Happy Thursday, Food Blogger Pro members!
It’s new course day! 🎉 And our newest course, all about using Claude to work smarter, create better, and streamline your workflow, is officially live!
New Course: Claude for Food Creators
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Whether you're brand new to food blogging or a seasoned pro, we're here to help you with proven tips and strategies for growing your blog. Here on the Food Blogger Pro blog, you'll learn about building traffic, food blog SEO, social media tips, and more. Keep an eye out for a new post every week!
Trending Recipe Ideas this Fall
Are you planning your content calendar and looking for recipe inspiration for the upcoming fall months? Look no further than our round-up of trending recipe ideas this fall! Filled with recipe ideas that will perform well for you year after year, from pumpkin to comfort food, and more!
Updated Course: Facebook for Food Creators
It’s a great day here at Food Blogger Pro because it is updated course day! 🌟
We are so excited to finally fill you in on something exciting we’ve been working on behind the scenes… a HUGE refresh of our Facebook course!
How Food Bloggers Can Turn Recipe Libraries Into Tech Partnerships
Food bloggers were told to think about monetization in a very specific way. The advice was usually some version of the same formula. They had to increase pageviews, grow ad revenue, land more sponsored posts, and stack affiliate links wherever possible. That strategy worked for a while. In many ways, it still does.
But the food internet has changed. It almost feels archaic to call it the “internet”. Recipe content has become infrastructure for an entirely new generation of food tech. Meal-planning apps need recipes. Grocery platforms need recipes. Smart kitchen devices need recipes. AI cooking assistants need recipes. Personalized nutrition tools need recipes. Voice assistants also need recipes. Are you seeing a pattern?
Not just any recipes, either. They need organized, structured, reusable recipe content that can move across platforms and systems without breaking. Which means many food bloggers are already sitting on something incredibly valuable. Their recipe libraries.
The challenge is most creators still see those libraries as collections of blog posts rather than long-term content assets. When creators begin treating their content as reusable infrastructure instead of one-time publishing, entirely new partnership opportunities open up.
Updated Course: Republishing Content
Happy Thursday! It’s a good day because we have a course update for you!
We’ve refreshed our Republishing Content course for 2026 with new strategies, updated best practices, and an all-new section on republishing and redistributing your content across social media.
Choosing a WordPress Recipe Plugin in 2026
One of the most important plugins for a food blogger is a recipe plugin. Recipes are at the core of most food blogs, so as a food blogger, you’ll want to make sure you’re publishing your recipes in a way that’s helpful for your readers and for search engines to understand.
A good recipe plugin will do both, and the landscape has shifted enough since we first wrote about this that it’s worth a fresh look!
Ready to dive into the wonderful world of recipe plugins? Let’s do it!
New Course: Mastering the Instagram Ecosystem
Happy Thursday Food Blogger Pro members! Guess what? It’s new course day! And our new course all about Mastering the Instagram Ecosystem is live! 🎉
Trending Recipe Ideas This Summer
Helloooooo, summer and sunshine and never-ending pool days! ☀️
Well, almost. Here in the Northern hemisphere, summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st, but we are already embracing the summer spirit. Chances are your readers are too!
And if you’re trying to brainstorm some fresh new recipes to share on your blog or social media, we’ve got you covered. In this post, we’re sharing a roundup of trending recipe ideas this summer to help give you some inspiration for your upcoming content calendar!
We’ve compiled a list of summer recipe ideas that might give you a boost of traffic every summer after you post them (provided it’s a high-quality post!). This post isn’t about viral TikTok recipes (cottage cheese ice cream anyone?), but rather ingredients and recipe ideas that consistently perform well this time of year.
Updated Course: Understanding Ads
Hey, hi, hello! Guess what?! We pressed publish on a freshly updated course today, and we think you’re going to love it.
Our Understanding Ads course has officially been updated for 2026!
Pinch of Yum’s Traffic Trends (2024 vs. 2026)
Today I wanted to walk through something I personally find so helpful when thinking about blog growth: traffic data over time.
We’re going to take a look at Pinch of Yum’s traffic breakdown in 2024 and compare it to traffic in 2026, so that we can talk about what can we actually learn from this data as food bloggers!
Now the goal isn’t to replicate someone else’s traffic sources exactly, but rather to understand the patterns, the shifts, and the why behind them so we can make smarter decisions for our own sites.