Meal Planner AMP Compatibility

Also, I did have one more question. Does your plugin allow readers to leave star reviews on recipes on our site if we convert to Meal Planner Pro?

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your interest in switching to our personalized recipe plugin. I’ve forwarded your AMP question to our dev team and will let you know about compatibility.

My first response would be that our plugin formats recipe info in a way that is easily understood by Google. EasyRecipe does as well but the way they’ve structured their data can only be described as messy. This is why it was such a challenge for us create a conversion system for their plugin and could explain why AMP isn’t formatting things correctly.

I believe that our plugin should let Google display your recipe info in mobile search apps but will let you know.

Google has also started to manually penalize some food blog sites that are using recipe rating. Part of this is because Google can’t verify that the raters are real people and partly because the plugin settings aren’t being set properly for these. We don’t want to have any of our bloggers penalized so have removed all reference to recipe ratings until this is more clearly defined by Google. They’ve been vague on why they’re penalizing blogs for this.

EasyRecipe is one of the plugins being penalized.None of our bloggers have been penalized.Our plugin is fully compliant with Google’s Recipe View schema markup requirements.

More info soon. You could test our plugin for AMP compatibility yourself. Simply install our plugin and convert your EasyRecipe recipes with the click of a button. Then if not completely satisfied, click a button to convert them back.

Thanks,
Commodore Allen

Thanks for the quick response!

I guess lets wait and see what your dev team comes back with. One thing that might be an issue with your plugin is javascript. AMP doesn’t allow any javascript at all. Before testing I will wait until I hear back from you after you have had a chance to consult with your dev team.

Was this ever resolved? Does Meal Planner Pro format well on AMP enabled pages?

Hi All,

We apologize for taking so long to get back to you on AMP compatibility. We’ve learned a lot about how AMP works and what it does. The fact is that no recipe plugin is truly AMP compatible. Let me explain.

AMP was created by Google to take a blog post content and make it static HTML. This static content then displays on mobile devices and is designed to load more quickly. The issue is that recipe plugins include dynamic functionality such as recipe ratings, print button, save button etc. which uses Javascript coding. Javascript cannot be converted to HTML.

Google recognizes these limitations with AMP and is in the process of creating workaround coding that may or may not work for recipe plugins. We’ve also looked at creating our own workarounds but it messes up the design CSS etc. It really doesn’t work or look good.

We’re continuing to monitor solutions that Google comes up with. In the meantime, we’ve made our plugin as AMP compatible as possible.

I didn’t want to get too technical and hope you understand the challenge. Hopefully AMP comes up with some good workarounds.

Note that our latest version 7.3 now includes recipe ratings that are Google Recipe View compliant. Also we provide three recipe markup schema…JSON-LD (Google Recipe View), schema.org (Pinterest), and hRecipe.

Thanks for your patience on all this. There’s a ton of great new features in the works.

Cheers,
Commodore Allen
Meal Planner Pro

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I’m curious if this has been revisited. The way WP Ultimate Recipe does AMP compatibility is by enabling a second AMP recipe template that lacks the JavaScript and only loads on mobile/AMP. Would that be an option here?

Thanks!

We looked at doing the same thing for AMP but still need to dig deeper. This may work and will let you know.

Thanks,
Commodore