials to see if they might help.
Thanks John,
This is gold!! I am just about to build a new blog to launch and have (of course) fallen in love with Foodie. It will also be my first time using Genesis.
I can’t wait to watch all the tutorials once I have it installed.
Thanks a million :)
Alexandria
I currently installed this theme + framework on wordpress and this may be a silly questions but for some reason I don’t have a top navigation bar with the theme. Am I missing something here? Any help + feedback would be appreciated! Thanks
From your description, it sounds like you simply need to add your menu bar.
You can edit your menu under Appearance -> Menus. The Foodie Theme uses WordPress’ “Primary Navigation Menu.”
Let me know if that works!
Hi John,
Thank you for all of your tutorials on Foodie! I’m having the same issue as A. I don’t have a menu on the top of my page. I went to Appearance -> Menus as you suggested, but I don’t see anything that mentions “Primary Navigation Menu.” The only option seems to be “create a new menu.” Please let me know if you can help.
Thanks,
Anne
Hi Anne,
Create a new menu if one doesn’t exist and then you’ll be able to apply it to your navigation menu.
Hi John,
decided to wrote you, becuase you seems to be falimiar with genesisi framework and foodie theme. I have already set up foodie for my blog and everything seems to work, but the thing is that the whole website is running very slowy (especially recipe index).
Definitely your website is faster. Is driving me crazy when I am waiting ages for opening the page.
Have you faced such an issue before?
Regards,
Gosia
Hey Gosia,
I wrote a bit about the topic here: Why is My Site Running Slow?
Hi,
I finally resolved the issue- it was problem on web hosting company side. But thanks for the recommendation! I will get familiar!
John, these tutorials are just awesome!! I have a quick question if you have a moment about your sidebar. I currently have a two column within my one column sidebar (I alternate between widgets that take up the full 300px and two columns of widgets/ads that are 150 each) and was wondering how you implanted this with Genesis/Foodie?
Thanks so much!
Hi Morgan!
You should be able to just use a 1 column sidebar and then use a text widget with a little styling code to show images/ads that you’d like to show up in two columns. It’s not technically a new widget space or two columns, but it works well for that setup.
Hope that helps!
Thank you so much for your reply. That makes sense. Do you mind sharing with me the little snippet of styling code that you are using? Thank you again:).
Thank you so much John! I will try uninstalling the other plugin and just use Featured Widget Amplified. Good to know that the lack of updates it isn’t an issue…I think I just got freaked out bc I’m new at all this blog design stuff. :)
Again, thank you to the moon and back for your tutorials. I am definitely going to take your WordPress and photography courses too!
Hi John!
First of all, I cannot thank you enough for these tutorials. If it weren’t for you, I would have never made the jump to a self-hosted blog or to Genesis/Foodie! I am so excited about my blog now and cannot wait to turn it into everything I dreamed it could be someday! So thank you thank you thank you. :)
I installed Genesis and Foodie yesterday and followed your instructions for the homepage set-up. However, when I searched Featured Widget Amplified in the Plugin library, it didn’t show up. Upon further research, WordPress states that the plugin hasn’t been updated in two years and therefore won’t work well with new updates to the theme. So, it advised me to upload the Genesis Sandbox – Featured Content plugin instead.
I did this and used it in Home Middle, but when I put it in Home Bottom, but instead of listing posts side by side in a grid format like you have, it lists them one after another, just in the left column. If they filled up the page one after another like your homepage, I would be perfectly happy. But since it was just in the left side, it looked really bad.
After driving myself crazy, I decided to just download and upload Featured Widget Amplified, despite what WordPress said! I was so happy when it worked just the way you showed us…BUT, when I chose to offset the posts by one so that it didn’t feature my first post, it then showcased alllll of my posts…as I scrolled down, more and more would show up. I had both “work with pagination” and “show page pagination” clicked, so I have no idea what I did wrong? Any thoughts?
Also, I do really like your homepage set up…are you still using Featured Widget Amplified? So sorry that this comment has become an essay, I am just really confused and looking for any assistance possible! Thank you so, so much again.
Best,
Anne Marie
Hi Anne Marie!
Yeah, a couple other people reported the frustration with the lack of updates. There’s really only one issue with the lack of updates and it can be solved by either using a browser other than Google Chrome to save your settings or by fixing a line of code. It’s annoying, but it’s a small price for how much functionality the plugin gives.
I’m not sure about the endless scrolling – that sounds like another plugin. You might need to uninstall the other plugin you’re using. From there, you might try to save your settings in another browser if that’s the problem you’re having (safari or firefox should work fine).
Thank you for these wonderful tutorials! I have been following them step by step, however when I go to format my homepage, nothing is showing up after I work with the widgets.
I want to use the slider for only one image to represent a welcome picture, which will be static, then I want to set the page up just as you did in your videos. I only have one post at this moment on my site but still none of the work is showing up.
