Blog
Thoughts, updates, news and gossip from behind the doors of GetMeCooking.
21 August
Foodies Festival 2012 in Oxford - are you going?
Thanks to winning a pair of tickets on the blog Girl Eats Oxford, we are going to attend the Foodies Festival in Oxford this Sunday.
The event runs from 25th - 27th August and I'll be there on Sunday afternoon.
Please let me know if you'd like to chat with me about...
5 August
PlateJobs.com - a new way to advertise for (and find) jobs in the food service industry
Our about page describes why my brother Kevin and I created GetMeCooking - basically it was because we didn't know how to cook and when we looked online, there weren't any recipe websites we liked - so we created this recipe website and a recipe plugin to encourage food bloggers to fill it with really good quality, well written recipes.
The GetMeCooking website and our recipe...
31 July
We’ve moved our WordPress Demo site - into the cloud!
Today we have moved our WordPress Demo site (which showcases our recipe plugin for WordPress) from running on our own web server, to running on Amazon Web Services – i.e. it’s in the cloud.
And we’ve done it for free with appfog…
With appfog, we simply had to...
31 July
We’re in the cloud!
For over a year, we have wanted to host this website in the cloud and for various reasons, we wanted to use the WindowsAzure cloud service. The main thing that was preventing us from jumping straight onto the service were some technical limitations, but they have stepped up some levels of supported software, so that allowed us to get on board.
So a few months ago, we moved GetMeCooking from our own dedicated web server, onto the...
15 July
GetMeCooking Recipe plugin - updates for both the free and premium versions
We have just released new versions of both our free and premium editions of our recipe plugin for WordPress.
Free Plugin
We’ve fixed these things in the free version:
- Only the recipe title that matches the blog post is hidden when the option is enabled. Before, all of the recipe titles in the blog post would be hidden (assuming you had more than one recipe in the blog post), not just the recipe with the matching title as the blog post
- Adding...
9 June
Want to be a better food blogger?
We are in the process of writing an ebook about food blogging. It will actually be useful for all types of bloggers, but we are writing it specifically with food blogging in mind.
The book will cover all of the technical aspects of setting up and monitoring a blog, branding, promotion, social media, Search Engine Optimisation (and Search Engine Marketing), how to make your blog load faster (and why it’s important), how to meet other food bloggers, plus many other...
3 June
Recipe plugin for WordPress – free and premium versions
With the overwhelming success of our free recipe plugin for WordPress, we quietly released a premium version of the plugin, which has extra features.
The premium version has been out for a few months now, but we don’t like to shout about things until we know that they have been available for a while and fully tested by several people, in several different environments.
The premium version of our recipe plugin is really an extension of the free plugin – in fact,...
1 June
GetMeCooking Recipe plugin for WordPress version 1.22 – image upload improvements…
Improved ‘Add photograph’ functionality
You can now add photographs from your WordPress Media Library (this was a much requested feature), as well as from your PC and from a direct URL.
Photograph of the Finished Recipe
Added an option to delete it.
Option to hide the recipe title if it matches the blog post title
This used to always be on, but we have now made it off by default and optional.
You can change your preference for...
23 April
GetMeCooking Recipe plugin for WordPress version 1.19 – step this way…
This version of the plugin introduces a few main things:
Narrow theme support
Some WordPress themes have 3 columns, which doesn’t leave a lot of space for displaying recipes. So we’ve added an option so you can specify if your theme uses a narrow design. When selected, this changes the layout and puts the recipe summary information below the main photo rather than squeezing it to the right.
In addition, if you don’t specify a photograph of the...
19 February
GetMeCooking Recipe Template plugin for WordPress version 1.14 - more enjoyable to use
Just 3 weeks after the last release of our Recipe Template plugin for WordPress and we're giving you more features and a nicer interface to play with!
Step grouping
You liked the ability to group ingredients so much that you asked for the same for recipe steps.
Now you can group recipe steps, so you can have the steps for...