cmarkee

Awesome Brecht

And yeap, Calories is all you need according to how I read the guidelines.

Looking forward to seeing how this functions.

Thanks for going that extra step.

Hey Brecht,

Really appreciate you coming into the thread to explain things.

However, clearly, if I’m going to recommend a plugin I want it to be “out of the box” able to fully enhance recipes on a client site for Rich Cards. So I really hope you can make all of the following attributes possible even if that means providing a premium option:

nutrition
cooktime
preptime
aggregaterating
description
author

Per Google, you will not get preference in the Recipe Carousel if you do not fill all these out. And the recipe niche is just too freaking competitive to not move all recipes to “fully enhanceable” with regard to Rich Cards.

As for Pinterest, most food blogs still get the majority of their traffic from Pinterest. It’s their largest referral. I’ve done I think around 120 individual recipe blog audits over the last 18 months, less than 15% had Google as their main source of traffic.

Based on those numbers, it’s understandable why food bloggers are not going to switch to a plugin with JSON that prevents their rich pins from functioning. That’s their livelihood.

I too hope that Pinterest makes the switch soon. But in the meantime, you can combine the structured data and run both microformats and JSON and it’s not going to kill you.

A great example of this being done right now is over on PinchofYum. They invested in a custom solution that allows both. And so far, they’ve noticed only increased traffic from Google.

I certainly understand your need to “make a living” and I’m with Andrew, no need to GUILT anyone into making a change they can’t make right now. But I will ACTIVELY PUSH a plugin that does what we need above as will Andrew. So we hope it comes to fruition soon , be it by you or someone else.

Thanks for working to improve the niche. Much respect.

Hey, Brecht, congrats on the new plugin.

A couple of questions:

– Does this plugin cover ALL required data fields for fully enhanceable Google Rich Cards?
– Does this plugin allow you to use either JSON or Microformats depending on if the user wants to keep Pinterest Rich Pins fully enabled?
– Is there any custom coding possible to provide JUMP TO RECIPE and PRINT TO RECIPE coded at the top of the recipes?

Currently, with WP Ultimate Recipe you could only enable Nutrition and Aggregate Ratings by upgrading to your Premium version, correct? Those fields are required for fully enhancedable Rich Cards. Are these covered in the free plugin?

I would love to recommend this plugin so the more info you can provide on the above, the better.

Thanks in advance.