The only thing that is working is when I actually configure or write something from the “home” page I created. Do I even have to create this page? Or should I delete it? I am so confused and becoming a little bit frustrated at this point. lol
I sincerely appreciate any help that you might be able to lend! Thank you!
Hi Lindsey!
I’ve found that if you don’t use all the widgets on the homepage, it sometimes won’t display. Are you using all the widgets areas available?
You actually probably don’t want to create a separate “home” page. That’s probably causing a conflict on your site.
Let me know if those two things worked!
Hi John,
Thank you for the info on my initial question. I’m using your tutorial to install my theme to WordPress but I’m having an issue. When I click Appearance then Themes I do not have the option to Add New or upload the framework. Did I do something wrong?
I appreciate any information! Thank you
Hey Marissa!
Yeah, WordPress slightly changed that in a recent update. “Add New” can be found after you click appearance -> themes. From there, at the top next to “Add themes”, you’ll see a separate button that says “upload.”
There isn’t an option for Ass Theme or Upload. All that appears is the themes, Trending Popular Newest. I’m unable to find a tutorial on this issue and I’m just completely stuck.
You could just try click “appearance.” You should be able to add a theme there.
However, here’s another shortcut. Go to: http://YOURSITE.com/wp-admin/theme-install.php?upload (replacing with your domain name).
If that page doesn’t work or is blocked, it’s probably an issue with your host and you’ll need to contact them for help.
Thanks so much! I’ll give it a try.
I was going to create an account with BlueHost. From what I know I’m not currently using another host unless WordPress is the host.
Thank you SO much for these invaluable tutorials. I have been on the fence about changing over to the Genesis platform and Foodie and your information helped me take the leap!
Hi John and thanks for your wonderful review and tutorials on the Foodie Child theme. With your help I was able to move my old Blogger blog to a self hosted WordPress blog and I also installed the Foodie Theme. Honestly that’s exactly what I was looking for and you and your expertise definitely helped a lot. I’m still playing with the theme, but overall everything looks ok. Keep doing your wonderful tutorials and videos and good luck with Minimalist Baker and your other site.
Hi John, this is what I mean Look at the crave theme. One big image on top, 2 images below and then three images at the bottom. http://my.studiopress.com/themes/crave/#demo-full
I prefer foodie theme to crave and don’t just want to buy crave because of that 3 image functionality. So, I want to customise foodie to give be that 3 image and if possible 4 image functionality. I also want a sub site linked to my main site. Do you know if it is possible to use foodie on one site and use crave on the other, and link both sites?
To add to my previous comment, I always suggest that you find a theme that is as close to the ultimate design you’d like to see. The fewer changes you have to make, the easier it will likely be. If Crave has an overall design you prefer, it might be the better starting point.
For a brief overview (from my perspective):
Colors, fonts, and alignment: Relatively small CSS changes
Columns, spacing, and adding widgetized areas: Relatively bigger CSS/functionality changes
I’m unsure on the sub site issue, but I’d guess that has more to do with your domain registration and hosting than it does your theme choice.
Hi, I have been looking at foodie theme sites for days. As lovely as they look, they are all the same, that was until I came across this site http://www.ohmyveggies.com and for the first time fell in love with the foodie theme. What I don’t like about the foodie theme is that after the large image, you get 2 images side by side, and as you scroll down, those 2 images side by side repeats itself over and over. I looked at oh my veggies and it wasn’t the case. instead of 2, she had 3 images, 4 images and even 8 images side by side which are even smaller than the standard 2 images. Could you please nudge me in the direction of how to do that, because it would make my page stand out somewhat. All sites that use this foodie theme look the same and I really hate that. Thanks
Hi Cynthia,
In brief, to move outside of a theme, you’ll need to do some custom CSS work. Some of this can be figured out by tinkering or it might be worth hiring somebody. Oh my veggies is a custom site, but something similar can be achieved through a number of customizations on the foodie theme.
In brief, it’s a balance of simply purchasing a theme and going all out for a custom design. If you’re willing to tinker and/or hire somebody for minor customizations, you can likely achieve the look you’re going for without getting a fully customized design.
Hope that helps!
WOW! What a life saver! I am a visual kind of a guy and need to see technical things to get them. Your videos are amazing! Big Thanks!
Francois
Hi! I’ve got my recipe page all set up and looking lovely, but when I click on a recipe, it doesn’t take me to the post. It just redirects me again to the recipe page. I have “link image to post” checked which in my mind would be what I would need to do to make this happen but…clearly I’m wrong. Thanks for your help!
Hi Megan!
It seems that when you click a post from any page (not just the recipe page), it takes you to the recipe page. I really don’t know what could be causing this, but my best guess is that it’s another plugin or something you’ve recently added to redirect to the recipe page. I don’t think it’s a Foodie Theme error, but it might be if you recently changed something.
Anything come to mind?
Oh jeez. Yeah I’m just now realizing that – I have no idea, but I’ve been traveling the last 3 weeks and have not worked on the site until tonight. So I’m racking my brain to figure out what I did – I’ll get it eventually!
