Hello!
Last week I was at a conference where they talked a lot about giving new things a try and sharing our failure stories more often as proof that we are trying new things. What new things have you seen recently in the food creator industry? What have you been trying out? I’d love to hear and share your stories.
I recently saw an interesting new scrollable FAQ card style on Simple Home Edit while trying out her kebab recipe (scroll down through the post to see it in a few places, but especially above the recipe card). What do you think of it?
This week in the charts, slow cooker recipes are back, along with turkey, meatloaf, and curries.
News Roundup
According to Pew Research, 20% of American adults used a food bank in the past year, up from 11% a decade ago. Will food bloggers begin to routinely show the expected cost per serving, as Budget Bytes has been doing for years?
Food Blogger Pro has released a new course on how to turn one recipe into content for every platform.
Food creators were super concerned by new terms of use wording which seemed to give Meta permission to scrape your website if you used Meta for your business. Good news: they’ve now removed this.
WPRM releases WPRM Kitchen, which might be useful if you run multiple WordPress websites, plus it provides analytics for prints, jump-to-recipe clicks, servings changes, shares, and pins.
WPRM 10.9.0 is out, and the main new features are the ability to set nutrition servings separately from yield, associate equipment with instructions in Cook Mode, and allow converted units after ingredient names or notes.
Building trust with email subscribers: Aaron Randhawa from The Forked Spoon talks technical details.
I’m Rachel Cunliffe, food blog designer + statistician at cre8d design. Every Sunday, Best Served Hot provides exclusive trend analysis and clear-cut insights and industry news you need to know.
Methodology: Top food blogs are defined as those running Raptive ads with 100K+ followers, DA 40+, and that have posted in the past six months. Lifestyle, cocktail-only, and aggregator sites are excluded. This week we’re tracking 506 sites.
