Visual Recipe Index

Description

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Visual Recipe Index
This plugin creates an automatically updating recipe index with pictures.
It uses the recipes that you already have on your blog, and the categories that you have defined.

To use, follow the instructions on the admin page (Settings->Visual Recipe Index) to generate shortcodes to paste onto a page of your choice to display your recipe index.

This plugin uses the featured image for the thumbnail if set, and the first image of the post if a featured image isn’t set.

Visual Recipe Index Pro – Features being considered for development
* Simplified user interface

• Pagination/endless scroll

• Drag and drop category ordering

• Faster image loading

• Beautiful styles with several themes to choose from

• Removal of dependency on cutting and pasting shortcodes on a page

• Automatic index page creation with checkbox to add to menu

• Option to automatically add multi-page index creation with hierarchy

• Option for slider gallerys with multi-page/category hierarchys

• Significantly improved SEO

Screenshots

Installation

You can download and install Visual Recipe Index using the built in WordPress plugin installer. If you download Visual Recipe Index manually, make sure it is uploaded to “/wp-content/plugins/visual-recipe-index/”.

Activate Visual Recipe Index in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link.

You can now create your recipe index via the instructions on the Settings->Visual Recipe Index page.

FAQ

Can I style this with css?

Yes, everything should be fully styleable. If you find something that isn’t please contact the developer via the support forums and I’ll see what I can do.

How are the images resized?

The images are resized using an embedded version of TimThumb. It is using version 2.8.13.

Why aren’t my images showing?

The most common reason for this is that you don’t have a cache directory or the cache directory isn’t writeable by the webserver. It should be located at: your-wordpress-installation-directory/wp-content/plugins/visual-recipe-index/includes/cache.

Please ensure that this directory exists and is writeable by your webserver.

Reviews

I use it on my website, gorgeous! ( https://therawbuzz.com/rawveganrecipes/ )

anonilla February 18, 2018

Looks absolutely stunning. Much better than what I was using before! https://therawbuzz.com/rawveganrecipes/

Help customize

Kikalicious September 3, 2016

Hello everyone! I need help on how to customize the index. Any idea on how to do it? I would really appreciate some help. Thanks in advance. Francisca

Good start, but needs a few tweaks

Willow February 8, 2017

This plugin is easy to install. It does exactly what it says it does. I love that it is automated. I do wish it had an automated list feature though. I also wish that I could split each category into pages. Right now I am only using this plugin to showcase my recipes in a view all page. I had to create a different way to showcase my recipes on individual pages so that there can be more than one page. I personally hate scrolling down a long list. At least with my view all page I can add more pages, but I am not sure how that will look with only a few categories on one page, and more on another. Another plus of this plugin is it loads quickly! Before I had thumbnails that took awhile to load, or loaded in the wrong size unless you refreshed the page. If anyone is curious (I usually am)about what my individual category pages look like they’re at: https://createmindfully.com/recipes/main-dishes-and-small-dishes/

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0

• Initial checkin

1.1

• Updated readme.txt file, added screenshots
• Minor ux modifications

1.2

• Security update
• CSS tweaks

1.2.1

• Increased picture quality

1.2.2

• Removed “Version” tags within code so download tag would update correctly

1.2.3

• minor updates

1.2.6

• Added some marketing copy

1.2.8

• Fixed a minor javascript error