Literally following along with this step by step! Thank you so much for this informative info. BUT, I’m seriously stuck trying to figure out what happened to/or how to add the section where YOU have About, Recipes, Blogger Resources, Store. Those are pages, no? I have none of that on my Foodie Blog and for the life of me, can’t find how to add it! HELP please?
Hi Janeen,
This comment above should help.
Hey ya’ll! I took your course on switching to wordpress from blogger and it was brilliant, and i installed foodie child theme and have it all up in running. My only problem is that I can’t get my pagination to work at the bottom of the page. I contacted Shay Bocks and one of her assistants told me that my pagination isn’t working because I’m not using the “Home Bottom” of my website. She gave me a snippet of code to change so I could avoid having to use home bottom, which didn’t work. Is there a way to activate pagination by using the “Home Bottom” section? I feel like I’m loosing a lot of visitors to my site that get hit with a dead end (other than the archived recipes). Help!
Hi Renee!
Excellent – your site looks great!
When I visited your site, the pagination seemed to be working. Did you get it figured out?
If it’s still not working, adding the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified in the “Home Bottom” section and selecting “work with pagination” should do the trick. You can reference the “How to Setup the Home Page” video and settings above to see how I set it up on the example page.
yes! One of the folks from Foodie theme got in touch with me and told me to do exactly what you’ve just said + replace a small snippet of code to get it to function with Home Middle. Thank you so much! If anyone else is ever having this problem, here is the direction to fix it:
Go to Appearance > Widgets
Open up “Home Middle” and in your Genesis Widget Amplified widget, check both “work with pagination” and “show page navigation.” Save.
In Editor, find this section of code:
.paged .home-middle,
.paged .home-top {
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}
and replace it with:
.paged .home-top {
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}
Save! — Renee
Thanks so much Renee for your help. I had been stuck a couple of days and in 5 minutes … boom, it’s working :)
One little issue I do have is that the last page is blank. Did that happen to you?
Have a great day and thanks again for the help!
Carmen
John, you’re a life saver! I’ve been so frustrated with this exact thing all day today on a client’s site. I finally just Googled it, and found this site and your response. Can’t thank you enough as it definitely worked to just move the widget to Home Bottom!
Great to hear! Thanks Kory!
Hi John. I’m struggling a bit with getting an email subscription set up on my foodie blog. I’m trying to make it so that when people subscribe to my blog, they get each of my new blogs automatically sent to their email. So, I set up mailpoet and I thought this would do this….but, I’ve been informed by some friends that have subscribed to my blog that they don’t receive notifications in their emails when I post a new blog. So, I’m stumped! Does mailpoet not do this? If not, can you suggest how I can set it up so that my new blogs get sent out to my subscribers?
Again, thank you SO much.
Hi Emily!
Sorry, I’m not sure about mailpoet. I’m sure it can work, but most email subscription models involve using a 3rd party service. Emailing directly from your WordPress site usually doesn’t deliver the same results and can cause a lot of problem with spam filters.
The easiest way to set this up is to run an RSS feed to an mailing list service.
For a free option, lots of people use Feedburner’s email subscriber function.
For the best option, you can use Mailchimp for free for up to 2,000 subscribers. It’s a great service and what we use.
Either one of those two services will integrate with your enews extended plugin that is free and works great with this theme.
Hi, I just bought the foodie template. I installed everything the same way you did but I don’t have those tabs underneath my site name. So I don’t have: Minimalist food, sample page, food, recipes etc. ? How can I add those new tabs?
Thank you!
Hi Daniela,
This comment should help!
Hi John,
Thank you for your amazing tutorials! They have really helped me out so far. I have tinkered around and I can’t figure out why my posts aren’t showing up on the homepage. Instead, it seems to just have the categories. Do you have any ideas? Thank you.
Hi Sara,
I’d guess that you simply have the wrong widgets in the home page widget areas. I’d double check to see if your settings on your homepage are the same as the above video.
Thanks, John. That seemed to have done the trick. If you can bear with me I have one more question. In your tutorial on setting the home page, you had that “helpful mistake” where the same post repeats in the preview underneath. You fixed it by changing the offset number from 0 to 1. Now, when I do that, it does this weird thing where it changes the top post to the second most recent post (from June 13) and puts my most recent post (from June 16) where the mini preview of the June 13th one should be. What am I doing wrong?
Hmm, have you double checked your settings in your “home middle” widget? It sounds like the settings have been altered there. Make sure the offset posts in that widget shows 0.
I bought Foodie based on your wonderful review and have to say, though I LOVE the design I am not loving that it doesn’t function the way it should. The featured widget amplified shows no functionality (check boxes) so we used Featured Grid to fix the home page. Fine and it works. My question is, and I hope you can help as the support is somewhat rubbish, my featured images (I have MANY posts all with featured images) are not pulling into my posts. I really don’t fancy having to go into each post and place the image. I have used Genesis tutorial codes and they don’t work. Any ideas?? I would greatly appreciate it.
