The 15 Best Plugins for Food Bloggers? I'm glad you asked! Starting and designing a food blog can be overwhelming but there are companies out there constantly creating software that make the process so much easier.
One of the great perks of designing a WordPress-managed site is a blogger's access to "plugins." Plugins are individual pieces of software that "plug-in" to your WordPress site. Each plugin adds new functionality to your site, allowing you to design a space that both looks and operates like other food blogs you see on the web.
The following plugins are necessary to make a food blog functional and user-friendly. These plugins will aid in SEO as well as making your site comprehensive and beautiful to look at.
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Top 15 Plugins for Food Bloggers
Tasty Recipes
Tasty Recipes is a WordPress plugin that makes entering your recipes so much easier! This plugin is Pinterest compatible and GREAT for SEO. It even has several customizable recipe card themes! An absolute must!
Tasty Roundups
Tasty Roundups is a WordPress Plugin that allows you to easily compile multiple posts into one place, i.e. "roundups" of your existing content. The plugin pulls images and links from these individual posts to save you the time and hassle. Top 10 Vegan Cupcakes anyone?
Tasty Pins
Pinterest is incredibly important for food bloggers. Tasty Pins optimizes all of the images on your site for Pinterest and makes it easy for people to pin content directly from your site to their own Pinterest boards! The plugin allows you to add a Pinterest description to each individual image or even disable pinning altogether.
Tasty Links
Adding links (affiliate or otherwise) to your blog has never been so easy. With this plugin, all you need to do is type the word or phrase you would like linked and it will automatically appear anywhere on your blog. Magic!
Feast
The Feast plugin is the provider of what I consider to be the ultimate food blog themes. When downloaded, this plugin gives you access to 5 premium food blog themes, continual updates, great customer support and enhanced customization.
WP Rocket
WP Rocket is the #1 caching plugin on WordPress! It increases your site speed, improves your site's web performance scores and optimizes Core Web Vitals. This all in one performance plugin will make your site perform well with Google which is what the blogging game is all about!
Jetpack
Jetpack is an important plugin for site security. With VaultPress it offers real time backups and one-click restores of your blog's content. Jetpack also scans for malware to ensure that you and your readers will not fall victim to cyber attack.
ShortPixel
ShortPixel is a lightweight image compression plugin. The larger your image file sizes the slower your website. As food blogs have TONS of imagery, this is an incredibly important plugin to invest in. Google doesn't like slow websites!
Yoast SEO
Yoast is an absolute must-have plugin for a food blogger. Yoast works with you to ensure each of your blog posts is SEO optimized for Google while you are writing it! They even have a free option if you aren't ready for premium.
Akismet
Think of Akismet as a body guard for your comment section. This plugin will protect you from malware, bots and spam comments. It's even included in your Jetpack subscription!
Nutrifox
Nutrifox is a nutrition label generator! It creates nutrition labels that are the perfect addition to your recipe cards. Just copy and paste in your ingredients and Nutrifox will give you a label!
Convert Kit
Every food blogger needs an email list. Convert Kit offers great tools to help you build your list AND keep sending emails with automation features. The CK plugin allows you to embed subscriber forms into your posts and sidebars making it easier than ever to get those emails!
Monster Insights
Monster Insights is a fantastic analytics plugin. It allows you to see your Google Analytics Dashboard right on your website and provides you with real time stats as well as affiliate links and ads tracking!
WPCode Lite
WPCode Lite is a great FREE plugin if you, like me, are not the most confident when it comes to code. This plugin allows you to add code to the header, footer and body of your site without having to edit your actual theme. #lifehack
Pretty Links
Pretty Links is great for making links for social media and redirect. This plugin allows you to take a very long link and turn it into a shorter, prettier version. Do not underestimate the power of a short link!
Need more help?
If you are just starting out and do not have a blog set up yet, definitely check out my post on How to Start a Food Blog! Here I will show you how to set up a food blog step by step. We will also cover everything from web hosting to website beautification! I also share some tools you can use to make this process as easy as possible.
Once you are up and running, you can return here to start adding in the Best Plugins for Food Bloggers!
To better learn how to install and utilize these plugins I would heartily recommend joining the Food Blogger Pro Community. Food Blogger Pro has archives upon archives of video tutorials teaching people how to set up and manage a food blog. Truly a great value!
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