Chow is a genuinely culinary WordPress Theme. This recipe theme will let you share all your recipes and cooking tips with wide audience. Chow comes with Schema.org support. It means that your blog will be understand not only by people, but also by search engines.

    

Latest version: Chow 1.2.2; FoodiePress 1.2.2

Support for Micoformats and Google Recipe View

schema.org is a collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to improve the web by creating a structured data markup schema supported by major search engines. On-page markup helps search engines understand the information on webpages and provide richer results. Learn more on www.schema.org.

 

FoodiePress Recipe Editor

Chow comes with FoodiePress plugin – unique solution for creating and managing Recipe data in WordPress, allowing for advanced search by ingredients, customizable layouts and templates for recipe, print styles and many many features.

Advanced Search

This is special page which allows your visitors to search all your recipes by including and/or excluding ingredients and narrowing search results by many custom taxonomies like level of recipe or time required to do it. Your visitos can type to search box anything they have in the fridge, get results, print choosen recipe and start cooking.

 

User Dashboard

Gather users around your blog and start your own small community. Thanks to the Chow Dashboard, registered users will have option to store their favourite recipes and submit (and edit) their own recipes!

 

Submit Recipe

Let your users submit recipe with this advanced form that allows adding and editing each part of the recipe post.

 

Theme features

• Recipe creator helping to create valid schema.org recipes
• Front-end submit and edit pages for registered users
• Chow Dashboard
• Reviews system
• Favourite posts for registered and anonymous users
• HTML5 & CSS3
• Responsive design
• support for hRecipe and Schema.org
• 3 layouts to display posts (grid view, excerpt mode and full posts)
• Left or right sidebar
• Recipe creator
• 4 Designs
• Localization (.po and .mo file)
• Shortcodes, page templates
• Create your own custom colour scheme
• Change fonts
• ..and more

Do you miss any feature?

Ask me to do it, I’m constantly looking for ways to improve my themes.

Changelog

Version 1.2.2
* fix for Related posts
* update of translations files

Version 1.2.1:
* support for bbPress
* option to remove ratings from recipes and comments

Version 1.1:
* fixed print styleshet
* added support for PrintFriendly printing (doesn't require plugin, added by default, can be disabled in Settings -> FoodiePress)
* added Users Dashboard with list of added posts and list of favourite posts
* added option to Edit posts from front-end
* Video posts format http://chow.purethe.me/2015/03/06/choclate-cake-with-green-tea-cream/
* fix for WooCommerce 2.3.7
* option to show Recipe summary instead of Post Content on List View
* improved slider (different button for standard post and option to change fonts)
* added compatibility for RevolutionSlider (plugin is not included)
* added shortcode [posts_grid]
* lightbox in recipe gallery