So glad I found this. I am a new blogger and built my site on a Thesis. I actually took a course on how to create a site with 1.85. The course has been updated for 2.0, but I don’t want to spend all my time figuring out 2.0. I have been considering moving to Genesis because of the foodie theme. Will all my post content transfer to the new platform and theme or do I need to make sure I move everything myself?
Hi Jennifer!
Yeah, I’ve actually built a number of sites on Thesis and ran into a similar dilemma after the switch to 2.0.
All your content is actually the data with your site and stays regardless of theme or formatting. So, yes, you can easily change your theme and still have all your content readily available!
Of course, backing up your content before you make the switch would still be wise. Hope that helps!
Hi John, Thanks so much for taking the time to write this all and video. I watched your videos last month and bought Foodie/Genesis then. Now that I have been using it over a month, I see others that have been using it and see that I have the same font as others. Are you still using Foodie? If so, what did you do to change the font style? Thank you in advance!
Sonja
Hi Sonja!
Changing a font requires (at minimum) editing the CSS properties for the sections you want to change. It’s a relatively easy CSS modification, but it still requires a getting into the code.
If you’re looking to pull the font from somewhere else (such as Google Fonts), you’ll need to add a couple lines of code to make it work correctly. Studiopress has this tutorial to help.
I also have a video about adding custom fonts in my WordPress Master course. Or you might be able to find a free one on youtube.
Hope that helps!
Hi. I’m trying to configure the ‘genesis featured widget amplified’ in my ‘home bottom’ section the way you show it in the video tutorial. I put ‘number of posts to show’: 2 and ‘offset by’ : 1 as you showed….and for some reason, when I go to the home page on my site and I click on page 2 or 3 to see prior posts, this message pops up:
Not found, error 404
The page you are looking for no longer exists. Perhaps you can return back to the site’s homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below.
and I can’t see any of my prior posts. Do you know why this might be happening?
thanks for all the great advice.
Hmm, that’s hard to say, but my best guess is that it has something to do with the options within that Featured Widget box. Have you checked to make sure “work with pagination” is selected?
Yes. I’ve checked both ‘work with pagination’ and ‘show page navigation’. Actually, I did it exactly how you showed in the tutorial. strange, huh? Any other thoughts on why this might be happening?
Thanks
Hmm, what’s the url showing on the 404 page?
emilyspasevski.com/page/2/
Hmm, I’m not sure, but I think your WordPress settings might be getting in the way.
Go to Settings -> Reading and set the “Blog pages show at most” to 4.
If that doesn’t work, maybe check out Shay’s tutorial to see if you can see where your problems might be: http://shaybocks.com/2013/09/25/how-to-configure-the-home-page/
It worked! My blog pages to show at most was set at 10.
Thank you.
First of all: Amazing site, thank you a million for your amazing advice!
I have a similiar problem in Foodie Pro. Some of the features have changed, and no matter what i do, I cant make it to display more pages than the start page. No “Next page”/ “1, 2, 3” etc. appears. Do you have a hint for me? Tried the “Blog post show at most” but it didnt helpt. Thanks a lot!
Hello! I have the same issue. Any ideas on how to solve this?
Hmm, I need to look into this more. Are you trying to show these page numbers at the bottom of the homepage or somewhere else?
I’m working on some FoodiePro tutorials to try and cover the changes and I’d love to have this issue understood and a possible long-term resolution.
Yes exactly, those at the bottom of the homepage.
Thank you so much in advance!
I am also experiencing the same issue: all I can get is one page. I also am not able to use the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, they are stating that it is not able to work with the Foodie Pro Theme. Would love to be able to create at the bottom of my recent postings the multiple pages that you have.
thanks
Tim
Thank you for your wealth of information! I am having the same problem too with only the home page showing and no way to get to previous or the “next page”. Strange!
Hey John! Thanks for your tutorials, they are such a great help!
I have a question, could you have 2 recipe pages? One for recipes and the other for, say ingredients? and keep them separate in 2 separate menus or is this not possible with the functionality of foodie?
Otherwise, could it be possible to codes something like that?
Thanks again for your help, Ive learnt so much in the last week about the world of WordPress, partly thanks to you!
Cheers
Gray
Hi Graydon,
It’s possible to have two recipe pages (although, a separate ingredient page might take a little bit more setup), but it will require custom coding that you will need to add the pages and call for them in your site functions.
If you want to have a menu that can relate to a category you’ve selected (such as “vegan”), you can actually add a category page from your menu options. Genesis automatically creates category pages and wordpress makes it pretty easy to add these pages to your menu (or dropdown menu).
If you wanted to have an entirely separate menu, it’d be more custom coding (creating a menu and calling for it in your pages).
Hope that helps!
Thanks for answering my question John, legend!
