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WP Recipe Maker AMP Support

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WP Recipe Maker supports Google AMP so this post will serve as an example for that functionality.

Once you install the WordPress AMP plugin your blog posts will have an AMP version available. For this post that would be the available over here, for example.

Now the part that this is all about, the recipe:

 

Pasta Pesto

A delicious and quick pasta with green pesto. Ideal for those lazy evenings.

  • 200 g tagliatelle
  • 200 g bacon (tiny strips)

Fresh Pesto

  • 1 clove garlic
  • 12.5 g pine kernels
  • 50 g basil leaves
  • 6.25 cl olive oil (extra virgin)
  • 27.5 g Parmesan cheese (freshly grated)

Fresh Pesto (you can make this in advance)

  1. We’ll be using a food processor to make the pesto. Put the garlic, pine kernels and some salt in there and process briefly.

  2. Add the basil leaves (but keep some for the presentation) and blend to a green paste.

  3. While processing, gradually add the olive oil and finally add the Parmesan cheese.

Finish the dish

  1. Bring a pot of salted water to the boil and cook your tagliatelle al dente.

  2. Use the cooking time of the pasta to sauté your bacon strips.

  3. After about 8 to 10 minutes the pasta should be done. Drain it and put it back in the pot to mix it with the pesto.

  4. Present the dish with some fresh basil leaves on top.

This section can be used for anything you want:

  • Chef’s notes
  • Recipe source
  • Allergy information
  • Links
  • …

Or just leave it empty and it will not appear!

More information about the AMP support can be found in our documentation.

Learning more about WP Ultimate Recipe in this Interview by Chicory

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A few WP Ultimate Recipe updates ago we added Chicory as a partner integration. Chicory can basically make your recipes shoppable: a “Get Ingredients” button will appear on your blog allowing your visitors to instantly populate online grocery cart with the ingredients needed to cook your amazing recipes.

Even though we’re a few time zones apart we’ve kept in contact and they recently conducted an interview with us about (food) blogging and our recipe plugin.

If you’re interested in learning more about how WP Ultimate Recipe got started or why you even need a recipe plugin at all, take a look at this interview with Brecht by Chicory.

SoftBlock Chrome Extension

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Distractions are everywhere and your favourite time-sinks – Hello Reddit and Hacker News! – are often just a click away while working on a computer.

This was happening a bit too often to me, so I decided to try a website blocker. I tried a few Chrome extensions like Block site and Website Blocker. Both have a ton of options: you can have a whitelist or blacklist, pick specific schedules for when it should be blocking (only from 9 to 5, for example) and so on.

Unfortunately I don’t really have a strict 9 to 5 schedule, so I ended up disabling the plugin while I was taking a break and then forgetting to enable it again when I started working again. I’d prefer some sort of soft block that simply reminds me that I shouldn’t be visiting that site while working, but still allows me to visit it if I really want to.

I couldn’t find anything that fit my needs (I probably didn’t search very well), so I did as anyone would do and created my own Chrome Extension.

This would be my first Chrome Extension so there was a learning phase. But since it’s basically all just HTML and JavaScript it only took me a couple of hours to create. These were some of the useful resources, all provided by Chrome itself:

I ended up with a really basic plugin called SoftBlock that doesn’t have a ton of options but fits my needs perfectly, for now. There’s a really simple options page where you can define the websites to block:

SoftBlock Options

Going to one of these websites then brings up the following page, instead of the actual website:

SoftBlock

You can now decide for yourself if you want to go there anyway (when you’re on a break or need it for actual work) and for how long (5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes). Clicking on Let me in! will then take you to the page you wanted to go and ignore SoftBlock for the time you specified.

Once your time is up the SoftBlock will appear again and remind you to get back to work or consciously decide to spend some more time there.

Anyone interested in the extension can find it in the Chrome Web Store and on GitHub.

Welcome!

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Hi there!

Welcome to Bootstrapped Ventures, a tiny Belgian company trying to survive by creating great websites, plugins and applications. At the moment we’re working very hard on our latest WordPress plugin (WP Ultimate Recipe, check it out!) so creating content for this website is not really a priority.

Feel free to contact us, though. We’ll definitely get back to you!