Description
👉 Delicious Recipes Pro is now available.
👉 Step by Step Video Tutorials
Delicious Recipes is a powerful recipe plugin that is flexible and very easy to use. It is a feature-rich plugin that creates and displays recipes from your WordPress Dashboard.
In addition, Delicious Recipes is SEO optimized and schema-friendly. Therefore, this makes it a lot easier for search engines to rank your recipes higher and social networks to display information about your recipes accordingly.
The plugin includes lots of essential features like recipe image and video galleries, unlimited recipe creation, nutrition charts, detailed text instructions, printable recipe options, an advanced and powerful search, and many more.
The plugin also includes a User Dashboard which allows your readers to register on your website and browse your recipes. Your readers can even add your recipes to their favorites list.
In addition, your readers can also rate your recipes which will eventually boost your recipes ranking.
Delicious Recipes includes a Recipe Index page that lists all your recipes, making it easier for your readers to browse your published recipes. In addition, it also includes page templates for recipes courses, cooking methods, cuisines, recipes keys and tags which categorize your recipes.
Delicious Recipes uses the powerful WordPress REST API from WordPress core to create and manage recipes. The user interface is built using advanced WordPress development patterns using React JS and full compatibility with the new Gutenberg Editor.
Themes Compatible with Delicious Recipes
- Blossom Recipe by Blossom Themes
- Blossom Recipe Pro by Blossom Themes
- Vilva by Blossom Themes
- Vilva Pro by Blossom Themes
- Yummy Recipe by Blossom Themes
- Cookery by Blossom Themes
- Cookery Lite by Blossom Themes
- Cook Recipe by Blossom Themes
Key Features
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Onboarding Process – Upon the activation of the plugin, a detailed walkthrough is given during the onboarding process to customize the essential settings of the plugin quickly.
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Unlimited Recipes – You can create unlimited professional-looking recipes for your extensive recipes website needs.
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SEO-Friendly – It is Google Structured Data optimized and supports schema, which helps your recipes rank better and higher on search engines.
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Beautiful Recipe Card – It has a clean and beautiful recipe card to elegantly display your recipes.
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Advanced Search – The plugin includes an advanced search option that allows your readers to filter and find the recipes easily.
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Pinterest Rich Pins Support – With the Schema markup, your recipes will appear on Pinterest as Rich Recipe Pins.
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Recipe Archive Layouts – It has an amazing List and Grid layout available for displaying your recipes.
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Star Rating – Your readers can rate your recipes and share their valuable feedback.
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6 Customizable Widgets – It has highly customizable and easy-to-use recipe widgets like Featured Recipes, Recipe Tags, Recipe Category, Popular Recipes, Recent Recipes and Recipe Keys.
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User Dashboard – Your readers can easily register on your website, browse your recipes and add recipes to their favorites list.
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Customizable Email Templates – You can customize different email templates sent to your readers on registration and password reset.
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Custom Recipe Units – You can also add your custom units to predefined units for ingredients.
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Custom Icons – You can easily upload custom icons for your recipe keys, courses, cooking methods and recipe tags.
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Customize Colors – It allows you to customize the appearance of your recipes by choosing the colors of your choice.
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Permalink Settings – You can easily change the permalinks to customize the URL structure as per your preference.
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Surprise Me Feature – You can add this feature to your menu or through shortcode on posts and pages, which will load random recipes for your readers on click. It helps to improve user engagement on your site further.
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Social Sharing – You can easily configure social sharing for Instagram and Pinterest.
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Author Profile – You can display your information on each of your recipes along with your social media profiles.
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Customizable Print Page – The plugin offers the flexibility to customize the appearance of your recipe print page. You can enable or disable the displayed information on the print page.
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Nutrition Chart – You can display your recipes’ nutrition values and customize different settings related to them.
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Image Gallery & Lightbox – You can add multiple images of your recipes to inspire your readers.
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Video Gallery – If you have a step by step instruction video, you can also create a video gallery to make it easier for your readers to follow along.
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Clean Interface – It has a clean and minimal user interface, making it easier for everyone to navigate and publish recipes.
9 Gutenberg Recipe Blocks
The plugin includes 9 Gutenberg Recipe Blocks that offer you the flexibility to create and share your recipes. The blocks included are:
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Dynamic Recipe Card – Using this block, you can add your recipes information within posts and pages by filling in the required information.
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Recipe Details – This block allows you to add the information related to the recipes, such as difficulty level, recipe time, servings, calories, best seasons and so on.
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Recipe Ingredients – With this block, you can add all ingredients required for preparing the recipes.
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Recipe Instructions – Using this block, you can provide step-by-step instructions to prepare the recipes.
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Recipe Nutrition – With this block, you can add the nutrition information of the recipes you are sharing.
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Recipe Buttons – This block includes Jump to Recipes, Jump to Video and Print Recipe buttons making it easier for your readers to navigate.
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Handpicked Recipes – This block allows you to select the published recipes and display them on your posts or pages. You can even create your custom list of recipes using this block to share it with your readers.