I have a friend who can potentially help me with coding.
Thanks again for the advice.
Cheers
Gray
Hi, I was wondering if you could give me some advice on how to track visitors to my blog. I’ve heard of google analytics, but it seems pretty complicated and I’m having some trouble figuring it out. I’ve also heard about wp.com stats…but I’m having similar problems. Can you give me some tips on how to get started with this, or maybe there’s something easier?
Thanks.
Google Analytics is probably the industry standard. After you sign up, you receive a little tracking code. If you’re using this theme, simply place that code in the Genesis Theme Settings under “wp_head()” script space and save!
Or, I’m sure you can find a plugin that would allow you to install it very easily.
thank you.
Hello, John! this Foodie review is just what I’ve been looking for, I can’t thank you enough for gathering so many great support resources in one article! I have a quick question, as I need to know the answer before buying Foodie for a client’s website – the live demo and all the screenshots of the theme show both top and right hand column ads for genesis on the theme. Are these just ad widgets I can turn off or are they permanent features? Thanks so much in advance, happy to have found your site!
Hi John,
I asked a question last month regarding the foodie theme. I’m still becoming accustom to this theme and I have another question. I have some widgets down the right side of my page, the problem is that they appear to be squashed together without any partitions …here is my website http://www.thatgirlcookshealthy.com. How do I create defined partitions, simliar to what this person has done http://www.ihearteating.com. As you can see this blogger’s widgets are more pronounced with sharp partitions, how would i achieve something similar? is this a code adjustment?
if so, I’m not very confident in doing that myself.
Hi Charlene!
Are you talking about the little sections separating the widgets (the ones with the little forks)?
If so, you have a couple ways to go about it, but both require writing a line of CSS. You would need to upload the image to your site, and then add it to your styling for the sidebar widgets.
Thank you. This is awesome stuff! I am currently building out my blog with the foodie theme. Did you alter the font on this site? The home page font looks a bit different. I have noticed quite a few changes on your site since these videos (fancy email subscription, cool circle face images). Any chance you may provide additional detail?
Hi Grant!
The tutorials were actually built on a fresh install so you could see exactly what you’d be getting with Foodie.
This site is a customized design I created, but it does use many of the same concepts. I’d love to do more tutorials in the future, but don’t have any ready yet.
At the same time, check out the Genesis forums if you have specific features you’re trying to figure out on your site. There’s lots of good information and very helpful people there.
Hope that helps!
Thanks John. Are any of these customizations explained in your wordpress ninja course?
Yes! In the Easy to Master Customizations, I cover Changing Fonts / Adding Google Fonts, Hyperlink changes, Sidebar changes, Setting Up Email Subscriptions, Installing a Custom Favicon, as well as 14 videos specific to helping Genesis theme owners really take advantage of their theme.
There will always be some things that fall out of the scope of what I’m able to cover, but the course should give you a general understand of where to look and how you might install the changes you’d like to see. Plus, there’s an HTML/CSS crash course that will help with figuring out these types of things.
Let me know if you give it a whirl!
John
Thanks so much for this helpful information. This helped me to decide to switch my site over to the Foodie theme. Changed it this morning and I LOVE it!
I was already using another recipe plugin that I really like and offers the same functionality just in different ways.
Only thing I have to now figure out is the footers in Foodie. They are a bit different than my last theme, with respect to the layout. I’ll have to consult the documentation. But that’s not a hindrance, just have to figure it all out!
Darren
Great to hear Darren! Yeah, the footers are a bit different, but they are pretty accessible once you get into them more. Thanks for letting me know of your success!
Thank you so much for these tutorials. I am currently building my blog on a temporary address (migrating from blogger to WordPress). Everything was working great until I get to the recipe bottom. Using the plug-in, I can’t get the dropdown to stay on “no content” – it only selects “show excerpt” and I can’t change it!
Hmm, that sounds odd. Might be worth trying to use it from a different browser or clearing your cookies. Let me know if that works!
Thank you so much! I was using Chrome, so I switched to Safari and it worked!!!! Thank you – I was not even thinking about changing browsers!
I had the same issue with chrome. Had to make a small change to the plugin through plugin > editor > select the plugin on the right. See:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-type-dropdown-wont-stay-open
I’m so glad to hear that you like the Foodie theme!!! I literally just installed genesis/foodie onto my blog last weekend! I’m loving it so far! I was impressed with how easy it was to install and customize. I am learning as I go and I found that with a simple google search you can pretty much find a how to on anything you’re trying to do :)
Question about the recipe plugin…. I know the theme recommends using easy recipe….But I’ve noticed a lot of food blogs use ZipList… what are your thoughts? Or are they pretty much the same thing and I just have no idea :)
Thanks!
Hey Alexandra!
Easy Recipe and Ziplist have different functions and can actually work together. Easy Recipe is the plugin that allows you to embed recipes on your site. Ziplist is an advertising company that allows your readers to “save” your recipes to their system. They give you a portion of their ad revenue and keep your recipe on their site. You can enable Ziplist through your Easy Recipe plugin settings.
