What is a WordPress Plugin?
Plugins that enhance your WordPress with the advanced features available in bits of codes are called WordPress Plugins. These plugins are available in large numbers either free or paid service depending on the type of features you need to have.
There are two best places to get your WordPress Plugins: WordPress.org, Third Party developers, and CodeCanyon.
WordPress. org is one of the best directories and CodeCanyon gives you some exclusive deals while Third-Party Developers sell the plugins through their sites for which Google is the best source to find such services.
Now without wasting any time, let’s quickly jump into the best WordPress Plugins that are highly recommended for Food Bloggers:
Visual Effects & Animation Kit for Elementor
Make your personal or business site look more striking with the help of the Visual Effects and Animation Kit plugin. Being fully compatible with the Elementor page builder, the plugin features a collection of 6 modules that help you enhance the visual appeal of your site with non-standard visual effects and animations.
The plugin will come in handy for many topic-specific projects, including websites of marketing & advertising services, business consultants, website design, mobile development companies, etc.
Visual Effects and Animation Kit plugin includes the mouse helper, image effects, image mask, dynamic background, background text, and background slides modules. Activate any or all of them after the plugin’s installation and adjust the module’s settings the way you need them.
WP Recipe Maker
WP Recipe Maker is one of the easiest WordPress plugin options to use. It has some amazing features like Adding recipes to your post, Metadata which is optimized with Google Search Engine, synchronizes with Yoast SEO, integrates with Pinterest Pins, Structured guidelines for including your recipes with your metadata.
Yummly
WP Recipe Maker is one of the easiest WordPress plugin options to use. It has some amazing features like Adding recipes to your post, Metadata which is optimized with Google Search Engine, synchronizes with Yoast SEO, integrates with Pinterest Pins, Structured guidelines for including your recipes with your metadata.
CookBook
WP Recipe Maker is one of the easiest WordPress plugin options to use. It has some amazing features like Adding recipes to your post, Metadata which is optimized with Google Search Engine, synchronizes with Yoast SEO, integrates with Pinterest Pins, Structured guidelines for including your recipes with your metadata.
Pinterest Sidebar Widget
Pinterest Pin It Button
There is a Weblizar Pin that gives you the feature of putting pins on your blogs, posts, and images on your Pinterest Dashboard. It is user-friendly and multi-linguistic which makes it easier for the users to make the most out of it. Also, it is supported by multi-sites available on WordPress to increase the functionality and enable development in favor of user’s support.
Yoast SEO
It is one of the best WordPress SEO plugins that get the most visitors from Google and Bing. It increases the user’s engagement and attracts a pool of people from social media. You can also get access to Yoast SEO academy courses to learn about high- performing keywords, keyword optimization, readability check, control over breadcrumbs, links marked as no- follow or sponsored, content insights and a lot more available 24/7.
Zip Recipes
It is the best-customized app designed for making succulent food recipes. There is an option of Automatic Nutrition Feature which helps you to calculate the nutrition rate required for your food recipe. Your viewers can share your recipe on Pinterest, BigOven, and Yummly by using your own social icons from your theme to optimize your reach on your social media.
Recipe Box
It is a cookbook 2.0 version available for all foodies. It provides you with a recipe library where you can easily import the recipes from anywhere available on the Internet. In this way, your users can use your food blogs and save in their personal recipe library. You being a food blogger, can specify the filters: Use of ingredients, categories, health benefits, etc and make it suitable for your users to shop from the supermarkets through the list of ingredients available.
Tasty Recipes
I opened the website and saw right in front of me, Chicken Parmesan Stuffed Garlic Bread with its mouth-watering picture. Who would dare to escape such food content! There are 60+ options customised for you so that plugin makes your recipe look the way you want. Users rate your recipes and you can also add on some features like description, relevant image, the time required, category, method of cooking, etc; only if you wish to add.
Big Oven
Start from appetizers, end up with desserts. You have got A-Z food content covered through Big Oven. Not only that, there are handpicked seasonal collections by the editors along with the handpicked articles. Your cooking is completely simplified by searching your favorite recipes and getting inspiration, planning meals, making grocery lists, reducing food waste, everything on one device.
VaultPress
The most important plugin you can’t miss out on! VaultPress allows you to protect from Malware, host attack, phishing, spoofing, or any other unethical malpractice being occurred. It is a real-time backup and security plugin now powered by JetPack. You can back up all your posts, comments, recipes, files, or even dashboards with their servers with quiet safety assurance.
Easy Recipe
As the name suggests, it is a very easy plugin you can use for featuring your recipes and posting your food content. It gives you separate tags for your varying categories. Choose according to your category and bifurcate your food content concisely. Easy Recipe is a very responsive plugin for all your food pages and content.
Final Thoughts
Ignoring the above-mentioned list is no- brainer. Although there are ample plugins available for enhancing your WordPress- Food Blogging, keep in mind the plugins mentioned in this blog.
Try out which one suits you the best and use it accordingly. Depending on the preference of opting for free or premium ones, I would suggest Yummly, Tasty Recipes are the best on the list for the paid services. CookBook coming after that! The rest of them also provide the same kind of benefits. But my personal preferences are these three!
Rest is what you decide. Good luck with your food blogging. If the content itself is satisfactory, results are bound to occur.