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Recipes by Taxonomy – You can select the taxonomy and display the recipes published using this block. You can use this block to create your Recipe Index page as well.
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Recipe Card – This block allows you to embed your published recipes within posts or pages.
Delicious Recipes Pro Features
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Front End Recipe Submission – It enables recipe submission on your site to make it easier for your readers to submit recipes.
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Analytics Dashboard – This feature helps you analyze the stats of every published, pending and submitted recipe in terms of total likes and ratings.
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Promote Equipment You Use – The Pro version allows you to list different equipment you use to create your recipe on the recipe card. In addition, you can add affiliate links and promote the affiliate products to increase your website’s revenue.
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Floating Recipe Bar – It adds a sticky bar on your recipe post, including some essential features like Focused Reading mode, timer, social sharing, etc.
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Advanced Rating System – With the Pro version, your readers can easily rate your recipes or ask questions. It also allows your readers to upload images while leaving the rating.
Screenshots
Recipe Cards block 
User Dashboard - Favorites 
Settings - General Settings 
Settings - Recipe Details 
Settings - Appearance 
Settings - Social Share 
Settings - Nutrition 
Recipes - Recipe Info 
Recipes - Ingredients 
Recipes Instructions 
Recipes - Gallery
Blocks
This plugin provides 9 blocks.
- Recipe Card
- Recipe Instructions
- Recipe Buttons
- Recipe Ingredients
- Recipe Nutrition
- Dynamic Recipe Card
- Recipe Details
- Recipes by Taxonomy
- Handpicked Recipes
Installation
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select delicious-recipes.zip from your computer
- Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download delicious-recipes.zip
- Extract the delicious-recipes directory to your computer
- Upload the delicious-recipes directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
FAQ
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Is Delicious Recipes SEO and Schema Friendly?
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Yes, Delicious Recipes is crafted keeping better SEO practices in mind. It’s SEO-ready and Scheme-friendly design helps you outrank your competitors and land on higher search engine spots.
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Yes, your readers can easily read, share, and even rate all of your recipes. To further promote user engagement, this plugin also lets viewers leave their feedback on your recipes.
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Does Delicious Recipes work with any theme?
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The Delicious Recipes plugin is compatible with most of the themes and WordPress version 5.1 or higher. However, the plugin may not render the same look as the compatible WordPress themes.
Therefore, we recommend using compatible themes to make sure the plugin works smoothly without any issues.
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Is the Delicious Recipes plugin compatible with Gutenberg?
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Yes, the Delicious Recipes plugin is fully compatible with Gutenberg. We have packed 9 Gutenberg blocks that make adding recipes a breeze.
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Can I translate Delicious Recipes into another language?
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Delicious Recipes is a translation-ready plugin and supports localization. Thus, you can easily translate your recipes into any other language with a few clicks.
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Will readers be able to print recipes easily?
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Yes, readers will be able to print recipes easily. We have added a beautiful Print template to this plugin. It lets your viewers easily print out a hard copy of your recipes and even customize the template as they see fit.
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Can I request a feature?
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Yes, you can provide us with your valuable feedback for the Delicious Recipes plugin. You can easily submit your feature request here.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Delicious Recipes – WordPress Recipe Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.3.2 – 31st August 2021
- New Feature – Recipe keys and Recipe tags filter added for Recipe Search.
- Enhancement – Ingredient and Instruction section sorting enhancements.
- Fixes – Enable/Disable FontAwesome Icons JS configurations added.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.3.1 – 23rd August 2021
- Fixes – Compatibility fixes for Delicious Recipes Pro.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.3.0 – 23rd August 2021
- Fixes – Compatibility update for new features.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.2.4 – 9th August 2021
- Fixes – Permalink settings update issue resolved.
- Fixes – H1 tags changed to H2 on registration forms for SEO purposes.
- Fixes – Vimeo thumbnail and video play issue resolved.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.2.3 – 28th July 2021
- Enhancement – WordPress 5.8 compatibility updates.
- Enhancement – Deprecated filter and unsupported attributes resolved.
- Fixes – Sidebar missing in Search page resolved.
- Fixes – Recipe search overriding posts search resolved.
- Fixes – User Dashboard form displayed on print page fixed.
- Fixes – rel nofollow noopener added for social links.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.2.2 – 3rd June 2021
- Enhancement – Search Recipe simple factor filters enhancements.
- Enhancement – Instructions and Ingredients section titles added on Print screen.
- Fixes – Handpicked Recipes block initial load and draft recipe issue resolved.
- Fixes – Smooth scroll conflict with Woocommerce resolved.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.2.1 – 27th May 2021
- Enhancement – Updated Wishlists to Favorites.
- Enhancement – Email header image enhancements.
- Fixes – Authenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability fixes.
- Fixes – Recipe Print page JS library optimizations.
- Fixes – Escaping and sanitizing data.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
Major Update Release
1.2.0 – 24th May 2021
- New Feature – User Dashboard – Add a user dashboard to your website, where users can sign up, browse recipes, add to their favorites.
- New Feature – Favorites – Create a personalized list with your favorite recipes.
