Blog
Thoughts, updates, news and gossip from behind the doors of GetMeCooking.
9 May
GetMeCooking Recipe Plugin for WordPress - Video Demo
A huge thanks from us to Al Onkka who has created a 10 minute video demo of our recipe plugin for WordPress!
9 May
Conversion Guide for Measurements used in Cooking
We've added a quick reference conversion guide for measurements used in cooking.
The measurements aren't exact, we've rounded them off to be more suitable and easier to read.
We have also included this in our recipe plugin for WordPress, so it's there when you want to add recipes to your site and you want to give measurements in imperial, metric and USA...
25 March
Rating Systems for Recipes - They Don't Work
One of the most requested features for our recipe plugin for WordPress is a rating system, that visitors to blogs can use to rate recipes; but people don't really think (or at least they don't tell us) 'why' they want it.
We have thought long and hard (well actually, only for about 8 seconds) and have decided against it.
You see, we only want to include features into our...
7 March
GetMeCooking recipe plugin for WordPress - Premium version 1.1.2
If you have the Premium version of our recipe plugin for WordPress, please check the e-mail we sent you last night for information on the latest version (1.1.2) and how to install it.
In this release of the plugin, we have added:
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Language support for Danish and German
and resolved:
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15 February
Improving the logon process
As software developers, we are obsessed with the usability and performance of this website. We have written most of the site ourselves from scratch, but for a few things (such as the user logon process), we used code from a third party (this is standard practice).
The software that we have been using for years, now isn’t performing as we’d like; so we have replaced it with something newer and better.
Unfortunately, we have to...
14 January
Tweaking the Landing Page Design
We are always tweaking things. Recently we have changed the design of two of our landing pages:
They have the same basic design, so it made sense to change them both at the...
27 November
A new visual design for GetMeCooking (and PlateJobs)!
It was actually a few months ago now, since we moved to a new visual design for GetMeCooking. Did you notice?
Old design:
New design:
15 November
PlateJobs.com - is now live!
As explained in my blog post last August, we have been busy working on a recruitment site for people in the food service industry.
The site (PlateJobs) is now live and open for business. We are really excited about it because it widens our market (which makes life more interesting for us) plus it gives us scope to do...
16 October
We've exceeded 10,000 downloads of our free recipe plugin for WordPress!
I remember Kevin and I working on our recipe plugin for WordPress early last year, rushing to get it ready in time for our Food Blogger Connect presentation in August, but it wasn’t quite ready for then and we didn’t want to release a product that wasn’t up to standard. So we announced it and demonstrated it, but held off from releasing it until 2 weeks later on the...
5 September
We're presenting at Food Blogger Connect 2012
Last year I gave a presentation at Food Blogger Connect (Europe's largest food blogging conference) about our recipe plugin for WordPress, which wasn't even out yet!
Since then, we have had almost 10,000 downloads of the free version of our plugin and we have released a premium version of the plugin with...