Recipe publishing with Cooked Pro
Cooked Pro is a WordPress recipe management solution for creating, organizing, and displaying recipes. It combines a drag-and-drop recipe builder with structured recipe content, presentation tools, search features, and interactive cooking utilities. The Pro edition adds ratings, favorites, and recipe submissions to the recipe publishing workflow.
Use it to build recipes with ingredients and directions, then add supporting information such as preparation time, cooking time, nutrition facts, difficulty levels, notes, and image galleries. Recipe content is presented in a format designed for practical use by readers while cooking.
Create recipes efficiently
The drag-and-drop builder lets you assemble recipe content without being limited to a fixed basic layout. Add ingredients and directions, organize the information, and include the details readers need before they begin. Serving adjustments help visitors change ingredient amounts, while ingredient substitutions can provide alternatives for dietary restrictions or preferences.
For sites with an existing recipe library, CSV import supports bulk importing recipes with ingredients, directions, substitutions, and additional recipe information. This can make it easier to bring a collection into the recipe management workflow rather than entering every recipe individually.
Make recipes useful and discoverable
Cooked automatically includes semantic structure and schema.org microdata in published recipes. Its Google-friendly structured data is intended to help recipes appear across a variety of device sizes and platforms. Recipe lists can use a grid-based masonry layout, while the author template can list recipes by a single author.
Visitors can search recipes with text search, categories, and sorting options. Interactive cooking timers are available for recipes with cooking times, giving readers a way to follow timing information directly within the recipe experience.
Pro features for reader participation
Ratings and favorites
Cooked Pro adds ratings and favorites, giving readers ways to respond to recipes and keep track of recipes they want to return to. These features are useful for recipe sites that want participation alongside their published cooking content.
Recipe submissions
The Pro edition also adds recipe submissions. This supports workflows in which recipes can be submitted to a site rather than being created only by the primary site editor. It can be used alongside the existing recipe builder and recipe presentation features.
Practical site workflow
Create a recipe, add its ingredients and directions, include preparation and cooking information, and enrich it with a gallery, nutrition facts, substitutions, or notes. Organize published recipes through categories and sorting, then let visitors search, adjust servings, use timers, rate recipes, save favorites, or submit recipes according to your site’s workflow.
Developers can further customize Cooked through its actions and filters. The plugin also provides documentation for setup and development guidance.
Installation
Install Cooked Pro on your WordPress site, then open the recipe management tools to create or import recipes. Configure your recipe content, presentation, search, and Pro participation features before publishing.