Hope that clears it up!
So, I’m having a blast with this and it’s going great. I’m upgrading my Tumblr nutrition blog over to WordPress and I’m using Genesis/Foodie. I’m at a point though that I’m about to pull my hair out because I can’t figure out why none of my pages are showing up as links on my home page (Recipes is actually the only one I’ve attempted to add – but the “sample page” isn’t there either). I feel like I had to have unchecked a box somewhere to screw this up. What is goin on?!
Hmm, I’m not certain, but it sounds like you are trying to adjust your menu bar. Are you looking to add links to your pages under your logo?
If so, you can edit your menu from Appearance -> Menus. The Foodie Theme uses WordPress’ “Primary Navigation Menu.”
Let me know if that works!
Thanks, that’s what I was looking for as well
Angie
This was all SUPER helpful. Thanks so much!! XOXO
hi john!
thank you so much for making these awesome tutorials! i started using genesis and foodie in april and LOVE them!
i wish there’s an easy way to have more than one recipe index page, because i would use it for diy and travel index pages. if you know of any tutorials on that please let me know!
thank you for all the blogging tips as well. i so appreciate all the sharing from you and dana! xo
Hi, I’m wondering if you could help me out in connecting my pinterest account with my foodie theme website. Can i set it up so the pictures I post on my blog show up on my pinterest account directly?
Thanks alot, and thanks for all the tutorials. They’ve all been really helpful.
Hey Emily! I think you’re asking if there’s a way to allow your new posts to be automatically pinned to Pinterest. For now, there aren’t any great ways to do this. There are some paid third party plugins that seem to offer this functionality (here’s one), but I haven’t used them.
We just manually pin our images after the post has gone live. I assume more automated functionality will be offered with time, but it’s just not widely available yet.
Yes, that’s exactly what I was wondering. Thanks for the info.
Your blogger resources have been invaluable for me as I build my blog. :) Thank you so much! I have a quick question, and I’ve google’d around but I must not be using the correct terminology, so I was wondering if you knew. I’m going to have product reviews as well as some recipes on my blog. Is there a way to make an index that catalogs certain category posts somewhat like the recipe index? Does that make sense?
Thanks Christina!
If you’re asking to categorize posts into separate indexes, that certainly is possible. How exactly that gets displayed will depend on your theme and how much customization you’re able to do. At minimum, if you differentiate post using the category tags, you’ll automatically create a category index (such as https://minimalistbaker.com/category/vegan/).
Hope that helps!
Your posts are a godsend. I’ve been looking into the Foodie theme for about a week now and I love it! I just want to tweak a little bit, like the font or the color of the font and when I read that it’s possible without having to hire a web designer, my heart jumped. I’ll be doing more research before I actually start Foodie, but thanks so much for your help :) Rachel
Aww, thanks Rachel! Let me know if you have any questions or ideas of other topics I can cover to help people use it better!
Hi John,
Thanks for everything. I was able to create the recipe page but on your site, when you click More… it shows them as thumbnails instead of the full posts. Is there a feature within this plug in that does that or is it custom?
Please let me know when you have a moment.
Thanks,
Chelsea
Also, a tutorial on setting up the Genesis User Profile with Gravatar Image would be very helpful! I have looked at many forum threads and still can only get the Gravatar Logo to show up…
Thanks Chelsea!
Although I’m still utilizing the same plugin, I had to customize the code (both the php functions and css formatting). A lot of people have asked about this, so I might see if there’s some meaningful way to share how this might work.
Great idea on the User Profile too! Most of the data for this will be pulled from your WordPress User profile (should be accessible from the main dashboard -> users). Filling out the “biographical info” and enabling the Author box should be a good start.
Just another vote for a customization tutorial, if possible! I’m starting to get better at css, but am less comfortable editing the functions.php file unless I know exactly what to add/replace/change. Thanks for all of these resources, they are truly invaluable.
I am also desperately trying to figure this out! It just seems to be hard to navigate through all the recipes in a given category if they’re not set up as thumbnails.
Ps. Thank you for your guidance in everything! Your resources and tutorials have been a lifesaver!
Hi, John. I love how your recipe page is set up in that when you click to go to all the recipes in a category, you still get the thumbnails instead of the regular archive page. Could you send me in the right direction to create something similar. I am not afraid of coding, but might only know enough to get myself in trouble without direction.
Thanks Michelle!
To do what we have done you will need to jump in the code quite a bit. Sorry, but I haven’t seen any tutorials or even general guidance in this area. However, what you’re looking to do involves editing the recipe page functions (php) and some of the formatting (css).
Sorry I couldn’t be more help!
Thank you so much for answering! I am actually a web design student and have no problem with the css. I was supposed to take php this summer, but found out yesterday they canceled the class because only 8 people signed up to take it, so I am going to be trying to learn it on my own. I have played with it a little bit, but like I said before, probably just enough to get myself in trouble. I am very impatient and really don’t want to have to wait to take the class or fix this part of my own blog until fall, so I am going to try to figure it out.
