So, you have your food blog.
You create delicious recipes that your audience love, but the recipes on the blog post don’t look good. The problem is that your competitors don’t put much effort into their recipes to make it simple, but the blog post looks much better than yours, so people are enjoying their content more than yours.
It is heart-breaking, right?
Well, you don’t need to worry anymore. You can also make your recipe posts look amazing without the need to hire developers and designers to do it for you.
In this post, you are going to discover the top recipe plugins for food blogs to make your recipes shine and your posts look amazing.
Let’s start with the first one.
1. WP Recipe Maker
WP Recipe Maker is a plugin created by the Bootstrapped Ventures team. It allows you to add recipes to any post or page with ease and with metadata that can improve your SEO.
Here are some of the features of this plugin:
- Can be used with the classic editor or the new Gutenberg editor.
- Easy-to-use workflow to add recipes and is optimized for Google Recipe search.
- Compatible with Pinterest Rich Pins (can be disabled as well).
- The ability of visitors to rate recipes using user comments.
- Clean print recipe version for your visitors.
- Easily include a video or add photos along with the post.
You could also have more advanced functionality by purchasing the premium version of this plugin. You can have features like:
- Ingredient links to link other products or recipes.
- Make it easy for visitors to adjust servings.
- Display nutrition data in a nutrition label which is integrated with a nutrition API for automatic nutrition facts.
- Add kitchen timer that is user-friendly.
- Premium templates added in the paid version as well.
- Add check boxes for instructions and ingredients.
You can import your recipes from a few popular options as well if you want to use this tool. It is a great one although it is free. And if you want the advanced features, you can just purchase the premium version, and you are good to go.
2. Tasty Recipes
This is the plugin that is used by many of the popular blogs like Pinch of Yum, Hoast the Toast, and Cookies & Cups.
It is created by the great team at WP Tasty, which creates plugins to help your food blog look better, and this one tool can help you do so.
Here are some of the features of this plugin:
- Easily import your recipes from other popular plugins.
- Convert your recipes all at once or do one at a time to see what you will get before jumping on the train and converting all recipes at once.
- Optimized for search engines like Google & Pinterest.
- Easily embed video and add it to the metadata.
- Complete nutrition info can be added and integrate with Nutrifox.
- Make your recipes ready to be monetized by inserting ads inside the recipes or print them on the page.
- Show star ratings of your audience.
- And much more.
You can purchase this plugin for $79 today, and that will give you access to the plugin for a year. You could then renew it yearly if you want to continue to use it.
3. Recipe Card Blocks by WPZOOM
Recipe Card Blocks is another great free plugin to make your recipes look good. It is created by the great team at WPZOOM.
This Gutenberg blocks plugin helps you to create recipe cards with ease in your posts.
They have already added 4 blocks:
- Recipe Card (with Schema Markup).
- Recipe Details.
- Ingredients.
- Directions.
The great part about the new 2.0 version is that if you use the first block, you don’t need to add ingredients or directions separately.
Not to mention that you can add images in directions and choose one of the 2 styles available.
4. Le Chef
Le Chef is a premium plugin created by the AA team which is sold on CodeCanyon marketplace. It’s a complete recipe plugin for a food blog.
Here are some of the features of this awesome plugin:
- Easily add time & estimated duration for Recipes.
- Have grocery list, so customers can buy the products from you if they don’t have the ingredients.
- A recipe filter to make it easy for the audience to find the perfect recipe for them.
- Most-liked recipes widget to let your audience know what is popular on your site
- Let your audience add their recipes from the front-end submission which you can choose to publish or not.
- Favorite recipes, allows your users to favorite recipes and find them, so they don’t need to keep looking for them.
- And much more.
It is a great plugin to consider as it’s created by a power elite author. It only costs $22 to get started with it, and you have 6 months of support.
5.Total Recipe Generator for Elementor
Total Recipe Generator is a cool add-on that you could add to the popular page builder – Elementor.
It is created by Saurabh Sharma, an elite author on Code Canyon. There are 8+ demos available on the plugin.
The tool is created to give your high-quality recipes more exposure.
Here are some of the features of this plugin:
- Since it is an add-on to the Elementor, you can use the cool drag-and-drop feature already present in the main plugin.
- If you are a developer, you can modify the core template file by copying it inside the theme folder to add more style.
- Easily create rich pins for Pinterest.
