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Responsive Layout
Cookely boasts a fluid, responsive layout, so your articles will display perfectly across mobile and tablet devices. Images and galleries scale seamlessly when resizing the browser window.
No matter the resolution or screen size, every website detail will look perfect and professional.
Compact Header and Mobile Menu
Cookely comes with a compact header for smoother navigation. It includes top and main menus, Social Icons, and a search field alongside the logo. All these are arranged with layout efficiency in mind so the header won’t occupy too much space on the page.
Our WordPress theme for food blogs includes a neat mobile menu that helps you guide visitors through your recipes and promotes your blog.
Featured Area
Cookely includes a super-flexible featured area to highlight your most recent or popular posts.
Showcase your recipes by featuring three different categories simultaneously, or add a carousel slider with the posts that deserve everyone’s attention.
How to Create a Recipe Website with Cookely
5 Color Schemes
Packed with different color schemes, Cookely is ready to fit the style of your food blog or brand.
Change through five color schemes with only one click.
Two Styles for Posts: Grid and Blog
Display posts in a grid or choose a traditional blog layout with Featured Images accompanying posts.
Cookely lets you choose your default post view. You can view a demo of the blog layout here.
Newsletter Area on Homepage
By default, Cookely is integrated with MailChimp newsletter subscription forms. You can build mailing lists through the header subscription bar or with the homepage signup area.
Also, you can add the MailChimp widget in any other theme widget areas, such as the sidebar, footer, below the single post, and others.
Recipe Index
Integrated with a Recipe Index feature, Cookely makes it easy to organize your recipes in one place.
You can order them chronologically, by category, or as a simple list—it’s up to you to decide.
Reorder & Change Post Options in Customizer
Like no other WPZOOM theme, with Cookely, you get to decide the structure of your posts.
Choose to show/hide or rearrange the post details directly in the Customizer and preview the changes instantly.
Recipe Card Blocks Integration
Display your recipes beautifully with the Recipe Card Blocks plugin, meaning the theme is fully compatible with the Gutenberg editor.
Your recipes will include Schema markup, which lets search engines and social networks display information about your recipes.
This will increase clicks and shareability, giving you an easy way to grow your food blog.
Live Customizer
The Live Customizer lets you change the theme and get an immediate preview.
You can also customize colors, fonts, backgrounds, logos, menus, widgets, and more, all with a live preview.
1-Click Demo Content Install
Loading the dummy content and widgets allows you to replicate the structure and look of the demo page with one click.
WooCommerce Ready
Are you selling through your website? Cookely is fully compatible with the popular free eCommerce plugin WooCommerce. Build your shop and start selling quickly.
Widgetized Area in the Posts
Add widgets at the end of your posts, including a beautiful Subscribe to Newsletter widget. Cookely is compatible with the free plugin MailPoet, allowing you to add email signup forms after posts and in your sidebars. You can also add any other widgets after your content for individual posts.
Other Features
Cookely is packed full of features that will take your website to the next level:
- Multiple Ad Zones for Banners: Cookely lets you easily upload your own advertising banners or add Google Adsense directly from the Theme Options to one of four available spots: in the header, after the first post, in the sidebar, and before or after post content.
- Widgetized Homepage: The homepage of Cookely is completely widgetized, which means you have complete control of how your homepage looks. Several specially designed widget areas provide flexibility when deciding your content hierarchy. Custom WPZOOM widgets are also included.
- Instagram Bar in the Footer: Using our free Instagram Widget, create a full-width bar for your Instagram in the footer of your website.
- Infinite Scroll: Use regular paginated navigation to showcase your posts, or switch to infinite scroll to load new posts as you scroll down the page automatically. You can also have more posts load on click.
- Sticky Header: The menu bar at the top uses a unique effect that keeps it at the top of the page when scrolling down.
- Social Icons Widget area in the Header and Footer: You can add links to any social networks you want in the top menu bar and footer.
- Image Box Widget: This custom widget allows you to easily add custom links with an image background in the featured area on the homepage or the sidebar.
Use it to focus your readers’ attention on pages, categories, blog posts, or ads. - Disclosure Statement at the beginning of posts (to make your blog FTC-compliant).
- Footer Disclosure: This is the Widget area after the Copyright line. It can be used to add disclosure statements or links.
- Images Aspect Ratio: You can now change the Featured Image’s aspect ratio in a different section to Landscape, Square, or Portrait.
- RTL Support: Cookely fully supports RTL languages (Right-to-Left) and includes the necessary CSS code to make your website look good regardless of the language.
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