Soooo glad I stumbled upon this, and thank you for sharing your knowledge so freely! Even though I’m not a food blogger I totally loved this theme and figured I could adapt it to what I need, and so far so good. My only hangup is adding the Recipe page (which I’m calling an Index page). I’ve set everything up correctly (as far as I can tell), and it says the page is published, but when I try to view it there’s a 404 error. I’m stumped! Any ideas?
Hmm, are you using both the “recipes top” and “recipes bottom” widget areas? I’ve noticed that the default setting doesn’t allow you to use the “recipes bottom” without the top section.
Yep, had the Categories/Archives/Search in the Recipe Top, and configured all the Genesis – Featured Widget Amplified things for each category in Recipe Bottom. I think it didn’t like that I named the page Index. I created a new page called Archives and used the Recipe Index and it worked – YAY!
I have another question if you don’t mind? If you know…
I’m using the Responsive Slider at the top of my home page and the pics in my posts that it’s pulling are all 500 wide, but not all of them are filling that space completely and I can’t figure out why. Did that make any sense? No worries if you don’t know, I can just remember to make my future pictures wider, it’s just driving me nuts.
Thanks!!
Hi, how can I purchase this without genesis? I already have genesis loaded but would like this theme. Thanks!
Hi there,
I have recently installed the foodie theme and I must admit that I am elated with the results. My still getting accustom to how it works, which brings me to my question. I’ve installed my recipe index with categories – at the moment I have 4 recipes showing with no content…how do I increase the thumbnail size for my recipe index and also once people click on them. That’s my biggest concern right now, I tried adjusted it in the widget area and it was far too big.
I’m not sure how to remedy this problem? I can give you a link to someone else who uses the foodie theme and you’ll see that her pictures are more visible and not to mentioned larger
Hi Charlene,
The example you linked to was a category page, such as the one you have here: http://thatgirlcookshealthy.com/category/recipes/breakfast
Technically, these are considered archive pages. You can change these settings within this menu: Genesis -> theme settings -> and under “content archives” you can adjust the thumbnail sizes.
If you are trying to display your home page or recipe page with bigger images, you will either have to use the defaults in the Genesis Featured Widget, manually change the thumbnail size within the php code, or adjust the CSS code to reduce the size of the bigger image placed.
Hope that helps!
Thank you!
I have managed to successfully adjust the problem with your assistance.
Hi John! Thank you for the awesome posts. I always seem to stumble onto Minimalist Baker and end up spending hours in the archives. Tonight, I’m researching the move to self-hosted WordPress from wordpress.com (still in the planning/don’t-get-overwhelmed stage).
This Foodie theme looks like an awesome choice for the Genesis framework. I know you can’t help us with all of our specific coding questions, but I thought maybe you’ve come across this question already.
The first, easy question:
Is there a way to display all posts in the sub-categories, instead of linking to the full category page, if I would prefer everything shown in this grid display?
And then the real question:
The FAQs from the developer say that the theme is only coded to include one recipe index, gridded, as shown. My blog is not really a recipe site (rather, that’s just one tiny category I would include). Instead, I was hoping to use this index setup for a few different category pages (like this archive as an example: http://www.abeautifulmess.com/decorate.html). The theme is so beautiful and simple, I can’t imagine finding a cleaner one for what I’d like to do.
Thank you again for all you guys do. :)
Hi Kristen!
Thanks for asking!
1. Assuming you’re talking about how many images show up under each category on the recipe page (the demo shows 8 for each category), then yes, that’s definitely possible! You can display as many of the posts as you’d like in each of the sub-categories on the recipe page. However, at a certain point, you’ll obviously need to be concerned with how many images are on a single page.
2. It’s possible to have indexing on multiple pages, but it’s going to take custom coding and design to make it work. If you feel comfortable with the code, it’s something you might be able to do. Otherwise, you could probably hire a freelancer to help.
Hope that helps!
HI John, (me again) Anyway I got the previous problem all sorted out, but i have a small problem, when i go to home bottom and i add no. of posts (i want to add 6) and no. of posts to offset 1 (followed your example) i end up with only showing 2 posts, no matter how many no. of posts i put, the only time it shows 6 is if i leave the offset at 0. Do you have any idea why? Thanks again. You guys are great.
Hey Rosemary! Sorry, I’ve been traveling – looks like you got it sorted out, right?
Hi John, yeah I did, thanks.
You guys are amazing! Thanks so much for sharing all of these tips. I’m about to purchase the Foodie theme and this post helps tremendously! I love your blog and all of your recipes. Your photography is amazing!
Aww, thanks Lindsay!
Hi John, well I thought all was well, until a few people told me when they log on the first page shows archives and categories in writing, how do i get rid of that, i have looked everywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Rosemary
Hey Rosemary! Looks like you simply have a few widgets in your “Top Ad” widget area.
