{"id":194,"date":"2020-10-20T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodiedigital.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2024-09-17T23:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T23:33:50","slug":"best-wordpress-recipe-card-plugins-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodiedigital.com\/best-wordpress-recipe-card-plugins-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"3 best WordPress recipe card plugins compared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Which WordPress recipe card plugin is the best and easiest to use? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this post, we break down the pros and cons, considerations, costs, and main benefits of today\u2019s top three recipe card plugins for WordPress, all of which have worked with extensively:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before diving into the comparison, it\u2019s important to first say that all three recipe card plugins are excellent, well-supported, credible options for recipe SEO<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The decision really comes down to budget, look and feel, if you use affiliate links to monetize your food blog, plus a few extra features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At a high-level the biggest difference between the three recipe card plugins is that Create<\/a> and Tasty Recipes<\/a> are both simplified recipe management compared to WP Recipe Maker<\/a>, which is robust and flexible, but requires more back-end effort to benefit from its great feature base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 80% of the Foodie Digital community uses WP Recipe Maker premium<\/a>; and the remaining 20% of the community uses Tasty Recipes.<\/p> <\/div> Yes. Compared to the free version of WP Recipe Maker, the premium version<\/a> of the plugin unlocks several valuable features, including adding an internal link on recipe author name.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n Using a recipe card plugin<\/a> to automatically generate structured data, more specifically JSON-LD Schema Markup, unlocks a long list of possibilities for your recipe content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A few of the big wins are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contrary to popular belief there\u2019s no ranking benefit for using structured data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What structured data does do\u2014in the form of a rich snippet and featured snippets\u2014is provide the possibility for increased clickthrough and conversion rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n A rich snippet for a recipe encourages a searcher to take that highly competitive first click. It uses star ratings and reviews as forms of social proof. Once the searcher does clickthrough, it\u2019s up to you wow that visitor and give them a reason to become a loyal returning reader<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The task of entering ingredients and instructions, plus keywords, cuisine, prep time, cook time and more into a recipe card plugin is admittedly a bit tedious but be thorough, it\u2019ll pay off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Completeness is key when it comes to success with structured data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The business of food blogging has changed a lot in the past few years. Maintaining a well built, block editor compatible, future-proofed recipe card plugin for WordPress isn\u2019t easy or inexpensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A few recipe plugin developers have shut their doors, shifted focus or not maintained the plugin\u2019s feature base to keep up with current standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re actively using one of these WordPress recipe cards plugins, we suggest you start to planning a switch soon. Create, Tasty Recipes and WP Recipe Maker all offer importer tools that make making a change relatively seamless and straightforward. More on that below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alright, let’s dive in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost: Free!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Create by Mediavine<\/a> is a WordPress recipe card plugin from the Florida-based ad network. You don\u2019t have to be a Mediavine publisher to use Create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create is lightweight and its feature base is as expected. It’s a good option for Recipe and ItemList<\/a> structured data mark-up for Google and supports rich pins for Pinterest too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nashville\u2019s Purr Designs<\/a> worked with Mediavine to create several thoughtfully designed recipe card themes, which add value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re required to individually format ingredients and instructions (as opposed to be putting them into pre-set fields like in WP Recipe Maker<\/a>); some people love the flexibility, some don\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the future, what this means is that if you choose to make a format or layout change to your recipe instructions or ingredients you have to make the change manually in each post\u2014there is no way to make formatting changes globally in the CSS in the recipe card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You’ll want to make sure you settle on a recipe format you really love because changing it down the road isn\u2019t a quick fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, tagging an external link nofollow for compliance<\/a> has to be done manually link by link in the recipe card. There is no way to make all external links nofollow by default in the recipe card’s settings. Not a showstopper but an important detail to be aware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost: $49 USD per year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasty Recipes<\/a> by WP Tasty (the same development team behind Tasty Pins<\/a> and Tasty Links<\/a>) is a good option for structured data mark-up for Google and Pinterest, including rich pins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a visual recipe card with several nice-looking theme options, and the recipe input interface in WordPress is easy to use and intuitive. It\u2019s lightweight, with no extra bells and whistles that\u2019ll slow you down unnecessarily. Tasty Recipes is tried and tested\u2014it\u2019s definitely a credible, trusted choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just like Create, you\u2019re required to individually format ingredients and instructions (as opposed to be putting them into pre-set fields like in WP Recipe Maker<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, just like with Create, in the future if you choose to make a format or layout change to your recipe instructions or ingredients you have to make the change manually in each post. Settle on a recipe format you love because changing it down the road isn\u2019t quick or easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And again, just like Create, tagging an external link nofollow for compliance<\/a> reasons must also be done manually link by link in the recipe card. There is no way to make all external links nofollow by default in the recipe card’s settings. Not a showstopper but an important detail to be aware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost: Ranges from free to $49, $99 and $149 USD for different bundles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n WP Recipe Maker<\/a> is a widely used, and extremely well thought through recipe card, though the paid versions of the plugin do require more back-end effort to benefit from the great feature base. It’s a good option for recipe and ItemList structured data markup for Google and Pinterest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In free version of WP Recipe Maker<\/a>, tagging an external link nofollow for compliance reasons must be done manually link by link in the recipe card. There is no way to make all external links nofollow by default in the recipe card’s settings (paid bundles only).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost: $49 USD per year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the premium version of WP Recipe Maker<\/a>, tagging an external link nofollow for compliance reasons can be done manually link by link in the recipe card. Or, in the plugin’s settings you can add the nofollow attribute by default to all external ingredient and equipment links so that no manual intervention is needed (so handy!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost: $99 USD per year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost: $149 USD per year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We break down the pros and cons, considerations, costs, and main benefits of today\u2019s top WordPress recipe card plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo","category-tech-support-tips"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAnswering a few frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Reasons to use a WordPress recipe card plugin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Create by Mediavine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tasty Recipes by WP Tasty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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