How To Create a Recipe Blog in WordPress with WP Recipe Maker

Here, we’re going to create a new post and add a recipe to it.

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard
2. Create a new post
3. Add your post content
4. Click the WP Recipe Maker button at the top of the content field

As prompted, you may begin filling in the recipe data.

Recipe Name

The name as it will appear on the recipe card

Servings

How many servings the recipe produces (helpful for calculating nutrition facts)

Ingredients

The individual amount and ingredient required

Instructions

The steps required to make the recipe

Now that you’ve added a recipe to this post, you can edit both the post and recipe from the same location.

As we did above, we will go into our posts area, select a post, and edit our recipe from there:

1. Select Posts from inside your Dashboard
2. Select the post associated with your recipe
3. Click the Edit Recipe button, or click within the recipe itself

Alternatively, you can edit your recipes from within the WP Recipe Maker interface. If you click Manage under WP Recipe Maker, you will see a list of all recipes and the parent post associated with it.

In order to follow along, make sure you have access to the admin area of your WordPress installation.

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard
2. Select WP Recipe Maker from the left side panel
3. Click the Ingredients tab at the top of the page

Here, you will see a list of all the ingredients you’ve used on your site. Alongside each entry in the table, you will see a link to the “parent” post: this is the post item associated with that recipe.

You can easily delete ingredients by selecting them via the checkbox next to each ingedient. Once done, click the Delete selected Ingredients button.

As we did above, we will go into our posts area, select a post, and edit our recipe from there:

1. Select Posts from inside your Dashboard
2. Select the post associated with your recipe
3. Click the Edit Recipe button, or click within the recipe itself

Alternatively, you can edit your recipes from within the WP Recipe Maker interface. If you click Manage under WP Recipe Maker, you will see a list of all recipes and the parent post associated with it.

In order to follow along with the steps below, be sure that you have access to your WordPress Dashboard.

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard
2. Select WP Recipe Maker from the left side panel
3. Click the Courses tab

You will now see a table listing all of the courses you have available, and on the right of the table, you will see links to recipes associated with those courses.

Following the same steps as above, you can search by cuisine. Instead of clicking the Courses tab click Cuisines. This way, you can see of the various cuisines and their associated recipes. You can create other types of cuisines when adding recipes to posts.

While adding recipes to your site, you will be able to automatically calculate the nutritional content of your meal divided by the number of servings your recipe yields. Now your readers will be able to make an informed decision about whether or not your recipe meets their diet goals; and this makes your site look more professional (win win).

You can create Nutrition Facts information for a recipe when it is being newly created or edited.

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard
2. Create a new post
3. Add your post content
4. Click the WP Recipe Maker button at the top of content field
5. Fill in ingredients and instructions
6. Click the Nutrition Facts tab at the top of the window
7. Click the Calculate Nutrition Facts button

The WP Recipe Maker plugin uses a food data API to get the nutrient data for your ingredients. If the API found an incorrect food item, you can click the link to edit it. Once satisfied with the selections, click Calculate Nutrition Facts again, and, everything is correct, click Use these values.

What if a certain ingredient was not available in the food database? Or, what if you want to use a specific brand? No worries. You can easily create a custom food item and input the data manually.

1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard (if you aren’t already)
2. Select WP Recipe Maker from the left side panel
3. Click the Custom Nutrition tab at the top of the page
4. Click the Create Custom Nutrition Ingedient button
5. Fill in the custom nutrition data
6. Click Save

Now, your custom item has been added. You can also edit this ingredient from the same menu.

That’s how you can create a professional-looking Nutrition Facts label for your recipes using the WP Recipe Maker plugin.

You now know just about all you need to start publishing your recipes to the public through your blog. But, you will want to read on to find out how you can accept user ratings. This is a chance for your readers to rate their favorite recipes. It’s also a golden opportunity for you to discover which of your recipes is making the most impact.

As needed, you can enable and disable two different kinds of star ratings: Comment Ratings and User Ratings. Both of them allow readers to add a star rating, but they have slightly different capabilities.

Enabling Comment Ratings means that users will be able to add a rating when leaving a comment. Stars will appear by the comment field.

Enabling User Ratings means that users will be able to rate a recipe using stars without requiring them to leave a comment.

If you’ve been following along in our series, you now have a solid grasp on the fundamentals of using the WP Recipe Maker plugin with your WordPress Hosting account. If you have any comments, questions, or requests, be sure to leave a comment below. We always appreciate feedback.