- New Feature – Email Templates – Customizable email templates for new user created and reset password.
- Enhancement – Enable/disable Pinit Button settings added.
- Fixes – Reordering description and ingredients position in the Print page template.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.8 – 19th April 2021
- Enhancement – Print page excluded from Google Search, ‘noindex’ meta tag added.
- Enhancement – WP Rocket and Avada Lazy load disabled on Print page.
- Enhancement – Intl extension check added, to resolve fatal error on Recipe pages.
- Enhancement – Search form modification for multilangual search compatibility.
- Enhancement – SEO Meta description support added for single recipe pages.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.7 – 6th April 2021
- New Feature – Settings added – Enable/Disable Recipe Featured Image.
- New Feature – Settings added – Enable/Disable automatic cropping of featured image in recipe single, archive and search pages.
- Enhancement – Sorting words with Accents.
- Enhancement – WPML config file updated.
- Fixes – Time calculation in Dynamic Recipe card and Recipe Details b fixed.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.6 – 16th March 2021
- Enhancement – Text edit support added on Text editor mode.
- Enhancement – Recipe Tag permalink support added.
- Enhancement – “Recipes by Ingredient” search enhancement.
- Enhancement – Freemius 2.4.2 updated.
- Enhancement – WPML config file updated with missing strings.
- Fixes – Conflict resolved with Elementor.
- Fixes – jQuery deprication issue fixes.
- Fixes – Recipe design issue fixes.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.5 – 8th March 2021
- Enhancement – WordPress 5.7 compatibility testing.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.4 – 8th March 2021
- New Feature – Recipe Onboarding screen added for new installation.
- New Feature – What’s New page added with helpful information and support links.
- Enhancement – WordPress 5.7 compatibility testing.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.3 – 25th February 2021
- Fixes – WPML config file added.
- Fixes – Recipes by Taxonomy b issue fixes.
- Fixes – Small size custom icons upload issue fixes.
- Fixes – Video embeds and shortcode support added for Instructions and Description.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.2 – 12th February 2021
New Features
* Custom Icons – A feature to upload custom icons for Taxonomies.
* Custom Units – A feature to add custom quantity units for ingredients.
* Mark as complete – A feature to mark your instruction steps as complete.
- Enhancement – WPML compatibility support added.
- Fixes – Classic Editor collapsible issue fixes.
- Fixes – Decimal support added for nutrition fields
- Fixes – Design issue fixes.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.1 – 3rd February 2021
- Fixes – Nutrition Facts Schema enhancements.
- Fixes – Translation enhancements.
- Fixes – Ingredient measurement units translation fixes for Pinterest Card.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.1.0 – 26th January 2021
- New Feature – Gutenberg bs – Recipe Nutrition and Recipe Buttons blocks added.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.0.9 – 12th January 2021
- Fixes – Typo fixes and string updates.
- Fixes – Minor design fixes.
Major Update Release
1.0.8 – 11th January 2021
- New Feature – Gutenberg Blocks – Dynamic Recipe Card, Recipe Ingredients, Recipe Instructions and Recipe Details blocks added.
- New Feature – Structured Data support added for Dynamic Recipe Card block.
- New Feature – Print Recipe support added for Dynamic Recipe Card block.
- Enhancement – SVG and Design enhancements.
- Enhancement – Compatibility added for WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8.
- Fixes – Widgets and translation enhancements.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.0.7 – 15th December 2020
- Fixes – Recipes by Taxonomy block enhancement.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.0.6 – 4th December 2020
- New Feature – ‘Surprise Me’ shortcode and nav menu link added.
- Enhancement – Freemius integration added.
- Enhancement – MAC responsive design enhancement.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
1.0.5 – 24th November 2020
- Enhancement – Translation support for best season and difficulty level strings.
- Fixes – Resolved issue with Classic Editor.
- Fixes – Minor bug fixes.
- Fixes – Minor responsive design fixes.
1.0.4 – 23rd October 2020
- New feature – Recipes Import – WP Recipe Maker support added.
- Enhancement – Translation support for admin JS strings.
- Enhancement – Added new Recipe Editor user role.
- Fixes – Minor design fixes.
1.0.3 – 16th October 2020
- New feature – Gutenberg Blocks – Recipe Card block added.
- Enhancement – Admin strings translation support added.
- Enhancement – Added support for popup gallery even when recipe featured image is not set.
- Fixes – Nutrition Facts display issue resolved.
- Fixes – Minor design fixes.
1.0.2 – 14th October 2020
- Enhancement – Compatibility added for Blossom Recipe, Blossom Recipe Pro theme.
- Fixes – Typography fixes for plugin supported pages.
- Fixes – Private recipe view issue resolved.
- Fixes – Minor design fixes.
1.0.1 – 13th October 2020
- New Feature – Recipes Import – Blossom Recipe Maker support added.
- New Feature – Gutenberg Blocks – Handpicked Recipes and Recipes by Taxonomy added.
- Fixes – Draft recipe preview issue resolved.
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Fixes – Minor design fixes.
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Initial Release.
1.0.0 – 2nd October 2020
- Initial Release.