RP 3.0 - Food Recipes & Cooking WordPress Theme

Theme concept, design and core capabilities

Designed for niche food and recipe websites, RecipePress offers two recipe listing templates, multiple recipe detail modules, and a dedicated chefs listing template to showcase staff. The design emphasizes clarity, usability, and modularity for easy customization.

Key design traits include a delicious and purposeful aesthetic, responsive layouts, and a focus on clean HTML that aims to improve search visibility and user experience across devices.

Frontend: recipe editing, submission and user management

Frontend Recipe Editing & Submission

The theme enables users to submit recipes via an attractive front-end submission form. Registered users can view, edit, and manage their own recipes without accessing the WordPress backend. Access credentials for a demo submission are provided below for quick testing.

Username: demo
Password: demo

Frontend Profile Management

Frontend profile editing lets users update their details through an intuitive form, keeping account management accessible without backend navigation.

Save a Recipe feature

A recent update adds the ability to bookmark favorite recipes. Saved recipes can be organized into different categories for quick access later.

Simple Recipe Save

Basic bookmarking of individual recipes for easy retrieval.

Category Wise Recipe Save

Bookmarks can be grouped by category to support organized collections.

Saved Recipes Template

A dedicated template renders saved recipes in a clean, user-friendly layout.

Design, templates and content structure

RecipePress is a niche-focused theme with templates crafted for food and recipe sites. It provides two recipe listing templates and distinct recipe detail modules, plus a chefs listing template to feature team members.

Special recipe oriented features

The theme offers extensive recipe-centric features to streamline cooking content management, including:

• Multiple Ingredients management
• Cooking steps management
• Nutrients management
• Tips and additional guidance

Multilanguage and localization

WPML Multilanguage Plugin Compatibility ensures the site can be managed by users from different regions and language backgrounds.

Shopping list and practical cooking aids

The built-in shopping list feature allows adding ingredients while viewing a recipe, with a print option for offline use.

Time management features

Count Down Timer

The count down timer helps readers track step timings during cooking and emits an alarm when finished.

Schema, microformats and search presence

The theme supports Schema.org and Google Microformats for recipe items and blog content, helping recipes appear clearly in search results.

Search engine optimization and performance

HTML is hand coded and validated to align with best practices for improved search engine rankings. The theme emphasizes clean markup and semantic structure to enhance visibility.

Responsive and device-friendly design

RecipePress is fully responsive and Bootstrap 3+ based, ensuring compatibility with Bootstrap elements and classes for straightforward customization.

Visual quality and typography

Retina-ready design prioritizes crisp visuals on high-density displays, using font-based and SVG icons for scalable, sharp rendering across devices.

Code quality and maintainability

Code quality is emphasized with well-commented sections, aiding customization and understanding of the template structure.

Theme options and customization

Theme options are designed to be self-explanatory and easily navigable, with modules that can be managed at multiple levels for flexible configuration.

Contact and communication

Ajax Contact Form

The contact template includes a map and an Ajax-based submission workflow with live validation. Email configuration is accessible via theme options, and documentation guides usage.

Documentation and learning resources

The package includes extensive HTML-based documentation covering nearly all features of the template, helping users get up to speed quickly.

Key features at a glance

• Beautiful and Delicious Design
• Fully Responsive Layout
• Built in twitter bootstrap 3+
• Four slider variations
• 15+ Home page independent sections
• 3 Footer variations
• Recipe Listings — Grid and List based
• WPML Compatible
• Fully translation and multilanguage ready
• Different Styles for all Recipe Detail sections
• Nicely designed news page
• Schema and Microformat support
• Quick Shopping List features
• Multiple Ingredient Sets Features
• Chefs Listing and single template
• Contact Template with Google Map and AJAX-based submission
• Many modular elements (info bars, buttons, toggles, tabs)
• Easy to Understand and Detailed Documentation Included

Theme support and user assistance

Thank you for purchasing RecipePress WordPress Theme. If you encounter issues beyond documentation, the support team is available to help.

Change Log

Version 2.3.1 – Updated on 21st August 2023

• Improved styles on various places
• Improved Elementor widget registration functionality for the latest version
• Improved redux functionality according to the latest version
• Improved Login model code generation in the footer
• Updated metabox files to the latest
• Fixed chef detail page breaking issue

Version 2.3.0 – Updated on 05 August 2021

• Added support for RecipePress Elementor Addon
• Added new elementor demo import option
• Improved RecipePress dashboard menu

Version 2.2.0 – Updated on 05 July 2021

• Added theme specific menu in dashboard
• Added new taxonomy terms list widget
• Added recipe riews functionality

Version 2.1.2 – Updated on 11 January 2021

• Fixed tabs widget popular recipes issue
• Fixed several translation issues

Version 2.1.1 – Updated on 10 December 2020

• Fixed lightbox issue appeared after recent WordPress update

Version 2.1.0 – Updated on 20 August 2020

• Added URL support for method steps as per schema requirements
• Added schema recommended nutrients to submit/edit recipe templates
• Fixed header and footer social icons options issue
• Improved ‘save a recipe’ functionality
• Improved jQuery files according to latest jQuery requirements
• Improved styles in several places

Version 2.0.2 – Updated on 28 July 2020

• Added Save Recipe Functionality With Categories Support
• Fixed Responsive Menu Issues
• Improved Nutritional Information Options
• Improved Structure Data
• Improved Theme Options

Version 2.0.1 – Updated on 4th April 2020

• Note: If you are updating your theme from version before 2.0 then click here
• Fixed various translation issues
• Fixed profile image upload glitch

Version 2.0.0 – Updated on 10th September 2019

• Improved search form by using built-in function
• Improved submit template by removed separate edit template
• Improved excerpt using default wp_trim_words() function
• Improved backend block styles

Version 1.6.0 – Updated on 23th April 2019

• Refactored overall code to fulfill Envato’s WordPress theme requirements
• Added FontAwesome 5 support
• Added more control in recipe submit/edit template fields
• Added reCaptcha V3 support
• Added nutrients and ingredients in listing recipes as well
• Added RTL Support

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Credits for technology, dependencies and resources are listed below in the credits section.

Credits and dependencies

• Bootstrap 3x
• Redux Framework
• MetaBox Plugin
• jQueryUI
• Owl Carousel
• Silk Slider
• jQuery Form Plugin
• jQuery Validation
• MeanMenu
• Selectric
• WOW jQuery
• Demo images from ShutterStock
• Demo images from Fotolia