Geeky Gadgets 

Here’s the thing: I’ve wanted an excellent WordPress food blog theme for years. Despite keeping watch for new themes that promised to be best suited for food blogs, I hadn’t seen anything of great benefit.

In the meantime, I’ve grown extremely impressed with Genesis and know it’s the best framework for our current site. But I knew if a theme added food blog functionality on top of the Genesis framework, it will be a match made in internet blobbing heaven. (Yes, blobbing.)

The most important feature I’ve hoped to see in a theme is a great looking recipe page that could be automatically populated. Home page features would be a bonus, but a sleek and functional healthy recipe page has always been the “must have” for a food blog topic.

The fact that the Foodie theme has all of these things and is simple and easy makes it a home run. No questions inquired.

I can’t even identify you how impressed I am with this idea, but I’ll try.

FEATURES value HIGHLIGHTING:

3 Color suggestions

Featured Images Options

Mobile Responsiveness

Custom Header Capability

Super snazzy Recipe Page

Custom Home Page / Featured Images

 

Foodie is sexy, lean, and simple. Even better, Shay Bocks – the designer – is the real bargain.

If the Foodie theme sounds close to what you desire for your food blog (or you just aren’t sure what to do with your food blog design in general), I can’t recommend it enough.

In this review I’ve consisted of five video/visual tutorials to help you set your foodie theme up. My goal here is to help you get your site set up fairly quickly so you can spend more time making amazing stuff.

HOW MUCH CAN I customise THIS THEME?

I always suggest trying to find a theme your is as close as possible to what you want for your site. Although it is usually possible to add the functionality you hope to see, the more you have to change, the more time it will take (or the more it will cost to hire someone else to do it for you).

I love recommending Genesis, because your purchase includes two guides tailored to your theme for ease of use: 1) A Genesis Beginner’s Guide, and 2) Specific Child Theme Documentation. Additionally, there are lots of free Genesis plugins available, which can very often give you the functionality you want without dive into the code.

Adding functionality to your site can in most cases be done through the theme settings and plugins. When you start wanting to make styling changes, you’re almost certainly going to have to get into the code a bit. For example, font colors, background colors, display, etc. usually require altering the code.

Some changes are easier than rest, but here are a few examples:

1. Changing the font color will require altering the code, but is relatively easy (reference the Studiopress forum).

2. Changing the way the menu displays will require altering the code. I’d say this is moderately difficult, but depends on how much you want to change.

3. Creating a custom page template is not for the faint of heart. Although this is a relatively difficult task, you can usually find tutorials by other designers that at least point in you the right direction.

OTHER foodie theme studiopress

Here are two great websites for finding more tutorials and help with this theme:

1. My Studiopress (Beginner’s Guide, Theme Settings, Code Snippets, and Forum)

2. Shay Bocks, the Foodie designer, has introduced a set of tutorials and faqs. You can find them here.

FINAL tips

If Foodie isn’t your flavor, check out my other guide on Food Blog WordPress Themes.

Ultimately, as I always say, your focus should be on building content. However, for a new or growing food blogger, I can’t think of a better design for your site.

Just in case there is any bafflement, to use these services, you will need to be on a self-hosted WordPress Site. I recommend Bluehost as a tool we have used and had good experience with (plus, see my 5-minutes to an Awesome WordPress Site Tutorial).

From there, you’ll need to buying Genesis and Foodie (can be done in a single transaction here: Foodie Theme).

Party on my close friends.