- A nutrition facts calculator is added as well to the package with 4 nutrition label styles, and 40+ built-in nutrients with standard daily values.
- And much more
And you can easily get access to this add-on for just $24. But don’t forget that you need to have the Elementor page builder.
6. Cooked
Cooked is another great free WP plugins that help you create and display recipes within WordPress with ease. It is created by the team at Boxy Studio.
Here are some of the features of this plugin:
- Automatically makes the recipe structure option for Google.
- The plugin is a drag & drop builder to make your design look as you want — add ingredients, directions, a gallery, nutrition facts, cooking times, difficulty level and more with ease.
- Developer friendly, so you can optimize it as you want.
- Servings switcher, so you can adjust amounts of ingredients depending on the number of servings
There is also the pro version that you could purchase as well for more cool features if you like this plugin and want to get more out of it.
- User ratings to allow your users to rate your recipes using star rating or thumbs up & down as you want.
- The ability of users to favorite their favorite recipes so they can access it later in their user profile.
- Powerful social sharing is added as well.
- Recipe submissions to get recipe ideas from your users.
- Modern grid layout & Full-width layout are added as well.
You can try it for free before purchasing the pro license. You could buy it for $49 for a single-site license. You could also buy an unlimited license for $199.
8. CookBook
CookBook is another premium recipe plugin that makes it easy for you to publish your recipes.
Here are some of the features of this plugin:
- Optimized for SEO.
- Easily add nutrition data to your posts.
- Printing your recipe is simple for the readers to have on the go.
- Add a “Jump to Recipe” button at the top of your posts to make it easy for your users to go directly to it.
- Recipe ratings available to appear on search engines.
- Developers are going to love it.
It is a great plugin that you could add easily to your site.
The license that you buy can be used on 10 sites, and you can purchase it for $59 billed annually.
9. Recipe Box
Created by DAEXT, an Envato power elite author, Recipe Box is another great premium plugin that you could purchase from CodeCanyon.
It enables you to create recipes easily on your posts or pages.
Here are some of the features of this plugin:
- Easily add a description, image, instruction, ingredients, cook time, prep time, total time, the category of the recipe & cooking method. You don’t need to add all these, but the option is available if you want to.
- Users can rate your recipes easily
- Rich snippets automatically generated so your post is optimized for Google.
- 60 options can be customized to get the plugin display your recipes as you want.
- And more.
You can purchase this plugin for $20. You will get support for 6 months as well. It has a star rating of 4.9, which isn’t bad at all.
10. Zip Recipes
Zip Recipes is another cool free plugin that helps you get more traffic and make more money from your recipe blog.
Here is how their features can help you do so:
- Optimize your recipes without much work from you to rank higher on Google.
- Improve your user experience by making your posts appear instantly if you use AMP.
- Rich recipe pins are created easily, so you get more traffic from Pinterest.
- Easily add images, highlight specific parts, and give users the ability to download, so you provide them with the best experience.
- Easily add recipes from any word program & use the flexible editor to create your recipes fast.
- Embed ads or money as an affiliate.
- And much more.
It is a great free plugin that you could go with.
11. JT Recipes
JT Recipes is another great premium plugin available on the CodeCanyon marketplace.
It gives you access to features like:
- Multiple widget styles to choose from to display your recipe nicely.
- A shortcode is available to display your recipes anywhere on your site.
- Easily display recipe info like difficulty level and nutrition fact.
- Available advanced search widget so users can search for the recipes
- Display recipes easily on your site using their amazing widget.
- 3 category styles to choose from.
- And much more.
It is a great plugin to think about, and it is available for just $19 with 6 months of support.
Conclusion: Which Plugin To Choose?
So, you now have a few options to choose from. The problem now is which one to go with, right? Well, the basic answer is that you need to take a look at each one to decide which one is perfect for you. If a plugin is mentioned in this post, then it is worthy of your time. 😉
First, decide if you want a free plugin or a premium one. Plugins like WP Recipe Maker & Recipe Card Blocks are great to get started with.
If you can go with a premium plugin, then do it. It is a great investment that will pay dividends later on. The obvious first choice is Tasty Recipes. It is used by most popular blogs. Cookbook is another great option. Le Chef is a cheaper option that you could look at as well.
But don’t ignore other plugins mentioned in this list. They are mentioned here for a reason.
So, take a look, and then choose the one that suits you and your business.
And make sure to tell us below which one you’ll go with and why. 🙂
