Visual Recipe Index
Visual Recipe Index - Plugin to create an automatically updating recipe index with pictures.
Plugin info
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Actively maintained • Last updated 47 days ago • 10 reviews
Is Visual Recipe Index abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 47 days ago).
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Description
Visual Recipe Index
This plugin creates an automatically updating recipe index with pictures.
It uses the recipes that you already have on your blog, and the categories that you have defined.
To use, follow the instructions on the admin page (Settings->Visual Recipe Index) to generate shortcodes to paste onto a page of your choice to display your recipe index.
This plugin uses the featured image for the thumbnail if set, and the first image of the post if a featured image isn’t set.
Visual Recipe Index Pro – Features being considered for development
* Simplified user interface
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Pagination/endless scroll
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Drag and drop category ordering
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Faster image loading
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Beautiful styles with several themes to choose from
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Removal of dependency on cutting and pasting shortcodes on a page
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Automatic index page creation with checkbox to add to menu
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Option to automatically add multi-page index creation with hierarchy
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Option for slider gallerys with multi-page/category hierarchys
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Significantly improved SEO
Installation
You can download and install Visual Recipe Index using the built in WordPress plugin installer. If you download Visual Recipe Index manually, make sure it is uploaded to “/wp-content/plugins/visual-recipe-index/”.
Activate Visual Recipe Index in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link.
You can now create your recipe index via the instructions on the Settings->Visual Recipe Index page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, everything should be fully styleable. If you find something that isn’t please contact the developer via the support forums and I’ll see what I can do.
Visual Recipe Index now uses WordPress’ built-in image sizes so thumbnails are generated by the core media library instead of the legacy TimThumb script.
Verify that each recipe has a featured image set (or at least one image inside the post content) and that you are running WordPress’ background thumbnail generation. After uploading an image, WordPress should automatically create the sizes requested by the plugin—if it does not, try regenerating thumbnails with the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin or similar tool.
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Screenshots
Sample of how the visual recipe index will look. You can also check out a live version at strawberriesforsupper.com/recipe-index
Screenshot of the admin screen providing clear directions on how to create your automatically updating visual recipe index.
Changelog
1.0
- Initial checkin
1.1
- Updated readme.txt file, added screenshots
- Minor ux modifications
1.2
- Security update
- CSS tweaks
1.2.1
- Increased picture quality
1.2.2
- Removed “Version” tags within code so download tag would update correctly
1.2.3
- minor updates
1.2.6
- Added some marketing copy
1.2.8
- Fixed a minor javascript error
1.3.0
- Modernized the plugin’s asset loading to use current WordPress hooks and ensured scripts/styles only load when needed.
- Hardened the settings experience with sanitized inputs, safer uploads, and updated option defaults for the bundled assets.
- Refreshed the lightbox template and shortcode output for PHP 8/WordPress 6.x compatibility, including sanitized output and a reliable fallback for missing assets.
1.3.1
- Replaced the TimThumb dependency with WordPress-generated thumbnails so featured images render reliably on modern hosts.