Simply go to appearance -> widgets -> and find the “top ad” area. If you just drag those sections out, you should be set!
There should be more details on how to use the widgets in the theme documentation from Studiopress if you want to work with your widgets (sidebar, ads, etc.) more.
Hi John, I got it all sorted out, strange thing was I couldnt see it on the browser I normally use so I had to switch over to another one to see it and fix it. Thanks Rosemary
Hi John, I am going to be purchasing genesis/foodie, and i plan on following your videos for downloading. Question, my blog is about 4 months old and I have about 30 recipes, when I hit activate, will everything change over, my recipes etc? I am now on graphene theme so it will change to genesis? Sorry for dumb questions, but anytime i go technical, I scare myself. Thanks for your patience. Rose
Hi Rosemary! Those are great questions!
1. Your site’s content is separate from the theme. Think of your data (posts, pages, etc.) as independent of the way your site is laid out (theme). Therefore, when you switch themes, all your data stays there!
2. For the recipes, you’ll have to manually add them to the easy recipe plugin to have them show up as displayed in the theme preview. Although your recipe will still show on your post even if you don’t do this, there are good reasons to switch over to using this layout.
Lastly, it would still be wise to backup your data before any type of transfer or update to your site.
Hi John, just wanted to let you know, I downloaded genesis/foodie, and I love it, looks great if I do say so myself. Thanks for all your help and the videos were great. Rosemary
OK, nevermind… I got them to show up! (I should probably go to bed and come back in the morning haha) It only worked if I had something in both the Recipe Top section and Recipe Bottom Section. I was going for a simpler look and didn’t want the drop-down menus before the category section but oh well!
Thanks again :)
Thanks for the tidbit Courtney!
Your tutorials are SUPER helpful!
I set-up my “recipes” page exactly as outlined in your video above. However, nothing shows up when I click on that page in my menu… Any thoughts as to why this might be happening??
Hi, John! Thanks so much for taking the time to do these tutorials. They are very helpful. Question for you – how did you get the featured images to the left of your post excerpts on the home page? Does that require customization?
Thanks so much!
Hi Leslie!
Although you can get some variations by playing with the image placement and thumbnail size, the only way to have the image on the side of the text is to actually change the styling in your CSS. Sorry I couldn’t be more help!
Let me know if you have other questions!
Hi John,
Thank you so much for all of these tutorials. I just bought the foodie theme about two weeks ago and there has been quite a bit of a learning curve, so all of this really helps! Hopefully my Genesis knowledge will continue to increase!
So great to hear Shelby! Keep at it!
Love this post! I recently switched to the Foodie Theme and totally LOVE IT. It’s made astronomical changes to my traffic and pageviews. One of the most recent posts on Shay’s blog highlights a lot of the changes and benefits.
I do have a few questions though:
What cache system/plugin word work best with the theme?
Is it possible to make the featured image larger (in height) for my Home Middle, which only shows my most recent post?
How can you change the Home Bottom featured posts so that the content is to the right of the post so you don’t have two posts side by side (similar to your homepage)?
How can someone add the email subscription plugin/form under a post?
Sorry for all the questions I’m just trying to perfect my blog :) love you guys btw!
Thanks Andres!
1. Caching – I haven’t don’t much testing with this as my host (WP Engine) has a built-in caching mechanism that works great. However, I’m sure w3tc or supercache would work great.
2. Changing the way the homepage displays potentially involves creating and calling different size thumbnails and custom css styling. However, you can get some variations that might work for you by changing the featured image size, alignment, and show content options within the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin.
3. Adding the email box can be done by registering a widget and placing it at the bottom of your pages. Then you place the eNews extended plugin there. Check out this post: http://www.carriedils.com/after-entry-widget/
Hope that helps!
Hi! What a great review. I stumbled upon Foodie yesterday and downloaded it and installed it in a couple of hours (inclusive of plugins, customizations, etc.) I’m still playing around but I know I’m going to love it even more in a few days. AND, your blog is amazing. Thank you for sharing all your tricks and great, great recipes.
Thanks Andrea! Let me know if you think of other tutorials of the foodie theme you’d like to see!
HI! Yes. I would like to know how to:
1. Add a background color only to the sidebar column
2. Customize the Email Subscription widget (mostly add a fill color or custom button).
How does that sound?
Thank you!
I’d love to know how to change the side bar color too. I’m sure it’s a CSS thing.. maybe.
What a great review! I am just setting up my own blog, and was wondering if you could post any tutorials on editing the css to really customize the Foodie theme.
I know there are articles that describe it, but I’m a lot more comfortable playing around with that stuff watching someone do it in a YouTube video, speaking understandable English!
Some things that I would be interested in would be editing the menu (specifically, making it so there isn’t a line above and below it), and the font color, which you mentioned.
Just a thought! And thank you for the great resources!